Gainz, The Right Way

Have you ever set a fitness goal for yourself just for you to work your butt off trying to get there just to have the goal get farther and farther away? Maybe this might seem familiar: you want to loose a little weight so you start going to the gym. You’ll lift for hours at a time picking up every dumbbell in the gym and maybe you’ll even go on a diet only eating one small meal a day. You’ll repeat this process for a month or two just to step back on that scale to realize you haven’t lost a pound. Why?

This seems to be the issue with most motivated people wanting to loose weight, or gain it for some. It’s not that their minds were in the wrong place, it’s that they just didn’t know the right way to exercise their bodies. Everyones body is different and requires slightly different means to change it into something they want. What might work for one person might not work for another; however, the base for gaining weight or loosing it is the same.

Caloric intake, or the amount of calories (and what kind) you take in, is the base for how your body’s metabolism works. Your metabolism is the processes of all the chemical reactions in your body and the fuel for these processes is the food you consume. As was stated before, everyone is different and everyones metabolism is also different. The speed for which someone might process food throughout their body can greatly differ from someone else. This is why you might see someone eat and entire buffet and gain no weight and someone else can just smell fast food and throw on pounds. Knowing how your body processes food and how fast it does so is the key to loosing weight or gaining it.

After learning how your body processes food and how fast it can do so, you can begin to design a fitness program and diet to follow that will best fit your person. If your goal is to loose weight then pumping the iron isn’t going to be your friend. It would actually do the opposite as weightlifting is designed to add muscle mass to ones body not only making them heavier but also not burning many calories in the process. To loose weight you need to be burning more calories than you are consuming and vise versa to someone wanting to gain weight. The best way to burn calories is cardio. Cardio puts the body into a full state of stress causing you to burn more calories due to the constant muscle contractions and sweating.

The fitness plan is only 20% of the battle. The other 80% is the diet. Your body can’t function properly if it doesn’t have the fuel to do so. For those who’s metabolism is slower will have to consume much less than someone who’s metabolism is faster. The saying “you are what you eat” is mostly true. If you consume food that is high in fats then your body will have a surplus fat amount and it will have to store it somewhere; however if you consume healthier foods that are high in proteins and vitamins then you can function more properly and reach your goals much quicker and easier. If you can properly mix the right diet and right exercise for your body type and metabolism then you can reach your fitness goals in no time.