If you have a dog, it’s likely that he knows a lot more about you than you know about him. He has been closely monitoring your daily habits.

If you doubt that, tell me how he knows that when you grab your car keys and your wallet you are about to go for a ride.

Dogs readily discover if you are sad, mad, cranky or in a good mood and ready to play. They also seem to know when it’s family mealtime and the time and place when it’s time to turn in for the night.

So how much have you managed to learn about your dog? Probably not ten percent as much as he has taught himself about you. However, learning about him is fairly easy once you put your mind to it.

Barking serves many different purposes. Sometimes it is used to repel and sometimes to attract. Some barking styles indicate, go away, whereas others can be interpreted to mean, Im over here, where the heck are you? Even the most inexperienced of dog watchers will notice that dogs have a variety of different types of barking ranging from the muted woof of appreciation, to the sharp pitched yelp of alarm, to a the loud string of angry barks indicating aggression.

Nineteenth century British behaviorist, Sir John Lubbock, noted that a dog’s bark is an attempt to mimic the human voice. He pointed out that wild dogs do not bark. Neither do their cousins the wolves, the coyotes, nor any other member of the canine family that has not heard humans speak or the barking of domestic dogs.

The intent of a bark is completely different from that of a growl. When barking, a dog flings his head high, leaving his throat exposed and unprotected. Barking is definitely not a war cry. But when he growls he lowers his head so as to protect the vulnerable throat area, preparing for an impending fight.

When you walk up to the front door of a house and the family dog comes charging toward the door barking loudly you are probably in no immediate danger. But… if he approaches you with his head lowered, growling menacingly, then look out - he’s ready to do battle.

By standing absolutely still, avoiding eye contact and with your hands on your chest, you will most likely not be bitten by a barking dog. But, if you make gestures that the dogs feels are threatening, or if - heaven forbid - you turn and run, your chances of being bitten are very high. Never disregard a strange dog’s warning growl - especially if you value your skin!

There are many programs that assist you in losing weight/body fat or building muscle. When you achieve those goals you become fit n sexy but there’s steps that needs to be taken to keep those results. A program guides you through the process but everyday activities needs to be put in consideration and its easy stuff like eating certain foods or drinking plenty of water, easy as 123.

1. Drink a lot of water, the body often sends a signal that represents thirst as hunger tricking your brain thinking your hungry when you’re just thirsty. Best way to approach drinking more water would be drink water first thing in the morning and all throughout the day, especially during and after exercising (required). Drink minimum eight 8 ounce glasses of water or more daily.

2. Decrease intake on teas and coffee, back off of fizzy drinks.

3. Take in a piece of fruit or more daily, don’t drink fruit juice that’s NOT 100% juice it is difficult for your body to digest and has plenty of calories.

4. Unless you are training really hard watch out for sports drinks. A bottle of that could replace all the calories you just burned in your exercise. Grab a bottle of water instead.

5. Make sure you get your breakfast, your goals can only be achieved when eating properly same with efficiently working out. Proven experiments have shown that those who eat breakfast will burn fat at a faster rate and build muscle at a faster rate then those who don’t.

6. Snacks late at night are not acceptable, after 9 o’clock stay out of the kitchen. 3 hours is needed to digest food in your system, when asleep and food in your system it sits there. Since you’re sleeping your metabolism slows down and that food sitting there stores fat.

7. Get vegetables in your system daily, vegetables are a big deal to your health and staying fit. Vegetables aid in burning calories.

8. Give your body sleep, sleep is awesome to your body and is one of the good things you can do for yourself as in staying fit. Sleep aids in burning fat and building muscle.

9. Have an intake of all food groups daily

10. Stick to your workout routine, problems people end up having is that they do great with progress or keeping what they’ve worked for but end up missing one workout, then another and it’s broke. Try making it a habit to stick to it.

Time was when fitness aficionados sweating away in gyms and fitness centers were comprised of men. In the early days of fitness, there were no such things as aerobics classes and certainly no female bodybuilders. Those dark, barbaric days of exercising have are long gone and it’s now a common site to see women slugging it out in the octagon or pumping iron and getting ripped.

As such, women that frequent fitness gyms nowadays rival men in numbers. What was once believed to be “macho” for men- lean, well-defined bodies and shredded midsections are now sexy for women also.

Popular cultural icons like Madonna, Janet Jackson and Fergie all spend a greater part of their day in the gym working on maintaining their six-pack and legions of adoring fans have been following suit. Fitness is the “in thing” right now and the popularity of athletes like Anna Kournikova, Maria Sharapova, and Tatyana Ali is evidence of this.

Let’s face it- under modern standards, women with abs look great and attaining and maintaining six-pack abs is the primary goal of female fitness buffs around the world. Wily businessmen know this and have been making a killing selling gimmicky products on infomercials.

Fat-burning creams claimed by their makers to isolate belly fat, diet programs and expensive ab machines that promise a six-pack in a few weeks. These are what cheerleaders, office workers and housewives have been paying good money for just to get a chiseled mid-section in the shortest time possible.

Sadly, a lot of women get ripped-off by these “revolutionary” products which don’t really do much to shorten the process of eliminating belly fat. The key to exposing the striations and contours of the abdominal muscles which give us that six-pack appearance is in getting rid of excess body fat. Take care of all-around body fat and we eliminate belly fat.

Studies reveal that the fastest way of burning body fat is by combining total body cardio exercises with muscle-building from weight training. Experts have found the former to burn the most body fat in the shortest amount of time. Muscle tissue increases our metabolism, so the more muscles we have, the easier it will be for us to burn fat.

Experts have discovered these cardio exercises burn the highest percentage of calories from stored fat rather than from muscle-building glycogen. In burning belly fat, the main goal is fat-loss and not muscle-loss. Losing glycogen by through improper exercise and skipping meals makes us lose out on muscle repair and development and no fitness buff wants that.