Weight loss has become a very popular lifestyle theme in modern society among people. Many people appoint personal trainers with a goal to lose weight. But serious weight loss; be it a large mass or last five to six pounds, can be quite challenging. Generally, weight loss can be achieved by the combination of three or four factors – they are:
Strength Training
Interval Conditioning
Proper Nutrition
If the above factors are put together along with following a proper healthy lifestyle, weight loss can become a really easy task. The main objective should be developing some sensible habits that can bring about a lifestyle change, but there is no shortcut.
If you want to lose weight effectively, you must ensure that your metabolism works at a higher rate. If your metabolism rate enhances with time, you will be able to burn fat and weight loss will be inevitable. If any individual is able to perform some high intense training for some short time period, say 20 to 40 minutes, which incorporates conditioning and strength, they may not only see a higher amount of calories getting burned out in training time, but even after the session. A high metabolism rate burns calories efficiently – even when you are resting.
Personal Training or a personal fitness expert is the ultimate investment for your goals and needs with respect to a weight loss program.
Here are some tips that may help in melting your body fat and losing unwanted weight.
Starting From the Inside Out – Adjusting Your Diet
Some experts say that you should aim for wholefood diet and eat food products without an ingredient label. The reason for this is because there are several marketing tricks where sugar is disguised with a lot of different names like ‘corn syrup’ or ‘gluten-free’ biscuits, which can sound guilt-free and healthy but are processed with trans-fats or excess sugar – usually to make them taste better.
Diet is probably the most misrepresented and confusing part of weight loss. In order to prevent your body from storing fat, it is advisable to have 5 to 6 small meals per day. The principle here is that once you eat a main meal after a long break (after 4 hours), your blood sugar levels start dropping resulting in your insulin levels to spike, which in turn causes your body to store calories as fat. So, by having 5 to 6 small meals per day, you keep your blood sugar levels at a moderate level, keeping your body from storing fat. However, it’s important to note that your meals should consist of whole grains, veggies and fibre. In addition, drinking water helps your body to recover quickly and keeps your skin looking healthy.
Throw Away The Weighing Scale
You lose or gain weight all through the day due to slight changes in your metabolism rate and the amount of hydration in your body. Body weight may not be an accurate measure of the composition of a healthy body, but rather body fat percentage must be given more importance.
Various affordable tools are now available for measuring body fat. Some electronic scales consist of electronic body fat measurement systems. These are more or less accurate, though they can have an almost 25% error margin based on your level of hydration levels and supplement intake.
Hit The Weight Section In Gym Instead Of The Treadmill
You must not only train cardio but also do some weight resistance exercises in order to lose weight effectively. The primary goal in doing resistance (weight) exercises is to gain lean muscle. A pound of lean muscle is able to burn up to 50 calories daily whereas one pound of fat can burn 9 calories daily. So it is wise to put the weight-training program before the cardio in case you want to lose body fat, really.
Mix In Different Training
Fitness professionals say that “periodisation” or an addition of a variety of workouts is important. Periodisation refers to the strategy of keeping the body from reaching plateaus when doing one type of exercise. Including a variety of exercises in your training schedule will not only keep your training interesting, but keep up your motivation and encourage you to push further.
Get Enough Sleep
Lack of sleep may result in improper hormones secretion, which basically regulates your fat storage and metabolism. Reports show that sleeping less than five hours at night will make you fatigued and negatively affect your motivation to do any exercise or hit the gym.
Do You Need Help Achieving Your Weight Loss Goals?
Implementing the above weight loss tips into your lifestyle can be a major challenge if you go at it alone. PS Personal training can help you achieve your weight loss goals by keeping you on track with a training schedule, whilst keeping you motivated. Contact PS Personal Training today to start your journey to achieving your weight loss goals.
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