In order to see true change in your body you need to get out of your comfort zone and SHOCK your body! This means changing your exercise program around completely OR eating entirely different - in some cases it requires doing both! First and foremost you need to decide what your goals are - if you are looking to put more muscle mass on but you are an avid running and enjoy marathons - then this is going to be a difficult task. You need to decide what you want - more muscle mass or marathons because it’s too difficult to have both. I have never known a figure competitor in tip top shape who also was training for a marathon - it just doesn’t happen. The two counter each other by the running eating away at too much muscle tissue from all that long slow distance training.

So, if your not happy with your body then first decide what you want it to look like and second get help from a personal trainer to design a program to get you the body you want! One that you are happy with and that suits your everyday needs. If you enjoy lots of sports and want to be active with your family but don’t have a massive amount of time to dedicate to training then functional training and circuit training are going to be the best modes of training for you. But, the only true way to tell is to consult with a trainer about your body and your needs and have them get you on the right path so that you are making the most of your time in the gym!

I have seen it happen all too many times! People want instant results from their fitness and nutrition programs and when they don’t get them they abandon the program all together - never to experience what they could have achieved -they stop just weeks short of seeing spectaular results! Why is it that we don’t have patience to sculpt a beautiful body anyway? I can tell you the secret of the pro’s is that they are willing to work for it and I mean work hard! They know that they might not see all the weeks of suffering through hard workouts and eating cleaning until at least 6 weeks out and even then they will have 6 more weeks to fine tune and tweak before they hit the figure competition stage with their beautifully sculpted bodies. Look, patience is a hard thing - we all want to see the results NOW, not 6 or 8 weeks from now. But a funny thing happens if you hang in there for 6 + weeks - the 6th week rolls around and Kapoooow! It’s like all that hard work shows up in just one day and suddenly you are getting compliments left and right. It’s really sad when most people drop off around the 3rd or 4th week just right before their results hit. They throw their hands up and say - “see, another thing that didn’t work - nothing works for me”. Well of course it won’t! You need to stick with something longer than a month - get your heart in it and really DO IT! Yeah, it sucks not being able to eat cake and yummy treats - but if you really really really want a great healthy body both inside and out then you need to be willing to put in the time and get some patience! Work on it and you will see the difference and LOVE IT!

Last week Oprah Winfrey did a show on people that live different kinds of lifestyles.  One of the ladies featured on her show was a Mom who worked as a stripper in order to support her family.  One of the main points of the show was not to judge other people for the lives they choose to live.  This mom was able to feed her family, take good care of them, spend time with them and support her kids - so, who are we to judge?  There was so much talk around this Mom though (who was very down to earth and quite a nice lady) because she had a super hot body! Well, of course I suppose if your job is to be a stripper one of the requirements would be that you should have a pretty good body.  This lady ate right and worked hard and in fact aspired to be a personal trainer since her passion was in fitness.  Again proof, nothing comes easy.  Oprah Winfrey asked her how she got such great abs and she emphatically replied Bowflex!!! This lady swore by the bowflex machine to get her rocking hot abs.  Now of course, this does not simply mean that all you have to do is buy the bowflex and your abs will be sculpted and defined - no way, we know better than that! You acutally have to use it 3-4 times a week and combine it with a sensible diet and you to can have the rocking hot body that this lady had - pretty incredible for a woman in her mid 40’s which proves once again, no excuses! You can get the body you desire at any age - age, is no excuse!  For more information on the bowflex products go here:  bowflexshop