Personal Training, Nutrition Counseling, and Weight Management Programs in Avon, CT
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By Benjamin Petitpas, CSCS, CPT
Having an increase in your metabolism means that there is an increase in the amount of calories that your body is burning to maintain its normal functions. If you have been having a difficult time burning fat and losing weight these 5 tips can help you get over the hump and help you maximize your metabolism and have you burning more calories all day long even while you are resting.
1. Strength Training
Strength training can help increase your metabolism in a few different ways. The first way is from the calories that you will burn during the workout itself. The second way is from the afterburn effect strength training has on your body, known as Excessive Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption (EPOC). EPOC can be described as an increase in your body’s metabolic activity following a strength training workout as your body is trying to recover and return itself to a pre-exercise state. A third way strength training increases the metabolism, is because it builds build lean muscle mass. This is important because the more lean muscle mass that you have, the more calories it takes for your body to maintain it. So as a result it causes an increase in your metabolism, so even will you are resting, your body will be burning more calories to support your lean muscle mass.
Here are just a few of our many success stories:
“I had given up my training program for over 6 months due to surgery and a recent move. I was feeling down about my loss of physical conditioning as well as losing my training network of friends and trainer due to my recent move. Finally, I decided I would set out to hopefully find a trainer who could get me back on track. I chose Ben Petitpas initially because of his credentials - BS Degree in Exercise Science, NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and NASM Certified Personal Trainer.”
“When I first met Ben he was totally empathetic to my situation and reassured me that he would give me a customized routine that would strengthen my weak areas while getting me into top physical condition. Each training session he always asked about any concerns before we started our workout to see if he needed to make any adjustment to my workout for that day. His education, personal athletic history, and research give him the edge on handling any issues that arose during the course of my training. In only 4 months I was not only back, but stronger than before. Thanks Ben.” Read the rest of this entry
In just 4 short weeks Jason was able to lose more than 13 pounds while working out with Connecticut Personal Trainer Benjamin Petitpas.
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Listen to what Angie was able to accomplish in just 4 short weeks while working with Avon, CT Personal Trainer Benjamin Petitpas!
By Dr. Judy Siegel
Nutrition Counseling Avon, Connecticut
Bread, one of our earliest foods-present at every meal. We love it!
So, what is it really? Flour, water, yeast and salt. Different flours, harder or softer, different rising temperatures, kneading procedures, baking times, shapes give us almost unlimited variation on this wonderful food. Every culture uses a grain to make ‘bread” of some type.
Sometimes, however, we use too much of a good food. Or, we find the poorest quality (cheapest). White bread, the spongy kind of my childhood was wonderful, I thought. Now it seems without character or nutritional value. All the vitamins were removed, then, by law, four are put back-B1, B2, B? and B6. Most of the fiber went too. Better for us, a 100% whole wheat bread, around 90 kcal a slice. Arnold’s, Pepperidge Farm, Entemann’s all make it, as do the local bakeries. Read the rest of this entry
By Dr. Judy Siegel
Nutrition Counseling Avon, CT
How many times have I heard this? I see as clients the people who say this when I first meet them. “I’ve tried Weight Watchers, other diets and, even though my friends lose, I don’t. Is there something wrong with me?
Maybe, your doctor didn’t study nutrition or overweight problems in medical school. A thyroid problem may be his only thought. He, or she, may check your thyroid profile to see if you are “running in a lower gear”. But usually this is not the case.
If you are one of those who have trouble losing, and you need to do so, you may be insulin resistant. This means you have to overproduce insulin in order to get glucose from carbohydrate containing foods into the cells where they can be used for energy. Excess insulin can help to make you overfat, AND make it difficult to lose. Read the rest of this entry
By Benjamin Petitpas, CSCS, CPT
How can I lose fat from my stomach and thighs?
Unfortunately, there is no such thing as spot reduction. I can’t just tell you to go do 1,000 crunches to lose your belly fat. Your muscles in that specific area would get stronger, but in the big picture the crunches won’t help you lose the fat surrounding your midsection.
What happens is that your body stores the excess calories that you consume through your diet as body fat to be used as a source of energy at a later time. If you are constantly consuming more calories than you are burning on a daily basis, your body will continue to store more and more calories as fat instead of using the fat as energy. Read the rest of this entry
By Dr. Judy Siegel
A reduced calorie diet for weight loss-Doesn’t that sound ridiculous? Of course a DIET to lose weight has fewer calories! Fewer that what? Fewer than whatever you’ve been eating and few calories than you burn in a day. Now we have a problem-how many calories do you burn in a day? I don’t know and probably neither do you. So, how can you decide how many calories to eat on your reduced calorie diet?
Calorie is a measure of energy, the amount need to raise the temperature of 1 liter of water 1 degree Celcius, from 14.5 to 15.5 C. It really is a kilo-calorie (kcal)-1000 calories. So whenever you read “calorie”, think kcal. All foods contain energy (kcals) and we use this energy from food to run our bodies, run to the store, run after kids, or just run-or walk. All movement requires that we spend calories to get it done. Most of the calories we burn are used for keeping the system going: the heart pumping, brain thinking, kidneys and liver working, etc. Below is a diagram of how your body spends calories. Read the rest of this entry
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