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Eat less, exercise more. This is the advice you hear all the time from pretty much everyone. Weight loss is easy! You just eat fewer calories than you burn! And you burn more calories the more you exercise. Wham bam, all your problems are solved!   Excellent! But what does this actually look like in real life? We live in an age when one 12oz drink has over your daily needs for sugar. And our bodies love sugar!   Here are five things… Most of us can actually afford to eat less. The issue is we don’t really know how much less.  Calories are not just calories. The foods we eat cause hormonal responses in our bodies that influence how our bodies work. Quality foods provide side benefits that processed foods do not.The type of exercise you do matters and will affect your results.Your body is a versatile machine. Most things will work, but...
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In Simon Sinek’s “The Infinite Game” he focuses on businesses and how they “Win”. As I was reading this book, I noticed the similarities between this mindset and the mindset that is most successful for health and fitness as well. We know there is no winning the game. Death always wins (Currently). The goal is to play it as long as we can. To stay ahead as long as we can. A lifetime of doing well in the things we care about is winning. You need to adapt to a longevity mindset. Health is not a six-week challenge, and it is not a 21 day cleanse. It is not a 12-week bootcamp. However, this is what is being sold to you daily. We have done these challenges. Why? Because it works to get people in the door. We believe that if we can get people to work with us for...
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Your metabolism is the rate at which your body burns energy. Your body uses calories for energy, like your car uses gas for fuel. You need calories to power your body’s systems, such as digestion and circulation. But you also need calories to move. When you eat too many calories, you store them as fat. This is where things get complicated: Calories from sugar are more likely to be stored as fat because sugar tricks your body into thinking, “here come a lot of calories.” And it’s usually right: It’s easy to pack a LOT of calories into sugary foods. You want a FAST metabolism, meaning your body burns a LOT of calories. If you’re trying to lose weight, you need to burn more calories than you eat. Obviously, you should eat less. But there are three ways you burn calories: Basal metabolic processes: the number of calories your body...
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You started out strong. You got stronger.  Your motivation was high, you were getting better, you were consistent. You started feeling better, your friends and family noticed.    Something changed. You got bored. Or maybe your gym got shut down.   You got bored with the programming. You got bored with the diet. You got bored with doing the workouts in your living room.   So what can we do now to keep our health and fitness up?   Engage Others Ask your coach if you can bring a friend. You can share your new knowledge and fitness with someone else. Help them get started down a path to a better life. If you are at home, share your workout with someone, and see if they will do it too. Maybe at the same time, or perhaps they just report back with how it went.   We need more than just exercise to stay...
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Progression Fitness–CFPfit.com After twelve years in business, we know how to achieve your long-term body composition and health goals This isn’t a theory, 100s of success stories. We have success in working with every type of person. Some people will have success with any program. You may even see this person in 3-4 different gym ads around town. This type of person will get results no matter what the program. A question that should come to mind is, why does this person need to get results again and again? The reason is their results, and the way they got them are not sustainable. They did not make a lifestyle change; they did a challenge, suffered, took photos, and went back to their usual way of life. The way of life that leads to the need for a challenge. This process is also damaging to your body. Progression Theory We built...
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