Improve Your Fitness in Four Weeks

[Lifeisamazing]

A lot of you probably know that I want to become a personal fitness trainer, this is seriously something I think about 24/7. I'd like to help people with their fitness goals and learn through that.

If anyone is interested, I can help you with your fitness goals for a month or even longer if it goes as we/I wish. I'd help you with your nutrition, we would try to figure out how to help you get more active physically and just improve your health/life. Bear in mind that I'm no expert and I'm actually still pretty inexperienced so if you accept my help, understand that I might not always do what is the most effective, so let's learn together.

[Lifeisamazing]

Bump.

No one trusts me or no one thinks they need an improvement with regard to fitness?

[ssandra]

Originally Posted by Lifeisamazing

Bump.

No one trusts me or no one thinks they need an improvement with regard to fitness?

It's Sunday. Not many people on the forums on Sunday


But... I would like to make use of your expertise!

I have only 2 things that could get in the way, but if you say you can work around it, I'm game!

1. Holiday with my husband coming up (17 till 20 October). Although I'll be doing some swimming, I'm not going to be either online or wanting to watch what I eat.

2. CGW coming up. Not going to be online, not going to be able to do exercise, except walking. I can moderately watch what I eat, except that I have to watch money and will have to choose cheap food. That is from 28 of October till 4th of November.

I have a gym membership where I can do weights or cardio or swimming.

I cook most days, so adjusting menu, if needed, shouldn't be a problem.
I do eat meat and chicken but not fish or any sea food.

If you accept me as your client I will take full responsibility to follow your instruction and give you feed back on those instructions. I will not give you excuses.

[Lifeisamazing]

Originally Posted by ssandra

It's Sunday. Not many people on the forums on Sunday


But... I would like to make use of your expertise!

I have only 2 things that could get in the way, but if you say you can work around it, I'm game!

1. Holiday with my husband coming up (17 till 20 October). Although I'll be doing some swimming, I'm not going to be either online or wanting to watch what I eat.

2. CGW coming up. Not going to be online, not going to be able to do exercise, except walking. I can moderately watch what I eat, except that I have to watch money and will have to choose cheap food. That is from 28 of October till 4th of November.

I have a gym membership where I can do weights or cardio or swimming.

I cook most days, so adjusting menu, if needed, shouldn't be a problem.
I do eat meat and chicken but not fish or any sea food.

If you accept me as your client I will take full responsibility to follow your instruction and give you feed back on those instructions. I will not give you excuses.

Awesome! Perhaps you can PM me your email and we can start with certain things tomorrow?

[ssandra]

Originally Posted by Lifeisamazing

Awesome! Perhaps you can PM me your email and we can start with certain things tomorrow?

If you want to we can make it a public thread here on the forum?

I promise I'll listen only to your advice and not to those who will butt in

But that way you might get some more advice that might help you as well, as well as giving me public accountability?

But I'll sent you my email anyway.

[Lifeisamazing]

Perhaps we can mainly contact through email but regularly update the thread on this forum?

[goldberg]

Is this free advice?

[Lifeisamazing]

Originally Posted by goldberg

Is this free advice?

Yes, it is.

[Gabo]

Well I wouldn't consider myself in dire need of a personal fitness trainer, but if you want someone to practice on, I could certainly use some extra help and accountability!

[Angela]

I would like your advice! I intend to eliminate fat and increase muscle, and to feel more powerful and fit and yummy overall. My challenge is that I've got a bilateral hernia, and I want to heal it naturally as I trim up.

[butterflyeffect]

I have a question, I am trying to improve my core fitness. I know I have a weak core (Physio keeps telling me) and I don't know what to do about it.

I want to improve my core strength, do you know any exersizes I could do at night and how many to improve it gradually?

Like do i do pilates or just sit ups?

[votoshka]

Originally Posted by Lifeisamazing

A lot of you probably know that I want to become a personal fitness trainer, this is seriously something I think about 24/7. I'd like to help people with their fitness goals and learn through that.

If anyone is interested, I can help you with your fitness goals for a month or even longer if it goes as we/I wish. I'd help you with your nutrition, we would try to figure out how to help you get more active physically and just improve your health/life. Bear in mind that I'm no expert and I'm actually still pretty inexperienced so if you accept my help, understand that I might not always do what is the most effective, so let's learn together.

Hi, I missed this for some reason!

I'm interested too, although we may disagree a bit on nutrition () because I don't eat meat at all.

I also don't have a gym membership right now. Would that be a hindrance??

I need some extra motivation with my fitness which I let slide over winter (summer is on its way in this part of the world), and I'm looking to lose fat, and gain some extra muscle tone as well as improve my overall health.

[Lifeisamazing]

Originally Posted by butterflyeffect

I have a question, I am trying to improve my core fitness. I know I have a weak core (Physio keeps telling me) and I don't know what to do about it.

I want to improve my core strength, do you know any exersizes I could do at night and how many to improve it gradually?

Like do i do pilates or just sit ups?

Full body exercises are great for the core such as deadlifts, squats, lunges.

But I guess you are specifically looking for core exercises such as planks, stability ball crunches, lying leg thrusts, weighted cable crunches, ab scissors, bicycles, ab wheel, hanging leg raises...

[butterflyeffect]

Thanks My Life is Amazing!

I can do squats and lunges, and I know about plank but what is a dead lift? And do push ups help?

My plan is to do 15 minutes of core work each night, so plank, lunges, squats and push ups and then do that for a month and re-evaluate from there.

[Lifeisamazing]

Originally Posted by butterflyeffect

Thanks My Life is Amazing!

I can do squats and lunges, and I know about plank but what is a dead lift? And do push ups help?

My plan is to do 15 minutes of core work each night, so plank, lunges, squats and push ups and then do that for a month and re-evaluate from there.

I believe that all exercises help to an extent. It's a matter of which is more effective.

Make sure that you get your complete fitness under control - no need to concentrate only on your core, train your whole body.

Deadlift is probably the best exercise out there:

[Honeywith4bees]

Originally Posted by Lifeisamazing

Deadlift is probably the best exercise out there:

Why do you think this? (I only do single leg dead lifts right now, thinking about adding this, but I have such limited gym time that racking up a bar seems like too much work . . . )

[Lifeisamazing]

Are you asking why deadlift is one of the best exercises? The reason is that it involves basically all muscles into movement. You need to do a lot of work to lower the weight and to lift the weight, a lot more than for bicep curls.

[Hemlock]

Thanks for creating this lifeisamazing. 2 questions, first, My dad's ex military so joints and back are deadish, and he's hernia prone and thus built up scar tissue that makes it hurt a lot pretty much all the time now, so jogging is just impossible now. So, any advice on how he can still do something to stay fit?

2) Is it safe to run on the side walk? I do try for the pose method of running, which just feels more fun and is supposed to help with impacts.

If you're still offering coaching I'd be interested. I can't give much more than an hour a day, and might have to wait 1-2 days until the sick thing goes away. but I'd love the assistance.

I'm equipmentless and the gym can't be where my money goes right now, so I'm not sure how efficiently I can gain higher endurance, non bulky strength and flexibility,but I enjoy improving how well my body works. I don't like leaving parts behind, good to have a good grip and punching power and nice to be able to play flexibly with the jazz dancing folks.

I know a bunch of information on setting up a thorough work out, but I always wished I had a bit of help on intricacies like when to switch up the exercises and switch back in the old and how to keep a system like that that doesn't have you constantly researching new exercises. Not to mention just insurance I'm not messing it up and hurting my body.

Any help would be great, all the best!

[dulaney0330]

1. What is your favorite cardio workout for overall fitness?
2.What is the best thing to eat before and after a workout?

I haven't settled on anything and I hear carbs and fruits after and protein before.

What do you do?

[Lifeisamazing]

1) This is something I'm really bad at - injuries, Hemlock. I can only use my problem solving ability and creativity to answer this. First, instead of running he can walk, can't he? Just tell him to walk often. Could he swim slowly? There are lots of resistance exercises that don't involve back much (mostly machines probably). Could he do pec deck, leg curls/extensions, shoulder press, bench press with a very light weight?
2) I doubt it is very good for your joints and heels. What exactly is pose method of running?

Sure, I'd like to learn by giving you as much support as I possibly can.

[Lifeisamazing]

Originally Posted by dulaney0330

1. What is your favorite cardio workout for overall fitness?
2.What is the best thing to eat before and after a workout?

I haven't settled on anything and I hear carbs and fruits after and protein before.

What do you do?

1. My favorite cardio is either swimming or HIIT/sprints.
2. This is such a popular topic and there's no true correct answer yet. It's likely that fats before and after workout are not good, can disturb your workout when you take them before and your digestion becomes slower when you take them after. So quick digesting carbs and protein before and quick digesting carbs and protein after.

What do you mean by what do you do?

[dulaney0330]

Originally Posted by Lifeisamazing

1. My favorite cardio is either swimming or HIIT/sprints.
2. This is such a popular topic and there's no true correct answer yet. It's likely that fats before and after workout are not good, can disturb your workout when you take them before and your digestion becomes slower when you take them after. So quick digesting carbs and protein before and quick digesting carbs and protein after.

What do you mean by what do you do?

What is your nutritional regiment before and after exercise?

[Lifeisamazing]

Originally Posted by dulaney0330

What is your nutritional regiment before and after exercise?

I eat ricotta with raisins about half an hour before the workout and a banana mikshake (with cottage cheese) right after workout. Then I'll go home and eat a real meal.

[Hemlock]

It's a newer method of running that hasn't been checked if it actually works, but because of things like just letting your leg drop naturally and running without tossing your feet in front of you and such it's supposed to help.

You can check out some info on it here if you're interested.

Pose running technique: a beginner’s guide | Sports Injury Bulletin

Thanks for the advice! Any clue on good total body non bulky strength building exercises that don't involve equipment?

[Honeywith4bees]

Originally Posted by Lifeisamazing

Are you asking why deadlift is one of the best exercises? The reason is that it involves basically all muscles into movement. You need to do a lot of work to lower the weight and to lift the weight, a lot more than for bicep curls.

I tried the deadlift two days ago using a 40lb kettlebell instead of a bar with weights, due to time restraints, (I work out on my lunch break), and didn't feel like I got much out of it. Maybe I just needed more weight though . . .

[Lifeisamazing]

Originally Posted by Hemlock

It's a newer method of running that hasn't been checked if it actually works, but because of things like just letting your leg drop naturally and running without tossing your feet in front of you and such it's supposed to help.

You can check out some info on it here if you're interested.

Pose running technique: a beginner’s guide | Sports Injury Bulletin

Thanks for the advice! Any clue on good total body non bulky strength building exercises that don't involve equipment?

Sure! Bodyweight exercises with little rest between sets.

I can send you a nice list of exercises later when I'm home. I have them on my laptop. I could list some but I'll better give you the whole bunch so you can choose yourself based on your strength (some are harder than others).

[Lifeisamazing]

Originally Posted by Honeywith4bees

I tried the deadlift two days ago using a 40lb kettlebell instead of a bar with weights, due to time restraints, (I work out on my lunch break), and didn't feel like I got much out of it. Maybe I just needed more weight though . . .

Probably. Don't see many people who say that they don't feel anything when they are doing deadlifts.