You live a fit lifestyle year round but sometimes we realize the occasional junk food has begun to show its effects. Being the educated fitness diva you know it’s time to start dieting and cater your workout to achieve your goal.
But for some reason when us women decide it’s time to lose fat, the first thing we tend to do is jump onto cardio, and weight training is not prioritized.
Whether it’s because the calorie burning advantages aren’t recognized, we think weight training is to build muscle and not burn fat, we think we can’t focus on lifting and losing fat at the same time, we don’t know how to do an efficient weight training program, or whatever the reason, somehow we tend to put the weights back on the rack when we want to focus on losing fat.
Must have strength training
Too many people try to lose fat without going on a properly designed strength training program. The problem is that when you try to lose fat by eating less, the body responds by losing weight. Strength training makes sure that the weight that you lose will be ugly unwanted fat, rather than your beautiful, firm muscle.
A personal trainer will help you design a strength training program that not only preserves your muscle but also help you burn calories 24 hours a day, every day. This will be a far superior program to jogging, or swimming.
Must include nutrition
Some people try to lose fat by “out-training” bad nutrition. This is close to impossible. You require about 3 hours of physical activity per day to be allowed to eat almost anything you like without getting fat.
That is an unrealistic amount in today’s busy lifestyles. So good nutrition which includes lots of vegetables, meat, nuts, eggs, and healthy fat like fish oils, is essential.
Once you are on the road to losing your unwanted weight or losing fat, you need to think of the next step. Keeping it off! People who are formerly fat are more likely to go back to that state unless they find a long term solution to keeping the unwanted fat off. The key is habit formation.
Habit formation is developed by the correct mindset. That mindset is not “oh poor me I can’t eat cake or else I’ll balloon up again” the correct mindset is “I don’t eat cake often because I am a fit, lean, healthy person it is simply not what I do!”
What also helps is a healthy community. Stick around people who also have similar fitness goals as you do and you are far more likely to keep your habits and thus your fat loss results.
Coach Jonathan Wong, is a sought after Singapore personal trainer and performance expert who has helped hundreds of clients in Singapore from regular folk to national level athletes achieve their fitness, fat loss and sports performance goals regardless of starting age, fitness level or experience
He Is also a fitness author and a member of Singapore Men’s Health Advisory Panel. Visit his website for a free 1500 page e-book, blog, newsletter and constant updates
Discussion
No comments for “Weight Loss Training Guide”