Through strength training, your body ends up getting smaller, and even if you gain a couple of pounds, you’ll find that you still lose a pants size. The only way to get past this is to stop looking at the scale. You’ve often heard the phrase muscle weighs more than fat-and it’s true! That's why many clients find that they actually gain weight when the start a strength-training routine. These are some of the tips outlined in Women's Health's 12-Week Total-Body Transformationand that I tell all my clients who want to see big results: 1. And the more you can beef up your metabolism by addressing your muscles, the better your long term-results will be. Your muscle is your metabolism, end of story. What’s more effective when it comes to body transformation is strength training. But as I write in Women's Health's 12-Week Total-Body Transformation, while cardio is crucial to losing weight and staying healthy, it’s not cardio that will truly transform your body. When working with my day-to-day clients, I've noticed a trend: Many of them are intimidated to start a strength-training routine in the gym.

I’ve helped my fair share of famous faces and celebrities get in shape-as well as women who aren't stepping on a red carpet anytime soon. I enjoyed reading this book, it motivated me some, and had some ideas to incorporate into my own health and fitness regime, even if not everything.I’ve been a trainer for a really long time. Being fit should enhance your life and allow you to enjoy more. I really like the emphasis on playing and having fun. There were small gems throughout the book. It does seem strict, even if Sisson says it is easy to follow. I do think to follow this strictly as Sisson does would take a good bit of discipline. The next part of the book contains action items to help the reader incorporate the strategies into their lives, and then the last part has the 21 day challenge with journal pages to help you keep track of what you are dong and how it is working for you. I do however agree with the concept of including high-intensity workouts into your routine for optimal fitness. Other professionals advocate grains in a diet and I tend to follow that path. I found the concepts interesting, and believe some of this would work for many people, but I’m not convinced that I want to go totally “primal.” I’m not going to give up grains, even though this has been a successful strategy for some. These chapters cover genes, burning fat, carbohydrates, body composition, grains, saturated fat, exercise, and attaining maximum fitness. The first chapters outline the key concepts to Sisson’s primal fitness program.

However, if you read the first book and want more, that is when this book would be especially beneficial to help you continue. I did not read that book, but he gives the basics of his program here, so you can benefit from this book without the former. This is a follow up plan to Sisson’s “Primal Blueprint” book. Third, it is good to stay up with the different information out there to be better informed and more knowledgeable regarding health and fitness in general. Even if I don’t follow a person’s entire program, there are often things that do help me with my personalized program. Second, I always find at least one or two small things that might help me with my health and fitness goals. It is inspiring to read about others and their fitness quests and accomplishments. First, continual reading of such books helps keep me motivated to continue to work out and stay fit. I like reading different books on health and fitness for different reasons. Read several viewpoints and find what works best for you. Don’t just read one book on fitness and follow it. However, I’m glad I read it, and I recommend it, because I’m a firm believer in what Jim Rohn used to say. I don’t necessarily agree with everything in this book, even though it seems to be working for Sisson. After reading “The Primal Blueprint: 21 Day Total Body Transformation: A Complete, Step-By-Step, Gene Reprogramming Action Plan” by Mark Sisson I’m not ready to go primal.

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