My New Workout and Dietary Supplement

I really like this process of only training 7 minutes a day, 3 times a week. Makes it much more tolerable.

Today’s 7MinuteWorkout focused on my Quads with two routines: Wall Squats and Deep Knee Bends. As with all the exercises in this program, it’s not about how many repetitions I can do, but rather to exercise to the point of positive momentary muscle failure with a full day of rest between workouts.

Positive momentary muscle failure is when you fail at the attempt to complete the positive part of the last repetition. Reaching the point of momentary muscle failure can be good for muscle growth and increased muscle is what will ultimately burn more calories allowing me to lose weight.

I’ve also continued learning more about Psyllium Fiber and taking it twice a day to curb my appetite. It is sometimes used as an ingredient in high-fiber breakfast cereals, which is claimed to also be effective in reducing blood cholesterol levels. Recently the United States Food and Drug Administration acknowledged psyllium’s role in lowering blood cholesterol levels by allowing health claims to be made for products containing psyllium fiber. Thus, diets low in saturated fat and cholesterol that include 7 grams of soluble fiber per day from psyllium husk may reduce the risk of heart disease by lowering cholesterol.

Since I have high cholesterol levels and have been on a prescribed medication for that, it is my hope that I will be able to eventually get off the drugs and maintain a good cholesterol level using only natural products.

While shopping for psyllium fiber at Walmart, I also discovered another popular product being sold that contains psyllium called Metamucil. However, upon close inspection of the label, I discovered it contains dramatically less psyllium fiber than other dry psyllium products. I decided on Konsyl Natural Psyllium Fiber.

Konsyl Natural Fiber Supplement is also available online at VitaminEmporium.

Psyllium fiber is not broken down as it passes down the gastrointestinal tract and so psyllium has no nutritive value other than as a source of fiber. Adding water to dry psyllium causes it to swell to up to ten times its original volume.