Last Friday, i did a talk with a fantastic group of people, (thanks to Tower Training for the invite!)
One of the questions/comments from the group related to how inefficient the human body is. You see the body utilises around 60% of the fuel(food) we take in to keep it functioning, and that is before we start moving and exercising!
60% is an awful lot of the energy we consume, when we are doing NOTHING!
As a fitness professional, the aim for me is create bodies that are even more INefficient! I want to make your body work harder and consume more energy to keep itself functioning on a day to day basis, whilst you are doing NOTHING.
Going back to the car analogy from last week, if you had a Renault Espace and ferrari sitting with the engines running but not moving, the ferrari would consume more fuel… Because it is a ferrari it has a sleek, sexy body, however the Renault Espace is fat and frumpy.
If you create a bigger engine for your body, you will develop a sleeker, sexier body, as you will strip away the fat. This bigger engine I am talking about is more muscle in the body which will in turn burn more calories to survive even when you are sat doing nothing! Creating larger muscle is easy, just using your muscles with short bouts of efforts to fatigue them will create larger muscle fibers.
This means resistance workouts, utilising your body weight and at times external weights too.
If you are not doing these exercises already, add them in from today and start creating a ferrari body and not a Renault Espace one!
