LOSE WEIGHT & BODY FAT:

Weight loss alone has been shown to provide massive health improvements for people that are overweight. Targeting fat loss over weight loss vastly improves your health and sustainability in the long run. Fat loss is important, but what is more important is protecting and maintaining your muscle mass during this time. Most of the work for weight loss, fat loss, and maintaining muscle mass will come from proper nutrition. However, the right strength training approach can be complimentary to discriminant weight loss, and absolutely necessary for fat loss maintenance.

1.     Pre-diabetic: Some nutritional habits can consistently cause high glycemic (sugar) spikes in your blood stream. This leads to high blood sugar levels, which can cause symptoms including excessive thirst, frequently waking up at night to urinate, diarrhea, and blood clots. 

2.     Insulin Resistant: This is when you are consistently in a sugar storage and therefore fat storage mode (due to having elevated blood sugar levels). Excessive insulin secretion causes our cells to stop responding to insulin. There is an increased likelihood of being insulin resistant if you are overweight or pre-diabetic. This also increases the risk of high blood pressure, systemic inflammation, and cardiovascular disease.

3.     Fat Adaptive: Your bodies ability to efficiently use fat as the prominent energy source.

4.     Carbohydrate Adaptive: Your body being efficient and able to use sugar as energy. 

Metabolic Flexibility (THE DELTA WAVE): Being metabolically flexible means you can train your body to rely on sugar and fat usage for energy. This allows you to traverse efficiently through a fat adaptive state and a carbohydrate adaptive state, with minimal sensitivities or intolerances when eating fat or sugar.