Nutrition is key

Great job today everyone! One workout down. I hope you are all feeling great today and are as excited as I am about the next 8 weeks. Remember a little soreness is normal so just make sure you are drinking water taking care of yourself as this can help the soreness subside more quickly. You will notice over the next few weeks that each workout will progress in difficulty but your body will respond quickly and with less recovery time needed between workouts.

A couple quick things to get you on track. Keep this in mind during our Challenge. Whether you are trying to lose weight, tone up, or just feel better. Nutrition is key. The workouts are important but what you are putting into your body the other 23 hours a day is extremely important.

When thinking about nutrition, try to:
1. Eat whole natural foods - fruits, veges, etc. etc
2. Cut out most if not all processed simple sugars like cookies, cakes, etc.
3. Avoid high fructose corn syrup and trans fats.
4. If the food grows on a tree, bush or in the ground or if it ran, swam or flew it's probably safe to eat.
5. Watch your portion sizes - think Plate Method
6. Drink water and cut out the sodas, fruit juices and other non-essential liquid calories.

Our workouts are designed to increase your metabolism, build strength, cardiovascular endurance, power and burn tons of calories. Make sure your eating helps and doesn't hinder this process. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Oh, You can visit my own site http://www.getfitcarlisle.com/ for this week's "fitness blueprint" I post a new one every Monday on my site. I'll put a video on here as well for you to follow.