Personal Training is designed to help you lose body fat and get in great shape. In order to optimally lose body fat, the following 4 components must be a part of your fitness program:
The mindset component will drive everything. You must have a mindset that is open and willing to make and sustain changes in order to reach your goals. There will be challenges but you must work through them by learning from your behavior and making better choices. CR Fitness will help you get on track and keep you there!
The nutrition component is crucial to losing body fat. Diets rarely work. People go on diets and then they go off them. People also restrict too many calories when they diet and slow down their metabolism. Creating healthy eating habits for the rest of your life is a more optimal solution. CR Fitness will provide nutritional information that is practical and optimal for fat loss.
The Resistance or Weight Training component is important for building or maintaining muscle and burning calories. Building muscle helps to increase your metabolism. If you lose weight and lose muscle, you’re essentially slowing down your metabolism and you will just be a smaller version of yourself with a lot of the body fat remaining. CR Fitness will design a resistance training program specifically for losing body fat.
The Cardiovascular Training component is important for burning calories. Many people just get on a treadmill for 30 minutes or more at a steady pace and continue this for months or years. The problem with this is that your body adapts and over time you will not burn as many calories. While steady state cardio may be good for your health, it is not the optimal way to lose body fat. Interval Training (light warm up, high intensity followed by low/moderate intensity periods, cool down) has been shown to shed body fat better than steady state cardio. It also increases your metabolism much more after your workout. CR Fitness will design a cardiovascular training program based upon your exercise level.