Posts by Craig Ballantyne
4-minute ‘hot zone’ workout [free bonus]
Hey, I almost forgot to tell you about something important. A few years ago I wrote one of my most popular articles ever on “Hot Zone” fat loss training. It’s based on 4 specific areas of your body that make the greatest impact on your fat burning metabolism and weight loss. If your workout hits…
Read More3 Steps to Turning Every Problem into a Golden Opportunity
Think back to the last time you went to the beach. Perhaps the winds kicked up, blowing a speck of sand into your eye. Cautiously, you cleaned it out. Problem solved. But an oyster looks at the grain of sand as an opportunity, not a problem. Slowly, sometimes taking as long as two decades, it turns…
Read More3 Junk Foods You Should Eat
Ugh. I get this complain all the time. “Craig, you’ve told me all my favorite foods are banned. There’s nothing good left to eat!” And it’s my fault. Sometimes I forget that not everyone is a robot like me. I’ll admit it. If something’s healthy, I’ll eat it. But I have to say, even I, ol’…
Read MoreHow to do it right your FIRST time
Oh man, this guy makes me shake my head and roll my eyes. Good thing he’s one of my BEST friends. But he, Bedros, can be super-cheesy as you’ll see with one of his one-liners in this email about our new coaching program. By the way, here’s the thing about Bedros and me…we are both…
Read MoreHow to Become a Money Making Guru: Part 3
Welcome back for our third instalment of my How to Become a Money Making Guru series with my good friend Bedros Keuilian. Listen to this call here. Craig: Hey, this is Craig Ballantyne from EarlyToRise.com and InternetIndependence.com and I am back with Part 3 of the most amazing How to Become a Guru series with…
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Happy Prime Day! … Say what? Get this. Jeff Bezos just did something so American. And I mean that in a good way. He’s inventing a new ‘holiday’ today. It’s called Prime Day. He says it’s going to be bigger than Black Friday. Make a note. Write it down. And get ready to have a…
Read More6-Minute Bodyweight Cardio Circuit
Yesterday was amazing. Ol’ Bally the Dog and I spent the afternoon lying out in the backyard. I read, scratched under his chin, read some more, and gave him a few belly rubs. Doesn’t get much better than this. But then it did. I turned the tables. Usually he acts as my personal trainer, watching me go…
Read MoreHow to Think to Grow Rich
Recently I spent a night in New York City I was surrounded by 250 superstars, from TV show hosts to NY Times Best Selling authors (Tim Ferriss and Roman), and dozens and dozens of the world’s top fitness experts (like Jason Ferruggia and Isabel De Los Rios). It was such as amazing crowd I’m surprised…
Read MoreHow to Use the “EDGE” to Succeed
My good friend Bedros Keuilian is a proud American. He came to the USA from Armenia as a five-year old in 1980. His family was broke. They foraged for foods in dumpsters, decades before dumpster diving became a popular hipster pastime. Bedros loves America, and he loves his independence. He harnesses the power of the…
Read More[Quiz] 5 Facts That Determine Your Weight Loss
You have to love big, fancy, commercial gyms. On one hand they have cool workout toys, but on the other hand big gyms are full of people wasting their time with useless – and often dangerous – exercises and ineffective workout routines. Last week I was in a big gym and watched 5 people make…
Read More#1 Key for an American Dream Success Story
It was a beautiful evening in June and I was stuck inside at a Dan Kennedy seminar near Cleveland. Fortunately, onstage was the eloquent and distinguished Dr. Nido Qubein of High Point University. He’s long been one of my favorite speakers and on this night, despite humorously getting a lozenge caught in his throat, he…
Read Morefree 4-minute Afterburn circuit
In 2001, in sunny Orlando, Florida, I discovered the pot of gold at the end of the fat-burning rainbow. I was at the annual ACSM science convention with my good friend and fellow nerd, Brad Pilon. I remember the day clearly. Brad Pilon had just went back to the hotel ice cream buffet to put…
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