Health & Fitness
The Fitness Process is the Most Important Factor in Improving One’s Health
Greg Greene, author and fitness trainer, uses his own experience in weight consciousness to illustrate the benefit of his muscle care fitness method even for those who only want to lose weight.
When it comes to discussing physical health strategies in weight loss advertisements, rarely is anything said about changing of a lifestyle, or about obtaining fitness before weight management and control. Even less is mentioned about the unique natural processes of the human body which make any of it (physical change) possible – how one’s genetics will transform a person into what is prescribed in their own DNA, if the owner takes proper care of their ‘equipment’.
Just look at the infomercials, ads in newspapers and magazines, internet, radio and television ads. Without exception, they strike at the core of what many Americans think is the ultimate dream and aspiration – to lose weight. Period. They don’t care how, just shed the weight. A pill, liposuction, gastro-whatever operations, it doesn’t matter, because the end justifies the means to them.
Is it any wonder then that the bulk of our population, having focused on the wrong target, is confused, frustrated, dismayed and thus becoming more obese than ever? They are sold on an end result instead of a lifestyle process.
Well, I’m here to tell you that from personal experience the processes of body and muscle care is what we should all be paying attention to. Now that I have my own historical information to draw from I can use it to help substantiate my claim that the fitness process is the most important factor even for those obsessed in focusing on poundage in improving one’s health.
On April 5, 2011 I weighed in at 170 lbs. As of July 3, 2012’s weigh-in I am at 150 lbs! That’s a twenty pound difference in about fourteen months, for those of you who are obsessed with weight as your primary focus.
This is a significant achievement, not because I was targeting specific or general weight loss, but because losing weight is the very last thing that I wanted to have happen!
I had set out to “bulk up” in muscle weight, since muscle weighs more than fat in equal volume, since I have always thought that I should, as a male, be heavier than 170 lbs at 5’-9” tall. I had nothing to base that assertion on. I just thought it, that’s all.
Well, my muscle care plan obviously backfired, as far as weight gain. I did gain plenty in muscle mass, but certainly not enough in weight gain to offset the apparent fat loss weight. Go figure.
The lesson learned here is that the uniting of more solid muscle fibers, by utilizing resistance training, which is what I do, causes fat pounds to disappear by the muscles burning it for energy.
Many think that only aerobic activity results in burning fat, but anaerobic workouts do that too, on a different level, and it has a long lasting affect even after the workouts.
Moreover, the aspect of making our muscles work harder, taxing the muscular and cardio-vascular, systems and making all bodily systems process much more efficiently is the ultimate in by-products. Commit to FIT! It works.
