Jillian Michaels is the BIGGEST LOSER!!!!
I have to speak very frankly on this particular subject. For those of you who tune in to watch The Biggest Loser and see Jillian Michaels in all her ignorant glory, and take what she says and the way she coaches to heart, there is something you must know. She is in idiot! (I told you I would speak frankly)
I heard her tell a client that their weight loss was not enough, and that saying “well I put on muscle” is just an excuse!
Are you kidding me!?! I have news for you Jillian Michaels, if you have ever read a book, or learned the way the human body adapts to exercise, you’d know that gaining muscle is a good thing, and relying on the scale for your results is just plain old dim-witted!
First of all, if you are new to an exercise regimen, throw the damn scale away! Seriously!!!!! Take an initial weight and then do not step on another scale again for weeks, even MONTHS!!!!
You should first get your body composition measured by a fitness professional. This is not a BMI, or a hip/waist ratio. A body composition determines how much of your body is muscle and how much is fat. So, for example, if you begin a work out routine, and you weigh 200 pounds and 30% of that weight is fat, that means you are carrying 60 pounds of excess fat, and 140 pounds of lean body mass, which includes bone, muscle, organs and fluid. So if after 6 weeks of training you weigh 185 pounds, you would think to yourself, “YIPPIE 15 pounds! YAY!” and good for you, you should be happy about your success. But then, after 8 weeks you work harder, eat better yet for some reason you weigh 187 pounds. Most people, especially those who listen to Jillian Michaels, would become discouraged, think that exercise is useless, and go back to their old eating style, gain back 25 pounds, and be worse off than when they started. But what they may not realize is, if they took another body composition after 8 weeks, they would probably see some staggering results. For example, maybe their body fat percentage went from 30% to 24%. If you calculate that out, weighing 187 with 24% you are now carrying 45 pounds of fat and the rest of your body’s mass is 142 pounds of lean tissue.
So the difference is of the 60 pounds of fat you started with, you lost 15 of it, and your body gained 2 pounds of muscle! That is quite the accomplishment.
So do not let the scale and your body weight be the deciding factor in your fitness success. If your clothes fit better, your face looks leaner, you have more energy and you find you are not eating so much fatty salt junk food, you should count that as a major victory on your fitness journey.
So go to your local gym and ask one of the trainers to take your body composition, and please… THROW THE DAMN SCALE AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thanks for reading,
Yours in health
Graham Smith
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Exercise on Alcohol
Hello all,
Its been a little while since I've posted so I figured I'd do a little research and get a solid report on here. This is a report taken from healthtalk.com about how alcohol can impede your bodies ability to function and recover from exercise. I am not going to lie, I have always been the one to have a few pops after work with my buds or a drink or 2 before dinner, but I am re-thinking those actions after reading this. So please enjoy...
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It's finally Friday and you just got off work! The only thing on your mind is unwinding from the week and having a few drinks. After all, you work hard, so there's nothing wrong with going out and drinking with your friends, right? W R O N G!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Studies have shown that small amounts of alcohol increase muscular endurance and strength output, but, these benefits are very short lived. After around twenty or so minutes, the problems start. All the negative side affects of alcohol fully outweigh any possible benefits it can have to anyone. Alcohol is a toxin (poison) and so a whole host of physical abnormalities can arise.
These can reduce your strength, endurance, recovery capabilities, aerobic capacity, ability to metabolize fat and muscle growth. Alcohol can also affect your nervous system and brain. Long term use can cause severe deterioration of your central nervous system. With short term use, nerve-muscle interaction can be reduced resulting in a loss of strength.
When alcohol reaches the muscle cells, it can cause damage to them. Inflammation of the muscle cells is common among alcohol users. Over the long term, some of these damaged cells can die resulting in less functional muscle contractions. Alcohol will also leave you with more muscle soreness after exercise making recuperation periods longer.
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Alcohol has many affects on your heart and circulatory system as well. You may see a reduction in your endurance capacities when you drink alcohol. When drinking alcohol, your heat loss increases, because alcohol stimulates your blood vessels to dilate. This heat loss can cause your muscles to get cold thus becoming slower and weaker during contractions.
Alcohol can cause digestive and nutritional problems as well. Alcohol causes a release of insulin that will increase the metabolism of glycogen, thereby sparing fat making fat loss more difficult. Because alcohol also can interfere with the absorption of many nutrients, you can become anemic and deficient in the B vitamins. Since your liver is the organ that detoxifies alcohol, the more you drink, the harder you liver has to work and the extra stress can damage and even destroy some liver cells.
Alcohol is also diuretic so large amounts can put a lot of extra stress on your kidneys. During diuretic action, ant diuretic hormones are secreted. This can result in heightened water retention and no one who exercises wants that to happen.
Alcohol, although having no nutritional value, also has seven calories per gram so excess consumption can lead to weight gain as well.
If you must consume alcohol, do so in moderation and never consume alcohol right before exercise as this will impair your balance, coordination and judgment. Remember this, if you've taken the time to make the effort to improve your physical conditioning and your overall health, why take major steps backwards and impede you improvements by excess consumption of alcohol?
Pretty interesting huh? And I bet you thought all you had to deal with was a hang over?
As alway, thanks for reading, for more info please check the links I have placed throughout or feel free to contact me directly.
-Graham Smith
http://www.fitnessgenerator.com/smithfit
Its been a little while since I've posted so I figured I'd do a little research and get a solid report on here. This is a report taken from healthtalk.com about how alcohol can impede your bodies ability to function and recover from exercise. I am not going to lie, I have always been the one to have a few pops after work with my buds or a drink or 2 before dinner, but I am re-thinking those actions after reading this. So please enjoy...
Click here for more info on getting RIPPED:
http://grahamfit.nononsense.hop.clickbank.net
It's finally Friday and you just got off work! The only thing on your mind is unwinding from the week and having a few drinks. After all, you work hard, so there's nothing wrong with going out and drinking with your friends, right? W R O N G!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Studies have shown that small amounts of alcohol increase muscular endurance and strength output, but, these benefits are very short lived. After around twenty or so minutes, the problems start. All the negative side affects of alcohol fully outweigh any possible benefits it can have to anyone. Alcohol is a toxin (poison) and so a whole host of physical abnormalities can arise.
These can reduce your strength, endurance, recovery capabilities, aerobic capacity, ability to metabolize fat and muscle growth. Alcohol can also affect your nervous system and brain. Long term use can cause severe deterioration of your central nervous system. With short term use, nerve-muscle interaction can be reduced resulting in a loss of strength.
When alcohol reaches the muscle cells, it can cause damage to them. Inflammation of the muscle cells is common among alcohol users. Over the long term, some of these damaged cells can die resulting in less functional muscle contractions. Alcohol will also leave you with more muscle soreness after exercise making recuperation periods longer.
http://www.fitnessgenerator.com/smithfit
Alcohol has many affects on your heart and circulatory system as well. You may see a reduction in your endurance capacities when you drink alcohol. When drinking alcohol, your heat loss increases, because alcohol stimulates your blood vessels to dilate. This heat loss can cause your muscles to get cold thus becoming slower and weaker during contractions.
Alcohol can cause digestive and nutritional problems as well. Alcohol causes a release of insulin that will increase the metabolism of glycogen, thereby sparing fat making fat loss more difficult. Because alcohol also can interfere with the absorption of many nutrients, you can become anemic and deficient in the B vitamins. Since your liver is the organ that detoxifies alcohol, the more you drink, the harder you liver has to work and the extra stress can damage and even destroy some liver cells.
Alcohol is also diuretic so large amounts can put a lot of extra stress on your kidneys. During diuretic action, ant diuretic hormones are secreted. This can result in heightened water retention and no one who exercises wants that to happen.
Alcohol, although having no nutritional value, also has seven calories per gram so excess consumption can lead to weight gain as well.
If you must consume alcohol, do so in moderation and never consume alcohol right before exercise as this will impair your balance, coordination and judgment. Remember this, if you've taken the time to make the effort to improve your physical conditioning and your overall health, why take major steps backwards and impede you improvements by excess consumption of alcohol?
Pretty interesting huh? And I bet you thought all you had to deal with was a hang over?
As alway, thanks for reading, for more info please check the links I have placed throughout or feel free to contact me directly.
-Graham Smith
http://www.fitnessgenerator.com/smithfit
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