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Next time you decide to go for a run to knock out a cardio session, consider the following... Your body is able to move not only forwards, but backwards, laterally, up and down, as well as combinations of the aforementioned directions and movement patterns. Ensuring that the body moves through all planes of motions, and more specifically, each joint moves through all planes, will ensure a healthy, strong, and stable body.

Further, as long as motions are completed with some form of rhythmic and repetitive nature, an individual will experience similar effects/results as if they had completed a typical cardio intensive workout.

In addition to running forwards, try moving through series of sidesteps, Cariocas, and backwards running. It is very important to achieve and maintain proper flexibility and mobility prior to running. Failure to do so may result in injury. Please contact READY SET ME for answers to any fitness related questions and training inquiries.

Many people have recently asked me about body composition and how they can best achieve lean mass gains while decreasing unwanted fat. Aside from the obvious solutions (diet and exercise) a scale is an incredibly useful tool.

By recording body fat percentage and a starting weight at the beginning of an exercise program, an individual is then able to simply look in the mirror to monitor progress (most people do not own body fat calipers). By constantly stepping back on the scale, that person can ensure that nutrient uptake and hydration is at an adequate level to maintain, increase, or decrease body weight depending on specific goals.

As counting calories can be quite difficult, determining a basic distribution of nutrients throughout daily meals is much easier. With a proper, healthy diet (everyone's diet should be specific to their goals), that person can continue to exercise at that same weight and body fat will be eliminated and replaced with lean mass.

The scale will help ensure that person does not consume too many or too few calories throughout the day. It will act as a daily regulator for food/water intake and not just a measure of overall weight.

Further, constantly stepping on and off a scale will help someone understand their body's metabolic rate with much more simplicity. Knowing how many calories we need to consume each day from specific sources of macronutrients (carbs, fat, protein, fiber) is significantly more difficult than taking a general distribution (35% carbs, 30% protein, 15% fat, 20% fiber) and applying it to our meals. Beginning to understand how our bodies react to consuming specific amounts of food, and how the food is stored or used in our body, is paramount to achieving composition related goals.

For further questions about diet, exercise, and body fat compositions, please contact me via email.

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