Being a Personal Trainer

[MichaelCar]

Being a personal trainer you get to experience all types of diets, routine etc..
So, over the next few days, i would like to add some facts i have found in my 12 years as a personal trainer. Now these are things that I HAVE persaonally found to be true.

1 You CANNOT target fat loss. So dont' worry about these mid section this and that items, it is a physical impossibility. To get GREAT abs you must lose OVERALL body fat, that simple.

2 MUSCLE does NOT turn into fat.

3 Now Cardio is okay BUT Resistance training burns twice the calories in the long run. You see the more muscle your body carries, the more calories your body burns to carry that muscle. This is a secret that male and female bodybuilders have know for a long time. When i did my little bodybuilding stint, I always incorporated a little cardio with alot of resistance traning, during the on season, you know 8 - 10 weeks to lose 25-35 lbs and keep as much muscle as possible.

 

[Steve]

Have you read around the community, especially the stickies, before preaching your "good word"?

Pro Tip: This stuff has been discussed to death and is common knowledge to the community. You might consider familiarizing yourself with the needs of a community before posting authoritatively. You wouldn't go to a party, stand up and thump your chest about all the experience you have helping people lose weight, and then begin telling people what to do. Would you?

It's no different here.

Ease your way into the community. Introduce yourself properly. And answer questions you think you know the answers to.

Also...

3 Now Cardio is okay BUT Resistance training burns twice the calories in the long run. You see the more muscle your body carries, the more calories your body burns to carry that muscle. This is a secret that male and female bodybuilders have know for a long time. When i did my little bodybuilding stint, I always incorporated a little cardio with alot of resistance traning, during the on season, you know 8 - 10 weeks to lose 25-35 lbs and keep as much muscle as possible.

1) How many calories do you think 1 lb of muscle burns?

2) How many calories do you think 1 lb of fat burns?

3) Considering this is a weight loss community, which means a vast majority of the members here are eating hypocalorically, how do you propose they pack on slabs of muscle, which, as I hope you know, is a very intensive process, energetically speaking?

4) Please show me the research suggesting weight lifting burns twice as many calories over the long term.

5) Blanket recommendations never work in this field. Never.

 

[MichaelCar]

Wieght Loss (resistance vs cardio)

One, I Introduced my self, two, I said WHAT i have found, I competed in comps, i have judged them, and i have trained over 700 people. I based what i say on MY OPINION and what I have seen. It is a well know fact amongst most bodybuilders that resistance training burns more calories. AND i am blunt, i hate seeing bs. I rely on what i have seen work over the years. NOT what i have read or heard, just what i have seen work. I belong to 6 other fitness forum, two of which i moderate. I never charge for my opinion, or advice. Before you make a comment you might want to read what i have written. I believe in combining cardio and resistance training. " incorporated a little cardio with alot of resistance traning" And I usually post routines, diets and secrets that i have learned over the past decade to benefit everyone. I do this for free, THIS IS MY OPINION after 12 years of not just traing but doing. SO if anyone would like some help or if anyone as some suggestion about new concepts or aids, i would be very interested.

WOW i feel welcomed already. And so for as BLANKET RECCOMENDATIONS, I had 13 people from this site email me on my site.

PRO TIP, " I do this for living, but my website i created to help people for free.

Things that are discussed to death, should continually be discussed, thats how we learn.

WOW, the tuff questions:
A POUND OF FAT : approx 3400 cals a pounf of muscle 550 - 600 cals.

Unlike low intensity cardio, weight training has a significant boost on post-workout metabolism. A study published in Eur J Appl Physiol. 2002 Mar;86(5):411-7. Epub 2002 Jan 29. showed that weight training caused a significant increase in metabolism for 38 hours post-workout.

"Another study Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 31, No. 9, pp. 1320-1329, 1999 was done comparing diet, diet and cardio, and diet plus cardio plus resistance. Guess who lost the most fat? The one who combined weight training with the other two factors. In fact, the cardio group only lost one more pound of fat than the diet only group.

The best study I have found was in published J Am Coll Nutr. 1999 Apr; 18(2):115-21, directly compares resistance only to cardio only. The cardio group did 4 hours of low intensity cardio a week. The resistance group did 2-4 sets of 8-15 reps a excercise for 10 excercises, 3 times a week. Both groups were on a 800 calorie deficit. Both lost fat, but the weight training group lost far more fat and unlike the cardio group, they maintained all their lean muscle.

As you can see from the studies, weight training is far superior to low intensity cardio, for burning fat and raising metabolism. The main importance we can see from these studies, is that weight training and diet, are the main factors behind fat loss, not low intensity cardio."

BY THE WAY my website isn't spam, its my site, the above post, is that spam

 

[MichaelCar]

There are hundreds of studies that all say the same thing as the below quoted. Like i said i do not rely on studies. I give my opinion, on what works for me, and the people i have trained. People dont have to believe or follow, i am not a doctor, i WILL only comment on what i have done and witnessed as a trainer, that s why i started Nutritional Supplements Advisor. If this has been talked to death, like u stated, you should have already know this. Like i said i am always willing to learn and listen, but i have been doing this for long time, calories per pound of fat or muscle, is relative....i could do that for days..By the way i was talking about resistance training for weight loss, no packing on slabs of muscle, and packing on muscle dosent have to be nearly "intensive process, energetically" as you may think...

"American researchers discovered that men and women of all ages can burn belly fat - while gaining muscle at the same time - with resistance training. In a 12-week resistance training program, men and women lost an average of 4 pounds of fat, and they didn't do any cardio or change their diet. That's how powerful resistance training is for burning belly fat."


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Michael

 

[Jericho]

Science shows you can't spot reduce so saying something burns belly fat is false. Genetics decides what order you put weight on and take it off.

Also, please take the time to read the forum rules (esp about links) and asking people to PM you for your book. We just had 2 people do the exact same thing.

Finally, we don't know you from Adam so maybe a little less tude and give us time to tell if you are actually real. There are plenty who have come here and said they was one thing and was proven otherwise.

 

[MichaelCar]

Everyone says read, JERICO read my posts, I never said belly fat, thats a quaote from a study, 2) my first post says you cant target fat. I would have less TUDE if people would take their own advice.........and READ before they write.

.POST 4There are hundreds of studies that all say the same thing as the below quoted

POST 1 You CANNOT target fat loss. So dont' worry about these mid section this and that items, it is a physical impossibility. To get GREAT abs you must lose OVERALL body fat, that simple.

 

[Jericho]

I was trying to help you re-adjust your first impression to the forum.

No one is going to take information from you if they feel like you are insulting them when giving it. You have to earn that respect here. Steve, the man who was asking you the questions, has done that hand over fist. We welcome professionals in the field but you have to prove that you know what you are doing before anyone will take what you say to heart. Yes, some of the things you have said is fact. It's the same thing we have said many times (like Steve said).

How about commenting on someone's diary in support? Or engage people on a normal, friendly level. Right now, you come off as a self-serving blowhard and I hope that isn't the reality.

 

[Big D]

jericho buddy, you really have to start learning to practice what you preach. Honestly, I think you reply to half of these posts just for attention.

 

[KaraCooks]

Michael - 2nd warning. Don't push your products or services here. Not on the board. Not via PM. It's against the rules. Do it again and you will be banned.

To anyone else - if you have an issue with a member please take it to PM or report their post if you feel it's inappropriate. Calling out other members for the style of their participation is not only bad manners, it's against the rules. Thanks.

 

[Steve]

One, I Introduced my self, two, I said WHAT i have found, I competed in comps, i have judged them, and i have trained over 700 people. I based what i say on MY OPINION and what I have seen. It is a well know fact amongst most bodybuilders that resistance training burns more calories. AND i am blunt, i hate seeing bs. I rely on what i have seen work over the years. NOT what i have read or heard, just what i have seen work. I belong to 6 other fitness forum, two of which i moderate. I never charge for my opinion, or advice. Before you make a comment you might want to read what i have written. I believe in combining cardio and resistance training. " incorporated a little cardio with alot of resistance traning" And I usually post routines, diets and secrets that i have learned over the past decade to benefit everyone. I do this for free, THIS IS MY OPINION after 12 years of not just traing but doing. SO if anyone would like some help or if anyone as some suggestion about new concepts or aids, i would be very interested.

Bro-science for the win!!111

Keep up the good fight, broseph.

A POUND OF FAT : approx 3400 cals a pounf of muscle 550 - 600 cals.

So let me get this straight. You're telling me that I'm the one that needs to read more closely?

lol

Show me where I asked how many calories comprise fat vs. muscle?

Hint: I didn't.

Unlike low intensity cardio, weight training has a significant boost on post-workout metabolism. A study published in Eur J Appl Physiol. 2002 Mar;86(5):411-7. Epub 2002 Jan 29. showed that weight training caused a significant increase in metabolism for 38 hours post-workout.

"Another study Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 31, No. 9, pp. 1320-1329, 1999 was done comparing diet, diet and cardio, and diet plus cardio plus resistance. Guess who lost the most fat? The one who combined weight training with the other two factors. In fact, the cardio group only lost one more pound of fat than the diet only group.

The best study I have found was in published J Am Coll Nutr. 1999 Apr; 18(2):115-21, directly compares resistance only to cardio only. The cardio group did 4 hours of low intensity cardio a week. The resistance group did 2-4 sets of 8-15 reps a excercise for 10 excercises, 3 times a week. Both groups were on a 800 calorie deficit. Both lost fat, but the weight training group lost far more fat and unlike the cardio group, they maintained all their lean muscle.

I'm not arguing that weight training isn't effective. If you read the forum, you'd know this.

I'm arguing about your assertions relative to EPOC.

If you're seriously an objective learner, you might be interested in checking out the latest huge review done by LaForgia regarding EPOC:

LaForgia J et. al. Effects of exercise intensity and duration on the excess post-exercise oxygen consumption. J Sports Sci. 2006 Dec;24(12):1247-64.

Recovery from a bout of exercise is associated with an elevation in metabolism referred to as the excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC). A number of investigators in the first half of the last century reported prolonged EPOC durations and that the EPOC was a major component of the thermic effect of activity. It was therefore thought that the EPOC was a major contributor to total daily energy expenditure and hence the maintenance of body mass. Investigations conducted over the last two or three decades have improved the experimental protocols used in the pioneering studies and therefore have more accurately characterized the EPOC. Evidence has accumulated to suggest an exponential relationship between exercise intensity and the magnitude of the EPOC for specific exercise durations. Furthermore, work at exercise intensities >or=50-60% VO2max stimulate a linear increase in EPOC as exercise duration increases. The existence of these relationships with resistance exercise at this stage remains unclear because of the limited number of studies and problems with quantification of work intensity for this type of exercise. Although the more recent studies do not support the extended EPOC durations reported by some of the pioneering investigators, it is now apparent that a prolonged EPOC (3-24 h) may result from an appropriate exercise stimulus (submaximal: >or=50 min at >or=70% VO2max; supramaximal: >or=6 min at >or=105% VO2max). However, even those studies incorporating exercise stimuli resulting in prolonged EPOC durations have identified that the EPOC comprises only 6-15% of the net total oxygen cost of the exercise. But this figure may need to be increased when studies utilizing intermittent work bouts are designed to allow the determination of rest interval EPOCs, which should logically contribute to the EPOC determined following the cessation of the last work bout. Notwithstanding the aforementioned, the earlier research optimism regarding an important role for the EPOC in weight loss is generally unfounded. This is further reinforced by acknowledging that the exercise stimuli required to promote a prolonged EPOC are unlikely to be tolerated by non-athletic individuals. The role of exercise in the maintenance of body mass is therefore predominantly mediated via the cumulative effect of the energy expenditure during the actual exercise.

BY THE WAY my website isn't spam, its my site, the above post, is that spam

Like I said. If you'd read the forum rules, you'd realize what spam is and is not considered around here.

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I like how you didn't comment about question number 3, too, Broseph.