Tips For Maintaining Your Fitness Training Diet

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A fitness training diet is actually dependent on just how fit you wish to be. Many people like to be fit but not as fit as a world-class athlete. There are different levels of fitness for those that are seriously competing and those who prefer to be just healthy. Integrating a good fitness training diet into your life is a blessing that allows you to maintain your health and prolong your life.

Usually, people go on a fitness training diet a few months before a big event. This is a preparation for the activities and pressure that a big event usually means. The fitness training diet must correspond to the needs of the individual regarding the sport or event. Some sports need a lot of lean muscles therefore the individual must develop muscles which are suitable for the event. Other sports may entail needing stamina while others will need to lose weight.

What Not To Eat

We all know that fatty foods as well as some oily foods should be avoided if you intend to keep to your fitness training diet. What some people do not know is to also regulate one's consumption of sodium. Sodium plays a big role in maintaining our hydration, but too much of this can also affect us negatively. Sugars also need to be regulated or avoided altogether when on a fitness training diet. Sugars tend to give an artificial high which can leave you feeling tired in the long run.

Tips For Maintaining Your Fitness Training Diet

To be able to fully maintain and stick to your fitness training diet you should purge your home of any foods that may tempt you to break your diet. Comfort foods that you feel you need must still be avoided as long as you have started your diet. Make sure that you have adequate stock of the foods that you need to follow your fitness training diet. Easy access will thwart any temptations to run to the grocery to squelch the craving for your fattening foods. Sticking to the routine, no matter how boring or tiresome, is another way of keeping on track of your fitness training diet.

A dietician, in order to maximize the efficacy of your training, usually formulates a fitness training diet. The right amount of calories, vitamins and minerals are enough to make you as fit as you possibly can to perform the task that you have been training for.

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The Ultimate Hard-Body Exercise

by Mike Geary, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Personal Trainer

The Front Squat

As you may have already discovered, the squat is at the top of the heap (along with deadlifts) as one of the most effective overall exercises for stimulating body composition changes (muscle gain and fat loss). This is because exercises like squats and deadlifts use more muscle groups under a heavy load than almost any other weight bearing exercises known to man. Hence, these exercises stimulate the greatest hormonal responses (growth hormone, testosterone, etc.) of all exercises.

In fact, university research studies have even proven that inclusion of squats into a training program increases upper body development, in addition to lower body development, even though upper body specific joint movements are not performed during the squat. Whether your goal is gaining muscle mass, losing body fat, building a strong and functional body, or improving athletic performance, the basic squat and deadlift (and their variations) are the ultimate solution.

If you don’t believe me that squats and deadlifts are THE basis for a lean and powerful body, then go ahead and join all of the other overweight people pumping away mindlessly for hours on boring cardio equipment.

Squats can be done with barbells, dumbbells, kettlebells, or even just body weight. Squats should only be done with free weights – NEVER with a Smith machine! My ebook, The Truth About Six Pack Abs contains the full story on why machines are so inferior and even potentially DANGEROUS compared to free weights.

The type of squat that people are most familiar with is the barbell back squat where the bar is resting on the trapezius muscles of the upper back. Many professional strength coaches believe that front squats (where the bar rests on the shoulders in front of the head) and overhead squats (where the bar is locked out in a snatch grip overhead throughout the squat) are more functional to athletic performance than back squats with less risk of lower back injury.

I feel that a combination of all three (not necessarily during the same phase of your workouts) will yield the best results for overall muscular development, body fat loss, and athletic performance. Front squats are moderately more difficult than back squats, while overhead squats are considerably more difficult than either back squats or front squats. I’ll cover overhead squats in a future newsletter issue.

If you are only accustomed to performing back squats, it will take you a few sessions to become comfortable with front squats, so start out light. After a couple sessions of practice, you will start to feel the groove and be able to increase the poundage.

To perform front squats:

The front squat recruits the abdominals to a much higher degree for stability due to the more upright position compared with back squats. It is mostly a lower body exercise, but is great for functionally incorporating core strength and stability into the squatting movement. It can also be slightly difficult to learn how to properly rest the bar on your shoulders. There are two ways to rest the bar on the front of the shoulders.

In the first method, you step under the bar and cross your forearms into an “X” position while resting the bar on the dimple that is created by the shoulder muscle near the bone, keeping your elbows up high so that your arms are parallel to the ground. You then hold the bar in place by pressing the thumb side of your fists against the bar for support.

Alternatively, you can hold the bar by placing your palms face up and the bar resting on your fingers against your shoulders. For both methods, your elbows must stay up high to prevent the weight from falling. Your upper arms should stay parallel to the ground throughout the squat. Find out which bar support method is more comfortable for you.

Then, initiate the squat from your hips by sitting back and down keeping the weight on your heels as opposed to the balls of your feet. Squat down to a position where your thighs are approximately parallel to the ground, then press back up to the starting position. Keeping your weight more towards your heels is the key factor in squatting to protect your knees from injury and develop strong injury resistant knee joints.

Keep in mind – squats done correctly actually strengthen the knees; squats done incorrectly can damage the knees. Practice first with an un-weighted bar or a relatively light weight to learn the movement. Most people are surprised how hard this exercise works your abs once you learn the correct form.

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