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 Now that I’m spending a lot more of my time coaching clients on how to lose weight, I find myself asking the same series of questions. The good news is most people have no idea what the answers are and the better news is that I can share some wisdom to help them develop a game plan to succeed.
You can probably guess one of the questions that I ask everyone is, “How much to do you weigh?” Seems like a straight forward question, right? You would think, but, rarely do I get a straight-forward answer. The more common response is “I don’t know” or “About XXX pounds” or my personal favorite “40 pounds more than I want to be”. Hmmm...if you don’t know how much you weigh today, then 40 lbs might be too much or perhaps it’s not enough. Sadly it’s usually the latter.
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 I've been in a bit of a fitness rut lately so I've been sampling new classes at the health club where my office is. Last week I tried Spinning which was a really nice change.
After getting some grief from the club owner that I never take her Pilates class, today I found myself in the back row of yet another group fitness class filled with about 20 women and yours truly as the only male in sight. Instead of my normal yoga class, this week I decided to change it up and try a Pilates fitness class. The class is a mixture of Pilates mat with a heavy focus on the core combined with strength training using light weights and resistance training. Compared to my 90 minute yoga class, it felt very quick at only 50 minutes but it was a great workout. I've always heard about how Pilates lengthens the body and builds a really strong core which certainly makes sense. Sure there were some awkward moments and a few poses that clearly showed today was my first day ever doing Pilates but who cares. |
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 Happy Friday to everyone! I was searching the web and magazines for a compelling topic to share today and was coming up empty until I flipped to almost the last page of my wife's US Weekly magazine. Maybe you've seen this too but I kid you not, there was a full page ad for an energy drink claiming to burn calories. Are you kidding me?!? The claim was 100 calories over 3 hours and candidly their site is pretty darn convincing. The reality is that I burn 67 calories per hour sleeping or doing nothing so why is 100 over 3 hours so great? I'm not in the mood to get tough today so let's keep it light.
Actually, I want to share a cool new site that's totally unrelated to health and fitness that a friend of mine turned me on to. It's called Blastoff and the concept is pretty unique. It's basically a personalized home page or dashboard minimizing the need to open up a bunch of individual windows. It connects to a lot of the mainstream sites like CNN, ESPN, FOX News, USA Today, NPR, MTV, SHAPE, and Men's Health just to name a few. It also has a media section with HULU, You Tube and several radio stations along with a Games section which isn't really my thing, but the titles seem robust. |
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 It's the new exerspy powered by dotFIT. Huh? Sorry, of course you wouldn't know what it is since it just came out on the market two weeks ago. That's how the discussion started over a beer at my neighbor's house the other day while the girls were playing dress up in the background.
I went on to explain that my new exerspy provides me with a near 100% accurate count of my calorie expenditure as long as I'm wearing it. I completed a short questionnaire with my height, weight, age, gender, etc. which works in conjunction with my activity. My neighbor replied with "COOL" followed by "I want one." I told her I was including them at no charge to all my members of the new Guaranteed Weight Loss Program. The highlight of the discussion is what she said next, "...because with that device you'll know exactly how many calories you burn so you can control your results". BINGO! And that's exactly why I had to include it in my coaching program. |
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Fat Acceptance and Second-hand Smoke |
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 What do these two things have in common? They are both bad for you. I saw an interview about a week ago on The Today Show with a woman who was promoting the "Fat Acceptance Movement". I seriously had to do a double take thinking to myself this couldn't possibly be true. There she was saying things like, "We're be blamed for rising costs in health care". Right, and since $150 billion dollars annually is spent directly on obesity related disease, it sounds like the shoe fits.
I think it is safe to say that none of us think it is okay to be insensitive or down right mean to obese individuals. However, promoting acceptance is just irresponsible. I'm 40 years old, and I would have to guess that the debate over second-hand smoke went on for a good 20 years and perhaps even longer. We all knew smoking caused cancer and could kill you, but the debate continued to drag on, often disguised as a discussion about freedom. This movement sounds eerily similar to me when an obese person says something like, "I'm overweight but healthy". The two concepts just don't go together and medical study after medical study supports that. Sure someone could say, "I'm overweight and don't have any medical issues right now" but that's the same as a smoker saying, "I've been smoking for 10 years and don't have lung cancer". Maybe they don't have immediate medical issues related to smoking now, but they will and they will likely be costly to treat and life-threatening, just like obesity-related diseases. |
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