The Fitness Adviser

I tracked down the best to offer their greatest fitness tips on getting into shape and reaching your fitness goals.  Here’s what they had to say:

Dave Navarro from Rock Your Day said, “You’re going to make excuses to try and get out of changing behaviors you want to cling to, so it helps to have an airtight, 30-second speech you can say in your head to remind you of why you MUST change your patterns, and you must change them NOW.”

Vic Magary From Gym Junkies said, “You MUST be willing to step out of your comfort zone to hit your goals. No matter if your goal is fat loss, building muscle or eating better you have to make a conscious decision to stop doing what is easy and natural to you, and try a route that actually works.”

“So many people say “that doesn’t work for me” or ” I can’t lose weight cause of my genetics”  BULL@#$!.  The problem is you want to keep doing the same thing you’re doing now and get different results.  You want to eat ice cream and pizza 5 days a week and somehow get different results…You have to sackup and step out of your comfort zone!”

Caitlin from Healthy Tipping Point said, “Train hard, have fun, and appreciate every mile!”

Chris From Zen To Fitness said, “One of my favorite fitness tips is working out at a regular time and early in the morning and training hard. For me that’s normally first thing in the morning when I get up. The advantages are you get your exercise out of the way and get a sense of achievement that carries on throughout the day. It’s also calm and peaceful in the morning making workouts more enjoyable and allowing you to get in touch with your surroundings. Also make your workouts short and intense this is something I learnt from the Crossfit gang and it really makes a difference.”

“So in a nutshell: Short intense workouts first thing in the morning. ”

Methuselah from Train Now, Live Later said, “Try not to let your passion for training unduly influence decisions about volume. Almost everyone trains too much and gets too little rest. Less is more.”

Rusty from Fitness Black Book said, “Don’t be afraid of getting hungry every now and then. If you have weight to lose, it is because over a period of time you simply ate too many calories. To lose that weight you are going to have to eat less than you are used to. Will you be hungry from time to time? Yes…and it isn’t an unnatural state. It will give your body a chance to use some of that stored body fat for energy.”

“The most common road block for people losing weight is holding on to the idea that ‘you need to eat every few hours or your metabolism will slow down’. It is too much food that got people into their overweight condition in the first place. I have 5 other friends who turn 40 this year, all of us are lean and have low body fat percentage. The biggest tip is that we aren’t afraid of skipping meals every now and then. To lose body fat, you just need to find a way to eat less than you have been eating…end of story.”

Scott from Fitness Spot Light said, “Have a goal and a plan. Decide what your short and long-term objectives are and formulate a plan to get there. Lose 5% body fat. Squat your body weight. Run a 4-minute mile. Whatever your goal, you need a plan to get you there. Without a plan, you will only reach your goal by sheer luck.”

Israel from Fat Man Unleashed said, “Keep it real with yourself and those around you that are supporting you.”

Eartha from Trying Fitness said, “Make exercise a habit. Choose a workout program and stick to it for at least 21 days to form an exercise habit. Once it becomes a habit to exercise regularly, you will no longer question whether or not to workout, it will be a part of your routine.”

Mike from The Fat Loss Authority said, ” Find activities you enjoy! This is especially important for beginners. Nothing will destroy your motivation to move your body than considering your workout to actually be work.”

“Lifting weights at my local gym, stair climbing, killer body weight exercises, and playing pickup basketball with friends are just some of the various activities I enjoy. If I had to strength train like a bodybuilder or run on a treadmill for 60 minutes 4-5 times per week, my workouts and fitness would suffer.”

Richard Nikoley from Free The Animal said, “Eat right and eat well. Choose real, whole foods, unprocessed or minimally processed. Avoid modern foods like sugar, grains, legumes, and vegetable oils. Focus on meat, natural fats (animal, coconut, olive), non-starchy vegetables, fruits, nuts, and dairy if it sits well with you.”

Mark Sisson from Mark’s Daily Apple said, “Make your easy workouts longer and easier, and your hard workouts shorter and harder.”

Ido Portal from Ido’s Blog said, “Eliminate sugar, grains (even whole grains) and potatoes from your diet. This modification will produce the biggest ‘bang for your buck’ in health, fitness and looks, above and beyond any other single tip about exercising or eating well can produce.”

Rafi Bar-Lev from The Fitness Adviser said, “The main thing is to just get started and do SOMETHING, whether it’s exercise or reducing your sugar intake, and then worry about the specifics later. The worst thing is to get paralyzed by an overload of information and do nothing.”

There you have it. Those are the greatest fitness tips from the best. What’s YOUR #1 fitness tip?

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