A very common goal for our Personal Training clients that we train here at Napa Tenacious Fitness is that people want to transform their lifestyle and body into something healthier. A very common goal is to want to lean out and learn how to implement proper dietary habits into their life. It seems like a very simple solution when someone says that all you need to do is work out more and eat less food. If only life were that simple.
Being sick of where you’re at and having failed multiple times in attempting to change a body that is overweight is not an easy place to be in. Critically important modifications such as ensuring that you are eating the correct foods that are low glycemic index and having balanced portion sizes for each meal throughout the day is going to make a big difference toward ones journey in improving the overall health of their body.
In addition to having a healthy diet, a consistent amount of activity throughout one’s week involving consecutive days of exercise will transform a person’s body into a body that is used to performing physical activity often. A body that performs physical activity and exercises more will look and function like a healthy body with lean muscle, decreased body fat and an efficient metabolism. This means ensuring that you are doing resistance training at least 2 times per week and doing some sort of cardiovascular activity that gets your heart rate above 50 or 60% for a prolonged period of time of 30 minutes or more 1 to 2 times a week.
A body that is consuming 5 to 7 evenly sized meals with equal amounts of carbohydrate, protein, and healthy fats five out of seven days a week will turn into a body that looks like someone who is consuming evenly portion meals throughout their week on a consistent basis. In other words you will look like the choices that your eating habits consist of.
This also holds true with the amount of exercise you are doing throughout your week. An individual who consistently does resistance training of compound techniques such as squats, push-ups, and pulling movements throughout their week is going to look like a person who has a body that can perform those exercises efficiently. More often than not, these individuals have more lean muscle, less excess fat storages and increased metabolisms. An individual who does not participate in physical activity 3 days a week and sits down in a sedentary lifestyle five or more days out of the week is not going to look like a person who participates in strenuous physical activity and exercise three times or more a week. Once again the image that you put out there will portray the amount of exercise that you are inducing upon your body.
These points are critically important factors that will contribute toward someone wanting to transform the health of their life. So if you want to change your image and achieve some of your goals toward living a healthier, stronger, and happier life, perhaps it would be a good idea to create a checklist that gives you weekly tactics to ensure that you are achieving some of these goals. It’s not how Intense or how unique your exercise program is that will give you the results that you’re looking for. Adhering to a program and ingraining this into your life will create results that will positively influence the achievement to your goals and making Life Time Fitness an everlasting component to your world.
