Wise Words

Have a look at this quote from the brilliant Einstein (click on the picture if you can't read it), and think about it in relation to your quest to fat loss.....



..........Are you doing the same thing you were doing 12 months ago, are you still getting little or no results, maybe you've put on more fat.

"if you do what you've alway done, then you will be how you've always been"

The majority of people who start an exercise programme for fat loss know they need to exercise but generally don't know what to do to maximise results and then tend to be doing the same routine 12 months later.
And you've guessed it they go nowhere in terms of acheiving results, so here's 2 tips:
1- Use weights when training, this is a very important factor when training for fat loss. Use multi muscle and multi joint exercises in order to maximise results and save time.
2- Change what your doing every 4-6 weeks, to keep shocking your body into getting reslts

If you've been wondering why your not acheiving results try these 2 tips and you should start seeing improvements

Keep Moving
Alex

Is Stress Making You Fat?

Here's a post from Youtube legend Sean Croxon who is a fitness and wellness Guru, here he is sharing his wisdom with you, well worth checking out

Cardio- Slow and steady or Short and intense

Okay the great debate of what cardio exercise to do, has been around for years and every week somebody will ask me my opinion on this subject.

So here's the argument.... which is better for fat loss slow steady cardio or shorter more intense inerval traaining?

Lets investigate shall we, well both side have very good cases:

With slow staedy cario it is said that keeping your exercise intensity between 50 and 75% of your maximum heart rate will keep you in a fat burning zone, meaning the majority of calories or the greater portion of calories will come from fat.

On the other hand with the intervals you burn more total calories in less time, in more intense shorter bursts.

So what's best for fat loss?

Well although there is no right or wrong, i believe you will get results a lot faster with the interval training and you don't have to spend hours in the gym to get results.

But the main thing is to do the thing you prefer/enjoy doing more, why? because if you enjoy your workouts your more likely to stick at it.

Most importantly................Keep moving!

Alex

Help Holly raise money for Haiti

One of AC Fitness' top clients Holly Draper is going the extra mile with her weight loss journey by helping out those unfortunate people in Haiti, to find out more please read the post below and help this fantastic cause.

Hello

As some of you might know I am trying to shift some weight! After my accident I became Ben and Jerry's number one funder, but unfortunately this has had an impact on my waist line!

I have teamed up with a personal trainer and in the past 4 weeks we have shifted 7% of my body fat, 8lbs in weight (my scales say more, but hey!!), 12cm around the waist and 6cm around the hips!

I am not very good at staying very motivated if there is a selfish focus. So I have set myself a goal of losing weight while raising money for Haiti.

My goal is about 56lbs off by 1st December and £1000 raised for Hospitals for Haiti.

If you would like to sponsor me please visit my Just Giving Page http://www.justgiving.com/fighttheflabforHaiti

Thank you


Holly

PS - If I don’t achieve my goal I will donate £100 personally on 1st December 2010!!!!

Please help Holly reach her goal and follow her story with AC Fitness on this very blog

Thanks for reading

Alex