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Nearly every single client that I have ever had regardless of their discipline (athlete or not) has been interested in Fat loss. At this point I would like to differentiate between the concepts of Fat Loss and Weight Loss.
Fat Loss
This is a reduction in body fat percentage. The goal of all my training programs, nutrition and BioSignature is to reduce body fat without a reduction in muscle mass. Sometimes there will be no change in a person’s weight as their muscle mass will increase, which balances out the weight lost through fat reduction.
Weight Loss
However, some people are concerned with overall weight loss. In cases such as these it is important to constantly monitor their progress using BioSignature and to design weight training programs that put on minimal muscle mass.
Step 1 - Weekly Diet Analysis
The key to any successful fat loss program is to examine and modify your current diet. This is achieved by accurately completing the Diet Sheet that you are provided with. Rather than giving clients a better “healthier” diet it is preferable to initially work with their existing diet and food habits and see if modifications to that are necessary. My personal belief is that it is better to renovate rather than reconstruct from scratch! However, very often a complete overhaul of a diet is in fact necessary.
Step 2 – BioSignature Modulation
The key to any weight loss, fat loss or muscle gain is to determine your BioSignature profile and to use the information from this to help modify the diet presented in Step 1. For example, if someone has an Insulin profile then it is vital that they remove, for the best part of the week, any food items which will spike insulin levels. If someone has high fat content on their legs then it is important to remove anything from their diet or environment that may be causing them to become toxic. This can be caused by simple carbohydrates, make up, false tan or plastics for example. This will be identified by BioSignature and eventually resolved as natural supplements will remove the toxins from the fat in your legs and the fat levels will reduce.
Step 3 – Resistance Training
Depending on your level and the number of years you have spent training a program is designed just for you depending on your goal. For example, if you want to lose the most amount of weight possible in the shortest possible time frame (for a wedding in 2 weeks for example) then a different approach will be necessary then for someone who wants to lose weight slowly over a longer period of time. The same principle is applied with BioSignature and diet modification.
The Low Carbohydrate Approach and Insulin The fundamental key to achieving the highest fat loss is to modify the amount of simple carbohydrates that are eaten and subsequently this keeps insulin levels at a lower level encouraging fat loss. What causes insulin? Elevated blood sugar! What causes elevated blood sugar? Mainly Simple carbohydrates! Please examine the section on Insulin to see how a low carbohydrate diet reduces insulin levels.
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