Hi team
I like to keep things simple and to the point in my old age.
Well, I have to keep things simple with 2 kids and a full time job that is shift work.
Why make life complicated especially with bills rising all the time?
So when it come to building muscle and losing fat loss why complicate things and stress yourself out even more?
The more I read about this topic and study the more I realise and understand that the simple stuff works and it’s not complicated.
Our great grand mother’s were right.
1. Eat a balanced diet, you know what that means!
2. Drink water, can you guess what that means?
3. Go for a walk. The greatest and balancing fat loss exercise is walking. Nothing is better than walking for you! You don’t need to throw yourself around like a maniac in a High Intensity Interval Training class.
4. Get to sleep. Sleep is so good for you. A lot of your mental and body rebalancing happens while you are a sleep. A lot of people would feel and look a lot better if they stopped watching Netflix or put the phone down and get to bed an hour earlier.
The experts in sports conditioning and bodybuilding agree with the above too for overall fitness and fat loss. They add the following to refine the fat loss and muscle building process with these simple tips as well.
1. Track your calories – you need to know what you put on your mouth and how much of it you are putting into your mouth! If you don’t know know how much you are eating how do you know if you are eating a well balanced diet?!? – it takes 16 extra calories a day to put on 10lbs or 5kg in a year! That’s 2 mouthfuls of an apple a day. So if you need to lose or maintain your weight you need to know!
2. Lift weights 3 days a week – to build muscle and look toned you need to lift weights. You don’t need to lift weights every day! You need to allow your body recovery time. A day inbetween weight lifting sessions at least will do you wonders as you will come back to the gym stronger and ready to go to push yourself after a good night’s sleep!
3. Count as you lift – don’t rush lifting your weights. Could 4 seconds as you lift the weight up and 4 seconds down. The muscle likes the time under tension. You control the your body! Don’t let the weight or your ego control you! You are in charge!
There you go 7 steps to look and feel whole happy and healthy!
Nothing new, nothing exciting.
Simple old fashioned advice for a hectic life we live in.
Show up
Be consistent with it
Do your best
– Chris
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