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By Craig Ballantyne You need to have a professional weight loss program designed for you if you want to lose weight and burn fat in minimum time. Otherwise, your weight loss workouts will take too long, and you won't get the results you want. Tip - When designing your program for maximal results, make sure you plan your exercises in the optimal order. Now that's a vague tip, isn't it? Just what do I mean by the optimal order? Well, ignoring the warm-up for a second, here's how your training program should be set up in order to have your exercises in the optimal order: 1. Your bodyweight warmup comes first. This prepares you for the rest of the workout, but doesn't waste your time like a 5-minute walk on the treadmill would waste your time. 2. Strength exercises come next (i.e. Your main exercise/superset of the workout - This exercise/superset should be performed with heavy weights and low reps - 3 sets of 6 at the most). 3. Repetition exercises follow (i.e. moderate reps - 4 sets of 8-12, generally used to increase the volume of training in order to cause muscle growth). 4. Endurance exercises are used to finish your strength portion (i.e. high-rep pushups/squats/chin-ups to failure; also, intervals). 5. Intervals complete your fat burning workout. So why did I describe the reader's workouts as backwards? Well, let's take a look at the two biggest mistakes in those workouts: A) Putting endurance work first. Doing too many pushups (endurance exercise) at the start of the workout before the strength exercise is a bad idea. When you do endurance work before heavy lifting, your strength will suffer. There's no question your workout intensity will suffer if you do this. So the take-home message: Make sure you don't fatigue yourself in your warm-up or put a high-rep exercise prior to a heavy strength exercise. B) Putting strength lifts at the end of the workout. Strength should not be put in the second or third superset of the workout. These lifts should be done at the start of your workout (after the correct warm-up), yet I see these being done 20-30 minutes into people's workouts all the time. Remember:
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By Steve Pavlina With regards to the post on Dealing With Difficult People, several commenters asked follow-up questions on how to deal with difficult relatives, such as an overbearing parent or in-law. The original post was written in terms of dealing with difficult people with whom you have a professional relationship, such as your boss or a co-worker. But if the problem person is a relative and your relationship is personal instead of professional, thats a whole different beast. Define and verbalize your boundaries You set the boundaries in your relationships. If those boundaries are crossed and the other person cant seem to take the hint, you have to assert yourself to restore balance. If you have relatives who fail to respect your boundaries and behave as if the purpose of your relationship is for you to bend over backwards to satisfy all of their needs, you certainly arent alone. Im talking about boundaries that you consider to be bottom lines that should not be crossed, ones that make you feel violated when they are. For example, if you value your privacy and a relative insists on frequent unannounced drop-in visits, that may be a bottom line for you. Or if your mother-in-law, Endora, keeps turning you into barnyard animals without your consent, you might feel its time to put a stop to it, especially if you begin craving grass while in human form. The first thing to realize is that its perfectly OK to satisfy your own needs. A relationship that makes you feel violated isnt healthy. Correcting problematic relationships in a physical, external world sense is fairly straightforward. You must clearly define the boundaries youre comfortable with, let the other person know what those boundaries are, and then enforce them. There isnt much more to it than that. If your boundaries are reasonable, and the person is either unwilling or incapable of complying with them, youre done in most situations it would be foolish to continue such a relationship. It will only erode your self-respect. If youve been going years without clearly verbalizing and enforcing your boundaries like a mature adult (i.e. youve been letting the other person treat you like a child for too long), most likely the other person wont take you seriously at first. They may even react with a bit of shock (usually feigned) at the mere suggestion that you dare attempt to put restrictions on their behavior. Just let that person have their reaction, but stand your ground anyway. Enforce your boundaries There are many ways to enforce your boundaries. Heres an approach I happen to like. Let the other person know that for the next 30 days, you intend to strictly enforce the boundaries youve described. And if that person violates your boundaries even once during those 30 days, you then begin a 30-day communications blackout. For 30 days you simply have no contact with the other person. No drop-in visits, no phone calls, no emails, nothing unless its absolutely mandatory. After the 30-day fasting period, you can restart the original 30-day boundary-enforcement trial and repeat the process. Of course you should let the other person know youre doing this be totally transparent about what youre doing. Also, let the other person know that youre resorting to this process because theyve left you no choice. If the other person attempts to make contact with you at all during the 30-day blackout, the 30 days resets to day 1. If this happens more than a couple times and you reach the point where youre pretty clear the other person has no intention of respecting your boundaries whatsoever, regardless of your attempts to enforce them, then youre done. The relationship is dead, at least in its current form. If the other person cant even respect your boundaries for 30 days, then what kind of future do you have together? It means that your boundaries will be trampled for as long as you allow the relationship to continue to exist in its current form. This might sound a bit harsh, but keep in mind that before you reach this point, youve already expressed your needs clearly to the other person, and you were trampled. You owe it to yourself to take a step back and see if you really wish to continue this relationship at all. The 30-day blackout period is a time for both of you to re-evaluate your relationship from a distance. Its also a massive pattern interrupt that lets the other person know with certainty that theyve crossed an uncrossable line, and enough is enough. Disarm the primary weapon of guilt If the other person attempts to use guilt as a tool of manipulation (which is extremely common), thats fairly easy to overcome. Whenever you perceive the other person attempting to manipulate your emotions by making you feel guilty, bring the whole matter to conscious awareness by asking, Youre not trying to make me feel guilty, are you? The other person will probably deny it, but soon the pattern will re-emerge. Keep interrupting the pattern of falling into a state of guilt by bringing attention to the other persons emotionally manipulative tactics. Simply keep asking questions like, Why do you feel it necessary to attempt to use guilt as a tool of manipulation? or You must really find this upsetting if you feel it necessary to try to make me feel guilty to get what you want? Can we try a more mature way of discussing this perhaps? You dont need to beat the person up about it, but put a stop to the weapon of guilt once and for all. If you refuse to enter the emotional state of guilt, it will allow you to be more compassionate in seeing that the other person is probably using guilt because they feel powerless. And if you can address that powerlessness, you have the opportunity to transform the relationship for good. Who does the enforcing? If the problem relative is an in-law (or equivalent if youre not married), then the person most closely related to them is the one who must do the enforcing (i.e. your significant other). This is especially important in a marriage. You and your spouse must put each other first above all other relatives. If one of your spouses relatives is violating your boundaries, then your spouse must bring it to their attention and do the enforcing. Problems of this nature are especially common in relationships between 20-somethings because youre often in a transitional phase with how you identify your primary family. For example, if youre living with someone, you may be getting closer to them while still thinking of your family as the one you were born into. But when youre married with a couple kids, youre likely to think of your primary family as your spouse and children. So for many people the 20s represent a period of shifting identities, a time when problems with other relatives can spike because they interfere with your romantic relationship, and your partner will bring it to your attention. Its not uncommon to be living with someone and building a close romantic relationship while gradually discovering the other person is still married to his/her Mommy (or equivalent). When you see this pattern occurring where you dont have the leverage to enforce boundaries on your spouses relative, and your partner seems spineless about having a confrontation, then you have to enforce these boundaries with YOUR PARTNER by holding him/her directly responsible for the behavior of his/her relative. 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By Cassandra Mack The youth development framework is an approach to working with young people that encompasses four things: it is designed to meet the developmental needs of youth, builds on their assets and potential, views young people as resources and builds partnerships with youth to create positive, sustaining change. The youth development framework derived from common theories and approaches that strive to build a core set of skills, characteristics and competencies on the individual as well as the organizational level that are needed to provide support and opportunities for all young people. By nature this framework is multi-faceted. No one person, institution or organization acting alone can ensure that all youth acquire the assets, skills and support they need to succeed. It takes all of us working toward common goals and adhering to the common principles of youth development to make this happen. There are 8 key principles of youth development. They are: an organizational structure that is supportive of youth development, a safe, physical environment that is supportive of the youth and staffs needs, a holistic approach to all youth, youth contribution and collaboration, supportive relationships, high expectations and clear limits, activities that are engaging and that foster learning, mechanisms in place to help youth move forward as young adults. 1. An Organizational Structure That Is Supportive of Youth Development An organizational structure that is supportive to youth development encompasses five elements. First, the mission and vision statements of the organization promote youth development and a sizeable portion of the organizations budget is allocated for direct services for youth. Second, staff and board members have a clear understanding of the organizations mission and vision statement and direct their planning, advocacy efforts and services around this mission and vision. Third, the organization invests in staff development and training and staffs input is encouraged and implemented. Fourth, all levels of staff are kept abreast of the organizations goals, plans and changes. And fifth, the organization advocates around policy, funding and direct service issues as they relate to its constituents. 2. A Safe, Physical Environment That Is Supportive of the Youth and Staffs Needs A safe physical environment that is supportive of the youth and staffs needs encompasses five elements. First, the actual building is physically safe, clean with good lighting and working facilities. Second, a safety and emergency plan is in place with all staff being trained in emergency procedures. Third, rules are published and displayed in a conspicuous place. Fourth, staff members are equipped with the supplies, equipment and space that they need to perform their job duties effectively. 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It is essential that the organization and its staff provide a caring climate where every young person has someone who he can talk to, tracks her progress, helps him set goals and connects her with resources when necessary. Second, there should be strategies in place for parental involvement and for parents to talk to staff about their concerns and challenges. Third, interactions with youth should be respectful, positive and appropriate. Fourth, there should be some degree of staff consistency. Lastly, confidentiality procedures should be clear and communicated to all youth. 6. High Expectations and Clear Limits Youth service providers should have high expectations for youth and should model these expectations by way of their behavior at work. Focus on strengths. Clear limits should be set with consequences other than expulsion. All youth should receive a copy of the organizations written code of conduct and staff should thoroughly go over the rules. Create ownership of the rules by setting up a youth court to help deal with problematic behavior. 7. Activities That Are Engaging and That Foster Learning The organization should provide programs, services and activities that promote cognitive, social and emotional development. Build critical thinking, decision making, team building and problem solving skills into group and individual activities. Provide life skills training on topics such as: money management, employment readiness, time management and other important life skills. Make sure that activities are developmentally and age appropriate for your target group. Make learning interesting by fostering curiosity and creativity. 8. Mechanisms In Place To Help Youth Move Forward As Young Adults Build room in your programs for youth to transition towards adulthood. Programs should be provided for different age groups. When youth age out of one program they should be easily bridged into the next. Give youth more rights and responsibilities as they move up from one program into the next. Create volunteer opportunities and internships for older youth. Train older youth and hire them as paid staff. Create closure by way of formal rituals such as: graduations, awards ceremonies or a one-on-one termination session that creates closure for youth and helps them to plan their next steps. For some interesting, out-of-the-box, ideas on rituals and ceremonies you can refer to my book, Her Rite of Passage: How To Design And Deliver A Rites of Passage Program for African-American Girls and Young Women. After you have spent some time familiarizing yourself with the 8 key principles of youth development, take a closer look at your organization and see how it measures up in terms of being supportive of the youth development approach. Then, share this information with your supervisor, your colleagues and people you supervise if you are a supervisor. And if your organization is not doing so already, then perhaps together you can make it an agency wide or at least a program wide effort to incorporate the 8 key principles of youth development into the different service areas of your organization. Copyright 2006 by Cassandra Mack This article was excerpted from Cassandra Mack's book, "Smart Moves That Successful Youth Workers Make." Cassandra Mack, MSW is the CEO of Strategies for Empowered Living and the author of "Smart Moves That Successful Youth Workers Make." For more information go to: http://www.strategiesforempoweredliving.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Cassandra_Mack http://EzineArticles.com/?8-Key-Principles-of-Youth-Development&id=441123 phentermine 37.5 mg no prescription needed phentermine forums where to buy cheap phentermine no prescription needed buy phentermine blue

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