In live poker games, competing for real money against determined opponents, it’s very easy to become emotionally agitated and tilted. Making a mistake, taking a bad beat, getting unlucky, getting bluffed, getting tricked, insulted or outmaneuvered— there are many ways to get emotionally agitated at the poker table, and it’s not always easy to dismiss it as merely a game. Sometimes it starts because you’re tired, impatient and frustrated; other times it seems like you were already ready to go on Tilt as soon as you sat down, somebody just had to flip the switch for you. Whatever the situation, though, if you start feeling bad or letting your emotions overpower you, you won’t be playing your best and you’ll be in real danger of going on Tilt. Emotions are physical reactions, but when you’re playing poker you often have to just sit there and endure it. The advantage of Poker Isometrics is that it gives you real tools to burn off extra adrenaline and stress, come back to your body, and keep your head in the game.

In the above technique, you isometrically flex your biceps very strongly, while squeezing your hand in the crook of your arm. This works the biceps very intensely, and is also a perfectly reasonable poker playing position. Flex your biceps and clamp down onto your hand, squeezing and trapping it as hard as you can between your biceps and your forearm. You can also try pulling your hand out from your arm as you grip onto it tightly. We refer to it as a “headlock” because you’re flexing the grip between your forearm and biceps; in Jiu Jitsu or MMA, the Rear Naked Choke, also known as the “lion killer” is one of the greatest and most fundamental of all techniques, and true, expert application of the technique involves squeezing with this part of the arm. One of the major “tricks” of the Rear Naked Choke, is that in application, the biceps and forearm should be powerfully flexed, expanding the mass of the arm and squeezing the opponent’s neck. What we are doing here is squeezing the opposite hand in the crook of the elbow. Obviously, a hand is much smaller than a neck, so if you can forcefully grip, squeeze and hold a hand, you can easily do the same to a neck. The ability to apply this “lion killer” choke with such vice-like precision is lethal. It just so happens that this isometric training technique, like many others, lends itself perfectly to the poker table—the ideal position for this technique is in fact literally a common poker playing position.

Here’s another technique:

The picture on the left shows a common poker face-concealment position. The picture on the right shows a subtle adjustment: the player has pulled his elbows together in front of him. From this position, isometrically squeezing the chest muscles is very effective. Try it. Flex and squeeze your chest muscles, as you push your elbows and shoulders toward one another. Sitting up straighter, or leaning back slightly without removing your elbows from the table as you do this intensifies the effect even more. Don’t hold your breath; let yourself breathe normally while you flex. Hey! Guess what? You’re opponent folded. Stack some chips and think about the table and your position for the next hand.

The two techniques shown above are absolutely fantastic for burning off stress at the poker table, and UNLEASHING the pent up energy and adrenaline inside you that’s not getting used while you’re sitting there playing poker. Face it, when you’re playing poker, your mind is at peak intensity, but what about your body? Your body wants some peak intensity too! That’s where Poker Isometrics comes in. It allows you to exert yourself—with deep satisfying, powerful, muscular exertions, any time you want—while staying in the flow of the game and not even changing your expression. You can really make it a lot easier for yourself to stay off tilt—and you can improve your body, burn calories and build muscle while you’re at it. And when your body is happy and gets what it needs, it’s much easier for you to focus, relax and play your best—no matter what game you want to play.

The book “Poker Isometrics and Poker Fitness” contains a TON of techniques and tricks that will have you on the path to using isometrics at the poker table like an expert almost immediately. When you truly have the right technique, a little bit goes a long way. This book is packed with secrets , fundamentals and easy to learn techniques that can absolutely transform your body—and you’re approach to the game.

The Simple Poker Diet, first introduced in the book Poker Isometrics, has attracted favorable attention because of its easy to follow format and ability to adapt to foods which are commonly on offer in entertainment venues, such as restaurants, casinos, theme parks, etc. The diet’s simple format allows dieters, even those with a propensity for snacking and surrounded by temptation, to lose weight and build lean muscle effectively. It also allows for a “cheat day” once a week, if desired, when dieters can seriously indulge their cravings for fattening foods, but still continue to lose weight effectively.

The book also features a very in-depth section on supplements, including fat burning and cardio-health supplements, and some people are saying that this chapter is worth more than the price of the book just by itself. This sections gets into the real facts of what works and what doesn’t when it comes to fat burning supplements, brain boosting supplements,”energy” formulations, and more.

Is it really possible to eat out at popular restaurants and bars, to party in Vegas and spend entire days inside casinos and still lose weight and build muscle? You bet it is. Is it really possible to order right off the casino menu and get ample helpings of delicious protein and healthy complex carbs and vegetables? Yes, and it’s easier than you think.