Introduction to the Free Fitness and Weight Loss Program This comes in 7 parts - read to the botttom of the page and click on next to see part 2  The ultimate aim of my blog is to do a little bit to help you improve your health & fitness by providing good sensible advice on healthy eating and exercise. My partner is a personal trainer and he has helped me to get fit and stay in shape, along with my meal planner (read about that here) .We will reveal to you the secrets you need to know to help you to plan your meals and exercise program. Please take the time to read through this introduction first. Then work through each of the 7 Steps and apply the action points at the end of each lesson before carrying on to the next.  Before we go any further I would like to say that we do not support fad dieting. Our system will give advice on a healthy approach to sensible eating which will aid steady weight-loss when combined with physical exercise. If you are under the age of 18 or have a Body Mass Index (BMI) below 25 then we do not recommend that you participate in this challenge. To check your BMI click on the link to use our BMI Calculator .
Hopefully the content and advice on this site and others that we link to will help to reduce the confusion that you face today. Because there is so much conflicting information and advice around at the moment we have come up with the simple 7 Step plan for you to follow to help you achieve your fitness and weight loss goals. I will hand you over to my husband for his great fitness advice....... Before we start, let me ask you this question. What does fitness mean to you? Let me explain the question in more detail. Whenever I meet new clients, the first thing I do is sit down with them and ask them why they have come to me. The stock answer is generally “I want to get fit.” My immediate reply is “Get fit for what?” The fact is most people don’t fully understand the term ‘fit’. The term ‘fit’ is very broad and can be interpreted as many different things. The ‘Collins English Dictionary’ term for ‘fit’ is as follows. ‘Well suited, worthy, qualified, proper, becoming, ready, in good condition.’ It doesn’t really relate to anything specific and therefore when presented as a goal is not really suitable in the broad sense of the term. What most people are referring to when they say, “I want to get fit.” Is that they generally have a more meaningful purpose for doing so. Usually with a little more probing in the initial conversation, I find out that they have a wedding or a holiday coming up and they want to improve their physical appearance. Or they have been diagnosed by their Doctor as having a condition related to a sedentary lifestyle such as, high blood pressure, high cholesterol or Type II Diabetes. Some people come to me because they have a particular sporting event or physical challenge that they need to be able to adapt to. In that case, fitness could be better described, as “the successful adaptation to the stresses and strains of ones lifestyle.”
So whatever lifestyle you choose to lead your fitness can be determined by how well you adapt. Have you ever heard the saying ‘Fit for what you do?’ This is very true. Let’s look at a couple of examples. You would consider a marathon runner to be very fit indeed. You would also consider a power lifter to very fit as well. Yet if they were asked to swap and take part in each other’s discipline it’s safe to say that both would perform at a novice level. But you cannot say that neither is fit. Both will have good all round fitness for everyday living and exceptional fitness for their respective sporting disciplines. It’s safe to assume that the average person is looking to improve their general overall fitness so that they can enjoy a healthier and more active lifestyle, by being able to adapt to the stresses and strains of ones daily life. That generally means improving the following; efficiency of the heart and lungs (aerobic fitness), the ability to perform repeated tasks (muscular endurance), range of movement (flexibility) and of course weight management. The example above that relates to the marathon runner and power lifter is the adaptation to conditions that are not part of a normal lifestyle. It is possible to train the body to adapt to exceptional conditions and this is what athlete’s and professional sports people are doing every day. But the average person does not need to apply this type of training or discipline to a regime designed to improve general daily fitness. But you can apply this system to whatever fitness goal you want to achieve. Everyone uses the same basic system to achieve his or her fitness goals. Some do it better than others. Some understand it better than others. Some take longer than others. But, at the end of the day it’s the same basic system. Fortunately, this mini-course will give you the information you need for a sensible way to start achieving your fitness goals, so you don’t waste your time and money running around buying all the latest ‘quick fixes’ that just don’t deliver what they promise. Introducing the 7 Steps To Fitness system. This is just a brief overview of what you will be doing in each of the following 7 lessons. | 
Free Fitness Program 
