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Some of our Philosophy at Gym Rebel
REALITY CHECKS
Reality Check #1
There are no magic diets, magic pills and no ‘quick’ fixes…none and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Reality Check #2
An Aerobic class will not make you look better! Moving about stepping, clapping, whooping or punching fresh air does nothing to change your body shape. Just look at the people who have been doing it for a few years. Fitter? Yes, healthier? Yes, body shape changed much? Nah!
Reality Check #3
Jogging will not make you look better! Most people go jogging to lose weight, what will happen is that you will probably get some impact injury at some point unless you weigh next to nothing, you burn calories only when you are jogging and you change nothing about your body shape at all, if you want to run there is a better way of doing it. If you are a man would you rather look like Usain Bolt or Mo Farah? Well why are you jogging for miles then?
Reality Check #4
Diet Classes don’t work! How many times have you visited a diet class? Like most, more than a few. Show me one person that it has truly worked for and I will show you a thousand that it hasn’t worked for. It is extremely difficult in changing your body shape with just diet alone, it’s very hard. How many people do you know who have lost weight at these classes and still have folds of fat?
Reality Check #5
Walking to lose weight and shape up is another wrong move. There is a parade of women in particular now who walk with water in hand and walk and chat for a few miles. It’s better than doing nothing however all it does is make you that bit healthier which means fewer sick days, your heart rate is not elevated near enough to make any effect on fat burning and will not eliminate bingo wings or jiggly thighs.
Reality Check #6
People don’t exercise to get fit! Well the vast majority of people don’t. I have trained and met with literally thousands of people who have joined a gym and the main reason is because they don’t like how they look. Even the people who say they want to get fitter actually admit that they are fed up by how they look and if they get fitter they will look better. In actual fact if you drop fat, get stronger and tone up and look better you actually get fitter along the way.
Reality Check #7
Functional Training is pure marketing! They say that we should train for everyday activities like picking up washing or lifting kids, my mother did it successfully for years and didn’t have to train for it. Kettlebells were around 70 years ago, I have seen trainers have their clients swing them about all over the place, it’s called momentum not exercising the muscle! We have ropes and tyres and balls that you slam…I’m afraid it’s all gimmicks that divert you from what works best, true resistance exercise.
Reality Check #8
Resistance exercise, high intensity resistance exercise burns more calories than any other activity, fact! And not only does it burn calories long after you are resting, it burns fat and tones your muscle faster than anything else, this is what shapes your body, not flipping tyres or jogging for miles. The long term benefits are that it drastically reduces the chances of arthritis and osteoporosis, strengthens your joints and strengthens your heart and lungs.
Reality Check #9
If you want a lean shapely body you need to employ resistance exercise, ladies shy away from it because they don’t want muscles, what do you think gives your body shape? Unless you lift heavy weights and eat lots of food you won’t grow big muscles, just look at all the guys in the local gym who have been trying for years and failed.
Reality Check #10
If you don’t work hard you will get minimal results. I have to laugh at trainers who don’t believe in the ‘no pain no gain’ philosophy, take a look at them, they will probably be naturally slim and never had to truly work at it. Getting anything worthwhile in life means you need to roll up your sleeves and get ‘stuck in’, the same goes for exercise, if you think you can make a difference to your body shape by gentle exercise then you are fooling yourself and wasting your time and anyone who says otherwise is a liar or really doesn’t know.
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