Testimonial: Fitness Explorer Virtual Training - Week 5

Success Stories : Going Virtual - Week 5 

I was a little disappointed with my weight loss this week, although I did relax my nutrition plan a little but when I measured I had still lost cm's.  Amazing. 

I ordered a dress from a catalogue but they only had a size 10 but thought what the hell, I'll try it anyway and to my amazement it fitted.  I haven't been a size 10 since late 2001, excellent.  That's two dress sizes in 5 weeks.

My husband has continued to amaze me with his weight loss and is dropping body fat all the time.  He's gone from 26% to 19% bodyfat.  It has been a tough week but I am determined to stick with it.  

Jan

Previous week's progress here: 

Success Stories : Going Virtual - Week 1

Success Stories : Going Virtual - Week 2

Success Stories : Going Virtual - Week 3

Success Stories : Going Virtual - Week 4

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Video: Walking The Planks (Exercise)

Video: Walking The Planks (Exercise)

Guest Star: Kirk

This exercise works, well everything.  Forget about the muscles, focus on the movement.  Move as carefully as you can - without letting your back arch, bridge or sag.

Workout: It's Spring (almost) - It's Saturday, Let's Play!

A beautiful day today in London, sun was out and spring is definitely in the air!  The hour class soon became 2.5 hours of playing, didn't want it to end...

Warmup: 

• Running and Jumps (aka Frogger)

Workout: (combinations of) --> 

• POSE running technique
• Sprinting
• Air Squat and High Jump Squat drills
• Step Vault, Speed Vault & Speed Vault Progressions
• Dead-Hang Tree Pull-Ups & Assisted Pull-Ups
• Tree Muscle Ups/Climbing & Assists
• Park Bench balance drills
• Walking/running on very low rails
• Bear crawl, Crab Walks, Praying Mantis (side to side plank walk)
• Mini-Circuits
• and lots of messing about :-)

* Alysia was a natural on the balance bench, video to follow.  

** Kirk's first attempt on the bench, great effort!  Kirk's also warming up for his pull-up matrix tomorrow - good luck : -->

http://www.thefitnessexplorer.com/home/2011/3/8/workout-pull-up-matrix-iv-advanced.html

Research: Western Diet and Lifestyle Diseases

The Paleo Diet isn't just about weight-loss.  Read about the reasons why modelling paleo nutrition can help us in the modern era against lifestyle diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cancer and obesity.

Here is the abstract taken from this paper below:

Abstract: It is increasingly recognized that certain fundamental changes in diet and lifestyle that occurred after the Neolithic Revolution, and especially after the Industrial Revolution and the Modern Age, are too recent, on an evolutionary time scale, for the human genome to have completely adapted. This mismatch between our ancient physiology and the western diet and lifestyle underlies many so-called diseases of civilization, including coronary heart disease, obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, epithelial cell cancers, autoimmune disease, and osteoporosis, which are rare or virtually absent in hunter–gatherers and other non-westernized populations. It is therefore proposed that the adoption of diet and lifestyle that mimic the beneficial characteristics of the preagricultural environment is an effective strategy to reduce the risk of chronic degenerative diseases.

http://www.dovepress.com/the-western-diet-and-lifestyle-and-diseases-of-civilization-peer-reviewed-article-RRCC