Jeff's Thoughts

• Why Health, Energy & Fitness?

  3 September, 2015

  We thought long and hard at Studio41 about what words best described what we do and to be associated with our brand. So often people perceive trainers as the ones who stand over you yelling motivational cues as the saliva sprays out of our mouths, demanding that one more rep. What is really interesting to me is to truly understand our job, is to truly understand someones goal (essentially why they are willing to invest in our knowledge and time), and for us to work together to help achieve that.

  People talk about wanting better sleep, wanting more energy – they want to be healthy again and lucky for us they perceived exercise as part of that plan. However we know that that is merely only a small part of the journey. To truly work with someone on their health and fitness journey – it has to be more than just exercise.

  HEALTH

  Fitness and health are 2 very different components. Because you are fit does not reflect that you are healthy (infact there is a inverse relationaship, the more exercise you do past a point, the worst the health can become). For me healthy means  that there is no inflammation leading to a diseased state, your detoxification pathways in the liver are working well, your gut is able to take in and absorb nutrients (one of the biggest reasons why tiredness exists in my opinion) and your gut is able to detoxify all the toxins you take in on a daily basis. Most of this detoxificaiton and repair happens when you are a sleep. So how important is sleep? One thing I have learnt is sleep is merely a sympton – not the cause. If your sleep is bad then you have a disruption somewhere, but it will lead to ill health

  

  The World Health Organisation lists the night shift as a probable carcinogen. There fore they truly understand the consequences of a lack of sleep. Because once again this is where most of your detoxification happens. Simply put – if you not sleeping well your health will be compromised. Your weight loss journey will also be limited. Once again – people are coming to us because they want to get healthy and start a weight loss journey, there is no point pushing yourself through endless physical activity if there is no health benefit. Therefore we need to understand that health and fitness are not related, we need to be able to work on someones sleep, digestion and detoxification pathways just as much as their actual fitness.

  “Often people come to us to lose weight to get healthy, often we are working on peoples health in order for them to lose weight”. 

  ENERGY

  For a molecule of glucose, to become energy (ATP), there is a magnificent process that happens in every living cell that is massively dependant on such things like Magnesium, CoQ10 and B Vitamins to name just a few. This process is pretty awesome. However most people that come into us are often tired and lacking energy. If we can’t help them at the cellular level then we won’t be effective at helping them get more energy. So our understanding of biochemistry works really well here.

  Click Here to See Bryan Walsh quickly emphasis what we need at the cellular level to create energy (ATP). (Video from Bryan Walsh’s Metabolic Fitness Course).

  You can now understand why we have such a large emphasis on nutrition here at Studio41. Just doing push ups and lunges is simply not enough.

  FITNESS

  Even fitness is can be complicated. Believe it or not it, it is not just turning up and talking to your trainer about what you did in the weekend and having a laugh with no real focus. The one thing you must understand is for a system to improve, you must overload that system. Our bodies will adapt if you give it the circumstances to adapt. So systematic overload, micro progressions need to be in place to maximise your time. Your trainer needs to be recording every rep and every set so they know that those micro progressions are happening. However it is also not always about pushing, knowing when to back off is just a crucial tool as knowing how and when to push. Remember the goal is for our clients to improve – not just for us to talk a great game, and for your results not to come.

  Understanding Health, Energy and Fitness are exactly what we are about.

   

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