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Burn the Fat Blog has been on hiatus from early 2019 until the spring of 2020. We are back, but pardon out dust – we’re still rebuilding. Here’s where we went, why we were gone, and why we returned…
Hi, It’s Tom Venuto, author of Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle, owner of Burn the Fat Blog, and primary writer here.
I started working as a personal trainer in 1989. I launched my first fitness website in 1999. Burn the Fat Blog first appeared in March of 2006. That means I’ve been in the business more than 30 years, and this website is going into its 15th year online.
But I have a confession to make: I haven’t been blogging here nonstop.
They say the key to having a successful blog is consistency in publishing. I’ve enjoyed many years blogging with great success and floods of traffic, but I’ve also failed at times, leaving periods with less blogging activity and fewer visitors.
Then, in 2019, I took a long and complete hiatus from blogging on this website. It was tumbleweeds and crickets around here.
I did keep writing and producing content – a lot – as our Burn the Fat Inner Circle members only community website continued to grow, but it was more for our members-only than the public.
I also kept writing on the public pages of our Inner Circle site through 2019, but not as much as I wanted to, and that was only an interim blog.
After doing that for a while, I realized it wasn’t the same as having a dedicated (Word Press) blog hosted on it’s own separate website. I also missed writing more often to more people, so I decided to start blogging here on BurnTheFatBlog.com once again.
I knew having been online for a decade and a half, the old Burn the Fat Blog was so outdated, it not only didn’t look modern, it wasn’t even mobile friendly! It needed an entire rebuild, redesign, and update to the newest software. It would be the fourth blog update/rebuild since those early days (15 years is like an eternity in internet years, you know)… from blogspot, to movable type, to word press, to new word press.
But before I finished the redesign, life had other plans for me. Adventure. I ended up extending my hiatus a little longer because I decided to take (another) hike… a backpacking trek on the 2200-mile Appalachian trail (I’ll share more about that story later, but yes, I did keep lifting… and I lost weight eating 5,000 calories a day)…
Anyway, Burn the Fat Blog remained dormant for the second half of 2019 and all the way into 2020. Finally, we arrived in March 2020, and the new Burn the Fat Blog went live. The only trouble is, the rebuild was so extensive, we didn’t have the time to finish every new page, let alone update every old blog post.
You’ve heard the expression, “ready or not,” and that’s how I felt. The new blog wasn’t quite finished yet, but I didn’t want to delay a day longer after being away for so long, so I raised the curtain anyway. My virtual assistants and I will be updating up old pages and finishing up the new pages in the weeks ahead as I go ahead and start making new posts.
Hundreds of older posts will need updates to both the text and the photos (many links too), so if you spend any time scrolling through our extensive archives that date back for years, you still find all the old great content – nothing has been removed – but you’ll have to accept my apology for the appearance of some of the older posts (text may be scrunched up, photos need resizing and so on).
Some of these posts may get re-written based on the latest research and knowledge and then bumped to the top, this way everything on the site, even the “old” archives, will be up to date.
New posts are starting immediately, the third week of March 2020, and should display perfectly – including on all smartphones and other mobile devices, as well as on your desktop or laptop.
If you notice anything on newer blog posts or in any new page on the site, please don’t hesitate to let me know, so we can patch it up on priority.
I plan to post at least once a week, if not more often. The majority of posts will continue to be written by me, though I will also continue to invite guest bloggers (but only who are carefully hand-picked because they have a similar philosophy as I have on this website).
I realized early on that the fitness industry was full of fads, gimmicks and lies, so I started this site as a place to learn about body transformation without the B.S. That mission is still the same today.
Here, I promote drug-free bodybuilding and fitness, and I do not sell supplements. (Burn the Fat Blog will be partly supported by affiliate revenue, but trust me, you will NEVER see a friggen’ supplement ad on this site). If you’re sick of hearing about miracle drinks, magic pills, and quick fixes, and you want to learn how to transform naturally with real food, smart training, and strong motivation, then you have come to the right place.
The name of the site is Burn the Fat Blog, so as you might expect, I publish a lot of information about fat loss and will continue to do so. But, body transformation and body building have two sides – burning fat and building muscle, so you will see an almost equal amount of articles at Burn the Fat Blog about the muscle-building side of the equation too.
Before I retired from the stage, I competed in natural bodybuilding 28 times, and I have never made any apologies for pursuing cosmetic physique-only goals, or encouraging others to do the same, nor will I now. You’ll see plenty more posts here that focus on how to look great nekkid.
But, as we move forward into this next new phase for Burn the Fat Blog, you will see a greater focus than ever on achieving fitness, function, and health at the same time. We all come to realize this as we get older. Health is greatest wealth we have, and the number one priority for life values, and compromising it to get a six pack or build muscle mass is unthinkable.
I also look forward to introducing a new type of feature here in the future…
Maybe second only to pumping iron, one of my biggest passions in life is hiking, especially thru-hikes, day hikes, and peak-bagging. Between 2016 and 2019, I hiked and backpacked more than 4,000 miles, and I look forward to encouraging more people to “opt outside,” and to sharing stories about some of my adventures, favorite hikes, and about the benefits of getting outdoors for achieving health and fitness. It’ so good for everything that ails you, but not talked about enough as an option for getting fit and lean without the gym.
On all topics, some posts will be short, some will be long, some will be epic (grab a large coffee and kick back in a Lazy Boy), but all will have more depth than the surface stuff most of us see in social media feeds today, that we scroll past and scan in seconds or minutes.
That’s one of the reasons I’m excited to relaunch the blog. Some people seem to think social media has replaced the blog, but I think there are simply not enough good blogs and we need more great blogging in 2020 and beyond, not less, to provide us all with more substance.
This website is for you, so post in the comments, or reach out by email and let me know what else you want to read about – the more requests I get for specific topics, the more likely I’ll be to blog about them.
Please visit often, at least once a week to see new posts, and comment often to make this site a major part of our Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle online community along with our other sites and social pages.
There’s well over a half a million of us… maybe more.
Train hard and expect success,
Tom Venuto, author of
Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle (https://amzn.to/2IKvOWp)
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