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Exercise, diet works with balance
Leslie Garcia, MCT Campus
Issue date: 9/11/09 Section: Sports
DALLAS - Time to rid the house of corn chips and good intentions and start fresh on a brand spankin' new year.
Let's go over the resolution list again, shall we?
No muffins. No pizza. No ice cream. No beer. No chocolate. No nitrates. No head cheese. No white rice. No T-bones.
Exercise an hour a day. Lift weights constantly. Follow Atkins. Follow South Beach. Follow the Beyonce diet.
Lose 100 pounds. Lose 50 pounds. Lose your mind if you try to follow all these.
"People set themselves up for failure, because they try to do too much initially," says Regina Coreil, group fitness coordinator for the Texas Club in Dallas. "It becomes, 'I have to do something that hurts me. I'm sore when I'm done. I'm putting myself on a diet I don't enjoy.' All these negatives instead of, 'What can I do that's moderate and I'm acclimating my body to?'" Ah, thank you, Regina, for bringing up one of our favorite fitness words:
Moderation.
Thus said, we asked Coreil and Ginger Schirmer, a Dallas-based health and exercise expert, for help keeping our resolutions. Not to last merely through the new year, but for our lifetimes as well.
"I like to give people a couple of things to modify and go from there," says Schirmer, whose credentials include a masters degree in exercise physiology.
"When you give them a whole list, it's overwhelming and very defeating. But give them something very easy to do, they become their own modifier and change their own lifestyle."
How? By using the word itself to spur us on. Ready? O-K! Gimme an M ...
M - Make realistic promises. If a client says he wants to lose 100 pounds, Regina asks, "What do you want to do in the next 90 days?"
"You don't have to give us 110 percent in January," she says. "Give us two to three days of your time, 30 minutes to an hour each time, and gently move into it."
O - Opt for fiber. Ginger, a registered dietitian, encourages that dietary addition early on. Fiber fills you up as well as - well, you know. That fiber thing.
Let's go over the resolution list again, shall we?
No muffins. No pizza. No ice cream. No beer. No chocolate. No nitrates. No head cheese. No white rice. No T-bones.
Exercise an hour a day. Lift weights constantly. Follow Atkins. Follow South Beach. Follow the Beyonce diet.
Lose 100 pounds. Lose 50 pounds. Lose your mind if you try to follow all these.
"People set themselves up for failure, because they try to do too much initially," says Regina Coreil, group fitness coordinator for the Texas Club in Dallas. "It becomes, 'I have to do something that hurts me. I'm sore when I'm done. I'm putting myself on a diet I don't enjoy.' All these negatives instead of, 'What can I do that's moderate and I'm acclimating my body to?'" Ah, thank you, Regina, for bringing up one of our favorite fitness words:
Moderation.
Thus said, we asked Coreil and Ginger Schirmer, a Dallas-based health and exercise expert, for help keeping our resolutions. Not to last merely through the new year, but for our lifetimes as well.
"I like to give people a couple of things to modify and go from there," says Schirmer, whose credentials include a masters degree in exercise physiology.
"When you give them a whole list, it's overwhelming and very defeating. But give them something very easy to do, they become their own modifier and change their own lifestyle."
How? By using the word itself to spur us on. Ready? O-K! Gimme an M ...
M - Make realistic promises. If a client says he wants to lose 100 pounds, Regina asks, "What do you want to do in the next 90 days?"
"You don't have to give us 110 percent in January," she says. "Give us two to three days of your time, 30 minutes to an hour each time, and gently move into it."
O - Opt for fiber. Ginger, a registered dietitian, encourages that dietary addition early on. Fiber fills you up as well as - well, you know. That fiber thing.
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