Guest Blogger

Ryan Alspach:
I started lifting weight in High school for track and football and it didn't take me long to become obsessed with working out. I started working at a gym when I was 17 and personal training when I was 18. Working and personal training at a gym, where professional bodybuilders, NFL players and professional fitness models worked out gave me a quick advantage and insight into the proper ways for training and nutrition. I worked out with bodybuilders, fitness models and NFL players throughout the years and I have honestly tried every method, theory and program for strength training and nutrition and the one thing that I have learned is that dramatic changes to your nutrition might give you quick results but they never stick. If you want to get lean muscle and see amazing results then change your lifestyle and stay away from diets unless your going to compete in fitness, figure or bodybuilding.
The one thing to remember is that consistency and determination will get you better results then any diet pill or fad diet.
How bad do you want to change your physique and your life?
What are you willing to sacrifice and how far are you willing to push your self?
Those are some of the questions that I ask all of my clients before I begin to reprogram their way of thinking when it comes to eating and fueling the body.

Reprogramming

Make an eating schedule that you can stick too for 4 weeks without changing things too much. Your body needs to get used to eating the same things at the same time of day so it can prepare it’s self for the days activities. Use common sense when making your diet and remember that the most important meals are breakfast, pre and post workout. These should consist of fast acting proteins such as whey or egg and for breakfast some kind of fruit and multi-vitamin. Your metabolism needs that jump start because it has used everything during your sleep to repair itself from the stress of the day before.

Eat every 2.5-3 hours and make sure that you eat these meals at the same time every day so your body can create a schedule. In doing so, your metabolism will burn 65% more efficient; which means burning more calories and fat. Eat your carbs early on and tapper them as the day goes. If your body knows that it’s going to get food every 2.5 hours then it won’t create a storage (fat), for fuel and it will burn off what you eat. If you don’t have a consistent diet and your body is getting food 3-6 hours apart then it will store everything as fat because it is unsure when it will get food/fuel again. So remember eat every meal at the same time for 4 weeks for amazing results. Next week I’ll post some diets of what I eat to stay lean.