How do you keep beer/wine/snacks in your diet and still have the body you do?
Yesterday I met up with a friend who asked me this exact question...
To him and many others, It makes no sense!
When I was training to compete on American Ninja Warrior I was young, cocky, thought I knew it all, and thought I was preparing in all the right ways to be at the top of my game for the show.
I had all the energy in the world to train, my body was getting stronger and more agile (or so I thought), and I was eating healthy foods on top of not drinking ANY alcohol.
Something that didn't make sense to me because I was doing all the right things. Wasn't I?
A lot of my clients, who are in the prime years of their life, experience the same thing and can't seem to figure out what's going on either.
Sounds familiar, right?
Fortunately as a fitness professional, I was able to take a step back...
We all know the saying about teens going off to college and gaining the Freshman-15...
What I've been helping people do while being quarantined is
Avoiding the COVID- 20... GAINING Twenty pounds that is!
I've been doing that in 1 of 3 ways...
Yo-yo dieting:
A cycle of short-term changes in eating and activity. That leads to only short term benefits of weight loss or strength gains and results in landing in the same place or worse than when you started.
Have you ever experience that with your diet or your workouts?
The first experience I had with Yo-Yo'ing results, was when I first started really working out in with Jay a friend/colleague/coach in High School.
We'd meet up before lifeguarding every morning at 6am.
He was older and more experienced with workouts than I was so I would follow the routines he had in place.
And I can remember being annoyed at how much stronger he was than me.
Which of course means I pushed through the times I was at the gym with him, and then avoided certain exercises when I wasn't with him because I was embarrassed with how light the weight was that I was putting up by myself.
Doing that led him to getting stronger and me staying the same or going...
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