How long are your training sessions? At Intensity Training they are 35 minutes. From the time we start the warm-up to the time we are done with the beloved (wink, wink) finisher is a grand total of 35 minutes a week. Our clients love it because they are in and out with a great workout in a short amount of time. There is one downside….
Training hard and smart is essential to burn fat and maintain or even gain muscle mass. Unfortunately there are around 23 additional hours a day where you can totally screw up everything that you worked so hard for during your training session. For our clients there are 23 hours and 25 minutes where everything can go back if good choices are not made. Bad nutrition choices, not consuming enough water, consuming alcohol, not getting enough sleep, being over-stressed, not managing said stress…the list goes on and on.
What are you doing the other 23 hours of your day? Are you making choices that support your training habits? If not, start implementing the following steps in your everyday life:
- Drink water all day, every day. Your body is 70% water. Need I say more? Ok one more. Your body is also a conglomeration of electric currents. It will run more efficiently if you consume more water. The water that they make your double Carmel macchiato doesn’t count. Drink clear, delicious water.
- Eat more protein. It will help to hold on to what muscle mass you do have, help you burn more fat and help to keep you satiated longer.
- Get plenty of clean dietary fat. If you and your spouse lost both of your jobs tomorrow, would go buy a new car? No!! You would save every dollar you could. Your body fat works in a similar fashion. It will not oxidize its own fat if it is not getting a steady supply of dietary fat. It’s going to hang on to every ounce of fat that it can, just as you would hold on to every dollar you could.
- Stay away from processed foods. Read the label of your favorite gas station treat and count the number of words in the ingredients list that you can actually pronounce. And by the way, if it has more than 3 or 4 ingredients you probably shouldn’t be eating it anyway.
- Take some fish oil. Google the words “fish oil” along with any disease and you’re likely to find a study that links fish oil to the prevention and often times the treatment of almost any disease you choose. Fish oil is a natural anti-inflammatory. We know, and are learning more all of the time, about how terrible inflammation of any bodily system/structure can be.
There are many more pieces to the puzzle that just these 5 but if I could put you in a bubble for the 23 hours of the day that you are not training and force you to do the 5 things above, you would be impressed with how much better you feel and how awesome your results would be. Now go get on it!!
Ever stronger!!
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