▶︎ Health & Fitness
Will you
ever bewith
completely happy
A
your body?
are willing to train a minimum of six days a week, eat 100% healthy for
seven days a week, and drink no alcohol.
Unless you want to compete on stage for Miss Bikini or Mr Body
Beautiful, why not give yourself a more realistic goal? I know a few
professional body builders and bikini models, and trust me when I say
that their bodies do not look like that all twelve months of the year.
There are many dos and don’ts that body builders go through before
a professional photo shoot or competition, one being dehydration, to
enable the skin to tighten around the muscle for better results. They
do this to achieve a short term goal, but
most of us are looking for something
more long term, and definitely more
realistic.
fter twelve years in the fitness industry, I have seen
it all! People starve themselves during the week, only
to overindulge over the weekend. Media, friends and
colleagues all give advice, while the marketing and
advertising campaigns try to convince us to use their
supplements, as recommended by the “experts”. Then there is the yoyo dieting effect, where you jump from one diet to the next one, losing
weight only to gain it again. But, at the end of the day, all that this leaves
you with is enough half-used protein shakes and meal replacements to
supply the whole neighbourhood.
Then there is the matter of exercise.
At the beginning of the year you were
all fired up, thinking that this year