How To Start Training When You Have No Idea How To Start

How To Start Training When You Have No Idea How To Start

Someone very close to me asked how do you start training when you have no idea how to start training?

Four things came to my Mind

1. Make the decision to start training and eating right
2. Make a plan or find some one to help you make a plan (this blog might be a good place to start)
3. Set a goal
4. Stick to the plan
example
1. I am tired of how I look and feel. I will start training and eating better Monday of next week

2. I will only eat food that I bring in for lunch or buy at the cafeteria. I will not eat anything brought in by sales reps or goodies that any employees bring in from home.
I will do some type of physical activity at least 20 mins every other day even if its only during commercial breaks

3. My goal is to gain control of my eating within the time of 1 month. I will only eat what I plan to eat. I will begin doing regular physical activity every other day by the end of the month.

4. I will make a concerted effort to stick to the plan.

This isn't everything you need to bring about a major change to your body, but it is a start.

“A thousand mile journey begins with the first step”

Lao Tzu

Friendly Competition Might Be The Key To Hitting Your Fitness Goals

THE ARMS RACE

“Use Friendly Competition To Hit Your Fitness Goals”

As a kid another kid says "how fast can you get to the front door of the house from the street". You think “I don't know and why would I care”. All of a sudden the kid says "I'll race you!" And you immediately not only care but are already running towards the house trying to win.

Hitting your fitness goals whether they be losing fat or gaining muscle is largely achieved by having the proper motivation. Trying to get motivated can be tough especially after coming home from work feeling tired.

Enter George my good friend and neighbor from down the street. He sends me a text “I have been training and dieting for the last two weeks. Now George is one of the few people I know that once he sets his mind he can motivate himself to train to the point where he will change fast, really fast. As soon as I heard George announce to me that he was training, all I could hear in my head was “WANNA RACE?”

Competition definitely gets the motivational juices flowing. Now George and I are linked in an "arms race" and its good for myself and my friend George. Since George has begun telling me his training activities, I have started eating every 2-3 hours, joined LA Boxing in Turnersville for cardio, begun weight training 3 times a week. These are the general things I need to do to achieve my own 3 month fitness goals.

I used to pit my Personal training clients against each other for all of our goods in friendly competition. Christine versus Danielle, Bob versus Rick, Victoria versus Carmella and let me tell you the results were very impressive! There is something about competition that stirs people on to greatness.

Friendly competition just might be the key to helping you succeed in hitting your fitness goals before summer!

Sample Diet for fast Fat Loss

Sample Diet for fast Fat Loss

Here is a sample diet that isn't the most exciting to eat, but brings results quickly.
Sometimes people ask me to give them a diet and they will add, please try to make it exciting.

Picture going to a restaurant (pick your event-birthday,wedding anniversary, graduation, etc) and watching everyone excitingly pick there taste prepared meals while you prepare yourself to order a dry chicken breast and a glass of water. Guess what people dieting isn't exciting In fact it stinks.

However oh those beautiful results! Nothing like that glimpse in the bathroom mirror as you pass by and going from trying not look, to stopping, looking spending around, walking on and then coming back to look again.

Long story don't worry about the diet not being exciting. The excitement of catching people staring at your results from eating all those boring foods all those annoying times a day should more than make up for the lack of excitement in your daily meals.

Sample Meal

7:30 am 1 bowl oatmeal (not the instant kind)

9:30 am 3 egg whites , 1 egg yoke

11:30 am 2 Pieces of fruit (example: orange, and a pear)

1:30 pm 1 Piece of chicken about the size of one of you hands

3:30 pm 2 Pieces of fruit

5:30 pm 1 Piece of chicken about the size of one of you hands

7:30 pm 1 protein Shake ( I currently use Pure Protein 100%whey Protein)

Interactive Tips On Training Your BodyType

All the body types have strengths and advantages that people with other body types would often like to have. The quickest way to make rapid change in your physical appearance of your body is to know your body type and to train according to it. I can not stress how important this is.

If people are interested please comment and let me know and I will go over in more detail in the future on how to train according to you own individual body type.

Click the link for a bigger version of Ali Arango's Musclegeek Body Type Tips Guide

http://www.muscle-geek.com/know-your-body-type/

Lose Massive Fat In 3 Months. Is it possible?

The quick answer is Yes! Remember the question" Can you really lose a massive amount of FAT in 3 months?"

Its amazing the change in appearance that you can have in a fairly small amount of time. Granted it takes suffering, perservarance, and discipline but what good things in life usually don't.

Ok heres the most important question how do you lose a massive amount in 3 months?

1. Eat 6 small meals a day, each meal should be about both of you hands cupped together. Eat Breakfast like a king, Lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.
2. Do some type of muscle-training at least 3 times a week-duration should be about 45 mins to an hour at the longest. (you can train short and hard or long and easy)
3. Do 20-45 mins of cardio at least 3 times a week.

Just wanted to put out some quick tips since I am about to enter the 3 month schedule myself. I usually lose about 20-30 pounds of actual weight and about 10-15 pounds of body fat in that period.

By the way I found an excellent source of cardio at the LA Boxing gym in Turnersville N.J. I don't work for them or get any endorsements from them but my gosh the cardio workout they put me through was excellent. Much respect to them and I truly believe they are one of the best ways to get off some body fat acquired while siting behind a desk, completing the design and flash work for a corporate website.

If anyone is interested they give out free classes to people who have never been there before. Today I will be attending the first of my own 3 month period cardio Kickboxing classes there. I think they start around 5:30 pm. I'll be there at least 3 times a week.

HOW TO KEEP YOUR EATING ON TARGET

Eat 5-6 meals a day. These meals should be the size of a small salsa bowl or both of your hands cupped together.

Makes sure that you eat enough food a day. It may sound strange recommending this,however some people take their reduced calorie eating plan so far that they eat too few calories which will result in them having low energy levels during the day which can hinder any weight training or cardio plans which they are on. Also when your energy levels are too low this will often lead to you losing control of your eating and you destroying your eating plan for the day.

Try to pick a day of the week to prepare the meals that you will be eating through out the week. This will make it hard to eat incorrectly since you will be able to consume a meal when it is time to eat with out concerning yourself with taste or having to figure out what you are going to eat right then and there which can lead to poor choices.

Try to prepare your foods by baking, roasting,broiling, steaming, or grilling.

Drink lots of water. Drinking water will allow your body to function at its most effective which will in turn lead to you losing body fat faster.

Please comment or email me if you are interested in learning more detailed information about eating plans and body fat loss.

The True Show Muscle of the Arm

Most Guys when asked to show their arms will Quickly pull up their sleeves and flex their biceps at you. The biceps are a nice Showy muscle group how ever you have to go out of your way to roll up your sleeve and lift your arm to display it.

The Tricep muscles that makes up most of the mass of your upper arm taking up 2/3rds of the available space there. This muscle group is constantly displayed to the world whether your arm is hanging relaxed or up and flexed. Thie Triceps contrary to popular belief truly is the true show piece of the arm. Appreciate your biceps but make sure that you teach yourself to love your triceps.

Check back later for information on developing the true show muscles of the arms.