I’ve been doing this personal training thing for a long time now. The easiest part of my job is getting my clients to follow my exercise programs. They are always willing to bust their butts with the workouts. However, most of the time, the challenge is making the right food choices to ensure that the fat stays off. Nutrition is by far, the most difficult thing to change, especially if you’re so used to a particular way of eating. But if you want to lose fat, this is the first place you need to make a change. There is unfortunately no way to out-work bad nutrition. The bottom line is: you eat bad, you get bad results, no matter how hard you exercise.
I’ve posted some of his articles before, and it’s only because Craig Ballantyne is one of the world’s most respected trainers when it comes to fat loss. His Turbulence program is one of the best out there. Here is a fantastic article that I personally have experienced with several of my own clients, and applies to the majority of people out there that are on a quest to lose fat:
Turbulence Training for MEN
By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Men's Health Expert
When one my best friends came to me asking how to lose fat, the first thing I did was not to put him on a hardcore exercise program (even though he was young and relatively fit), but it was
to take a look at his diet.
These days it is so much easier to eat more calories in 10 minutes than you could possibly burn in 100 minutes, so exercise is only a small part of the equation if you want to know how to burn fat.
Fortunately, or unfortunately for Jack, my buddy, his nutrition couldn't get much worse. It was only the fact that he was young, male, and semi-active that kept him from being more than 30 pounds overweight.
Each day he consumed...
- 8 cans of soda (and not diet soda!)
- eggs and bacon with buttered toast and hashbrowns for breakfast
- pepperoni pizza for lunch
- chicken fingers and fries for dinner
On weekends he would eat even bigger breakfasts, subs and chips for lunch, and pizza and burgers for dinner, and then 12 beers with the boys.
Eventually Jack weighed a chubby 210 pounds at only 5'10".
Each winter he would gain the weight, and then lose some of it in the summer as he became more active.
His diet contained the three foods you must not eat if you want to lose fat and be healthy:
1) French fries
2) Pizza
3) Chips
But this wasn't the right way to live, and he knew it.
Fortunately, Jack was the best client I could have, and he made all the changes I recommended, and loves his new healthy eating diet.
Heck, with the exception of his reward meal pizzas, he almost eats as well as I do!
Jack eliminated the processed carbs and sugar, with his biggest change being the elimination of the soda. He now grabs green tea and water all day long. He's cut out almost all trans fats, getting rid of the fries and chicken fingers (although there are still trans fats in some pizza crusts).
He now eats...
- at least 10 servings of fruits and vegetables per day
- power salads with chicken or salmon and spinach, tomatoes,
peppers, broccoli and other vegetables
- salmon, chicken, or steak and vegetables for dinner
- He snacks on apples and bananas
And he's cut down his weekend drinking, replacing it with what he calls the natural highs of being healthy. It's amazing when someone finds out how to lose fat that they are able to appreciate how much energy, vitality, endurance and stamina they can have thanks
to their food choices.
In fact, Jack regularly works 14-18 hour shifts at a hospital and says it doesn't bother him one bit. He's got more than enough energy to work that long - and then go home to his girl!
And he's no longer sleepy at 4pm, like he used to be during his overweight days, when he'd come home from work and fall asleep for 2 hours before getting up and eating another sleep-inducing meal.
And of course, we had Jack start using the Turbulence Training workouts. Other trainers are calling him the "fittest guy at the gym" where there are over 5000 members! He's a legend thanks to his short, burst Turbulence Training workouts.
Avoid processed and fried foods if you want to burn belly fat,
Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
http://www.TurbulenceTraining.com/GetStarted
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