Reasons or
Results!
Fitness Nutrition Training
Sovereign
Michael Valentine
SPN,
CFT, Eft, Yft, Cft, SSc, GFI, CMCht, CERT, Reiki Master
206.225.9647
email: sovereignmv@gmail.com
web:
bnbbs.myshaklee.com
Does I really have to do the nutritional stuff ?
Special Report #13
Part of the
“I see you
to succeeding"
series
Does I really have to do the nutritional stuff ?
Special Note:
The original version of this report includes the actual measurements of
some clients in relation to improvements or lack there of in regard to
people who applied the nutritional principles I teach and those who
chose to skip the nutrition parts of their personal training sessions.
Due to the lack of interface between MSWord and Google Blogspot, for now
I've left the tables and charts out of this posting. If you want an original copy of this report, email at the email address above.
The quickie answer: No, you have just as much right to succeed as not.
Complete answer: My goal is to help you get what you
want for the least amount of time, energy and money…with the greatest amount of
long-term value in terms of sustainable health and wellness.
Time
and time again either during an initial consultation or once starting their
program I have come to recognize when a client or potential client is not ready
to get what they say they want. They say what they want, but they don’t want to
do what it takes to get there…yet.
Sometimes they get a look on their face or they huff, puff and yawn as if they
know better than what I’m telling them which in itself is kind of
perplexing…they are talking to me because I’m supposed to know how to get them
what they want, but then behave as if they know better or they're too busy to
be bothered. They want to stay the same on the inside and yet get different
results on the outside.
I
guess I can’t blame them, there may be more marketing scams than real value in
fitness programs out there. I think I was fortunate to have a good trainer from
the get-go.
The
quick truth is that whether in the long or short run, people who don’t improve
their nutritional status are often disappointed with their lack of progress
while the ones who do make the changes are the ones we see in “before and
after” photos.
The
long list of testimonials from my clients who get not only fitness related
improvements but their entire life outside the gym improves are more often the
folks who have integrated at least some of the nutritional tips I offer.
One
of the points I make during my fat-loss seminars is to make a “lifestyle” of
it...that means change your life! The
folks who make sure they are fueled for their workouts and begin to refuel
immediately following their workouts notice their whole life improving…even
their income level…yes, even their income level!
In
essence, a person’s brain short on the B.N.B.B.s lacks creativity, ingenuity
and over looks opportunity when it is right before them. While the brain
fully-fueled with sufficient B.N.B.B.s functions at a higher level and
manifests an improved lifestyle as one result.
While
the people who behave as if they do not want their workouts to “interfere” with
the rest of their life, let alone their dependence on S.A.D.C.R.A.P. complain
they aren’t making any progress and how much of a cost training is and how they
don’t have the money to get training or invest in their own nutrition. They
continue to experience naggy health problems and miss the value of what they
could have had. They have it wackbards and don’t know it…yet.
One
has to have faith enough to put it to work...give it a real go…once you do,
people will begin asking you how you did it and you’ll be sharing stories with
everyone about how much your life has improved…and not just your body fat level.
Those
of you who know me or who have spent any time around me know I’m not the type
to brag but when clients get exceptional results and they share them I like to
pass them along…kinda’ like “tooting my
own horn without blowing it.”
I
think of it as if I work for a living but live to see your successes.
I will say that I didn’t invent the stuff I
teach people. I simply have had a foundation of personal experience (24 years of
not doing it correctly), combined with my professional trainings and
experiences along with consistent application and experimentation, so that I
know what works and what is not likely to work long before it is tried, but I
always rely on the science (body composition & blood chemistry tests), to
confirm or deny my intuition.
The
information I provide is critical to you getting the goals you seek. I spent a
lot of money and time myself learning what works and what doesn’t so you don’t
have to. Unlike a lot of other trainers, there is no “filler,” or “fluff,”
information, simply what works the most efficiently without getting off track
for any period of time. The only limitation is how quickly and accurately one
applies what I demonstrate. If I give you the information you seek and you
wait a couple weeks to apply it, you
have effectively prolonged your success by a couple weeks…it's that simple.
As
you’ll see in the upcoming examples I have trained folks who felt the crunch of
paying for personal training for months or a year at a time, showed up for
their training sessions consistently, but didn’t apply the nutrition parts and
therefore didn’t see much change in body composition the whole time.
A brain short on the B.N.B.B.s does not seem to learn or take in new information even when it is
vital to the health of the brain.
The people who behave the most resistant to apply
the nutrition information are often the ones whose body and
mind needs it the information the mostIn
my experience, the more mal-nourished
a person, the longer it takes for the nutrition information to “sink-in”:
So
in essence, someone may need to lose fat or gain lean mass (as a result of
chronic, low-level mal-nourishment), and at the same time be too mal-nourished
to understand the importance of the very information that would help them get
what they most want and need.
If you do the nutrition part correctly from the
beginning, you’ll likely burn off the body fat you want to rid yourself of at a
rate of about 12-20 lbs / month. And then you just move into maintenance mode.
And that leaves one wondering, “Why have I been spending
months working out but not doing the nutrition thing yet,” does it not?
But if you don’t do the nutrition part, you’ll
likely spend months upon months in the gym, lucky to see a 2 lb monthly
decrease in overall body fat, followed by an increase the following month. Fat
loss simply is not sustainable or maintainable without the nutrition
connection.
If you are hit and miss with your nutrition you’ll
likely see swings in your body composition of
about 1 ½ lbs each week. Up one
week and down the next. The
following are some examples of folks I have worked with over the last year or
so (names changed thank you). [A special note, everyone received the same
information packets and guidance based on their particular goals.] The gray,
highlighted areas in each example are the important parts (summaries) for each
example. Take note of the following points for each example:
#1) Jim had hit a plateau in his progress. Wanted
to get leaner and gain some muscle. He did everything I said just as I
described it to him. He left nothing out. From 12th of May to 15th
of July gained 4.47 lbs lean mass and lost 9.57 lbs of fat.
#2)
Sofie wanted to burn fat as she was way into the danger zone (36% body fat).
Made no dietary changes, took no nutrition suggestions, continued to “party” on
the weekends. In 96 days, her body fat dropped 1.25% (equal to 2 ½ lbs fat).
#3)
Jake wanted to burn fat to gain definition of his muscles. He did not eat
enough food. His metabolism was at a standstill even though he was doing resistance
training three days a week and fat-burning cardio three days a week. In 120 days he lost
1.51 lbs of fat.
#4)
Bill wanted to burn fat and had a tendency to eat most of his daily calories at
dinner, which makes the body gain fat. In 120 days he made no dietary changes,
lost nearly 8 lbs, but also, he lost 1/3 of a pound of lean mass. Basically his
body is starving for nutrition and will likely bounce back with 15 lbs of fat
over the following 12 months.
#5)
Ben is a big guy. The downside is he can add fat quickly but with all that lean
mass he could really burn the fat off fast. But he didn’t want to give up the
alcohol of restaurant food, so in 190 days he gained 10 lbs fat and a mere 4
lbs of lean mass. Too many of the wrong kind of calories.
#6) Bobby started training in May and
procrastinated applying the nutrition stuff I was showing him. In the first 35
days he lost 5 lbs of lean mass and gained 1 lb of fat. Upon realizing what he
was doing to his body, he got going with the nutrition and made a great
turn-around. 68 days later he had gained 9 ½ lbs of lean mass and lost 1 ½ lbs
of fat. Yeah, Bobby!
#7) Josh was a runner who wanted to improve his
athletic performance. He routinely didn’t eat enough calories nor eat
frequently enough. By increasing the number of times a day he ate and adding a complete recovery drink
following his training he gained nearly 14 lbs of lean mass and 4 lbs of body
fat, (while only increasing his body fat percentage by .04%) which in his case
was needed to assist in his recovery from runs in the 4 ½ - 7 miles and most of
which he gained in the latter 75 days of his training.
#8) Ellie wanted to burn fat but didn’t want to
know what her fat was to start out. In the 150 days I worked with her, she was
afraid to eat too much food so there was little change in her body fat level. She decreased her body fat by -1.7% (3.4 pounds). She did gain about 5 ½ lbs of lean mass. This is a case where the increase in lean mass was good, but she
was at about 40% body fat which is about 10% into the danger zone, 20% more
than what I would recommend. Essentially she was eating too many of the wrong
kind of calories in the evening and waiting too long to eat too little in the
evening.
#9)
Heather had her own ideas about what it would take to burn fat. She worked out
based on what she “liked” to do rather than following program design
suggestions based on her goal of burning fat and getting healthier. She started
out with 32% body fat and 270 days later had lost 1 lb of lean mass and gained
nearly 4 lbs of fat.
#10)
Jimmy was every lean and muscular appearing like a professional body builder
and put everything into his workouts. The idea of nutrition was foreign to him.
He basically went in the gym and did what ever hit him and did a lot of it. In 300 days he gained 18 lbs of fat
and lost
15 lbs of lean mass…not good. Eating too infrequently, his body was
catabolizing itself from the intensity of his workouts. His mind was on trying
to starve the fat, instead of feeding the muscle.
#11) JC was another client who did awesome with the workouts. Showed up 2-3 times a
week, and really put it all into the training. But regardless of my tactics to
get the nutrition plan together for her, she would not supplement correctly,
craved fatty foods like cheese and ate a lot of them every evening. In 300 days, she gained
6 lbs of muscle and lost 3 lbs of fat.
#12)
In 225 days Kasey lost 2 lbs of muscle and lost 2 lbs of fat. Entirely
under-eating.
#13) Maggie didn’t want her fitness lifestyle to
“interfere” with her life. She thought she knew what nutrition was and followed
a nutrition routine based on what she “thought” rather than suggestions made to
her. She wanted to be able to eat whatever she wanted and didn’t want anything
to interfere with her afternoon chocolate binges to make up for slumps in
energy level. She didn’t get the fact that the reason for her energy slumps was
imbalance in her nutritional status. Very consistent with her training and
showed significant strength gains she behaved as if any inconsistent changes
she did make in her nutrition were to “satisfy the nice young trainer guy…oh,
he means well.” She gained 2.55 lbs of lean mass and lost 1 ½ lbs of fat in 250
days.
If you're the type of person who wants to be shown what to do and how to do it for the least amount of time, energy & money I can help. You can contact me at the information at the top of this post.
-Sov
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