Burn The Fat 2009: A Look Ahead

I am hugely optimistic about 2009. I don’t just mean for myself, either, I mean for everyone. I mean for YOU! Why? Because no matter what’s going on in the world, in the economy, or in the news, there is always positive energy to be found if you seek it. It’s easier to find than you might imagine, if you know where to look. Where you “plug in” every day – to the evening news with the gloom and doom of Wall Street and wars abroad – or to the life-enhancing, health-improving, body-transforming energy that’s just as easily available elsewhere, is up to you. That’s why I’ve committed myself to making this website a beacon of positive energy and to give more positive, empowering advice and assistance to you in your fitness quest this year than ever before. Here’s what’s I’ll be up to and what you can look forward to from Burn The Fat in 2009.

The Body Fat Solution Hardcover Book Released

The big news of 2009 so far is The Body Fat Solution, which hit #1 on Amazon.com (click for screenshot) last week in the Exercise and Fitness Category. It also shot almost to the top of Barnes and Nobles book charts (#11… out of ALL books). If you missed the launch announcement last week, you can learn more about the book at: www.TheBodyFatSolution.com

The Body Fat Solution Virtual Book Tour

 

Many readers have asked me whether I’ll be making appearances to do book signings. So far, I don’t have an official “book tour” lined up that will take me across the country (although I may make some appearances locally in the NYC/NJ metro area).

Instead, we have something that’s possibly even better: A “Virtual Book Tour” that anyone with a telephone or internet connection can attend from anywhere in the world! What is a Virtual Book Tour? Well, since I can’t be everyplace at the same time, and it’s time-consuming (and expensive) to travel, we will bring everyone together on the web at the same time on a teleseminar with a simultaneous webcast.

Best part: The upcoming Virtual Book Tour will be FREE! Depending on bridge line limits, it may be a first-come, first served for the teleseminar call (otherwise it could get really expensive for us). But no worries, because it will also be simultaneously webcasted, and the replay WILL be made available afterwards (which also accommodates our friends in different time zones across the world, where the appointed call hour might be the middle of the night).

Second best part: The entire seminar will be created by YOU! I have no scripted presentation. I will be running an “Ask Tom” survey, where you can type your most pressing questions about The Body Fat Solution or how to burn fat into a web page submission form. I will answer the questions live on the air.

We are just finalizing the dates and details now – so keep your eyes peeled for the announcement in the next week. The Virtual Book Tour will be hosted from: www.TheBodyFatSolution.com

Body Fat Solution on itunes and audible

The Body Fat Solution, which was simultaneously released on audiobook (physical CD’s) in conjunction with the hardcover book, is now available on itunes and audible. With a couple of clicks, you can have The Body Fat Solution in your Ipod or MP3 player in just minutes.

The last time I checked in the itunes audiobook store, The Body Fat Solution was in the top 30 audiobooks, ahead of titles by Anthony Robbins, Steven Covey, Robert Kiyosaki, Wayne Dyer and Malcolm Gladwell! (Now, if only the hardcovers would start flying off bookstore shelves as fast as these audiobooks are flying out of itunes!) Wait, check this out: the full 10 hour unabridged audiobook download is only $15 to $17 bucks (approximately, check online for actual prices).

Burn The Fat 2.0

Ah… the most long overdue and long awaited of projects – the second edition of Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle. I don’t have a release date yet, I can only say that work has begun on Burn The Fat 2.0 and you WILL be hearing more about it soon….

There will also be a new Burn The Fat “spinoff” program… top secret for now…. sorry… wait in suspense…. you’ll see.

Guest blogs

 

Ok, enough about me and my stuff, let’s talk about WHO ELSE you’ll be seeing on the Burn The Fat Blog this year. Last year, I decided to invite my first guest blogger to post on The Burn The Fat Blog. The Honor went to <b.Charles Staley, author of Muscle Logic and creator of the EDT training system. Lots of positive comments on his post and much positive feedback to me in email, so I decided to invite more guest bloggers this year.

Between myself and the guest bloggers, I expect to add 2-3 posts a week to the blog in 2009, compared to just once a week last year! Starting today!

Confirmed as guest bloggers in the coming weeks: Shawn Phillips, author of Strength For Life (and the famous body on the cover of “Body of Work”), Jamie Hale of MaxCondition.com (also know as “the fitness skeptic”) and a “mystery blogger X.”

You won’t just be hearing from fitness experts. I’ve also been talking to some big names in personal development, NLP and success psychology recently who have also agreed to contribute content to the Burn The Fat Blog…. Motivational and empowering guest blogs coming soon!

Guest interviews

 

You’ll also be seeing great guest interviews on the Burn The Fat Blog in 2009. Last year, I did only a handful of guest interviews, but they were some of the most clicked on posts of the year. Burn The Fat readers all said they loved the interview format, so there’s more of that coming. Some upcoming guest interviews: Will Brink, Joel Marion and Dr. Judith Beck, PhD.

More Muscle Building Info

I guess I’ve been somewhat pegged as a fat loss guy, but rest assured I have GREAT interest in the other side of the bodybuilding equation: gaining muscle! I’ve been asked often if I’m ever going to write a book or create a course on building muscle. I don’t have concrete plans yet, but yes, it is on my radar..
. after all, I am a “muscle-head” at heart (and yes, that IS my bicep in the photo, thanks for asking)</ p>

So, in 2009, I will be expanding the blog content to include nutrition and training information about gaining solid lean muscle mass. This will include articles, workout programs and reviews of other books and programs (if youre itching to start gaining muscle ASAP, try Will Brink: www.BrinksBodybuilding.com or Anthony Ellis: www.MuscleBuildingCoach.com.

I’ll be on Facebook

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I’ve been on facebook for about a year now. Love it. If you send me a friend request, I’ll add you, as long as you include a note that you’re a Burn The Fat subscriber, blog reader or book owner, so I know how you know me (when I was younger, my mom told me not to let in “strangers”… so don’t be a stranger!).

Also, the Burn The Fat Facebook group is rapidly approaching 2,000 members. Check it out at www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8863719906. discussion for BOTH of my books is supported there.

I’ll be on Twitter

 

I also just recently started using Twitter, the fastest growing social networking site on the Internet. Follow my Tweets at: http://Twitter.com/TomVenuto. (Just about to hit 1,000 followers!)

I never did set up a myspace page. Does anyone still use and like MySpace or did Facebook completely take over? Just curious.

Burn The Fat Inner Circle

 

I’m pleased to be able to offer resources and communities online that are both free and membership (subscription) based. Facebook offers a Spartan discussion board feature, but I still like it (heck, it’s free!), and the Burn The Fat Facebook group grew faster this month than ever before (350 new members this month!)

Our premier members only community, the Burn The Fat Inner Circle, actually has MORE members than the public Facebook group! Last month we hit a milestone of 50,000 forum posts – not a lot by public forum standards, perhaps, but we certainly have one of the most active members-only fat loss communities online today, and you couldn’t ask for a more amazing group of positive people. If you want to plug into some serious motivational positive energy, come check us out at www.BurnTheFatInnerCircle.com

Off The Web: Radio, Magazines….. T.V. on TV?

You’ll see and hear a lot more of me off the web, including on the radio, in magazines, and with a little luck, on TV. I’ve been on over a dozen radio shows this month alone and have a bunch more scheduled (I’m available as a guest, by the way, if you have a podcast or radio show of any kind).

Also watch the newsstands – in March, there will be a major feature published in FIRST FOR WOMEN magazine on The Body Fat Solution and Burn The Fat success stories, including some amazing women who have lost as much as 100 pounds or more. You’ll also see The Body Fat Solution written up in the abs edition of Exercise For Men Magazine, on the stands March 30th.

You Tube!

 

I know, I know, I’m the last person on the planet to get himself on YouTube. Why am I like the last guy to join the you tube revolution? A couple reasons, I suppose. One, I’m technology-clueless. I know, it’s not THAT hard to figure out how to use the cameras, especially the little web cams and FLIPS, but I also have this DVD-quality camcorder and the manual is 150 pages long…. And the editing stuff kills me. I’m just not that technically inclined (hey, whaddya expect – I’m a muscle head!)

And second, it’s true confession time. Up until now I’ve been a bit on the camera shy side. No one believes me. They say, “You gotta be kidding me! You’re telling me that you get up on stage in a speedo to FLEX and POSE in front of a crowd at bodybuilding competitions and you say you’re camera shy! BWAH!” Actually… Yes. (and by the way, those aren’t speedos we wear, they’re called posing trunks! And while I’m at it, we don’t “Grease” ourselves up either! It’s a light sheen of posing oil which enhances muscularity under bright stage lights! Sheesh, we gotta do something about these bodybuilder myths and stereotypes!)

But I digress. Back to You Tube. I’m not worried. I’m sure being on camera is like anything else you try for the first time. A little “stage fright” at first, then it becomes second nature. YouTube debut coming soon.

Burn The Fat Blog to be the “HUB” website

Last but not least, I hereby announce that THIS website, the Burn The Fat Blog, will be my “HUB” website –the center of the “burn The Fat” and Body fat Solution universe, so to speak. Actually my first site ever was www.TomVenuto.com. That one went online in 1998, originally called “fitness renaissance” after my business name. Funny enough, some of my web 2.0 friends looked at that site recently and said, “That site is sooooo 2001.” I laughed because I knew it was true enough – no blog, no video, no audio… but hey, tons of great articles! In 2009, TomVenuto.com will focus more than ever on “truth in fitness,” including busting the myths, exposing the scams, and explaining what it REALLY takes to get in great shape.

Altogether, I have over a dozen websites now, but Blogging is still “the bomb” in 2009, so this site is going to be home base and from here I will link out to all the others.

Phew! I guess I have a busy year ahead of me, and YOU will have lots of stuff to read, watch and listen to on the Burn The Fat Blog, eh? …Oh wait, there’s one more thing I almost forgot.

“The Comeback”

Time to put the rumors to rest. It’s officially true. I’m competing in bodybuilding again this year. I’ve already started secretly training in a “dungeon gym” somewhere in northern New Jersey… more hardcore than that Stallone scene in ROCKY IV! More details to follow!

Here’s to a PHENOMENAL YEAR AHEAD!

Train hard and expect success!

Your friend,
Tom Venuto