Personal Trainer Diet & Exercise

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name's Amy Kistler, and I'm going to talk a little bit about diet and exercise. So, let's talk about exercise first. Some people, when they go into the gym, what they do is they do a little thing called circuit training. And they're going to hit their entire body on Monday, and then they rest and don't do weights on Tuesday, then Wednesday they're going to come in, hit their entire body on Wednesday, recover one day, and then on Friday come back in and do the whole thing. There's one thing wrong with this. What's happening when you're actually working out is you're actually breaking down the muscle. When, for example, you're doing a bicep curl, you're making tiny micro tears in your muscle. And inflammation occurs from this, and repairs the muscle, making it bigger and stronger. There's two things that come into play when this happens. For one thing, you need adequate amount of rest, and two, you need to eat the right kind of food, and you need to make sure you drink a lot of water. So, diet comes into exercise a little bit as well. So, for example, let's say on Monday when you hit that full body, when you come back on Wednesday to do that again, do you think you would be a little sore? Yes, because your body has not fully recovered from this. Then when you come on Friday, again, your muscles still have not had a chance to recover because it's full body. So you're actually just breaking down your muscles. So some people, when they come into the gym, they never actually get the chance to really build and make those muscles strong. So, what you normally would want to do is you want to break it up into one thirds. So by breaking it up into one thirds, then your body is actually able to recover and you're actually able to build and make stronger muscles. But, sometimes, oh wait, people all of a sudden plateau off and they don't understand what's going on. Well with your exercises your body has memory, and what happens when you always just do the same exercises, is it's going to plateau off, and it's not going to work. You need to make sure you change up your range of motion, or you change the exercises. There's a lot of different things you can do so your muscles don't plateau, and also so you don't get bored with your program. You as a personal trainer are not going to write somebody a diet plan. What you're going to do is you're going to help them eat healthy for the rest of their lives. Some tips that you would want to give is you don't want somebody to eat just two meals, or not eat enough calories. You want to have them eating five meals a day in smaller portions. By doing this, it's going to allow your metabolism to speed up and not slow down, and the faster your metabolism is, the faster it's going to burn calories."