If you’ve not been keeping up, we sent out a call for 4 volunteers to go through the 12 week GetFit.lu training program. We had a over whelming response which made the job of selecting our 4 really tough.
Well we selected the four, and their profiles will be displayed in 352 this coming week. However they get started with their training and nutrition plans this Monday.
They’ll need to follow the Elimination Diet for the first 30 days, which is certainly not easy:
No wheat based products so essentially no bread,pasta and breakfast cereals
No Alcohol, sodas or caffeinated drinks
No processed foods
All for 30 days!! This will essentially detox their body and allow them to adequately fuel themselves for the activity they will be doing. They’ll lose a bucket load of fat at the same time!
Anyway keep track of their progress in 352 and the updates I will provide over the coming weeks
Nutritional Tip Berardi’s Law
22.02.09 Berardi’s Law
by Dr. John Berardi If a food is in your possession or located in your residence, you’ll eventually eat it. If you wish to be healthy and lean, you must remove all foods not conducive to those goals from said residence and replace them with a variety of better, healthier choices. If you know someone whose house is stocked only with optimal food choices and yet who is not healthy and lean, look under his bed.
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Hooray For Eggs
11.02.09At last we have the science and the media to confirm what I have been saying for years!
Limiting egg consumption has little effect on cholesterol levels, research has confirmed.
This has been an accepted fact for many years by top nutritionists and fitness professionals, but the bad publicity that eggs have received has meant an uphill struggle for us to convince people that eggs are actually an essential part of our diet and should NOT be limited.
I eat at least 3 eggs a DAY!
My cholesterol levels are just fine, because the rest of my nutritional habits are sound.
If you are eating large amounts of saturated fats then high cholesterol levels may very well be an issue for you, but it has nothing to do with the humble egg, which is…
‘packed with nutrients’
Eggs contain many vitamins. In particular, they are source of various B vitamins and are especially rich in vitamin B2 riboflavin, and vitamin B12. Eggs are also a rich source of vitamin D and they also contain vitamin A.
Eggs contain many essential minerals and trace elements, including phosphorus, iodine and selenium and iron and zinc are present in smaller amounts.
Read the report from the BBC website, follow the link below:
Friday 13th Seminar
11.02.09Make a mark in your schedule for this Friday evening.
Yes it is Friday 13th, but I am urging you to head out to Top Squash in Sandweiler to join us for an evening of light discussion and insight from three of Luxembourg’s leading health and fitness professionals.
The event starts at 7pm and will feature three short but powerful talks.
Plus you’ll get the opportunity to pick the brains of the most successful fat loss team in Luxembourg before and after the event.
You see… January is now over, so no need to feel guilty about not stepping foot in the gym. We have filled about 50% of the places and I am expecting a flood of new sign ups in the next few days.
I need you to go to http://www.getfit.lu/friday13.html and register your interest in the event, and i’ll send you final details in the next 48 hours.
I look forward to meeting you in person on Friday
Tim Goodwin
Nutritional Tip The Critical Meal
08.02.09 The Critical Meal
by Dr. John Berardi Breakfast is a critical meal. After a catabolic overnight fast, a balanced breakfast helps to regulate blood sugar, helps to regulate energy balance, and helps to control late-day cravings that lead to overfeeding. Be sure to include a serving or two of lean protein like an egg white omelet (throw in a yolk or two), some cheese, some dairy like plain yogurt or cottage cheese, some lean turkey bacon or sausage, or even a protein shake on the side. Men should be shooting for 30-50 grams of protein and women should be shooting for 20-40 grams of protein in this meal.
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Weight Loss - It’s a Numbers Game
28.01.09Despite my best efforts, so many people I talk to about exercise and good clean eating habits, the conversation always comes around to the numbers. More often than not the numbers are related to weight.
How much can I lose?
What is normal weight loss?
How much should I weight?
I can understand why this is the number of concern to you. It is probably the only indicator/comparison you have that bears some resemblance to where you want to be.
Weight IS a useful indicator, but not the only one you should use.
With our Personal Training clients and ForestFit members we DO use weight, but only in conjunction with another measurement…
Circumference measurements.
The measures we get our clients to do, just once a week, are Chest, Waist(just at the navel), Hips(the widest part around your butt) and thighs(the widest part in the upper leg)
Whilst there are other measures, such as bodyfat readings, most are not accessible to people outside of a clinical studies setting.
Weight alone is generally a poor indicator of progress, especially if your goal is to drop a dress size for example. It is highly likely if you do the right type of exercise and have the right eating habits, you WILL drop a dress size, but may only lose a small amount of weight.
When you take circumference measures, this is a simplistic way of seeing “fat loss”, and losing weight from the areas of the body you want to lose it.
Take your measures today, record them and see if your training programs are producing changes in these figures each week.
PS. We have had a great response to our special open seminar on Friday 13th. We already have 33% capacity for the evening!
Check out http://www.getfit.lu/friday13.html
PPS. More numbers… ForestFit February only has places left for 7am and a more available for our special beginners lite program from 10.30am
Check out http://www.forestfit.com
“It may be a small contributing factor and we need to explore all the avenues because so many people need help and we’re just not clever enough to help them at the moment.”
This quote came from an “obesity expert” from Imperial College…
I love some of the crazy theories that people come up with for why we have a global obesity problem.
Here is my theory:
or…
If you want to read the full news story about claims that common illness can make you fatter… take a look here.
Nutritional Tip Cook Once Eat Twice
25.01.09 Cook Once, Eat Twice
by Dr. John BerardiTo insure that you eat a healthy lunch during your busy work or school day, double-cook dinner each night. Simply cook a double-portion of each dinner meal and eat the second half of dinner for lunch the next day. This is, of course, assuming your dinner meals are complete and contain a complement of protein, carbs, fats, and fruits and veggies.
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ForestFit In Fabulous February
23.01.09I will not lie to you ForestFit January has been a bit chilly, but I have been really impressed with everyone in the groups. They have all committed to wrapping up warm, with some warm hats and gloves and got warm within a few minutes of activity.
The underlying principles of the sessions has been fun, moving and getting a great fat burning workout done in 45 minutes. Despite the cold it has been just great!
And so Fabulous February is almost upon us, and we’ll be continuing the great workouts and turbo-charging your fat loss efforts. Not only are we going to run the usual 7am and 9.30am groups we are also trying for a 10:30 (lite) group and a lunchtime session at 13:15
The 7 and 9.30 groups are filling fast so be quick if you want a place. Click the link below to register right now.
http://www.forestfit.com
PS. Once all the places are gone you will have to wait until March before you can join again, it really looks like two of the groups will be full by the end of next week.
Here is the web page again:
My wife and I are going away to do some snowboarding at the end of February. We have been going to the indoor SnowHall in France (about 20 minutes drive from our house) every week at least once to get some practice in. However we knew that we needed to get some practice on some “real” snow, so last weekend we headed off to La Bresse to hit some white stuff.
To say it surprised me is an understatement!
Where I have been getting on just fine on the artificially made snow indoors, I discovered that the real snow is oh so different. But within just a few hours of doing something a little different we started to see some results…
When you have been trying the “same old thing” for so long without any results why is it you expect a different result this time around? January gym memberships and our eagerness to get back in shape is almost a cliche it seems in 2009.
We are joining the same classes.
Jumping on the same treadmill
Peddling for hours on end on the exercise bike.
Going for a jog for an hour around the park
Doing a bunch of crunches
Swinging our pink handle weights.
But isn’t all this what you tried last year?
Isn’t this what you tried for a couple of weeks and then called it quits cos you didn’t see the results?
Like my experience on the real snow, We need to try something a little different to see a different or better result.
So instead of joining the same old classes, try something new, maybe a martial arts class, go join an athletics club and train with them for example.
Instead of going for a jog, try some high intensity hill sprints.
Instead of doing crunches, learn how to do some squats, lunges, deadlift exercises (look up on Youtube for videos of how to)
Put down those pink weights and do something a little different, and maybe, just maybe the results will be drastically different.
Tim
PS. ForestFit February start on the 10th for a completely different type of training.
