Scouted Father’s Day Fitness Advice
Recently, many people have experienced a little bit of a complication when it comes to putting on summer clothes. After spending quarantine bing watching television, cooking comfort food and maybe having an extra night on cocktails, the swim suit season may be feeling unwelcome. Lucky for your Connor Guinan can get you right back on track.
People can do ab exercises all day but it won’t matter if their diet isn’t good. Exercise alone can make strong abs but won’t flatten the stomach. Dieting is 90% of the battle. In addition to diet I suggest, resistance training. I feel it is more important than cardio because the more muscle you have the more fat you burn.
Exercise:
Overall Wellness: The oldest exercises are still the best exercises.
Pull-ups- there are bands that can help beginners perform a pull-up if you are not able to do so on their own.
Ab exercises: Superset (moving from one exercise to another without taking a break) your ab exercises. You’ll feel them so much more but if supersets are too much, one exercise at a time is good too.
Nutrition:
Here are some ideas and food choices for the quarantine tummy.
STAND: Sedentary lifestyle is a killer. Stay on your feet as much as possible. We burn twice as many calories standing than sitting
HYDRATE- 60% of our body is water. Water continually flushes out our system so ONLY drink water. No sugar drinks because sugar turns into fat if you don’t burn it off.
AVOID ALCOHOL: Alcohol is a killer - Beer especially. Too many calories and it makes it very difficult to eat clean.
EAT BREAKFAST: Don’t skip breakfast. It should be the largest meal of day because you have the whole day to burn it off. Meals should get smaller throughout the day, not larger. Too often people don’t eat breakfast but then overeat later in the day. That’s a bad idea, especially since metabolism slows down at night.
5 or 6 SMALL MEALS A DAY: Ideally 3 hours between each. Your stomach becomes a furnace and it just burns the food and uses it as energy. Huge meals just slow you down.
FOOD PREP: No excuses, make sure your food is prepped, cute up veggies so they are easy to grab and you avoid the easy processed food snacks!
FASTING: Occasional intermittent fasting is good as well and can help with fat loss.
FOOD CHOICES: In my opinion, any type of protein is ok. Where people get into trouble is their carb intake. My advice is to eat a lot of vegetables with your protein and fat, the greener the better. Broccoli, spinach, green peas, kale etc. Carbohydrates are our energy source so it’s a must if we want to have our best workouts. Try quinoa, brown rice, sweet potatoes etc. for some great carbs.
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