Most people who decide to become more active want to lose weight. Our approach to losing weight is to lose body fat whilst maintaining (or even increase) your lean muscle tissue. Most fad diets are only concerned with what the scale say which is why they never work long term. The key to losing body fat and keeping it off is to maintain your lean tissue in the process. Lean muscle tissue will keep your metabolism burning strong. Dropping calories alone will burn a lot of lean tissue and plummet your metabolism.

Muscle tone is what gives your body that pleasing aesthetic look. A lot of people who diet hope to look aesthetic NOT just slimmer and they become confused and frustrated with the whole thing. To achieve that nice toned look you have to do resistance training but more importantly you have to do it right. Your workouts have to be structured correctly and you need to have good technique if you want to get results. If you’re a female and reading this, like many you may be thinking “I don’t want to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger” the short answer is – you won’t! Bodybuilders have to eat massive amounts of food and train with ridiculously heavy weights.

Just as important as the previous two is your cardio vascular fitness. This is often neglected by gym goers as it can be very labour intensive. Conversely many gym goers that don’t really know what they should be doing spend all their time on the cardio equipment as they seem more user friendly. However, improving your fitness comes with unlimited health benefits as well as making you feel years younger. There are several different ways to improve your fitness. The key is to find one or two that you like or feel comfortable with and make sure you are at the right level. Again technique and posture are very important when training for fitness.