AldayFitness

The noise around health and fitness is very loud.
If you pay attention to the fittest and healthiest people around you they will tell you that the basic and boring stuff is what makes them being fit and healthy.
Daily physical activity, lifting weights, sleep, hydration, Fiber and protein are the cake, the other fancy stuff is only the cherry on top.

Talking from own personal experience once again.
Everything sucked when enough food was not getting into my body.
The training sessions were awful and exhausting, the 3 pm walk felt like climbing a mountain and still didn’t see that what my body needed was more fuel.
If you are or ever have been in this situation, I want to tell you that being afraid of eating more is going to make you feel miserable in the long run.
Plus it is mentally exhausting to have that constant fear of believing that if I have that croissant, I’ll lose all the progress, which in reality, it has been all the way around. Knowing that having that croissant is going to indeed fuel it all (within a whole food diet of course) has made my life wholesome, physically and mentally.

What scares me is losing my independence because of loss of muscle mass, fracturing a bone because of osteoporosis, not being able to sit and stand up from a chair whenever I want to, damaging my organs because of alcohol intake, feeling crap because I don’t fuel my body appropriately.
Many of us are still young and hopefully it won’t always be like this and we can get to older ages healthy and strong. What we don’t see now is that if we keep on being sedentary, if we neglect our strength and muscle mass, if we drink more alcohol that water, if we don’t eat enough fibre because it seems we’re allergic to it, if we focus on shrinking rather than growing, our older ages won’t look very promising.
You can choose not to do anything about it, however, your older version would say “I wish I had done things differently “.

No supplements, menstrual syncing, specific menopausal workout, detox diets, you name it, are going to help you improve your overall health unless the 4 basics are covered which are resistant training, nutrition, sleep and daily physical activity.
Unfortunately all the fancy stuff sell very well to those in pain and they come with a high price tag.
Allow me to tell you that none of that matters unless the big 4 are looked after first.

Trying to train hard enough to drive results without enough food is like trying to drive your car with water, and so far that’s not possible.
We see it all the time around us. It seems we’re back to the 90’s and 00’s where thinness is cheered and complimented without fully understanding the repercussions of lack of nutrients.
With all my respect if you pretend to get strong and fit without fuel, you’ve been fooled. And I talk from my own past experience.

You’re the only one who can make the changes.
You don’t need a new diet, a new training plan, a new morning routine, you need to be accountable for your health and if you can’t alone, us professionals are here for a reason.

When you stop blaming on everything and anything for your health situation you become unstoppable
There might be many things that we cannot control but the fundamentals ( sleep, nutrition, movement) is often up to us.

I’ll never judge anyone for how the chose to exercise. You’ll never hear me saying that walking, Pilates, yoga or any other form of exercises are bad, in fact I encourage everyone to move as much as they can.
Now, the numbers are there and those complication from having low muscle mass and strength are preventable.
Often times, even if we don’t want it, we need to do what we have to do, and strength and resistance training are part of them.
It is my business and it’ll always be.
Don’t ask me to shut up, my voice will only get louder.
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VALUES AND STANDARDS

If health is one of your values and regardless of what life throws at you, you keep a minimum standard (not perfection), maintain your most optimal health becomes who you are.

I only hope it’s not too late for you to start taking your strength seriously