When it comes to achieving and maintaining a healthy, lean body AND a healthy lifestyle there are four aspects you need:

1. Nutrition – What you eat, when you eat, and how much you eat.

2. Training – Resistance and Cardiovascular.

• Resistance Training:  Training with free weights, weight machines, resistance bands, exercise balls, and even your own body weight – anything that gives your muscles resistance to work against.

• Cardiovascular:  Working out your heart and burning calories by moving your body e.g. walking, jogging, swimming, exercise classes…things that make you sweat.

3. Motivation – The desire to achieve results, this can be internal or external motivation.

4. Accountability – If you aren’t following a specific programme, have goals set to achieve and are not measuring results, then you are NEVER going to get results.

All four of these aspects will be covered on this blog. We will look at all of these aspects individually and also delve deep into each of them, as well as looking further afield into other aspects that compliment all four.

Nutrition is Number 1 on this list for a reason. WITHOUT a nutrition programme then you really cannot expect to get ANY results.  It is my strong belief that if a Gym, Personal Trainer, Fitness Camp, Boot Camp, Exercise Class, or anyone else is promising results WITHOUT a nutritional programme, then you are mis-selling you their product or service.

A nice example of this is the ‘amazing’ effect of various fat burning pills and weight loss products, such as Slim-Fast.  If you have ever read the small print on the label of these, or seen the small print on the TV adverts, you will see an asterisk next to their claim and a disclaimer.  The Slim Fast example is:

“*Can only help weight loss as part of a calorie controlled diet and an active lifestyle.”

In other words, this star is what allows them to make the claim that their product can help you lose weight. Because what they are REALLY saying is: LOSE WEIGHT FAST (when you combine our product with a calorie restricted diet/healthy, balanced and nutritious meal plan).

Why is this?   Because exercise alone or taking a fat loss supplement just isn’t that effective for weight loss.

I know that EVERYONE is pitching their new fat loss workout these days, but slaving away in the gym alone,  for example, will give you very limited weight loss results.

Following the latest greatest fat loss workout with out eating correctly is like popping fat loss pills while Eating a super-sized McDonald’s meal.

The good news is that weight loss IS POSSIBLE, and fast.  Eat to lose weight.  Workout to build or maintain muscles.

This is the simplest and most effective way to lose body fat for good…but it HAS to involve the correct nutritional plan!

Be Different. Be Better.