FAT LOSS IN 8 DAYS

This is an explanation of my Healthkick Eat; 8 Day Fat Loss Plan.

If you would like a free copy, please pop an email to service@healthkickeat.com

The plan is based on my own theories of Leptin stimulation. As I have previously mentioned, I am not a scientist and am not proclaiming to have any formal qualifications to speak of. I am however, very interested in health / diet / nutrition / exercise / strength training. The human body excites me; I enjoy studying all aspects of it and have done so for at least the last 5 years to dramatically improve my own health. I currently have a small training facility in The Highlands of Scotland; http://www.healthkickuk.com/, some of my testimonials are here; http://www.healthkickuk.com/testimonials.html.

I have created and trialled many food plans over the last three years or more, on myself and willing friends. Most have proved successful, producing interesting results over a period of 2 – 4 weeks, I have then been able to sell those plans on.  A few have gone in the bin during the learning / trial process!

Efficient Eating……

If you have the desire to become healthier, fitter and leaner, I’m afraid that your dietary and hydration choices will dictate your results. Satisfying passing cravings will have to stop, as will skipping breakfast and grabbing the muffin and can of drink from the snack wagon. If you have the desire to become stronger and build a muscular physique, then consuming the same calories as a cat walk model to maintain your six-pack must stop.

No thanks; I don’t want to move like I’m wearing a girdle and nappy……

I’m going to chuck something out there now, you may not like it, your ego might rebuff my statement and assume that I am a balance board fanatic who lives on algae and rain water, here goes; lifting weights is all about health. There you go, I said it. I used to think that I trained to be healthy, I didn’t really. I just liked small clothes at the time. Often, I’d feel like an over tired homeless person with discoloured eyes complete with black suitcases packed beneath them, skin issues, the energy levels of an obese grandparent, a bowel full of waste because I hadn’t had a ‘movement’ for seven days and when I did, it felt like passing a breeze block and left me with an arse like a baboon. During this ‘body building’ period of my life, my arthritis continued to deteriorate and my flexibility declined, but I did have some muscle, so that was nice. Yeah, my lifting was all about health…

I kid you not……

Today, I have a wee nugget of training gold for you; Complexes. The name is misleading, they are not complex to perform but require a little complexity in their structure. If I told you, that at the least, you could half the amount of time that you spend generating a sweaty bum crack in the gym and melt fat, would you be interested? Thought so……

Healthkick HATES the word Diet……

Marketing folk love this time of year, various tripe adverts are thrown at us on a daily basis, misleading the viewer with questionable promises of a product that will answer their weight loss prayers. Then we have the programmes with enticing titles along the lines of; ‘My Super Wonderful Diet Show’, ‘Drop a Dress Size in Two Weeks and Feel Amazing’.

Ladies, lift weight to lose weight……

It is often assumed that if a lady starts to lift weights and partake in Resistance Training, she will mutate overnight into a bulky, hairy, sweating German shot-putter. If you have met my wife then you would believe this to be true. However, in general this could not be further from the truth. My wife couldn’t throw a stone, let alone a shot-putt……

Kicking it Old School………

Bosu-balls, balance boards, Swiss balls, body pump, spinning class; just a few of the training concepts that make me want to remove the hairs from around my balls with a lighter, because I think that would be more rewarding and yet would still elevate my heart rate.

A few Lessons Learned…..

If you are interested, I will share them with you. I know, exciting isn’t it? Contain yourself and read on.

I’m not from the ‘lets all have six packs and shave our pubes’ training view point. I have been there though. Before realising that resistance training could change my life, I was the tit in the squat rack with bleached hair doing bicep curls. I would go to the gym and tickle my t-shirt muscles and to make sure that people realised I had produced tear drops of sweat for my new found physique, I would wear clothes too small for me. And vests. In public. I produced this wonderment with collaboration of soulless, repetitive, flimsily structured ‘workout programs’. I performed no variation of the dead lift, squat, overhead press, chin up and could never understand why I wasn’t making rapid progress. I danced around in the gym like a very inconsistent fairy, on and off, for around 6 years before I joined a different type of gym in the Highlands of Scotland with a different type of gym clientele.