What is the process. How do I get start? As soon as you order the program, you get an email or call welcoming you to the program. You will down load the plan after you order. We will have you fill out the fitness survey and send to us. We will evaluate and come up with a plan that will work for you. Process usually take place in 1-2 business days, depending on how fast you get the survey back to us. Are low calorie diets safe and effective?
	Is physical activity worth the effort?
	Will I get too big if I work out or weight lift?
	How intense should my exercise be?
	What's a good duration for each exercise session?
	What is the process. How do I get start? As soon as you order the program, you get an email or call welcoming you to the program. We will have you fill out the fitness survey and send to us. We will evaluate and come up with a plan that will work for you. Process usually take place in 1-2 business days, depending on how fast you get the survey back to us.

If you are on a low calorie diet your body will eventually compensate to this by slowly saving energy, and it takes a lot of energy to burn fat and lose weight. In plain english, your body will work at a slower pace. The outcome is usually fatigue and a weakened immune system which eventually leads to sickness.

Even worse, once your body fully compensates to this low calorie diet, you will further have to decrease your food intake to keep losing weight. And worst of all, most of the weight you will lose is muscle and water.

If you are like most people you will eventually go back to your regular lifestyle of eating and gain all your weight back and probably even more. However, most of the weight you will gain back will be all fat! You end up with less muscle and more body fat than when you first started the diet making your body look far more overweight because of the lack of muscle your body now has.

One pound of fat is larger in volume than one pound of muscle. Meaning losing muscle will of course change scale weight, but overall size will not diminish much when compared to losing fat and only fat. The key to shrinking in size is to lose only body fat!

The human body generally responds well to physical exercise and substantial improvements may be anticipated in heart and lung function, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility and one's ability to respond to stimuli.

Some of the more noticeable changes of a professionally designed exercise program may include:

• Increased bone strength
• Increased physical work capacity (one's ability to perform physical work)
• Increased joint range of motion or flexibility
• Improved sense of well being
• Increased muscular strength
• Improved glucose regulation (very favorable for diabetics)
• Decreased blood pressure
• Improved sleep patterns and levels of anxiety

Indeed, exercise can have a profound effect upon older persons, with the most "unfit" usually experiencing the greatest benefits.

Most women feel that they would get big by lifting weights. At least half were skeptical about lifting weights, thinking they would indeed get big. First off , 99 out of 100 women do not have the natural hormones to grow big muscles. Big women you see in the body building magazines are either naturally gifted genetically to grow muscle, or they’re taking some type of synthetic hormone (steroids).

The intensity of exercise refers to the amount of effort put into an exercise. Intensity is usually measured by assessing the heart rate during exercise. As a general rule, the intensity of exercise should not exceed certain limits. If monitoring heart rate use the simple equation: 200 minus your age (in years) to estimate the working heart rate you should remain under.

 

Of course, listening to your own body can be just as important and reliable in determining whether or not you are exercising at a sufficient intensity. Accordingly, a feeling of mild fatigue should be your aim immediately following a bout of exercise.

The duration of exercise refers to the actual time spent performing an activity. It is generally accepted that to improve cardiorespiratory or "heart" fitness you should aim to achieve 30 minutes of exercise on most (if not all) days of the week.

However, recent studies have shown that favorable "health" benefits can be achieved from as little as 5 minutes of continuous exercise, repeated several times per day.

Again, since every person is different, our team of professionals will determine which exercise program will work best for your particular needs and goals.

The frequency of exercise refers to the number of occasions per week that activity should be undertaken.

 

The accepted frequency, in order to achieve cardiorespiratory or "heart" fitness, is 3 to 5 sessions per week. However, positive benefits have been shown to occur from as little as 2 sessions per week.

 

The most important element of exercise prescription is the notion that activity should become a "life-long" habit and not merely a passing "fad."