Weight management advice from personal trainers

Weight Management

whether building muscle or losing weight this summer with or without a personal trainer in london , to fit into your latest dress or vest when strutting down the Portobello road read this diet
article, and make your goals more achievable. Both diet and exercise are equally essential. Millions of people go to gyms, but how many of them get results? Many gym goers attend the gym 4 times a week with no results, we all see them in and out the gym, looking the same all year round, and this is normally due to their diet. Here are some great diet facts, for weight loss, and muscle gain, with no useless advertising rubbish found in the likes of high street fitness magazines. “Lose 1000 lbs with this diet pill,” the only thing your likely to lose in these ads is your money.

Muscle Gain

More protein is not better Many magazines promote extremely high protein consumption this protein consumption puts tremendous strain on the kidneys and will be turned to fat if over ingested. 1.5g per kg of bodyweight is more than enough for building muscle fast!

Fast muscle gain

Muscle gain is unfortunately not as fast as we want it, one day you fancy looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger the next day you expect it to happen after one protein shake and a half hearted work out, unlikely! Keep your diet organised high protein high carbs and in 3 months you should notice a big difference in your bodily appearance. Neglect your food after your workout the muscles become depleted of their muscle fuel and your goal becomes further out of sight.

Protein Shakes

Use Protein shakes; they aid calorie and protein consumption whilst reducing digestion difficulty that comes with large daily food consumption.

Meal breakdown

Break Meals down into 5 small meals split through out the day

Carbs

Carbs are the key! The magazines exaggerate protein as the key but carbs are equally as important. Complex carbs such as rice are the fuel for building muscle. Like protein more is not better they will be turned to fat.

Vitamins and Minerals

Your daily diet needs to be rich in vitamins and minerals, supplement with a multi vitamin such as wellman tablets. Many vitamins and minerals are destroyed through the cooking methods used when preparing your lunch or dinner, steam vegetables and grill fish and meat, no more deep fried cod and chips!

Drink lots of water

Fruit and Vegetables 5 portions daily, how can anyone manage that? Easy, eat fruit throughout the day such as pears, bananas and red grapes. Bananas are great for muscle gain I include bananas in my diet daily. Innocent smoothies, great drinks full of freshly squeezed fruit not from
concentrate. Don’t purchase the cheaper options in your local supermarket, the majority are from concentrate.

Weight Loss

Avoid high fat and high carb food

Atkins diet, very popular amongst the notting hill community is not a lifestyle change but a short-term diet, it is not healthy to have extremely low carbs and fat at all times.

Drink lots of water

Many people appear fatter than they are because of bloating. High toxin diets (caffeine, alcohol) all promote bloating. Cut these down, bring peppermint tea into your diet. Peppermint tea anti bloats try it!

Bloating Continued

Keep the body healthy with vitamins and minerals don’t opt for a colonic cleanse just because it’s the rage! Colon cleanses are good but don’t clean out the whole body as people believe they do but purely cleanse the colon.

Reduce Alcohol

Alcohol must be reduced- alcohol is normally the main cause of weight loss, 1 bottle of wine averages about 700kcal a meal equivalent. If your someone who drinks a bottle a day, I think you have found the reason why your gaining weight!

Reduce Diet Stress

Living in London we are all highly stressed, lots of work not enough sleep and the usual family aggravations. Take time out to relax go to the gym, eat dinner not wolf down a sandwich before you catch the bus which you are late for. Diet needs to be organised and relaxing if you rush your meals your body won’t digest them.

Above hopefully gave you a few pointers, put them into action this summer and I am sure the body you want will become a lot more achievable.