Friday, Oct. 10, 2008

Top Local Personal Trainer and Fitness Coach Reveals Insider Secrets the Weight Loss and Fitness Industries Don’t Want You to Know

WEIGHT LOSS AND FITNESS MYTH #1:

Dieting will eliminate fat.

Your body can’t discriminate between intentional calorie deprivation (dieting), and starvation. When you dramatically reduce your caloric intake, your body shifts into a protective mode by slowing your metabolism and holding onto fat (an important energy source), burning muscle instead. In the beginning, you WILL lose weight by dramatically cutting calories. But it won’t be fat loss, it will be water weight and lean muscle tissue – the exact OPPOSITE of what you want to lose.

Not only will harsh diets slow your metabolism to a crawl, causing your initial weight loss to come to a gradual halt, they will also inevitably bring about a "rebound" effect. When you rebound, you generally put on more weight than you actually lost with the diet and your percentage of body fat increases (since your body cannibalized muscle tissue as an energy source during the dieting process). Thus the "yo-yo" effect.

To permanently lose the fat stores in your body, you’ve got to burn more calories and increase your metabolic rate with a precise exercise routine and proper nutrient ratio adaptations (that means eating the right stuff at regular intervals). Even if you don’t exercise (but I recommend you do), just eating 5-6 small, high-quality meals each day will substantially increase your metabolism – and you’ll burn more calories!

To get the full report on all Five Weight Loss and Fitness Myths, visit Dave Fannin’s web site, thebodyfirm.biz.

Dave Fannin is a personal trainer and fitness coach with The Body Firm personal fitness studio.