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If you are ready to invest time, effort and money to lose weight and become fitter surely you would be better off going for sensible and proven support. i.e. A personal trainer and/or a dietician.
You say you need something strict, I know what you mean that is why I signed up with a personal trainer about 18 months ago. There is nothing I do with him that I could not do on my own but I know I can lack willpower and motivation at times. Many people can achieve just as much without a personal trainer but I need someone driving me, making me accountable if you like. I don’t even like my trainer much, he is arrogant and nosey, but that doesn’t matter, he pushes me hard and is not interested in excuses.
Its up to you of course, we are all responsible for our own choices but I’d say if you are seriously considering things like sure-slim you are deluded and gullible.
There is no magic or ‘easy’ way, as Oprah says if there was she would have found it. Personally I like her trainers book, Make the Connection. I don’t follow all his steps and advice, not because I think they are wrong but I am not dedicated enough to do it all, but I do follow his advice when it comes to aerobic exercise.
I believe one of the biggest myths being perpetuated today about exercise is that gentle or moderate exercise will being results - rubbish. You hear GP’s telling people if they go for a gentle walk they will loose weight and get fit - rubbish. Few doctors are trained in fitness they are trained from a drugs and surgery standpoint, look at the state of many of them.
Words you need are not gentle and moderate but sweat, intensity and the zone. I have been thinking a lot about target heart rates recently and I was asking my trainer why so many people (especially women) at the gym do not exert themselves and sweat, one reason he was saying is they look at the heart rate table (which I think, understandably, err on the side of caution) and people get it into their head they must never go above a certain heart rate no matter how easy they are finding their work out.
The tables say my maximum heart rate should be about 170/175, but tables are just guidelines and there are large variations in the population. I have not done a stress test but based on how I can work out now I estimate my maximum heart rate to be about 185-195, as now I am fitter I can train at a target heart rate around 150-160.
I see people at the gym all the time pottering along chitty chatting to their friends while they are ‘working out’ they are deluding themselves. ‘Diets don’t work’ has become a mantra, you could just as easily say ‘gyms don’t work’. Of course they don’t if you don’t use them properly. The trainer I go to opened a full gym about a year ago and there are many overweight members, only the ones doing it properly will ever lose weight or get fitter.
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