As the official health and fitness specialist of this blog, my hope is to provide you with the simple facts of healthy living. I'll try my hardest to be creative and motivating, but if I can't do either, then just trust that my tips are truly just simple facts.
I want to start off with a profound statement that I thought of myself. Here it goes...
"Life isn't easy, and neither is loosing weight." The results that you see are a true reflection of the amount of work that you put into it. I'm not kidding!
I think that this week I will put in a couple of tips. Here's one:
There are 4 components to being healthy(in no particular order): 1) aerobic or cardiovascular exercise 2) strength training 3) nutrition 4) flexibility. Notice that I didn't say weight loss, I just said to be healthy. Even if you don't need to loose weight, you still need to have these components to maintain a healthy lifestyle. I hope that for the next 3 months, my tips will help you to stay focused on making these 4 components a part of your everyday life.
Here's two:
Calories IN vs. Calories OUT
The 1st Law of Thermodynamics states that energy is neither created nor destroyed.
Calories are energy, therefore, when you eat calories you must either burn them or store them. Lets face it, when you eat a chocolate muffin, it doesn't just disappear into one of your hallow legs. To put things into perspective a little bit, one pound of body weight is equal to 3500 calories. If you want to loose one pound, you have to burn that many calories. So in order to loose weight, you need to be burning more than you eat. Sounds simple enough, so why is it so hard? Well, on average, a 200 lb person only burns about 2.5 calories per minute if they are sitting around, 5.4 calories per minute if they're walking 3 mph, 17.1 calories per minute if they are running 7 mph. So it's going to take quite a bit of effort to shed that one pound.
I hope I didn't discourage anyone, but my point is that if you want to win this thing, you're going to have to work for it. If you want to get an idea of how much you burn at rest then make a request for it. It would take me a while to find the equation, so if I get enough requests for it, then next week I'll post the equation. Counting calories is a very good way to know how many calories you need to burn, but if you don't know how many you burn at rest, or during certain activities, then your just shooting in the dark.
Good Luck everyone, if you have questions just post it to the blog and I'll do my best to answer them. And if you have any suggestions for the weekly challenges, post those too. Be sure to log in every week and reply to the posts!!
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Thank you for the great tips trainer Elena.
ReplyDeleteJust don't go Jillian on us! I think we'll start our percentages next Thursday because noone has logged on yet. I've only collected from two people so far-- so we need to get on board. I think the calorie equation sounds interesting and useful.
So i didn't know where to post our results for the week so i'm posting them here.
ReplyDeleteJosh worked out by running on treadmill and playing basketball. he lost 5 pounds 1.03%
Hilary worked out 4 times on the treadmill and had lost 4 pounds earlier in the week but apparently gained it all last night and so she lost NONE
I have been trying to work out for at least 30 minutes everyday. I was only able to make it to the gym one day this week, the rest of the time I did pushups, situps, leg lifts and other random exercises around the house. The thing that help me the most I think was just eating only one helping for each meal, and snacking on sunflower seeds or chewing gum at work between meals.
ReplyDeleteI was able to lose 10 pounds for 1.05% loss. I was also able to run an 8 minute mile for the first time in a long time (I almost threw up).
I like your tips Elena. I'm going to try to read them everyday for encougement. My work was out was daily by coming home from work and working putting things away (lifting, walking and reaching)in my new house. For a lose of 2% if I figured it out right (who knows about me).
ReplyDeleteGood job everyone. I went to the gym three times last week and did cardio and core, and did arms and legs rotating every other day. I maybe lost half a pound, but my skirt was a little bit baggy on Sunday, which made me feel good. I think the situps actually worked a little bit. Better luck next week.
ReplyDeleteI went to the gym two times last week. I did 25 minutes of cardio and 30 minutes of weight training. I also got in one day of skiing! I lost about a pound but am more wanting to tone than lose. Tyson has stayed busy skiing at work and doing situps and pushups at home.
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