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Eat MORE & move MORE – SMART Personal Training

 

Here is an example of why I always go on about how myfitnesspro is more than just a move more, eat less personal training company.

Its never just about eating less or exercising more to accomplish weight loss…if it were that easy i would be out of work

So what do I mean?

I took on a client prior to Christmas, a young woman working in the city. A banking job, stressful, demanding, out with clients and obviously in an arena where looks can matter.

It was a relatively easy goal that she wanted, to lose weight (fat) and look better

After a little goal work we came down to the reasons of wanting to have more confidence in a job where appearance helps, she wanted to get back into some of her power suits and kick ass

So we began, an overhaul of her nutrition starting with eradicating the processed junk as much as she was comfortable with, looking for whole food alternatives to keep her feeling full but better quality and lower calories.

We implemented some fundamental changes with regard to types of food at certain times, monitored calorie intake to hit specific targets (more about this later)

All whilst hitting the gym, with a resistance based exercise programme, some boxing thrown in to help de-stress.

2 sessions a week to start, progressing from bodyweight technique with the odd basic session by herself as she was pretty new to exercise

A good blueprint to achieve the desired affects

BUT at the first weigh in, 3 weeks later, she had put weight ON!!!

NOT GOOD I HEAR YOU CRY

HOWEVER, during our assessment session at the start shed told me that for the last few years, trying many diets, she had had success with the Cambridge diet, losing lots of weight

Only to put it back on….AND SOME

Now if you know of this diet/ food plan then you will know it’s a meal replacement shake system where you have 2 shakes a day for breakfast and lunch and a healthy meal for dinner (by now you should know my take on these diets…more on these in another blog)

Amounting to only 900 calories on a daily basis

And she had only been doing this for a long time

So no wonder she had lost weight

BUT

This comes with consequences

It plays havoc with your metabolism…i mean it REALLY screws it up

Such low calorie for such a period of time isn’t good for the body, there’s not enough to run all the systems properly so the body turns things down, manages which systems are required and downgrades the ones that aren’t…to save energy…the immune system for example…reproduction system can be hit, loss of muscle mass and as these systems are switched off, or not working to their maximum the total energy expenditure of the body decrease to match the lowered input

Slowed down metabolism

Starvation mode

Metabolic damage

Call it what you will

WHICH REQUIRES A DIFFERENT APPROACH

We had to start by actually INCREASING her food intake

Let her brain know there was sufficient food around and that there was no need to hang on to those fat stores for security

So we could INCREASE her metabolism

Change her hormonal profile to make fat loss easier

EAT MORE

And also get her to

MOVE MORE

Gym more, walking more, standing more, stairs more…..

All of this by the way was over the Christmas period

Parties/ meals/ family trips/ New Years Eve….ALL thrown into the mix

Plus the disappointment of that first weigh in, which I was JUST as gutted about

But knew it might be the case, I have faith in myself…I just needed her to as well

So she stuck at it

Christmas was all about DAMAGE LIMITATION and ways to avoid weight gain

And she came back in January, full of optimism

Until today

The first weigh in

I was as nervous as her

Since New Year’s Eve shed been excellent with nutrition and fitness

We had tried a nutritional approach that should get results with an INCREASED calorie intake

AND

WE GOT THE REULTS

3KG dropped from the pre Christmas weigh in

Not a huge amount

BUT

Christmas was in between, so it could be even higher from any weight increase over that period

PLUS

She had dropped 2% body fat

And actually put ON some lean muscle mass

This actually equates to MORE than 3kg of FAT LOSS

Brilliant results

But better than all this it means her brain was ready to drop fat

Her metabolism is up and running at a higher amount

This means more fat loss, with more food

A better deal than starving yourself daily

And screwing your body up

And she is now mentally a lot stronger, more motivated, more driven

But the one thing that I was most impressed with, the thing that made the MOST difference, which will pave the way to getting more results, better results and a happier more confident client

Her PERSERVERANCE

That is what it takes

Congratulations

Everyone is different, and it’s about looking at clients history’s to see what they have done, where they are at, assessing their current eating and applying specific nutrition practises to get results

Creating a personalised workout programme to help with any postural issues/ imbalances they might have that then allows full progression and overload to demand body composition change

Advice and tips outside of nutrition and the gym to get results, without too much of a change

Thats what makes us different

 

Paul@myfitnesspro

myfitnesspro – personal training in Epping, Theydon Bois, Loughton, Chigwell, Buckhurst Hill, Highams Park, Chingford, Woodford, South Woodford, Grange Hill, Woodford Bridge, Wanstead, Leytonstone, Walthamstow, Stratford, Bow, Mile End, Victoria Park, Canary Wharf, Canning Town, Docklands, E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E8, E9, E10, E11, E14, E15, E17, E18, IG7, IG8, IG9, IG10 and all areas in between.

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