Quick Weight Loss Tips To Fit Into Your Mini Skirt

Here is part two of my latest quick weight podcast to look great in your mini skirt

Jim:    Absolutely.  So that’s a great weight loss tip.  That’s the first weight loss tip.  What is the next one?  We’re going into workout variety. 

Jayson:    Yeah.  Workout variety is another area that people – we’re creatures of habit.  We get into a routine that we like and we tend to not stray from that routine regardless if it’s working out or just life routines.  We take the same way to work, we just get in that zone of, “This works, why change it?”  Well, when it comes to working out, changing it is for the better because your body doesn’t put forth extra effort and energy to do something just voluntarily.  It is only going to work hard enough to get the job done.  So, if you start a workout routine and you’ve never worked out in your life, that’s going to be a shock to your body.  Your body has to adapt, it has to all of a sudden pick up the pace to meet that stress you’re placing on it and those demands. 

Once it increases enough to make those, say five exercises that you’ve never done in your life, tolerable or easy enough to complete then that’s where your body stops.  It’s not going to volunteer extra energy and extra work to say, “Oh, let’s just do more, because I like to.”  It’s only going to do enough to get the job done.  So, what you have to do is change it up.  You have to change that workout every four weeks.  You have to change the rep scheme, maybe shorten your rest intervals. You need to shock that body so that your body recognizes that it has to again pick up the pace because there’s something new.  There’s a new stress that it has to adapt to.  That’s how you make that progress and what happens is you increase your calories burned, your metabolic rate increases, and obviously weight loss occurs faster at that point. 

So, you definitely want to be changing it up and I don’t have to say every workout change it, but every three to four weeks re-shock your body with something new.  Whether it’s all new exercises, a new pace, a different routine, different rest intervals, more weight, and gets your body to adapt. You always want to have to force your body to adapt to the new stimulus you’re giving it.  Because like you said earlier, we provide the stimulus in the workout but it’s the body that produces the results.

Jim:    Absolutely.  So, I’ve got a quick – this isn’t a fast weight loss tip but it’s a fast weight loss story.  I’m a fitness professional myself and I was talking to a woman one time who was asking me, well she was telling me, you know Jim, I’m just – I’m just not seeing results anymore.  I’m just not – my program’s just not doing it anymore. So I asked her to please explain to me her exercise program, what was she doing?  And she said, well, I’m doing this exercise, and I’m doing this many reps, and I’m doing that exercise, and I’m doing this.  And she said, I just been doing these exercises and I’ve been doing this for months and my body is just staying the same.  So I just kind of looked to her and said, “Okay, so you’re doing the exact same thing over and over and over and you’re getting the exact same result?  Is that what you’re telling me?”  And she just looked at me and she just goes, yeah! And then I just kind of looked at her with a smile and she goes “Oh.” 

You know, it’s kind of – we miss these things but that’s really as simple as that.  You’re doing the same thing over and over and over and you’re getting the same result.  Of course you are.  That’s for anything.  If you sat there and added two plus two over and over and over again, you’re always going to get four.  So, anyway just thought I’d lighten the mood a little bit with a story.

Jayson:    And that goes back to that creature of habit thing.  It’s just, you get stuck in those ways of doing something and you don’t even think that there’s another way to get the job done.