What’s the secret to achieving long term fitness and fat loss results?  Well, here’s a simple way to think of it: Treat your body like a luxury vehicle, put quality fuel in it, do regular maintenance on it, repair any damage as soon as possible.   If you do those things, your body will perform like a luxury vehicle.  Not only will your body perform well, it will also look great!    In this article, I’ll discuss one of my “fuel” secrets.  What’s one of my fuel secrets?  Dark chocolate!  As a matter of fact, I might have mentioned that way back when I started Fat X 101 and put myself through the Fat X Program, although things moved so fast back then that I might have glossed over it.  In any case, when I first developed the 12 day Fat X Program , I had a bit of dark chocolate every day.  Why did I have dark chocolate every day?   I put a bit of dark chocolate in my meal plan as part of the 5% ( Fat X Diet ).  I knew back then that dark chocolate had several health benefits bu

Ricardo will be 42 in May! The Professor Chaos Workout is the latest workout video for the Fat X 101- Fat Burning Bonus Series . This workout video is a bit special, and here’s why.  I recently opened a new private training studio in Pasadena, FX Training Pasadena. I can’t personally work with everyone who wants to train at FX Training Pasadena. So, I needed to find other people who were capable of doing private fitness coaching (personal training) or have the ability to run an FX Boot Camp class .  I didn’t want just anyone; I wanted someone with a high level of scientific training knowledge and experience in fitness. The first person that came to mind was my brother, Ricardo.  Ricardo is extremely qualified, and I’ve been actively recruiting him for a while now.  His resume includes a master’s degree in education and two other fitness certifications, International Sports and Science Association (ISSA) and USA Weightlifting. Along with that, he has plenty of competitive experience