3 top tips for insane fitness-Health
So in this blog i would like to pass on three top tips that keep me ahead of the game and keep my clients getting amazing results.
Its so simple you will be kicking your self, it's how i train and how most athletes train too.
(1)Variation
It really is the key, without constantly varied movements your body adapts to the exercise/load which leads to reduced calorie expenditure, fat burning and muscle growth. As an example when you first jump on the treadmill and jog/walk for an hour you burn for example 400 calories, a month later half and six months later perhaps a quarter.
You can think of this for any exercise, your first Metafit class and you literrally cannot walk for three or four days. Six months down the line and you are not sore even the next day? what do you think is happening here? lots of calories used for repair of tissues....NOPE.
An exercise is only GREAT when your brain and muscles (neuro muscular) is trying to learn and master the exercise.
Simply try and do something different every time you train, its easy because you can change the load, the exercise, the intensity, the order, the duration, the time of day etc.
Just imagine there is a tombola with every exercise, think of the exercise you hate the most. You are probably crap at it, right? start with this exercise until you are less crap and then the next crappest one until all of your weakness become strengths.
(2)Intensity
No one achieves anything easily and exercise is exactly the same, it always has been. Therefore how much you sweat, breath hard, ache and feel sick directly correlates to the results you are going to get. Simples right, if you are on the stepper or bike and can read a magazine you will only ever be averagely fit with an average physique(FACT).
If you would like the body of an athlete you MUST train like one.
Interval training (fast and slow) or going as fast as you can for as long as you can both offer results. The harder you can train provides you with the biggest after burn (excess post oxygen consumption) for up to a few days if you really go flat out. Like up toward 100% effort in intervals or time and constantly mixing up exercise (refer to tip one).
There are lots of ways of doing this, however a good rule of thumb is you shouldn't be able to read, talk or even breath properly during and you should finish the workout a sweaty mess, out of breath and feeling a bit sick.
Its a fair trade looking like a mess during your workout to looking and feeling like a god/goddess for the rest of your life.
(3) Nutrition
The most important part of the equation, still true today that you cannot out train a bad diet and i should know i tried for 15 years. There are litterally hundreds of different methods of dieting and weight loss.
Please firstly avoid diet clubs unless you must go for your sanity and social life. Even more importantly avoid these god awful multi level marketing products such as Herbalife, Body by Vi, Juice plus etc etc not only has the person selling got a vested interest in selling them to you (money making) he/she generally knows nothing about nutrition. More importantly you do not need them and eventually with education even these Salesmen will agree.
You see we have been developing nicely as a species for 10,000 generations being a hunter gatherer and more recently say 10 generations of agriculture and modern farming methods. When during this time frame have we became unwell and infirm, yes recently.
Without boring you too much, modern food manufacture is all about profits and making food last as long as possible. This process has changed our food from what our body is able to use efficiently to some weird food hybrid.
Safest would be to eat only organic, less chemicals, toxins and acids however it is so tough and expensive.
A modern sollution would be to eat clean and a bit like our descendants, not suggesting here that you only eat the exact food a caveman would.
But think about this "what made us human can keep us human". The next paragraph is a simple method of eating well to ensure health and longevity.
Eat meat, fish and green veg all of the time eat lots of nuts and salad. Eat some fruit and very little processed, packaged foods including refined carbs. No sugar.
Read into the underlining, its very important. ...All of the time, Lots, Eat some, Very little and No sugar.
Three simple tips here, follow tip three and you will feel better and healthier. Follow all three and you will be very fit and very healthy.
I have laid it out and it's time for you all to play it out.
