REDONDO BEACH BOOT CAMP

Understanding and practicing the basics are the keys to success in achieving any fitness goal. The most common fitness goal is to loose weight. Losing weight without some form of exercise will not achieve health, nor will exercise without a nutritional plan work. Focusing on one of the two necessary components to a good fitness plan won’t bring the desired results . If you are having trouble committing to both nutrition and exercise, you will need to take a step back and reassess how important your goal is to you.

Many people need to exercise and to eat better, but they don’t want to. They make the mistake of waiting to want to exercise, which is a big mistake. You must take action regardless of how you feel.

The two challenges with nutrition are that people are creatures of habit and they are uninformed. Here are some examples: eating with family and friends, having a Strarbuck’s breakfast, eating out at lunch, not knowing what is healthy food, starting a weight-loss program instead of shopping healthy, buying unhealthy foods that are marketed as healthy, not knowing the components of a healthy meal and eating healthy portions.

One more point about being uninformed, many people still use the word diet. Diet means “I am going to cut calories for a while, loose weight, learn nothing about eating healthy and then regain my weight.” Fat loss is about combining healthier eating habits and exercising, a life style change with permanent fat loss.

Here are 5 exercise tips:

1. Don’t run to get in shape. You must be in shape. When you are out of shape, your muscles are not strong enough to stabilize your joints. Six times your body weight of force is going through your body with each stride. Get strong first.
2. Meet with a professional to get an assessment and then get a personalized fitness program so you know what specific exercises your body needs.
3. You should workout 2 to 3 times a week For many people 2 times is enough in the beginning. Think long term.
4. Have a complete exercise program, cardiovascular training, flexibility training, strength training (weight training), and core training.
5.Consider training with kettlebells because you can get your cardio, flexibility, core, and strength training done in less than 25 minutes. Most gym and machine-based programs isolate specific muscles. That is not how you move daily in life. When you walk or run, your body works in systems or movement chains not chest, back, butt, legs, biceps, and triceps.

Here are 5 tips on nutrition:

1.Eat more protein at each meal. Most important is breakfast. Many people skip breakfast or have coffee, sugar and starchy carbs; instead, try 2 eggs or cottage cheese and some fruit (an apple).
2. Drink at least 8 glasses of water or 3 bottles of water daily.
3. Eat 3 meals at least. Many a people who maintain low body-fat percentages advocate 5-6 small meals.
4 Every meal must include a good serving of protein, a variety of vegetables, fruit–limit your bread, pasta, rice and potatoes consumption, especially if you are trying to loose weight.
5. Include more healthy fat which will help you loose weight. Eat fat to lose fat may sound crazy, but examples of good fats are salmon oil, omega 3 fish oils, flaxseed oil, avacados, and olive oil.