Training For Women

I don't know much about anything but what I do know is this: men tend to lose weight quicker here than women. Even while doing the all-water detox, men lose more weight each day than women.

Women lose weight--lots, just not as quickly and as much as men. Instead of me advising women on what to do, read an informative email from my friend Michelle. She brings up good points about over-training, under-eating and the importance of cross-training. She did very well while was she was here, but feels she could have accomplished more had she trained SMARTER, NOT HARDER.

"As soon as I stopped friken training (my weight) started to shift again. I got my body composition done over here and spoke to a really great trainer who felt I was just over training. I think it's a bit different for guys in a way, maybe not all, but (my boyfriend)lost 8kg's in 3 weeks of training, and though I know that I lost a lot in my first month I know he would have just kept on loosing.

Look at (our other female friend) for example, she was training like mad and her results slowed like mine. The other thing I was doing when I stopped training and started travelling was eating a little more. That might have had something to do with it. It's amazing how not eating enough can affect you just as badly, and sometimes even more than eating too much. I tell you, getting to know your body is a mother bitch, I can't imagine how I ever would have really gotten to get a better idea on how to treat mine unless I went away and had all that time to focus on it.

Anyway, if I can recommend anything to (women) it's cross train, send her over to Julie at Ganesha to try some Yoga maybe, I found at times when I had a break from the Muay Thai for a couple of days and just did the yoga I shifted some weight.

The other thing is walking/jogging/running, it's the thing I struggled with the absolute most, but in the end it was always the thing that really made the difference. Tell her to join one of the gyms and walk as fast as she can on an incline on a treadmill if she's not comfortable on the road, or jogging. They say a good way too gage that your heart rate is in the fat loss zone is you should be able to talk while walking/jogging/running, but you shouldn't be able to sing. You want to puff and sweat, but don't push yourself out of that zone. I wish I'd focused on that a lot more now!

And diet wise I chose to drop all carbs other than vegetables because I was having bad reactions to the gluten and I don't believe I needed carbs from anything more than vegetables and fruit. A lot of people have gluten intolerances and don't realise, so that's a thing to try.... If she is eating other carbs make sure it's not in the evening after training or she wont get a chance to use them. The other thing is to really make sure she's not under eating. That's what I found I was doing for a while. Some of the symptoms that your body's going into starvation mode is not being able to sleep, your body feeling like it's stressed and tense, and growing a light hair on your body in more extreme cases.

She should be eating regularly, roughly every 3 hours. That's how long your body can hold onto protein for. Great snacks are a hand full of the raw cashews, yogurt, cheese (yes, trust me, say a 20g slice is fine, good essential fats), things like that...will keep the metabolism a churning and happier to shed fat because it trusts you'll be getting sufficient food. Otherwise I stuck to the omelets, stir-frys and salads.

And honestly, this is something I think you need to think about to, your muscles wont recover and grow unless you get sufficient breaks from thrashing them. Bodybuilders will only work out a certain body part once every 3 days to give it sufficient recovery time. And lets face it physique wise they know what they're doing. Not that most people want to be that bulky, but they know how to sculpt themselves, and get their body fat down to nothing, and not all of them are doing it in dodgy ways."