The Interesting Thing About Fat Loss

Congratulations to all on the challengers this week and especially to those on our leader podium. Well done

The really interesting thing in calculating these statistics each week, is how much weight loss, DOES NOT play a role in reducing body fat estimations (note I'm saying estimations as this is a predictive measure that makes assumptions about your body).
Some have lost weight, only to find their body fat has risen slightly, and others, like Brenda, haven't lost any weight, but because their measurements continue to drop, so does the body fat %.
Your weight is so incredibly influenced by how much fluid you are carrying, as well as muscle etc, that you can get significant variations (1-2 kgs) that are relatively meaningless. Measurements from the tape measure are a much more reliable predictor of gaining fitness, strength, reduced fat mass, increased lean mass and great shape!
Of course, as some have already seen, its hard to measure reliably also. So the key then is to look at the trend over time, which is what we are doing. Dont focus on a one week slip up - you may have just measured wrongly. Look at what is happening to your measurements over time. If they keep going down (eg waist measurement) you are making fantastic gains, (including dropping clothes sizes) regardless of what the scales say.
My final word to you all is - who can knock Lisa B off her winning perch? I have it on good authority that she is having a big weekend at Clipsal - so this week is your big chance. Go hard and be good.

HiiT - The Express Check Out for fitness and fat burning!

HiiT Class - The Express Check Out for fitness and fat burning.

38 minutes and you are done.

High Intensity Interval Training (HiiT) is the fastest way to burn fat and and build explosive power for peak athletic performance.This is not an aerobics style workout (more boot camp style), no coordination required

Suitable for men and women,

6 pm Wednesdays Crystal Brook Fitness Centre. What have you got to lose?

Worried you're not fit enough? It doesn't matter. The exercise is in 30 sec intervals, if you can't manage 30, do 15 and have a slightly longer rest interval, or drop to every second jump or do it without the jump, there are lots of options. Then each week see if you can manage more than the last. Also included is a 3 minute Cross Fit round (WOD), changed monthly. Watch your general strength and fitness soar!

To celebrate and promote the start of HiiT - I am offering free body fat testing (skinfold method) is available from 5 pm this Wed. Use it to measure your progress or just to see how you are going. First in first served. 6 - 8 people max.

Insanity AKA HiiT

What we know: Track stars have amazing bodies. What former 400-meter hurdler Shaun Thompson knows: how you can get one! The trainer, aka Shaun T., designed Insanity, a 10-disc DVD series ($120; BeachBody.com), so successful that it turned a word for lunacy into a synonym for sculpted. The magic behind the routine comes from plyometrics: explosive, full-body exercises that rev your heart rate and ratchet up metabolism to torch megacalories and build lean muscle. (Excerpt from SELF)


But you don't have to spend all these dollars or do it alone, because this program is replicated in the newest class at the Crystal Brook Fitness Centre
HiiT - High Intensity Interval Training.
Starts Wednesday at 6pm

Blogging 101

So you're new to blogging (yes this is a blog, and when you are on it its called blogging). Here's an explanation and a few tips:

A blog is like an online journal - it keeps a chronological record of thoughts and information. It can be public (available to everyone) or private (you have to join to see/comment). Only authors (in this case myself) can put new things up.

But - there are things you can do. Note the comments section at the bottom of every post - its a bit like facebook, click on the work "comment" and you can make a comment. Tell me what you think about what I've said, like/dislike, interested/not, challenge the information or provide links to more. Then you can have a conversation with people from anywhere about it.

You can find any post by looking at the Blog Archive section on the left, towards the bottom. All the posts are listed and stored by date, listed by name. So if the info you're looking for isn't at the top of the page, look here. Or try the search bar above it

This "side bar" also has other information -just scroll down the page to see it. Information about upcoming events are here, links to information, and all sorts of other weird and wonderful things as I put them up there. You can also become a "follower" - (look for this box on the side bar). If you join up to this, when new posts go up (like this one) you get an email to tell you.

If you want to tell me something privately, rather than leaving a comment that everyone will see, go to the About Me section (right at the bottom of the sidebar) click here and access my email address (which you can also just click on)

I've decided to put fitness information on here, rather than bits and pieces on facebook, as this way its all together and here permanently for people to search for if you're ever interested, and you dont have to be on facebook to see it. If you'd like to see information about a particular topic - just let me know - drop me a comment or an email - after all you know how to do both now!

What's Cross Fit?

Check out these You Tube videos for a sample of what might be in the new HiiT class!

Fitness comes to Reebok

CrossFit and the Empire State Building

Attention All Footballers (or anyone else serious about their fitness)

Put 25th Feb in your diary now, as the gym session that will kick start your training for the season and give you the edge against your competitors. High Intensity Interval Training ( HiiT) starts that night at the Crystal Brook Fitness Centre. It is NOT aerobics, you do NOT have to be coordinated, but it is hard core, high intensity fitness and power training. It is not for the faint hearted. Its interval training using a variety of strength and power based exercises used in boot camps, cross fit and plyometrics (think jumping lunges).

6.OOpm Wed 25, smash it out in just 45 mins!