Weight Loss (management) is a long-term approach to a healthy lifestyle.

It includes a balance of healthy eating and physical exercise to equate energy expenditure and energy intake.

Developing healthy eating habits while using tips that will keep us fuller longer can be useful tools in weight management.

Knowing what your body needs is important to weight management and can control overconsumption and underconsumption of food.

Weight management does not include fad diets that promote quick, temporary weight loss. It focuses on the long-term results that are achieved through slow weight loss, followed by retention of an ideal body weight for age, sex and height.

Why Weight Loss?

Because either you either exceed the normal weight for your height and age, or you are pretty much just looking to lean down. Regular exercise is an important part of effective weight loss.

It helps to control your weight by using excess calories that otherwise would be stored as fat as well as boosting your metabolism and lowering insulin levels. Physical activity  helps prevent many diseases and improve your overall health.

Your weight is determined by the number of calories you eat each day minus what your body uses. Everything you eat contains calories, and everything you do uses calories, including sleeping, breathing, and digesting food. Any physical activity in addition to what you normally do will burn those extra calories.

Balancing the number of calories you expend through exercise and physical activity with the calories you eat will help you achieve your desired weight. The key to successful weight loss and improved overall health is making physical activity a part of your daily routine.

Bodybuilding is the use of progressive resistance exercise to control and develop and increase one’s musculature.

Why Bodybuilding?

Most of us are well aware of the core physical and psychological gains associated with Bodybuilding. Together, weight training and cardio enhance our body’s performance.

With heightened muscular and aerobic capacity our bodies are improved; more robust and efficient, better able to interact with the world around us while warding off disease and injury.

Aesthetically, the pains and sacrifice of dedicated training yield visual results that bring  pride, confidence and victory. These are a few of the more obvious ways that the bodybuilder profits from their efforts in and out of the gym.

A fitness boot camp is a type of physical training program usually conducted by former military personnel.

These programs are designed to build strength and fitness through a variety of exercises used in the military, usually through intense group intervals, lifting weights/objects, pushups/situps, plyometrics, and various types of intense explosive routines.

Why Bootcamp training?

The term “boot camp” is currently used in the fitness industry to describe group fitness classes that promote fat loss, camaraderie, and team effort. They are designed to push people a little bit further than they would normally push themselves in the gym alone.

Body weight exercises include push ups, squats, suspension training and burpees, interspersed with running and competitive games. Bootcamp fitness provides a different environment for those exercisers who get bored in a gym and so find it hard to develop a habit of exercise.

A fitness boot camp is type of indoor or outdoor exercise class that mixes traditional calisthenic and body weight exercises with interval training and strength training. While there are a variety of styles of fitness boot camps, most are designed in a way that pushes the participants harder than they’d push themselves and, in that way, resemble a military boot camp.

A fitness boot camp is type of indoor or outdoor exercise class that mixes traditional calisthenic and body weight exercises with interval training and strength training.

While there are a variety of styles of fitness boot camps, most are designed in a way that pushes the participants harder than they’d push themselves and, in that way, resemble a military boot camp.

Definition & Toning exercises are physical exercises that are used with the aim of developing a physique with a large emphasis on musculature.

In this context, the term toned implies leanness in the body (low levels of body fat), noticeable muscle definition and shape, but not significant muscle size (“bulk”).

Why train for achieving a defined and toned muscle ?

Muscle tone is the level of visibility of your muscles which is also commonly referred to as definition.

Having muscle tone means you can see the outlines of the muscles under your skin. Everyone has the muscles but not everyone is toned or defined which allows the muscles to be visible.

Muscle Tone really refers to Body Composition

Your body is covered with skin which has a layer of subcutaneous fat which covers. If you have a high percentage of body fat which is covering your body you will not show muscle tone.

If you have a body fat percentage which is higher than average you have to lose some your body fat in order to improve your muscle tone. If you have a body fat percentage which is lower than average or lean, you have to build muscle to increase your muscle tone.

There are no secrets about which exercises or diets improve muscle tone just the plain, simple science behind body composition. If you burn more calories than you consume you will gain body mass, if you burn fewer calories in exercising than you consume you will lose body mass.

Endurance training is the act of exercising to increase endurance.

The term endurance training generally refers to training the aerobic system as opposed to anaerobic.

The need for endurance in sports is often predicated as the need of cardiovascular and simple muscular endurance, but the issue of endurance is far more complex.

Endurance can be divided into two categories including: general endurance and specific endurance. It can be shown that endurance in sport is closely tied to the execution of skill and technique.

A well conditioned athlete can be defined as, the athlete who executes his or her technique consistently and effectively with the least effort.

Pilates is a body conditioning routine that may help build flexibility, muscle strength, and endurance in the legs, abdominals, arms, hips, and back.It puts emphasis on spinal and pelvic alignment, breathing, and developing a strong core or centre, and improving coordination and balance.

Pilates’ system allows for different exercises to be modified in range of difficulty from beginning to advanced. Intensity can be increased over time as the body conditions and adapts to the exercises.

Principles of Pilates

Joesph Hurbertus Pilates was a German physical trainer, notable for having invented and promoted the Pilates method of physical activity.

Philip Friedman and Gail Eisen, two students of Romana Kryzanowska, published the first modern book on Pilates, The Pilates Method of Physical and Mental Conditioning, in 1980 and in it they outlined six “principles of Pilates”.

These have been widely adopted—and adapted—by the wider community. The original six principles were concentration, control, centre, flow, precision, and breathing.

Being a new mum may be one of the most rewarding experiences a woman can have, but it can also be one of the most challenging.

By gradually progressing your return to high intensity exercise, we can ensure that you avoid injury and returns to your pre-baby body as soon as safely possible.

Both physically and mentally, post-natal clients can gain a plethora of benefits by undertaking a fitness regime, including:

• Assistance with hormonal balance
• Tension release and reduction of anxiety and stress
• Enhanced stamina and muscle conditioning
• Improved pelvic and muscular stability and control.

Most women want to return to their pre-baby body and levels of fitness as soon as possible after giving birth. As a personal trainer, I have gained anti & postnatal qualification so I have the ability to manage a safe and effective return to health and fitness through accurate programming and exercise selection.

Think your crazy schedule is an excuse to skip your training? think again, Fortis Fitness offers convenient fitness training programs delivered directly to your office. We will schedule appointments to fit your busy  lifestyle.

Advantages include more private instruction and time management, allowing you to receive the best workout possible in the shortest amount of time.

All appointments are one hour and include core training and toning and definition exercises to develop lean body mass.

So, ditch your excuses and get ready to build your best body at your convenience.

*Office training only available in Cheltenham