How a gym can actually be COUNTER PRODUCTIVE to your weight loss efforts.

1. Their weight machines promote un-natural movements.

A natural movement or functional movements by definition are movements based on real-world situational biomechanics that usually involve multi-planar, multi-joint movements, which place demand on the body’s core muscles.

Example: Seated leg curls on a machine are not functional. It’s a movement we don’t use in real-world situations that make it un-natural. In fact, it’s down right asking to damage your anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)!

A great functional replacement exercise would be a squat. Functional in every day activity as picking things up off the ground, multi-joint in nature that alleviates stress on the ACL vs. seated leg curls.

Ever see a baby squat? Perfect form from the first time they do it. That’s functional as our bodies were intended to move that way.Unfortunately, most of those machines in the traditional gyms provide similar negative consequences as my example above.

2. Low intensity.

There are many reasons why we never hit the intensity we need. Here’s a small list I created.

- Embarrassing your self in front of others
- Lack of equipment to keep track of managing your rest periods
- Busy talking to others
- Watching TV in the gym
- Waiting in line for a machine or weights to free up

If you are doing any of these, you are wasting your time!

3. Lack of guidance.

Gyms try to be hands off. They provide little to no instructions on using their equipment.

There’s nothing worse than going into something and training incorrectly. In the end, you only get incorrect movements. Incorrect movements are unsafe and can cause injury.

4. Workouts vs Programs.

Most people like to go to gyms and just do workouts according to how they feel at that moment when they walk into the gym and even worse, they repeat the same workout every day.

The problem with repeating workouts is that the body will adapt to whatever you do and it will get easier each time. For your body to benefit from it again you have to do the workout harder and longer to continue getting results otherwise your results will taper off and decline considerably. You will hit the dreaded ‘workout plateau’.

Here’s an example. Try running a mile every day. By your 5th day, a mile won’t even get your heart rate up. You’d have to run 2 miles by that point to get the same benefit as day 1.

A stagnant workout routine will push you to the point of diminishing returns very quickly.Now a program is a series of workouts prescribed over a period of time to obtain a certain goal as efficiently as possible.

Now, don’t get me wrong, traditional gyms can be ok, but there are no good unless you know what you need to know once you get there.

I have this amazing solution that I want you to be part of.

Yes You, myself, and my specially trained team that I work with on a daily basis.

Stay tuned as the next email I’ll go into details!