1.
How to Reduce
Weight and Save
Your Life

2.
Hello!
I am Mark Fickler
aka the Old Spartan
You can find me at:
facebook.com/oldspartan
oldspartanfitness.com
@markfickler

3.
1.
Do you buckle your seat
belt?

4.
Why?

5.
Why?
Why do you buckle up each and every
time you get into your car?

6.
Because you don’t have a death wish

7.
Because you don’t have a death wish
▧ You want to live.
▧ You’ve got kids &
grandkids.
▧ You have a bucket
list to attend to.
▧ There is so much to
be done.

8.
1933 X
You are 1933 times more likely to die
from heart disease than in a car crash!
(see reference page)

9.
1 in 5 chanceof dying from heart disease
1 in 5
Are you feeling lucky?
586,577 peopledied from heart disease in the US in 2010

10.
Base Jumping is 463 times less likely to kill you
▧ Base Jumping is the
most dangerous
extreme sport on
the planet.
▧ Yet heart disease is
463 times more
likely to kill you
(see reference page)

11.
A fat gut is
your #1
predictor that
you’ll get heart
disease

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2.
What is a fat gut?

13.
Abdominal Obesity Guidelines
Waist Circumference
▧ > 35 inches for women
▧ > 40 inches for men
American Heart Association (AHA)
(see reference page)

14.
Abdominal Obesity Guidelines
Waist to Hip Ratio
▧ > 0.85 for women
▧ > 0.90 for men
World Health Organization (WHO)
(see reference page)

15.
“What is your #1 strategy for ensuring you
live to see your grandkids grow up?

16.
Lose your gut
Reduce your waist size and save your life

17.
What are you gonna do?

18.
What are you gonna do?
Lose your damn gut!

19.
3.
How can you knock a
few inches off your gut
in the next 60 days?
Read about losing weight fast

20.
Change your lifestyle

21.
Change your lifestyle
▧ Become the person who maintains a healthy
waist to hip ratio

22.
Change your lifestyle
▧ Become the person who maintains a healthy
waist to hip ratio
▧ Knock a couple inches off your waist and
start living like a guy who prioritizes health
and fitness over convenience

23.
4.
Your Lifestyle is Your
Seatbelt

24.
Buckle Your Seatbelt
Stop driving around waiting for an
accident to happen

25.
“Read how to reduce weight here and get
yourself buckled up!

26.
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27.
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28.
Thanks!
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You can find me at:
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oldspartanfitness.com
@markfickler

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References
▧ 32,719 fatalities from car accidents in 2013
▧ 2013 population estimate was 316,128,839
▧ chance of dying in a car crash = .010349%
▧ 1 in 5 risk of dying from heart disease = 20%
▧ The math: Dying from heart disease is 1933 times more
likely than dying in a car crash
▧ Base jumping odds of dying 1 in 2317 = .0431%
▧ The math: Dying from heart disease is 463 times more
likely than dying from base jumping
▧ Abdominal obesity guidelines

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