Walking is a mode of transportation not a fitness exercise

"Recent Study Shows if You Exercise this Way
You May Risk Serious Damage to Your Heart"

Researchers recently discovered how this common exercise mistake could diminish your right ventricular heart function, cause heart muscle scarring, and elevate heart injury blood markers. Here's how to avoid this mistake with a new heart-strengthening, muscle-building approach... takes only 1 hour a week...


As you most likely know, I consider fitness to be one of the major hallmarks of optimal health. I passionately believe that for optimal mental and physical health, you need to exercise regularly.

Fitness, at any age, plays an important role in:

Promoting your optimal mental and emotional health
Helping you reach and maintain your ideal body weight
Helping to slow your rate of aging
Helping you enjoy more quality sleep at night
Increasing your overall energy levels
Help increase or maintain your flexibility
Research in the area of fitness is exploding as baby boomers and other health conscious individuals seek new, previously unexplored ways to maintain their youth and vigor. The relation of exercise to optimal health supported by research is indeed staggering.

What You Must Know About Exercise…


Many types of exercise demand
lots of time and motivation
There's one caveat when it comes to exercise… Not every type will give you benefits.

Certain forms of exercise will demand more of your precious time – time that you may not have in your busy schedule and unfortunately, some provide very little benefit in return.

Some types will require extreme motivation on your part because you'll have to wait longer to see and feel recognizable benefits.

And I know from my own experience and that of others, when exercise is considered a "burden" and requires a lot of time and motivation, it's more likely to not get done.

Your good intentions invested in your 'new' exercise regimen can disappear in a flash.

Imagine if you could discover an exercise routine that…

You found enjoyable
Took only about sixty minutes a week of your time (and you really only worked 'hard' for 12 of those minutes), and
Provided you with benefits that you could feel almost immediately?
I know most people would respond with a resounding "Yes!"

That's exactly what I intend to show you. Because I am so passionate about the importance of exercise, I'm making it my personal mission to show you that exercise…

...Can be enjoyable
...Doesn't need to take hours of your time
...Can provide you with benefits that can make a profound difference in your health.

What the Latest Science Tells Us…

Around the age of 40, most people begin to lose about 8 percent of their muscle mass every ten years. And most chalk it up to "getting old".

However, researchers have discovered that losing muscle mass as you age doesn't need to happen. In fact, a recent study of 70- and 80-year-old competitive athletes found that they had almost as much thigh muscle mass as athletes in their 40s.

Losing muscle mass is not a 'normal' part of aging. Rather, it's a by-product of inactivity.

When you avoid exercising your muscles for any significant period, your muscle fibers begin to break down or "atrophy".

But here's the good news – researchers have discovered that it is possible to repair and rebuild inactive muscle. And you can start doing it at any age, even if you haven't worked out for a long time. Naturally, the sooner you start exercising, the less damage you'll have to repair.

Research is showing us that a balanced approach to fitness is most beneficial for building muscle and optimal health. Ideally you want to meet all of these goals in your routine:

Build strength and flexibility
Create balance and stability
Promote cardiovascular fitness
Burn fat
Aerobic activities such as cycling or using an elliptical machine, along with core exercises and stretching can provide your body with the balanced routine it needs for optimal fitness.

If you've been working out for a while now and haven't seen the results you desire, something may be missing.

And that "something" may be what traditional exercise can't deliver. However, there's a revolutionary "new" trend in fitness that can…

The Hottest New Trend in Fitness Today…

Many personal trainers claim it's simply "the fastest way to get clients fit".

This hot trend in fitness is indeed making news – and being endorsed by famous celebrities and popular magazines. Some are even touting it as a "way to lose weight in a hurry".

And I've been doing it and promoting it for years…

It's not cardio. Nor is it jogging or long distance running. And it's not hour-long gym workouts or aerobic exercise classes.


Peak Fitness can be done just about
anywhere, including at home
You see, scientists are discovering that it's intensity, not duration of exercise that may be the missing piece of the puzzle in becoming fit and slimming down.

And this type of high-intensity exercise is especially beneficial for aging bodies.

Here's what those who have discovered it love most: it takes a fraction of the time of aerobic or cardio exercise – a huge relief if you're already feeling short on time.

What is this revolutionary fitness trend?

Peak Fitness.

Designed and developed by fitness guru and author Phil Campbell, Peak Fitness, or "Sprint 8" is a 20 minute workout session that includes eight 30 second intervals of intense anaerobic bursts, each followed by 90-seconds of decreased intensity and recovery.

During 'peak exercises', you raise your heart rate beyond your aerobic threshold and push it into your maximum intensity limit.

Appropriate and safe for even seniors, intervals improve fitness by building new capillaries and a
stronger heart and lungs.

Your muscles benefit too, because this type of exercise helps create more mitochondria, the tiny motors that power cells.

What Your Body Really Needs For Maximum Benefits from Exercise


Traditional forms of exercise don't
optimally benefit your body
- or your heart.
According to Phil Campbell, author of "Ready Set Go", receiving maximum cardiovascular benefits requires working all of your muscle fibers and both metabolic processes.

You have three different types of muscle fibers – slow-twitch, fast-twitch, and super-fast-twitch.

And your heart has two different metabolic processes:

The aerobic, which requires oxygen
The anaerobic, which doesn’t require any oxygen

Traditional strength training, aerobic and cardio exercises work primarily the aerobic metabolic process. And they use mostly only slow-twitch muscle fibers.

Typically, traditional forms of exercise don't engage the anaerobic process of your heart nor do they involve the very beneficial fast-twitch muscle fibers.

On the other hand, high-intensity interval training such as Peak Fitness works BOTH your aerobic and anaerobic processes AND employs the crucial faster-twitch fibers, giving you a very thorough heart muscle workout.

To quote Phil Campbell:

"Most exercise programs today are built based upon a very incomplete picture of the physiology of your body.

For example, long slow cardio, "calories in, calories out," would be a perfect way to look at the body if it were all slow-twitch fiber…

But the fast- and super-fast-twitch fibers are essentially 50 percent of your muscle fibers and they don't get recruited until you add a velocity of movement."

Groundbreaking Research Changes AHA Cardio Guidelines

The research is so compelling about the superior benefits of high-intensity anaerobic exercise that the American Heart Association and the American College of Sports Medicine have redefined their exercise cardio guidelines.

Their new guidelines state that you have a choice – do moderate intensity cardio five days a week for 30 minutes, or do vigorous intensity cardio for 20 minutes, three days a week, which is exactly what Peak Fitness is.

With Peak Fitness, that's a total of 90 minutes a week. And you only need to do this type of exercise 3 times a week instead of 5!

What's more, a recent study actually discovered that marathon runners were more likely to damage their hearts. Researchers found diminished right ventricular heart function, the presence of heart muscle scar tissue, and elevated heart injury blood markers among athletes in the study.

As for Peak Fitness exercises, you don't need or want to do them more than three times a week. Like running marathons, you actually do more harm than good when you overtax your body by exercising too much. Your body must have time to recover between workouts or your health can suffer.

My True Fitness Breakthrough Came
When I Discovered Peak Fitness

After more than 40 years of long-distance running, I found myself mentally exhausted by this type of exercise – I had clearly hit a plateau.

I began to realize that the extensive cardiovascular aerobic-type training I was engaging in might be counterproductive. I learned that high-intensity, burst-type sprints might be a far better alternative to long-distance running.

Then, I met Phil Campbell… and I finally understood the connection to growth hormone and how to actually integrate the program. Phil taught his Sprint 8 program in an easily understandable way and provided an explanation of how to lose weight and gain muscle mass.

I was hooked. I've been doing a very similar type workout that I've named "Peak Fitness" ever since April of 2010. In that switch, I ditched my conventional cardio workout completely. The benefits I am now experiencing have convinced me I couldn't have made a better decision.

I've been doing – and recommending, along with Phil Campbell – Peak Fitness exercises three times a week.

And after interviewing yet another high-intensity interval training expert and emergency room physician, Dr. Doug McGuff, I've learned to appreciate how important it is to listen to your body and allow sufficient recovery time between workouts.

As you age, you do need to adjust and discover through trial and error what works best for you. Your body can guide you onto a path that will provide you with the most efficient and effective benefits when you listen to it.

How Peak Fitness Can Become Your Personal Fountain of Youth
for Longevity, Fitness, and Weight Loss, Too


Peak Fitness workouts can help serve as your personal fountain of youth – at any age.

As you reach your 30s, you enter what's called "somatopause," when your levels of human growth hormone (HGH) begin to drop off rather dramatically.

You can start to pile on body fat – particularly unwanted "middle age spread". You start to lose muscle mass and you may also feel more fatigued.

Not only do declining levels of HGH change how your body burns fat, they also play a critical role in your aging process where you can actually look and feel older.

It has been my experience that nearly everyone over 30 has dramatically low levels of this important hormone because they begin leading increasingly sedentary life styles.

"For a full two hours after your workout your metabolism stays higher and you continue to burn calories faster, as long as you avoid eating or drinking sugar."

The important point to remember is… your super-fast muscle fibers help get you the benefits you desire. And the only way to engage your super-fast muscle fibers is by doing anaerobic or high-intensity exercise like Peak Fitness. Traditional cardio and aerobic exercises do not engage your super-fast fibers!

With Peak Fitness, Get Ready for a Younger- and Leaner-Looking You


Peak Fitness makes a great
anti-aging strategy. What's yours?
Boosting your metabolism and increasing fat loss is just the beginning.

Peak Fitness is also a potent "anti-aging" strategy. You can potentially look and feel younger!

Some of the latest studies have shown how exercise affects telomeres – those shoelace tip-like ends of your chromosomes.

When your telomeres get too short, cells stop dividing and you can experience muscle loss, cognitive decline, and less skin elasticity, among other changes.

In these studies, endurance athletes were shown to have longer telomeres than those who did not exercise. Even moderate activity was shown to benefit telomeres.

No matter your age, starting or adding Peak Fitness exercises into your current workout routine can potentially have an impact on your overall health.

Once you regularly participate in these 20-minute exercises three times a week, you may notice the following benefits as many others have as well:

Decrease in body fat
Improved muscle tone
Increase in energy
Improved athletic speed and performance
Ability to achieve your fitness goals much faster
That's not all… Research repeatedly shows that maintaining your optimal weight and exercising regularly helps maintain healthy glucose and insulin levels. It does this through supporting your insulin receptor sensitivity.

When you normalize your insulin levels, you give your body its best chance for optimum health. And that applies to you even if you start your exercise program overweight or out-of-shape.

It's Never Too Late to Start

Chances are, if you're over 50 and you haven't started a regular exercise program, you may be thinking it's too late to start or to enjoy all the benefits that Peak Fitness can offer.

Nothing could be further from the truth.


Research shows that age isn't a factor. Regular exercise, even when started late in life, offers health benefits.

If you're elderly or severely out of shape, I advise you to find a workout buddy, a personal trainer or someone who is experienced to help guide you through your routine, and keep you accountable. You'll have more fun and you'll be more likely to stick with your program.

Start off slowly and gradually increase intensity as you grow stronger, avoiding activities that cause pain. Although it is important to use caution when you are starting out, you do need to exercise at a level that challenges your body.

And here's an important point to mention… I find that many older individuals shy away from exercise out of fear of injury or discomfort. Please remember that exercise actually reduces your risk of injury and helps to ease everyday aches and pains.

As for adults adopting an exercise routine later in life, I like to use the example of my own mother. She didn't start working out until she was 74 and today, at the age of 77, she has gained significant improvements in strength, flexibility, balance and mental clarity.

My mother is a perfect example of how one can benefit from exercise even when they start their program later in life. You can see videos of her progress and the exercise routine she uses today on our website – a true inspiration for even the most sedentary, older individual!

As with any new fitness program, if you have a history of heart disease or other health concerns, please get clearance from your health care professional before starting your Peak Fitness program.