We live in a world where we want everything immediately… Next day delivery, a whole TV series in one go, super fast broadband and the like. Patience is a virtue that is diminishing fast, which isn’t ideal when it comes to fat loss.
Let me explain how…
If you look at your present state of health and fitness, it will have taken you a lifetime to reach that point. All of your choices and actions, whether good or bad have led you to where you are now. Whether you’re fit, unfit, fat, lean or somewhere in between, you are a result of your actions and your choices.
But reversing it takes a common sense approach. A slow and steady plan that will see you progress at the appropriate rate. The goal is to make sure you enjoy life whilst losing weight and improving your fitness. At AdMac Fitness in East London, we believe that health and fitness should be a part of your life, not dominate the whole thing. As personal trainers, we don’t live like monks and we don’t expect our clients to either - that’s why we build weight loss plans and approaches that allow you to live a real life yet still achieve your health, fitness and fat loss goals!
As appealing as rapid fat loss is, the reality is if you want to drop huge amounts of weight in a very short space of time, you’ve got to make sacrifices that will absolutely destroy your enjoyment of life….
Zero cheat meals
Zero booze
Early nights
Daily training
Minimum 8 hours sleep every night
No caffeine
Limited salt
Count every calorie
Is that what you really want? Are you honestly willing to sacrifice all the fun in life for the sake of faster fat loss? Or are you willing to adopt a plan that will work for the long term but still allow you to enjoy a few treats and nights out (when they return) every now and then?
In the fitness world, the slow and steady approach never really appeals to people.
At AdMac Fitness we’ve met people who have done no exercise for 3 years and then suddenly expect to be running 40k every week. We’ve met people wanting to do 4 strength sessions in 5 days after a decade out of the gym. We’ve met people who want to attempt a PB on their deadlift in their first session back after a year.
If that sounds like you, STOP!
Injuries are inevitable in this scenario, and your body hasn’t let you down, common sense has.
The people who want this way of working are either motivated by external factors (competition, prize money, they’re on TV, it’s a medical life or death scenario) or more likely, they simply crash and burn, failing after a couple of weeks when they realise what the reality of that approach looks like,
If you’ve spent the last 3 years gaining 0.5kg a month, and then setting yourself a goal to lose it in 10 weeks you’re either going to have to sacrifice your entire life to achieve it, or you’ll be very disappointed. It took you 156 weeks to gain the weight, it’s going to take a lot longer than 10 weeks to lose it!
Unless I’ve got my wires crossed I’m pretty sure slow and steady works just fine in other areas of life, as these random examples show…
It takes years of hard work and financial discipline to save up a house deposit
It takes three years to earn your university degree
It takes an average of 44 weeks to learn to drive
It takes an average of 1.5 years to learn Spanish with an hour per day of practice
It takes 3 years to learn to be an electrician
If you want to achieve something worthwhile, you’ve got to be willing to put the time and effort in over the longer term.
The lesson applied to fitness and fat loss?
Stop rushing out of the gate, full of enthusiasm about your new found mission and expect to lose 3 stone in 2 months. It just isn’t going to happen. The human body isn’t set up to give away fat stores so easily - instead, stay consistent, stay dedicated, stay patient and watch the progress happen. We’re experts at this, let us do our jobs, trust the process and we promise that you’ll achieve fantastic results.
If you can’t train with us but only take one lesson away from this blog post… Make sure it’s if you’re returning to fitness soon, plan a sensible, progressive first month!
Let us help you…
At AdMac Fitness we’re not about fads, fashions and short term fixes. We want you to succeed properly over the long term, so with our help and advice you can get your fitness back on track! If you’d like us to help you, contact us on 07921465108 or email us at admacfitness@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you!