As a nutrition specialist and performance coach, I have always admired the people who decide to change their health for the better by following an exercise and healthy eating program.
Whether that is following my Assert Fitness Nutrition and fitness program or someone else s I totally respect them, as it often takes a lot of courage to join a fitness boot camp, walk into a personal training studio, gym or even one of the local weekly weight loss clubs.
It is common for people, especially the overweight to feel self conscious of how they appear and are more concerned about what other people think of them. I have a lot of conversations with people who reveal its often this fear of what others think that puts a lot of people off joining a fitness program in the first place.
They think that they are too fat and that everyone else will already be super human fit and so gives them an excuse not to try. They actually think that they need to lose weight and get fit before attending a fitness camp or personal training studio that is there for precisely that reason!
At Assert Fitness Camp, everyone is there for the same reason, to become healthy by learning how to eat again and to get fit. They are all in the same boat!
Of course there are members of different fitness levels, some more so, some less, but they have to remember that they all started exercising at some point. Maybe they too felt the same way as you do now.
So what does tell you?
That once you take that first step and join up for a new exercise program that you might actually be pleasantly surprised to find normal every day people that have taking that first step themselves! And those people who have been where you are will be more than willing to support you on your journey. That is what Assert Fitness Camp is all about. Bringing like minded people together with common goals so that everyone can help each other!
So if you are thinking about taking that first step on the road to a fitter, healthier you then I’d like to share with you these tips that will make that journey not only quicker but safer too.
Tip 1: Hire A Fitness Professional
For all it is tempting to just go to a gym and ask the nearest muscle bound guy or hot looking girl for advice, it doesn’t mean that they actually know what they are talking about. I have been in gyms where people who have been brave enough to go in, ask advice from the staff behind reception. Their replies have been startling to say the least! from bad nutrition advice to telling someone new to exercise that to lose weight they have to do every class they have!
It’s easy to think that because they’re in good shape they must know what they are talking about, or MORE IMPORTANTLY that they are qualified to help other people in their quest for fitness and health.
Often people who are in shape have trained for years, have had many mishaps and injuries, have the right genetics, or they were in pretty good shape from the get go and have no experience of going from fat to thin.
Hiring a professional who has a proven track record of helping people like yourself get the kind of results that you want is quite possibly the best investment you could make for your health.
A professional will be able to give you a training program that is designed for your body as it is now. A properly structured and designed program should incorporate corrective exercise elements to bring your posture back into alignment and improve the integrity of your kinetic chain (how your body is supposed to move). Simply following a mates program, one from the magazines or copying the fit guy or girl in the gym could be a recipe for injury and disaster.
Tip 2: Follow A Principle Based Nutrition Program
Diet! It’s a scary word and one that has many people feeling like a failure before they even start one.
“I can’t stick to a diet”
I’ve heard that sentence hundreds of times and it’s not that the person saying it has no will power, its just the diets that they have followed up to now have failed them.
Most diets have you focusing on counting calories, checking points or drinking disgusting shakes. The fact is that any diet that has you behaving like this is doomed. You cannot live your life with a calorie pocket book in your bag or checking points or mixing shakes. You become a slave to eating.
And because these kinds of diets allow you to eat crap, yes that is a technical word for junk, you have to eat less of it to lose weight. It often becomes a case of people wanting their cake and eating it. Well it just doesn’t work that way. Our bodies are an amazing organism, but if they are constantly abused by poor food chioces then it will breakdown and get sick. If you continue to do this then you will find that all kinds of issues can start to appear, from joint pain, obesity, diabetes, headaches, lethargy, heart disease and asthma. These are all modern diseases brought about by our excessive eating of processed crap that is not designed to nourish our body’s, but instead line the wallets of the food manufacturers making it. They haven’t got your best interest at heart, they only care about their bank balance.
Trouble is, all that crap messes with your bodies hormones so much that you either crave it or it your metabolism gets screwed and so you end up gaining fat even when you’re only eating 500 calories per day.
So, how about a little common sense?
The Assert Nutrition program isn’t so much as a diet but a change in thinking. Human’s evolved eating natural, organic meats, fruits and vegetables and we did it with hardly any of the disease that is killing modern man.
You are the only person responsible for your health and you owe to yourself, and your kids if you have any to look after yourself, because who will look after your kids if you became ill?
I hope I guilt tripped you there? Maybe that was my intention!
Sometimes when we are told the stone cold truth it finally hits home the dangers of eating crap. All too often we live in ignorance because we refuse to beleive things like these modern diseases will happen to you. Well guess what, if you keep abusing your body then it will.
If you are thinking who does he think he is talking to me like this? then I am doing my job. It is not my intention to offend but to simply lay down the facts, the reality of this modern society we live in.
Tip 3: Drink More Water
This is very important and I have been talking about water for a long time now and I’ll continue to do so for a long time to come.
Chronic dehydration and it’s side effects coupled with our addiction to is the biggest cause of all the health issues we see in modern man today.
If you haven’t read “Your Body’s Many Cries For Water: You’re Not Sick; You’re Thirsty” then please grab a copy ASAP and read it from cover to cover. It is probably one of the best books on health you could ever read!
Want to drop 30lb of weight by doing one thing?
Then drink 1 litre of water for every 50lb of bodyweight.
Sceptical? Then grab yourself a copy.
So there you go, three tips on changing your health for the better.
To your Health
Dean
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