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
ForestFit in January
11.12.08The perfect antidote to a holiday season of excess! ForestFit is back again!
I have now opened registrations for ForestFit January, starting from January 6th.
There is only a limited number of places for both the 7am and 9.30am groups. Make sure you register early to avoid disappointment, I have already reserved 5 places for the 7am group before I even send this post out.
Go to http://www.forestfit.com to register right now.
“Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.” - Muhammad Ali
“My muscles hurt, I must be because I am old ”
“I’m too old for doing ….” insert an activity
“I’m too old to start exercising now”
“It’s because I am getting old, that I can’t lose fat!”
Take your pick, I have heard them all, usually from people young enough to know better.
I was talking to some of my clients today over lunch, the lunch was a celebratory meal after completing a five kilometer race in the wet, slushy horrible weather we are experiencing here in Luxembourg this weekend. A couple of these “girls” are in the most polite way the wrong end of 30 something, but each of them has found that health and fitness doesn’t stop at age thirty.
They are planning to take part in a Triathlon next summer, they are talking about all the training they will be doing over the next few months, planning which preparation events they are going to do, including the relay ING marathon in May.
The thing is, just a few short months ago they were asking me if coming to do ForestFit was going to be too hard for them. Now with massively elevated confidence levels and a new understanding of what their body is capable of. Their goals are now much higher.
Some of my best clients have been the wrong side of fifty years. They still have managed to lose significant amounts of body fat. One of them has claimed they feel fitter and healthier at age fifty something, than they did at thirty something!
… Muhammad Ali’s quote is a startlingly coherent from a guy who did most of his talking with a brutal “right”. But it is a real observation of what is the difference between those that achieve massive results “despite” their age and those that give up as soon as they reach a certain age.
How old do you think you are??
You wouldn’t believe the number of people I have spoken to over the last few months about ForestFit, who claim they are NOT fit enough to take part in ForestFit!
They have been afraid to come and try and get left behind.
If this is you, then what we have coming up on the 13th December at 08:30 may fit with you perfectly.
We are going to hold an open day on that Saturday morning for anyone to come and try, in our usual location of Bambesch.
Our intention is to have a “Normal” group for you guys and a tougher group for those that have been before and are wanting a bit of a challenge in the run up to Christmas.
We are limiting the group to a total of 30 people! and already 14 places have been taken. If you want to join us then send me an email to tim@getfit.lu with the title “SnowFit is Really Cool”
Thanks
Tim
PS. A small group of dedicated ForestFit’ers are in action this weekend at the Bambesch 5km run… come and cheer us on from 11am on Sunday morning.
Listening To Your Body
12.11.08Well i have had an interesting time on the elimination diet. I was on this purely for 8 days until unfortunately my family and I all became ill and to be honest when i couldn’t taste anything and I wanted stodge I did give in, but boy oh boy did I have some unexpected and uncomfortable results after just 8 days on the elimination diet!
After eating some cereal and peanut butter wrap(not at the same time) I did feel uncomfortable and bloated. I actually woke up in the middle of the night and to put politely I had to go to the bathroom. I put it down to being ill at first, but then the next day i had a small amount of pasta, again i had the bloated uncomfortable feeling and about 2 hrs later had indigestion for the rest of the afternoon. I also found that I was more windy,embarrassing or what, can’t believe I’m writing this!!
I experimented with bread(it was brown bread and bio but it is still heavily processed)and and a peanut butter wrap again with the same results. I found that as i was bloated and uncomfortable I was certainly not hungry. I did not want my snacks in the afternoon which just goes to show how processed carbohydrates are artificially filling you up. I also did not feel as energized as I had before, everything seemed to be more of an effort.
So I have gone back on the elimination diet for 90-95% of the time which basically means 2 main meals and all snacks the majority of the time in the day are all conforming to the elimination diet rules, but I do allow one meal to have something slightly processed and maybe a tea every now and again and of course I am human so the odd treat now and again too. The result being that i have lost 2 1/2 kilos and 2% body fat.
Maybe the biggest thing that I have learned is how to really listen to the clues your body is giving you. Do not artificially fill yourself up with heavily processed carbohydrates and feel full for a long time.
Listen to your body if you are eating your 3 main meals and snacks spaced out over every 2-3 hours you will find that you are getting hungry and are ready for the next snack or meal. Do not be scared of this, your body is wanting you to give it it’s next instalment of nutrition. As long as you eat the right food you can actually eat allot spaced out during the day without having to worry about calories or fat intake.
So if you have been thinking about doing the elimination diet don’t hold back, go for it, experiment, learn about your body, you can have great results and feel so much better, who would not want that?!!
Good luck
Marie
Try the elimination diet by following the clicking here, and make sure you pick up the companion cookbook at the same time here…
A quick post to tell you that ForestFit november for both the 7am and 9.30am groups are now ready for registrations. Go To:
Just so you know the 7am group will be run during the week at two locations in the city, in lit parks, The Petrusse and the playground with the funny Pirate ship thing :o) but we’ll still be out in the Forest at Bambesch on Saturdays as normal.
Hurry, 2 people have already registered for 9:30 in the last 20 minutes!
As one of Tim’s interns on his induction programme he is putting us through or paces in many different ways. One way in which he is doing this is that we are experiencing first hand what it is like be a Getfit client, so everything that Tim or Jess are asking there clients to do we are doing it!!, so that we know exactly what you are experiencing and how best to help you in the future.
One of the Getfit fundamentals is form and function, this is the training principles of our training. As part of this we ask you to do a 45 min programme with your trainer 2-3 times a week and a cardio interval work out of 25 mins, 2-3 times a week.
So how have I done so far??(not sure what Tim thinks though!;o) I really enjoyed the different exercises that were in the 45 min workout, some of them were familiar others not, on the whole a good muscular workout.
Now for the Cardio intervals…… most commonly we ask this to be done on the treadmill……as soon as I found out this I was not happy!!!, for some reason I have always had a fear of running, something to do with those cross country runs they made us do at school, I hated them with a passion!!
Anyway it goes like this 5min warm up on the treadmill, then run at 90% effort, then rest for 2 mins by walking, repeat this 5 times. Once the last one has been finished, cool down with a light jog and then to a walk over a 5min period.
….so how did I do? Well I certainly finished rather red faced and very sweaty, drip drip! I actually did allot better than I thought I would and felt that I could have even pushed myself that little bit further, not bad for never really running before.
I think a solid positive first try and if you put that with the fact that your only really working hard for 5 mins. Even with that short amount of work the cardio interval is the best way to boost your metabolism and reduce your body fat, don’t think I can argue with that, so much so that I have booked my next one already!!! bring on the Cardio Intervals!!!!……..
The Fakel Laf 5km run
26.09.08Just for you guys here in Luxembourg, this years Fakel Laf takes place on the 7th November at 18:30(Friday evening)
It looks like we have a fairly decent group of people from ForestFit coming to do the event.
Entry is FREE via online inscriptions at http://fakellaf.fla.lu/
This is a fun event designed to get folk out on a chilly November evening.
Tim
