Friday the 13th. Seems like a good time to fill all of your heads with wonderment and knowledge.
This should help dispel part of the theory that 'men just find it easier' to lose fat.
Your body requires energy throughout the day. Now hopefully you have dropped things like pastas, cereals and sugary crap from your eating habits and if you haven't yet (and are wondering why exercise isn't working) then you need to give yourself a sharp kick to the bum and drop them now, not Monday. NOW.
If you have done so, and you are still having a bit of trouble with the weight then we need to look at your training habits. Many of you are only here 1 hour per day, 3 times per week. Which leaves a lot, A LOT of time where you are just going about your day. Obviously poor eating habits reflect on that but that's not what today is about.
Today is about how hard you work during your hour! Do you actually place the weight upon the bar that i suggest (?%), do you stick to the red band because you can do 20 in a row. Do you choose a lighter dumbell because it's a bit early and you're a little sore.
The simple fact with many members past that never saw the results they wanted was that they didn't work hard enough during the time they had.
Putting the kind of muscle on that women are often afraid of is incredibly difficult, you can ask any of the guys in this gym how long they have been trying to 'get big' and they will all tell you that it takes a lot of food and a lot of training. This can't be a fear that stops you from achieving your goal.
Increased weight/more resistance place your body under greater strain, in a good way. This will elicit a higher response during your training, not only burning more energy (fat) but increasing the work capacity of your muscle. Increased muscle and work capacity of that muscle is going to give you a higher BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate - the way your body burns energy during the day to do,....your day).
So basically squatting heavy in the morning, and I mean heavy, pushing to stand the weight up not just going through the motions because it feels heavy on the back of your shoulders, will increase your fat burning throughout the day. Not only that but as the fat burns, underneath it all is this lean sculpted body just waiting to burst out, because you have sculpted it with that weight/resistance.
Cardio and ab work help to a point, but they never look the goods right. Marathon runners??? Not the ideal body in my mind, skinny, with an excess subcataneous fat and tuckshop arms. It has to be mixed with a quality strength and conditioning program.
AND this is why men find it easier to lose fat than women. Because men by nature are often more competitive and they push the boundaries of their strength and ability as often as they can. They try more weight because they want to be stronger. It's in their DNA to be the Alpha, and thus, they lose weight faster and tone faster and improve their performances faster. There are women everywhere who do this as well, But nowhere near as many.
When you come in today, it's time to step it up. It's time to make that bar heavy. Because if you stick to the same mundane routine, your body will adapt.
Not sure if that was a rant, or insightful piece of writing. Either way I want YOU to be inspired and to achieve your goals.
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