Give My Body Back!
Vacation time has passed and you are back to reality. Trying to slip into your favourite jeans and finding it drastically difficult? Oh no! Like many others, you remember the time whan you were slimmer, fitter and you are eager to get that everything back. So, now it’s the right time to get your body back! Follow these 3 simple steps and the result will come in due time.
1. Follow an Elimination Diet For A Minimum of 14 Days
Yet daily consumption of alcohol, ice-creams, desserts and other ‘goodies’ that we’d normally reserve as an occasional treat back home can really take its toll on our metabolism and our immune system (not to mention our figures). This is why we’ll often get a cold or feel ‘run down’ when we return from hols
Try to avoid:
All alcohol – Yes it can make you feel good temporarily but it is quite simply a poison. Avoid it in all its forms.
All wheat and Gluten Products – Now, I know the academic jury is still out on this one but I guarantee you that if you avoid wheat and gluten you’ll drop pounds and feel better than you have in ages. This includes pastries, bread, crackers most sauces and foods too many to mention.
All Processed Foods – Processing basically kills or denatures food to the extent that they become ‘non-foods’ that cost your system more to digest than they actually give you. In addition, processing adds many undesirable elements to your food such as colourings and flavourings made from chemicals that are harmful to your system. So, if it’s tinned, freeze dried or has anything unpronounceable in its ingredients then don’t eat it.
2. Drink a litre of water for every 50 pounds you weigh
Water is an absolutely critical component of achieving great health and the firm, toned and strong body that goes with it.
Decrease your hydration levels by just a percent or two and your metabolism changes dramatically causing you to react differently to the foods that you eat, hold more fat and stress your immune system. Maintaining optimal hydration has a positive impact on everything from metabolism and fat retention to immunity and general health. That’s why I want you to drink a litre for every 50lbs you weigh. So, if you weigh ten stones or 140lbs then you should be drinking just under 3 litres of plain, clean water a day. This does not include tea, coffee or fruit juice (you shouldn’t be drinking tea and coffee anyway as they’re processed).
Make no mistake, hydration is the key to many, many vital functions that both keep you healthy and keep you looking your best. If you ignore this rule then you’ll NEVER reach the goals you’ve been setting yourself.
3. Perform Strength Exercise 5 Days a Week
Almost any exercises will do as long as they follow these basic rules:
1. They MUST be done with bodyweight or free weights (Barbells or dumbbells).
2. They should follow my 600 rule. That is, each exercise should use as many of the 600 muscles in your body at one time as possible. Exercises like squats, lunges, jumps, pushups, pull-ups, deadlifts, shoulder presses etc work best.
3.You should choose a load that is heavy. By heavy, I mean that you choose a weight that you could only lift for a maximum of 8 times.
4. You should never train to failure. Always keep a couple of reps ’spare’ in each set by stopping the set before you really have to struggle.
Now, don’t let the simplicity of each rule fool you into thinking that they won’t work. They will, and quite dramatically too if you stick to them for long enough.
