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The Four Hour Body Review – Part 2 Subtracting Fat and Adding Muscle
Related Links: This is part two of a multi-part series on how to the Four-Bour Body book by Tim Ferris! Please take a look at my first post in this series for more information. Losing Weight So I want to summarize the Slow Carb Diet in a really simple way: Eat a small serving of non-white carbs (basically veggies) and a large serving of protein with every meal. In the book, Tim Highlights specific foods that seem to work best like broccoli and lentils, but this really is the simplicity of the diet. The funny thing about it is that most people have a hard time with this because of…
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The Four Hour Body Review (Part 1 – Introduction)
One of my favorite hobbies is to snuggle up with a cup of tea and a great book! Most of the time I like to read post-apocalyptic or dystopian novels. But I pretty much love action and adventure books, anything that could take me away to another place! In general, I’ve found it pretty hard to get into self-help books because the material is just so freaking dry! Though I have made it through a few books like The Goal, the Lean CEO, The 7 Habits, Good to Great, etc. most of them still were kind of like pulling teeth for me. I guess it’s partially because my interests…
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How to Make a Hype Workout Stick? Part 3 – Listening To & Loving Your Body
Related Links: This is part three of a three-part series on how to make a fitness regime stick! Please take a look at my posts on defining a hype workout here and the first and second posts in this series for more information. Pushing Yourself Listen to your body. It knows you better than you know you! There are plenty of days where I get to the gym and I just have NO energy. If all you have the energy for is a brisk walk around the block – THAT’S OK. As someone who works in engineering, I’m on my feet a lot of the day, so when I come…
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How to Make a Hype Workout Stick? Part 2 – Having the “For Life” Mindset
Related Links: This is part two of a three-part series on how to make a fitness program stick! Please see my post on defining a hype workout here and part one here. Treat this as a lifestyle – not just a way to get “Bikini Ready” This is a huge pet peeve of mine with how women perceive BBG, TIU, Jamie Eason’s Live Fit, etc. Most programs that women start advertise things like XX weeks to get in shape, or how to lose weight in XX days. Fitness is not just 4 weeks of your life. It is a lifestyle. If you just want to get in shape for your…
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How to Make a Hype Workout Stick? Part 1 – Educating Yourself
Related Links: This is part one of a three part series on making a fitness regime stick! Please see my last post on defining a hype workout here So the first step to turning your favorite hype workout into a lifestyle is all about educating yourself. Here’s what I mean: Eating Healthy The first thing I did back in 2014 after my complete flop with BBG was to reach out to one of my friends who happens to be a nutrition nut and ask her what I should be eating. She told me about these magical particles that make up your food called macros. Many of you who are fitness…
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What is “Hype” Workout?
I keep using this term “Hype Workout” and I’m not entirely sure that you guys know what I mean – because it’s not a technical term. My Journey Back in 2014 I landed my first job out of college and was looking for a great way to get in shape. This was the same year that Kayla Itsines came out with her Bikini Body Guide (BBG) program in e-book form. For those of you who are unaware her workout program is 12 weeks, alternates between cardio and circuit workouts. Her circuit workouts are basically two circuits that you do for 7 minutes each and then repeat them. You can find…
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What is a “Good Diet”? Part 3 – FAQs About Nutrition
Related Links: This is part three of a three-part series on defining a good diet. Please see part one and two for more information. So after reading my last two parts of this series, you may have lots of questions! Feel free to comment more on either this post or my last one (or any of my other ones for that matter!) if you have any questions that I didn’t answer. But here are some that I get a lot: Does this mean I have to eat the same thing at the same times every single day? Absolutely not! Though consistency is the best way to achieve your goals, you’ll…
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What is a “Good Diet”? Part 2 – Getting Started with Macros
Related Links: This is part two of a three-part series on defining a “Good Diet”! Please see part one here How did I Get Started? I was very lucky in my fitness journey and one of my great friends happened to be a nutrition nut like me! I asked her to comment on how I got started because I basically came crawling to her begging for advice… “Unlike many people who have asked me for nutrition advice in the past, Cessa came to me pretty prepared. I don’t just mean curious and inspired, I mean she came with an open mind, ready to learn and commit herself from day one. But…
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What is a “Good” Diet? Part 1 – The Definitions
Defining a “Good” Diet -Literally There are so many things I can talk about eating a balanced healthy diet, so to help you guys parse through all of the information I have I’m breaking this into a mini-series. This first post is just a quick introduction to some terminology. Please feel free to take a look at the rest of my posts on this topic. I went online and decided to pull a bunch of definitions of a “good diet.” Here’s what I found: From a Breast Cancer.Org article “Healthy eating means eating a variety of foods that give you the nutrients you need to maintain your health, feel good…
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Some Surprising Statistics on Fitness
Just like most people I have started and quit different workout plans many times. So why is it so hard to keep up with our fitness goals. I started doing some digging and found a few articles surrounding why people quit and some statistics about them. According to Body Building.com in a circa 2012 study on resolutions ~ 70% of people who start a new program tend to quit! Their article was summed up by this sweet visual (below) and one of the interesting statistics here is that people tend to quit on their resolutions in 6 weeks or less! This is part of the reason why time-based programs (i.e.…