Proactively Fit

I have heard the term “no pain, no gain” thrown around a lot during my fitness career, and it still makes me cringe.

It is always dependant on what kind of pain obviously, if it’s a little muscle soreness or a little burn while working out, that’s ok.

More often then not though, it’s used as a way to annihilate yourself during a workout to the point where it take a week to recover, or work through an injury causing more damage which is never the right type of pain to strive for.

Actual pain is the bodies warning system that the body is in danger of damage or harm and it needs to be listened to.

This is the time when you scale back, listen to your pain signals and allow the tissue to recover, working within its pain tolerance. This does not mean stopping completely, it just means scaling back on the exercises that cause to much pain and working within the tissue capacity.

Secondly, causing so much muscle damage where your recovering for a week is usually not a great way to train, unless your just starting a new program or you haven’t trained in a while.

A good program allows for slow progression where you are able to train those muscle groups again in the same week.

Train smart, listen to your body and don’t go outside of your bodies capabilities, we want to make the body stronger over time, not weaker with a whole lot of injuries.

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Why should you care about losing weight?

Weight loss has so many health benefits especially if you are overweigh or obese.

These benefits include decreased risk of cardiovascular disease, increased longevity, decreased risk of cancer, decreased risk of type 2 diabetes, improved quality of life and feeling more confident.

It’s important to note that simply losing body fat and weight loss overall has a profound impact on all of these outcomes regardless of the type of diet you use.

High carb, ketogenic, intermittent fasting , calorie counting etc. have all shown to have similar health benefits if weight loss was achieved.

What is important when choosing the course of action in your fat loss journey, is that if you can’t see yourself sticking your diet a year from now, or long term,
then you may want to rethink your diet of choice.

If you don’t like the way that you have to eat on your diet, you will not stick to it long term, and it will be a matter of time before you re gain the weight that you have lost back.

Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday.

P.s I never wear jeans. Gym clothes life.

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