Hello again,

I’ve been hard at work exercising and watching what I eat, I am glad to say another two kilo’s (about 4 1/2 pounds) have walked out the door, and they are never going to return! It’s very heartening for me to see the weight coming off, because I have been working very hard and (for me anyway) not seeing a regular result makes it harder to want to continue.

I am now working very hard on cardio exercise seven days a week at the gym. My schedule consists of 25 minutes on the cross trainer (around 900 Cal’s in “cross trainer” calorie usage), and then a further 10-15 minutes on the treadmill, averaging around 7 Km’s/Hour (approx 4 1/2 miles). This leaves me very tired after i have finished, but I am trying to ramp up the intensity on a regular basis, because I find it easy to get comfortable if I don’t continually push myself.

The next step is to get stuck into some serious weights, but I am concentrating on cardio exercise initially to drop some weight. If you read up on this, you will find lots of different methods the “experts” recommend for someone in my situation.

Some will say to only train 3-4 times a week. Otherwise will say maybe 5 times a week, and still others recommend the full seven day a week training.

I actually found that if I don’t do the exercise seven days a week, I just don’t lose the weight. About a year and a half ago, when I first started exercising, my local gym set me up a program than also included weights, and you know what? I went for weeks at a time not losing any weight. Yes I understand that muscle weighs more than fat, and that I was probably gaining muscle, but I found it extremely disheartening because I wanted to lose the weight.

Since I changed over to my method of cardio only, and continue to work very hard on it, I’ve found I seem to be losing a consistent 1-2 kilograms (2-4 pounds) per week. So I will stick with this program while it is working.

Once of the things I have found from reading up on this is, if you do find something that works for you, keep doing that, even if it goes against what all the experts are saying.

For me, the combination of the exercise I am doing, and keeping my daily intake to around 2000 calories is working well, so I will keep it up. Just out of interest, when I first started seriously looking to lose weight, I restricted myself to around 1400 calories a day and found that after the initial week where I lost some “water weight” I was losing very little weight (not to mention being extremely hungry).

Turns out that it is likely my body was in “survival mode”, when I increased eating I lost weight, how it that for an interesting fact. Again I am talking personal experience here, it just goes to show that you need to test these things out.

Would love to hear from you if you have any comments, drop me a line.

Cheers

Tim

Hello again,

Guru Internet Marketers will tell you that’s it’s very hard to get decent traffic to your website, and that you need to buy an expensive e-Book to give you the vital information.

I’m here to tell you that, it really is not that hard. First things, first, a disclaimer if you will, I sell an e-Book on Web Traffic myself, but… (and it’s a big but) I also give people the option of obtaining the information for free if they so decide.

I think this is a great idea for people looking for ways to get web traffic to their web site, and it doesn’t cost anything either, pretty neat, huh?

Now if your like me, your probably wondering what the catch is, just why I am giving the information away for free? Am I just a good natured person wanting to help others? Perhaps I have some sneaky affiliate links in the e-Book that, if people decide to purchase any of the software that I use, that I will make a buck, or two. Maybe I just ask lovingly for you to buy the e-Book down the track, when you have digested some of the free content.

The answer is a little bit of everything. Here is how it works (and listen up, because I believe this is a great way to get more traffic to your web site, as well as more sales in the long term).

When people want to visit my web traffic website (yes, I know your keen to get there to check it out, but please read on first), I give them the option of buying the e-Book for a lousy $47 bucks, with over 120 pages of meaty web traffic content (and I am not talking about an e-Book with double spaced, super large font, with heaps of pictures, as many other e-book authors seem to sell). This is actual meaty text.

The other alternative I give them is to sign up for my mailing list, and they then get a chapter at a time delivered to their Inbox every few days. If you are prepared to wait long enough and are prepared to put up with my humor long enough, you will get everything I know about web traffic for free.

I even put some of the content from each chapter of the e-Book on the website for free, so people can get some info without buying the e-Book or subscribing to the mailing list. Yes that’s right, I even cater for the freeloaders. Whoops did I type that…

Why bother getting people to sign up for a mailing list? Well I’d like to think I could build up a relationship with people over a period of time, introduce myself to people, tell them a bit about myself, and get them comfortable that what I am providing is real actual content. It’s really a “try-it” before you buy, but in this case you can fully try it out without ever buying it.

I’d be very interested in your comments about the process, whether you think it is a good idea, and even for that matter, if the content is actually useful to you. Come on, check it out, you know you want to, and be brutally honest in your assessment. Tell me if the information is useful to you. Did it help you get more traffic, did you learn something new?

If your interested in obtaining more traffic to your website, be sure to surf over and sign up for the mailing list (as a special bonus you get to check me out in the video on the front page, and get the proof that I really am an Australian).

I really think this technique is something that will be of great benefit to your Internet Marketing, give people useful information, and they will come back to your website again or again (or sign up for your mailing list and get your information delivered right to their inbox).

Well that’s about it for me, another post bite the dust (or hit’s the database).

Talk soon….

Tim