THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT YOUR DIET AND WORKOUTS...

As a Personal Trainer a lot of questions are asked with reference to diet and workouts. The most asked questions are usually about weight loss and what is the fastest way to burn calories? So my answer is very simple, it’s to keep it simple. The higher the intensity of your workout the better results you start seeing. Perseverance is key; people are twisted when it comes to how long they should workout. The answer to this is simple, if you are gaining or losing weight, you have to do a limited amount of cardio, such as running, swimming, cycling, aerobics at least twice a week. The rest of the week goes in to compound workouts with or without weights.

Now look, burning calories is easy if you’re going to be smart about it, so eat right and get enough rest, you will see results. The harder you work the better the results. People of the wellness industry know that it is 70% of what you eat that helps you gain or lose weight, the other 30% is the type of training that suits you.

Today I want to emphasis on compound workouts, these workouts use more than one joint action, like doing a dead-lift… Now, what if you’re in a gym and you’re outdoors and you need to pump some energy into your system, what do you do? The solution is simple. Do a series of short exercises. I’ll give you an example, start with pacing. Usually a good walk for 5 – 8 mins warms you up and then I recommend doing a few stretches like the toe touch, splits, twists (twist & hold), then move on to drills. Do 5 push ups, 5 burpees, 20 second plank ( There is no particular order to follow for doing the above drills). Repeat these drills 3 times (3 times as 1 set). At this point you’ll be a little tuckered out, so have a little water to rejuvenate. You need to complete 3 such sets and move forward with some abdominal workouts like leg raises, crunches and twists. You don’t want too many exercises because the key is to keep it simple as mentioned before. This is one way of keeping simple, and you move forward you increase the reps and leave the sets as is. This increases the intensity.

The above is what I do daily, but that is for the upper body. For the lower body, you do 1 min squats, lunges, suicides, jumping jacks, butt kicks, knee highs and kicks respectively. All these 8 times. Each set should have a gap of 1 minute 30 seconds break in between. The goal is to sustain all the exercises for that minute. Once you reach that goal, increase the time.

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