Every year around New Year’s Eve, people start thinking about what weight loss program they are going to use to get into shape in the New Year. Although there is absolutely no logic whatsoever in waiting until some random date on a calendar to start taking care of your body and losing weight, it happens every year just the same.
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So, for those of you who want to make some positive changes in your life in the coming year, here is a list of the Top 5 Best New Year’s Weight Loss Programs. Choose a program that is realistic for YOU based on your interests, your goals, your present abilities, or where you will be working out, and then take action to make your weight loss happen this year!
1. Indoor/Outdoor Running
So many people say “I can’t run” or “I don’t like to run” but here’s a newsflash: Running is one of the most effective ways to lose body fat!
Even if all you do is a steady jog, you can’t deny the raw calorie burning effect of continually putting one foot in front of the other and keeping your heart rate up into the moderate to high-intensity range. You run, you lose weight. It’s just that simple.
Running Workout Program Resource:
My Treadmill Trainer – Interval training iPod workouts to help you run faster, farther, and longer. Includes iPod/iPhone running workouts; 5k, 10k, and marathon running programs; stretching, nutrition, strength, and conditioning for runners.
2. iPhone Applications
Apple’s iPhone has successfully become not just a telephone, but an all-in-one tool that has applications for pretty much any lifestyle need that you have, including health, fitness, and weight loss.
There are many, many iPhone applications that can help you to attain your weight loss goals by giving you specific instructions, motivation, information, and tracking ability, and many of the applications even let you program your own workout and then take it with you.
iPhone Application Workout Programs:
Fitness Builder – 
Contains a large database of workouts and exercise images & videos, as well as an entire suite of fitness tools built from a personal trainer’s one-on-one guidance.
Gym Buddy –
Simple and effective way to record and track your workouts so that you get the maximum benefit out of each and every workout.
Absolute Fitness –
Log and manage food intake, exercise, and weight, and also have access to the nutritional content of over 10,000 foods, and the calorie expenditure of almost 200 exercises. Can also set and track customized diet goals.
Workout of the Day –
365 separate workouts, each needing absolutely no gym membership or weight training equipment of any kind.
iStayFit –
An easy to use interface with a well designed workflow so that your focus is on your workout. Fully customizable software that can be geared towards YOUR needs and specific exercise requirements.
iPump Total Body –
Includes over 400 ready made workouts, as well as the ability to drag and drop to create your own custom workouts. Includes add-on modules for many different specific fitness or weight loss goals.
Yoga Instructor –
Gone are the days of needing to go to a gym or yoga studio and listen to the same boring yoga instructor over and over again. Just turn on this app, program in the type of yoga workout you want to do, and the application does the rest.
3. In-Home Workout Videos
You can’t beat the convenience of working out at home, and with companies like Beachbody on the scene these days, you could just give up your gym membership completely.
Beachbody has dozens of incredibly effective exercise programs, and you can check them all out at the Beachbody Store. Some of their most popular in-home workout titles are below.
Beachbody In-Home Workout Videos:
P90X- Extreme Home Fitness Program – 
Probably the most well-known and effective fitness program ever created, there is a reason why P90X has an almost cult-like following – because it works! Click on through to see my personal P90X results.
Insanity 60-Day Total Body Conditioning Program – 
This program lives up to its name, and if you like cardiovascular training (or even if you don’t!) Insanity will push you to limits that you’ve never even dreamed of, and you’ll have the results to show for it after only 60 days.
RevABS 90-Day Ab Solution – 
A program that is based solely on abdominal work doesn’t seem like it would be very effective, and it probably wouldn’t. RevABS, however, is not just based on ab work, but rather it is an intense, overall fitness and weight loss program that makes sure that you can SEE the abs that you work so hard for.
Brazil Butt Lift – 
This is probably the first fitness program that targets – and successfully builds – one specific area of the body; the butt! However, just like RevABS, Brazil Butt Lift incorporates total fitness and weight loss, not just creating a nice backside.
4. Effective Gym Workouts
If you have worked out a gym before, but didn’t get results, what makes you think that this time is going to be any different? If you are going to the gym now, or have in the past, nothing is going to “magically” change just because you have a New Year in front of you.
If you want results at the gym, you need to make sure that you are doing what you’re supposed to be doing while you are there, rather than just wasting your time.
Effective Gym Workout Resources:
Fitter U – A series of weight loss workouts that can be loaded onto your iPod or mp3 player to motivate and guide you through time-efficient and results-producing circuit training workouts.
Custom Fitness Programming – If you want results at the gym, why not have a program created JUST FOR YOU that is custom-built for whatever your personal fitness and weight loss goals are?
FitterUFitness – An exclusive monthly source of time-efficient portable athletic workouts to help you burn fat and get into the best shape of your life.
5. Clean Slate Nutrition
Nutrition and exercise go hand in hand if you want to lose weight, and if anyone ever tells you otherwise, they are straight up lying to you. You cannot lose weight and keep it off by dieting alone, just as you can’t lose weight and keep it off by exercising intensely yet not cleaning up your nutrition.
For many people, their nutrition is way out of whack from years of eating junk food, processed sugars, and chemicals in manufactured foods. Starting with “a clean slate” is a great way to kick-start a rapid weight loss program. Get all of the sludge out of your intestines, clean up the toxins that are clogging up your body’s ability to function properly, and then start eating cleaner, more natural foods in addition to an effective exercise program.
Nutritional Cleanse Resources:
Total Wellness Cleanse – A holistic cleansing plan which gives you day-by-day support, as well as a detailed dietary, exercise, and lifestyle action plan.
Beachbody 2-Day Fast Chocolate or Vanilla Shake – Lose up to 7 lbs. in 2 days with chocolate or vanilla shakes that reduce cravings and start burning off hard to lose body fat.
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