The Fitness Triangle

Hey everyone.

If you read my posts regulary then you’ll know that I take care of every element of losing weight, not just healthy eating and not just fitness. While each of these elements is important on their own, togther they compliment each other and if you really want to see fast results you need fine tune both. So what if I told you that my training systems used a three-pronged triangle approach that you could also implement into your own programme. Would you be interested? Yeah of course you would… Check out the following details where I explain the triangle method, at the heart of New Body Bootcamp and my Rapid Weight Loss Programme. If you’re not seeing great results, it may be because you’re doing too much steady state cardio work and this post explains why…

The Rapid Wight Loss Triangle…

Weight Training

Strength training increases muscle and boosts metabolism, so it’s no wonder why it’s a massive part of the rapid weight loss programme protocol. Metabolism: The rate at which we burn calories per day. The majority of the calories we burn per day (70‐90%) are while at rest. So let’s get that number as high as possible. What we know: Metabolism decreases 10 % per year if we leave it alone

Metabolism can be increased 40‐60% through nutrition and exercise. Too many programs by average trainers concentrate on burning calories during the session. But what about the other 23 hours in the day? That is where we concentrate and why our programs have been so successful.

Nutrition

Here’s what we know‐every time you eat you are boosting your metabolism. It take energy to digest and assimilate the food that you eat. But if you are only eating 2 times per day there is too much time in between feedings. Your body will think it is in starvation mode and will preferentially store the food you consume as stored bodyfat. So we are going to fill in these gaps with small evenly spaced meals throughout the day. Now we are boosting your metabolism 5‐6 times per day instead of 2. Plus your body is much more likely to give up stored bodyfat when it sees that nutrition is coming in like clockwork every few hours. We will help you make better food choices so that eating like this will become a part of your new lifestyle. We will have you bring in a food journal which will review with you every time to make sure you are on the right path. Together we will determine what to eat and when. We will be manipulating the ratios of the 3 macro nutrients: Protein, carbs and fat.

Cardio

First of all we do not use standard “steady state” cardio as a primary fat loss tool. When you walk on a treadmill (or whatever) for 45 minutes, you are burning cals while you are doing it but it has ZERO carryover to the rest of the day. ZERO. Also your body adapts to it very rapidly. This means your body will become more efficient at using fat for fuel – WHICH IS NOT GOOD. It is called “Intervals” or “sprints”. We have you go hard for 30 seconds, then rest for 60 seconds and then repeat. We will play with the rest and work intervals as well as what exercise we have you use to keep your body guessing. The cool part is it only take about 15 minutes‐that’s a fraction of traditional cardio. On top of that your body will be burning extra calories 38 hours after the workout. That means if you workout on a Monday morning, Tuesday night you are burning extra calories because of that workout.

You can see this same effect in Olympic sprinters‐those guys have a bodyfat percentage of about 4‐6%. All they do is short intense bouts of exercise, with limited rest. Plus they have to eat like horses because their metabolisms are so fired up. Now if you look at marathon runners, those guys have a BF of about 11‐14%. And they run for literally hours at a time. Plus they look very emaciated – not a healthy look at all. We want your workout to be short – intense and effective.

So, when it comes to your training, and eating, use the triangle method, let me keep you motivated and you will get to your goal…