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When it comes to exercise, there are many ways to go about it. 

Team sports
Martial arts
Gym 
Group Fitness Training
Bootcamp
Personal Training
Yoga
Pilates
Jogging
Cycling
Swimming
and the list goes on…

The man thing to consider firstly is what do you enjoy?
You don’t want to lock into something you hate, because you will only end up quitting soon after starting!

The second is what is your goal?

The third is will what you enjoy get you to your goal?
If you want to lose weight, don’t join the local pool and lock in for swimming lessons for 12 weeks, personal training, group training or bootcamp may be your best bet. If you want to run a triathalon, don’t join a bootcamp, start cycling, running and swimming or join a triathalon club. If you want to bulk up, don’t join the local touch footy club, join the local gym and pump some iron. If you want to increase flexibilty, don’t join the gym, get into yoga and compliment that with some pilates.

This may sound like common sense, but exercise can be one of those grey areas where people get confused and just end up going with what they know.

The problem with going with what you know, is that if you do what you have always done, you will achieve what you have always achieved. Often this is not a good thing.

A plateau with results is the most common cause for people to give up on their exercise plans. They think that they can’t reach their goals, so they give up. Then they get fed up with being unfit and overweight, so they start again and the cycle continues, only this time they are more overweight and a little older, making it harder to reach the goal this time, so the cycle gets worse!

The most important thing to remember is that exercise is for life. If what you really enjoy doing isn’t working for you, supplement it with something that will work a little better, but don’t kid yourself by doing the same thing over and over if it isn’t working for you.

Yours in Fitness

Troy Shipsey

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Everywhere I look these days, there is information about a “diet”. Any diet and every diet. This diet and that diet. Have you heard of this diet? Have you tried that diet? What do you think of this diet? I think I’m going to try that diet. So and so has got a great diet out. That other guy has got a new diet out. Thingy has come up with an entirely new diet. There is back log of getting product for that diet, so it must be awesome!

Give me a break! If each diet worked long term, then we wouldn’t have a million and one diet books on the shelf.

On the cover of a popular magazine I once saw Kirsty Alley and Oprah Winfrey and the headline was “The great diet showdown”. Is this how we should be thinking? Taking advice from two women who yo-yo with their weight more than anyone in the public eye!

We need to stop the diet mentality!

We need to realise that health is more about eating healthy food, not about being thin regardless of the path taken to get there!

In order to live a healthy life, you should eat a diet rich in fruit and vegetables (preferably organic if possible, but not essential). I also believe in eating fish, lean organic chicken & eggs and a little organic red meat.

If you want to eat junk food, save it for the weekend and eat it in moderation. Limit yourself to 2 junk food meals per weekend.

Remember that fruit and vegetables are carbohydrates, so this is not a carb free diet! It is a natural eating diet. No gimmicks here, just eating food in it’s natural form.

Try it, you will feel so much better, your energy levels will be higher, you will lose weight and you won’t feel bloated hours after a meal.

If we all just stopped looking for the quick fix or giving these stupid diets the time of day, we could all focus on eating for good long term health.

The only people who benefit long term from these diets are the guys who came up with the diets and sold a whole bunch of books and supplements to ingnorant people who want the quick fix.

I urge you to take control and think about the information you are being fed. Block out the con artists who want to take advantage and get rich from your desire to create “a healthy body”.

Try to eat as close to the natural form a food comes as possible and exercise regularly.

Yours in Health and Fitness

Troy Shipsey

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As I have mentioned earlier, food is of the utmost importance in our lives.

Food is our fuel and without the correct fuel, we cannot expect to live long, fullfilling and diease free lives.

Food and water are the essence for survival, so the next time you think you don’t have time to prepare a healthy meal because other things are more important, remember this, food supplies the fuel to power your body, with the wrong fuel, you will get sick. Be it obesity, diabetes, A.D.D, irritable bowel syndrome, heart disease, cancer or something else, a weakened immune system through poor nutrition will result in something bad. Oh and on that note, let’s just remember that cancer is not caused through bad luck, contrary to popular belief.

But, despite all the information out there about how important food is, it just doesn’t sink in for the majority of people. In actual fact, most people take better care of their car than their body. So I have prepared a couple of little analogies which I use on my clients.

“Would you set out on a road trip up the coast without any fuel, oil or water in your car? NO?
Then why do you set out to take on the day’s challenges without putting the correct fuel and water into your body?”

“Perfume smells great, but put it in your petrol tank instead of petrol and your car won’t run properly.
Junk food tastes great, but put it in your mouth and your body won’t run properly!”
When you wake up feeling crap, thank about what you ate yesterday.

“Would you take your car to the mechanic for regular servicing and then pour methylated spirits into the fuel tank? NO?
Then why do you visit the gym regularly or even see your personal trainer but then put crappy food in your mouth?”

I think you get the message, please be aware of what goes in your mouth. I am not saying to eat alfalfa sprouts all day long, but it is really so easy to make healthy, tasty, nutritious food and just limit your junk food to weekends and takeaway dinners to once a week.

Troy Shispey

Fitta Bodies Personal Training

Group Training Centennial Park, Sydney

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