Tag Archive for: healthy lifestyle

Bad Dieting

Aging Effects of a Bad Diet

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There’s no escaping aging… but if you’re looking in the mirror and thinking that the person staring back at you is OLD, it might be time to take notice of what you’re eating as the effects of a bad diet can speed up aging.

Lifestyle choices (smoking and sun exposure come to mind) you’ve made can certainly impact how old you look, so too, it appears can your diet. An unhealthy eating pattern, beyond doing a number on your body, sends the aging process into high gear, so that you look years older than you are. Read more

Tips on hiring a personal trainer

5 Things to Consider When Choosing a Personal Trainer

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Do you need a Personal Trainer? – If you have a goal or something you want to achieve, the answer is yes. Working with a personal trainer has been PROVEN to achieve better & faster results than working alone.

What do you want from your Personal Trainer? – This is probably the most important question. Yet it is often the least explored. Most people will consider cost as the main priority. However, whilst money is an important factor, as everyone has their own budget, there is no point in getting the wrong service for the right price. If you are looking for a Personal Trainer to work with, then you are most certainly looking for a result of some kind.

reason you need a personal trainer

Therefore you should be looking for the best coach that you can within your budget. As yourself, “what do I want to achieve?” and then find the best person to help you achieve that. One session, week or even just one chat with the right person will be vastly more beneficial than any amount of sessions with someone who is throwing generic workouts at you.

How much should you pay for a Personal Trainer?

It may not seem so right now, but this is, by far, the least important question. The way to get the best results for your investment is to work out in advance what you can GENUINELY afford to pay, find the best person for your purposes and then work out the best way to put those things together.

Who is the best Personal Trainer for you?

Only you can really know the answer to that. But, you are going to be working with this person for a while and you will be spending a lot of time with them, so you MUST find out if you feel comfortable with them. You might be able to get a feel for this from their website, flyers, etc. If they can’t be bothered putting the effort into their public image, then how much effort are they likely to put into your training.

Do they offer a free consultation?

They should be confident enough in themselves to be willing to speak to you about them with no outlay on your part and use the consultation to make sure you are speaking to the right person for you.

5 Things to ask at the consultation:

Treat it like you would an interview.

Make sure you know what you are getting for your investment. This shouldn’t just be about your gym sessions. Remember there are 168hrs in a week unless you intend to spend most of that at the gym then you need to know that you are using the rest of your time wisely. What kind of nutritional advice will you receive? Will you be given a diet analysis? Will you get meal plans tailored to your needs? Etc.

How will your progress be tracked?

The only way to track body composition improvements is by measuring body fat. This should be done through the use of skinfold calipers NOT through the use of an electronic body fat tester or scales. How often will this be tracked? Ideally, you are looking for weekly feedback to ensure you are not going for long periods doing the wrong thing. Even if a programme SHOULD work, everyone is different and there are no guarantees so you need to get regular feedback.

How will your workouts be created?

Too many Personal Trainers treat every client as the next on the conveyor belt. If you are female, short and looking to flatten that stomach for your holidays, you should not be doing the same workout as a 6ft male who is obese and trying to stay out of the hospital. So if you find you are turning up and doing the same workout as the person that just left, I’d be questioning the effort and thought that is being applied to your training.

What is your guarantee? Your personal trainer should be able to Guarantee your results if you follow their guidance correctly. You should not be paying for 1hr sessions. You should get the session length that is right for you. Different people respond better to different training times. So if you are someone who is better suited to short sessions, you should not be doing 1hr sessions. If you are someone who is suited to long sessions, then you shouldn’t be getting cut off at 1hr. You are paying for a result and if you don’t get one then why should you pay for fruitless use of your time.

Once you get started

Watch out for bean counters – If you do sign up with a trainer, check that you are getting useful feedback. There are too many trainers who seem to think that their job is to count the reps out for you. If your ‘feedback’ is simply “ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, keep going, FIVE, SIX…etc” You may want to re-assess what you are paying them for.

Keep these things in mind and find the right Personal Trainer for you and whatever your goals ( flatten that stomach, burn the fat, shape your shoulders or increase your endurance) and it could be the best investment you’ve ever made.

Bad Dieting

What Makes Bad Diets Bad?

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There are good diets, there are bad diets, and there are very bad diets. There are diets that work, and there are diets that will never work. For the person looking to lose a few pounds in weight, then the weight loss business presents a confusing mixture of what to do and what not to do.

However, there are certain pointers that indicate that a particular diet may not live up to its claims, and in fact, could be dangerous from a health point of view. Such diets may be termed ‘bad diets’ not only because of the potential health danger but also because they fail as weight loss tools. Read more

Tips on hiring a personal trainer

How To Pick The Right Personal Trainer

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We all know that personal trainers used to be just for the rich and insanely wealthy. Now, like many other personal services, a personal trainer is now in the reach of most people’s budgets. Not only are the services affordable, but many of you have realized the benefit of the additional support in regards to your fitness goals – be it to lose weight, build muscle, or stay on your workout program.

Just because the services are affordable, however, does not mean that you do not have to exercise good judgment in choosing the trainer that is just right for you. Read more

Weight Lifting Exercises

Weight Lifting Tips

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Weight lifting tips are very necessary for getting the most benefit from your workout. Moreover; it will also reduce the chances of sustaining a serious debilitating injury. The primary weight lifting tip is to warm up before starting your workout.

Do warm up at least for five to ten minute before getting started because it is very necessary for a cardiovascular vessel to get the blood flowing. Read more

Belly Fat Burning Foods

Speed Up Your Fat Loss (Belly Fat Burning Foods)

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Belly fat burning foods are foods that burn more calories than the calorie content of the food itself, thereby fighting stored fat. There are certain foods which actually burn more fat than the calorie content of the food itself. These fat burning foods are natural plant foods. Foods that are high in protein and fiber are the best kinds of food to eat if you want to burn stomach fat.

Identifying abdominal fat burning foods will help you make the right choices to burn off more abdominal fat than you consume. The stomach fat burning dieting secret to losing weight is to eat and drink until you are full and satisfied, choosing foods that burn more calories than you eat. This helps your body burn up the excessive useless stored fat. Read more

cardio vs weight training

Challenge Your Exercise Routine For Better Fitness

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When exercising, many times it will become routine and mundane. When it starts to become easy, then it is time that you start to challenge it. That means to switch it up. If you normally do circuit training, then you’ll need to change some of the exercises in it or switch to another routine altogether.

Most people who don’t fully understand how exercise affects the body will do endless hours of cardio on a treadmill or exercise bike. While those exercises will burn calories, your body may have adapted so that growth eventually stops. The calories that are burning at that point through cardio are not what you want. Read more

Weight Lifting Exercises

Exercising with Weight Lifting

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The weight lifting exercise is a very unique and different type of technique is used because of the dynamic movement by lifting the weight under a full squat and with the lightning speed, moving the weight overhead with a fast movement of legs and hips to generate a large amount of force upon a loaded barbell.

Weight lifters are not only strong but possess a strong shoulder and hip flexibility. Proper gear gives confidence. Sometimes it boosts your energy and gives a high level of assurance to face the vigorous challenge of weight lifting. Read more

Belly Fat Burning Foods

Belly Fat Burning Foods To Jump Start Your Weight Loss

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Numberless people struggle continually with weight loss and have to ask themselves what they’re doing wrong. They try all of the FAD diets they read about in magazines and on the Internet that promise fast weight loss. But none of them really deliver.

The reality is. If you’re going to lose weight and stay fit, you have to make long term lifestyle changes. Don’t think that you can’t eat a banana or replace meals with cabbage soup for three days and believe that you’ve suddenly won your weight loss battle. You haven’t. All that you have done is formed a habit of Yo-Yo dieting. Read more

cardio vs weight training

How to Burn More Fat With Resistance Cardio

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Some people are naturally lean and can more or less stay that way seemingly no matter how much food they eat. But in reality, men like this are rare. Most of the rest of us need to incorporate cardio into our training routines in order to keep the excess body fat at bay.

Just how much cardio needs to be integrated into your routine will vary depending on a lot of factors including age, activity level, physical health, body type, diet, sleep patterns, and weight training approach. Read more