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Beaufort Diet: Keto VS Low Fat

Beaufort Diet: Keto VS Low Fat

Published by on March 4, 2021 | Leave a response

“Hey everybody! For today’s video, I had to have a seat because I’m going to talk about a very controversial topic – nutrition. I’m going to talk specifically about the differences between a low carb or ketogenic diet or a low fat diet. All right. So let’s get into it first and foremost, I’m making this video because a lot of times people first come to me, I’ll sit down with them for nutrition consultation and they’ll say, “Sam, what should I do? Should I be on a keto like my aunt Beth, or I don’t know, she’s lost a lot of weight, but I’ve also heard on the news that a low fat diet is the way to go, which is… what do I need to start doing?” So we’re going to address both kind of what the keto diet is and what a low fat diet is.

Beaufort Diet: Keto VS Low Fat

So ketogenic diet first and foremost is 75% of that is coming your caloric needs or coming from fat. 20% of your caloric needs are coming from protein and the fiber or less are coming from carbohydrates. The reason that I tell you those statistics is most people will mess that up and they’re just kind of keto-ish, which isn’t a real thing. It’s just, then you’re just kind of eating more fat than you normally would. So that is the ketogenic diet, kind of the way it’s broken down.

Some pros from the ketogenic diet are it does have a good impact on your insulin. There’s a lot of recent research that suggests it has good benefits for insulin sensitivity. Also people when they get into ketosis, which is a very small percentage by the way that people that actually embark on the ketogenic diet ever feel ketosis but when they do that has good mental benefits. 

Some cons… performance, a lot of people notice that their performance will dip when they’re on a ketogenic diet. That’s because of the lack of carbohydrates, that they’re accustomed to feeling their workouts. Also, the sustainability is also a huge factor. A lot of people I have met, a whole lot of people that have done the ketogenic diet six to eight years. A lot of them met a lot of people that have tried it out for a month or two, but no one really sustaining long-term. It is also important to note that I have done both of these diets personally, I have personal experience with them. Yeah, the sustainability of the ketogenic diet is just not something long-term, taking in that much fat. And then over time, people will really rev up the fat, which has more calories per gram, than carbohydrates. So people can overeat on the ketogenic diet as well. A lot of times this diet is popular because people will lose weight right away from flushing out all the carbohydrates. If you think about carbo – hydrate, what they do is they hydrate you. So a lot of the weight is water weight initially, just to be aware of that. And the reason that both these diets do work is because they were strict a certain macronutrient. So in this case would be carbohydrates on the ketogenic diet, the low fat diets obviously fat. When you restrict one of those, you’re going to have less calories overall, thus, a negative energy balance, and you’re going to lose weight. That’s kind of the trick behind it. So not I went off on that tangent, let’s talk about the low fat diet.

A low fat diet… You’re going to have very little fat 20% or less on a low fat diet. I believe this became popular because a lot of people in the 80s, early 90s were saying, you know dietary fat is directly related to heart disease, things like that, a lot of research since then showing that there is no correlation there, just to be clear on that. So low fat diet… What I’ll notice with clients is sometimes especially female clients have to be careful because a lot of hormones are produced, and transported through the things we get in our dietary fats. So you’re not going to be as easily absorbing specific nutrients, such as fat-soluble vitamins like A, D, K, and E. So you have to be very careful about micronutrient deficiencies when you’re out on a low fat diet. 

Beaufort Diet: Keto VS Low Fat

So here’s my 2 cents on it all just to kind of wrap it up… a balanced approach is the way to go. I would throw either one of these diets out. They’re not sustainable. I haven’t seen people last very long on either one of them I’m talking to, you know, a decade plus, and that’s what we’re looking for. Sustainability long-term health, a good way to kind of approach a sustainable diet would be to organize it around these, take kind of the ideas from the ketogenic diet and the low fat diet and organize it around that. So a way to do that would be… okay. I’m not going to have fats and carbs in the same meal. So for example, you can for breakfast, have a protein, a vegetable, and a carbohydrate. For lunch, you could have the same thing. And then for dinner, just take out that carbohydrate and swap it with a fat. So then you’re going to have protein, vegetables, and fat for dinner. That’s going to keep you well balanced and that’s kind of where we start most of the clients that I work with.

So I hope you found this video valuable. If you liked it, give me a thumbs up, give me a heart. If you didn’t write in the comments, you suck whatever. Or if you have any questions, leave them in the comments. I look forward to responding to all you guys’ messages. Again, I hope you found this valuable. That’s all for today and as always stay strong.”

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Beaufort Fitness: Why Cardio is NOT Weight Loss

Beaufort Fitness: Why Cardio is NOT Weight Loss

Published by on March 4, 2021 | Leave a response

Hate to break it to you but… cardio exercise is NOT weight loss. Here’s why:

People always come to me with the belief that they just need to add more cardio when the weight loss stalls. This belief is false.

Let’s look at the facts of the cardio – weight loss relationship.

1. You can lose weight while doing cardio, but can also gain weight while doing cardio if you EAT in a SURPLUS.

2. If you are eating in a deficit, do you lose weight without cardio? YES. If you’re eating in deficit with cardio do you lose weight? YES.

If you are asking…..“But Sam. Which one should I do?!” If you have weight loss as your goal — always address your NUTRITION FIRST and add cardio as a bonus. Not the other way around. This will give you sustainable results and allow you to progress consistently.

“Hey everybody! I wanted to deliver a simple message today. My message today is cardiovascular activity or cardio as most call it, does not equal fat loss. Now I know a lot of you are thinking “What? My aunt, my sister, my cousin, my uncle, all of these people have been running and they lose weight. I see it all the time.” That is correct. That can happen. But I’m here to tell you that cardio is not fat loss in every instance. It is not where you should be putting the most of your emphasis on, especially if you are new to resistance training, if you’re new to developing a healthy lifestyle, it is not where you should be putting the majority of your emphasis cardiovascular activity does have a great health benefits to it so I’m not saying you should neglect it completely, but please often what I see is people will start out new fitness. They’re all hyped. They’re getting on the elliptical for 45 minutes. That’s not what you should be doing. That’s not a good use of your time. So I’m going to tell you right now, kind of what we need to be focusing on as you’re starting out and why cardio does not equal fat loss. 

So if we look at the equation of fat loss, we know that to lose weight, you have to be in a calorie deficit. So for example, those of you that don’t know what a calorie deficit is… If my baseline level of calories to maintain my current weight was around 2000. And if I ate anything more than 2000, that means I would gain weight. That’d be a calorie surplus, but anything less than 2000 and this has to be consistently over time. If I eat anything less than 2000, let’s say I’m consistently eating 1600. I know over time that I’m going to lose weight and that’s that’s science right there.

So if we look at the equation of cardiovascular activity, it’s very simple. You can lose weight. Yes, doing cardio and being in a calorie deficit, you can lose weight, just being in a calorie deficit. You cannot lose weight if you’re doing cardio and in a calorie surplus. So the main message here is if you’re starting out new focus on your nutrition first, put what matters first. If you’re looking for fat loss, put what matters first, your nutrition, dial that in. Know what your maintenance level of calories is, know how to go below that… and that’s going to get you fat loss, sustainable fat loss over time, far superior than cardiovascular activity alone. Well, that’s my message for today. I hope everybody has a fantastic rest of their day as always, stay strong.”

-EarthFIT Coach Sam

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Beaufort Nutrition: Eating On The Go

Beaufort Nutrition: Eating On The Go

Published by on March 1, 2021 | Leave a response

Hey everyone! It’s Whitney from EarthFIT. So today I want to talk to you about “Eating On The Go”. So just because you’re away from home, doesn’t mean you have to make poor food choices. So the first thing I recommend is be prepared. If you’re meal prepping or you’re focusing a lot on nutrition, you need to prepare your meals. You need to have them ready to go for the day, at the very least. That way we know for your schedule, you have everything you need to hit those targets that you’re doing. Now, say you’re not meal prepping, you’re just trying to eat right, you’ve been working on nutrition: You do want to be prepared. So, a few things you can do is if you know you’re going to be away from home, or you’re not going to be able to eat what you need to eat, you want to bring stuff with you. A few things you can bring with you for snacks are… I like to tell people, bring protein. That’s the easiest way to get good nutrition is having a good amount of protein. And you can do that through like a protein shake. You can do that through hard boiled eggs. You can do that through some chicken breast. You can do that through tuna. There’s a lot of easy protein snacks that you can bring with you on the go. If you do a protein shake, you might want to have a bottle or something – a shaker, something easy where you don’t even need a ball. You can get one that has a top that you can mix a protein already. I like to use this one because it also has at the bottom, a separate pouch that you can keep things dry. Sometimes I’ll put nuts in there depending on what my macros are for the day. If I need some fats, those are some options.

Now say last resort, you are out, you don’t have any snacks with you… What can you do? So you have a few options. I like to give people is: (1) You can completely fast.  Just because you’re feeling hungry doesn’t mean you need to eat. Sometimes you’ll do better if you don’t eat anything at all, you wait so you’re in a place where you can have a proper meal and you can make sure you’re staying on track with nutrition. A little hunger is not going to kill anybody. That being said, if you have diabetes or something where you do need to monitor blood sugar, that’s a different story. But for most people you can fast. Now, say you can’t fast and you’re like, “I really need something.” I recommend try starting drinking some water first, having some water. Sometimes people think they’re hungry, but really they’re dehydrated. 

I know for me personally, if I’m feeling like I want fruit to eat, it’s typically the water in the fruit that I’m craving. It’s not actually food that I want. Now, worst comes to worst, you don’t have any options, you need to have something to eat. I like to think the worst case scenario is you go to a gas station. So, if you can find something healthy to eat it at a gas station, you can pretty much find it anywhere. Whether it’s a grocery store, a restaurant, your gas station is going to be the bottom of the barrel, for instance. So I’ve actually gone to a gas station today to show you some options that you can have that’ll work. And I’ll go over with those with you now.

(Please see the video)

Volpi Roltini Singles

  • 140 calories & 10g protein per serving
  • Good source of protein
  • No added nitrates

Chobani Yogurt

  • 110 calories & 11g protein per serving
  • No artificial flavors
  • Made with real fruit

Wonderful Pistachios

  • Plant-based protein
  • Good source of fat
  • Non-GMO

Quest Protein Chips

  • 18g protein per serving
  • Baked, Never fried
  • 4g net carbs

Any Fruit/ Veggies

  • Full of important nutrients
  • A whole food
  • 110 calories

Duke’s Sausages

  • No MSG, No preservatives
  • 7g protein, 11g fat
  • 130 calories

-EarthFIT Coach Whitney

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What To Do With Family Members Who Don't Support Your Healthy Lifestyle

What To Do With Family Members Who Don’t Support Your Healthy Lifestyle

Published by on March 1, 2021 | Leave a response

Happy Friday, everybody! Thank you for tuning in to my question and answer. And today’s Q and A, I’m going to address what to do with those family members that do not support your healthy lifestyle. Now, this question gets posed to me in a variety of ways. It’s typically “Sam, my husband does not support me. He comes and brings home all kinds of garbage food, and it’s really tough for me not to eat it. He doesn’t like what I cook for him or my children won’t eat what I’m cooking for them. And I just find it very difficult to kind of maintain this healthy lifestyle. They don’t like to go out and walk and things like that with me, they would rather sit and watch movies. What can I do?” So today’s video. I’m gonna address all of that.

So the first step to do when you’re dealing with resistance from those family members or those loved ones are made as the people that you live with need to expect it going in, right? So especially those that have just recently changed to a healthier lifestyle. You’re going to get resistance from those, especially if you’re trying to put your new found healthy lifestyle on somebody that’s not ready for it, right? You can’t shove your, what you love down their throat, or you’re just going to create more turmoil, more tension in that relationship. So expect the resistance going into it. Now, after you’ve grasped it, there’s going to be some resistance. You can do this either ahead of time or, you know, right after you start getting into your healthier lifestyle is you need to explain to that person why it’s important and not just saying things like, Oh, I just want to be healthier. It needs to come from a true place then you need to explain your why to them. So an example, and this is just something I’m going to make up off the top of my head, but like an example you would say to someone, I would say to someone that’s given me a lot of resistance, it would be… “You know, I am trying to get healthy right now because I have a generational problem in my family of men that are dying early. And I don’t want to pass it on to my children. I am afraid that if I don’t get healthier, I’m going to have a heart attack tomorrow. That is why I’m doing this. I’m not just doing this for no reason…” Something along those lines, the side note if you’re talking to children, it doesn’t have to be that in depth. You can simply say something along the lines of… “it makes daddy or mommy feel better when I eat healthier foods and I’m active that way I have more energy to play with you.” again, that’s just a generic example, but you get the point.

So if you explain to this person or the people that are giving you resistance why it’s important to you really, you need to set the example day after day before you can expect any change out of anybody. So you need to just be living that healthy lifestyle, letting your light shine through being that beam. Once they see how happy and how much more energy you have, how you’re feeling, how you’re looking, that’s going to wear off on them eventually. And then they’re going to be more receptive to the healthier lifestyle. Then maybe you could start incorporating, you know, family exercise, or there’ll be more receptive to your healthier meals. But at first, when you haven’t set the example at all, there’s going to be a lot of resistance. So to kind of recap that you need to go in expecting the resistance. You need to explain a true why it’s got to come from a deep place on why it is important to you. And then you have to set the example and it can’t just be one day, one week. It needs to be day after day and just be positive about it. 

And then over time, they’re going to change. Now, if you don’t have any children, or you don’t want to hear any on soliciting parenting advice, you can turn this video off right now. Cause I might go on a slight rant here. So those common question I get is Sam, what do I do? My kids won’t eat healthy. Well, you need to really ask yourself a few things. One, do you want your kids to be unhealthy? Do you want you to set your kids up to have an unhealthy lifestyle? That’s something you need to get in the mindset. And the second thing your kids, when you’re cooking for them, they might not eat it initially, but eventually when they get hungry enough, they’re going to eat what you put out on the table, especially if that is their only option. That’s the end of my rant there again, if you don’t want to take my unsolicited parenting advice, I’m not a pediatrician. So you don’t have to. All right. That’s all for today’s video. Again, expect resistance. Explain why it is important and be the example for your family. That is all for today. Thank you for all the questions I’ve been getting. I’ve been loving it. Everybody, stay strong. I’ll see you Monday.

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Testimonial: Julia's Fitness Journey with EarthFIT

Testimonial: Julia’s Fitness Journey with EarthFIT

Published by on January 15, 2021 | Leave a response

Testimonial: Julia’s Fitness Journey with EarthFIT

“Before EarthFIT, my life was mostly just kind of hanging around the house, not a lot of activity certainly wasn’t very strong. Now after EarthFIT, especially now that I’ve been coming five days a week, it’s so much different. I sleep so much better. I have so much more energy during the day. I’m so much stronger.

I remember when I first started, I couldn’t do anything really at my first initial assessment, doing lunges was hard and now I feel like it’s, I’m so much better at doing everything. I have so much more energy now, I’m much stronger. I remember when I first started, it was a struggle for me to be doing things with like 10 pound dumbbells. So, I’m just so much more able to move around and so much stronger and have definitely built some muscle mass. I’ve been to every other kind of gym that there is and being in a small group setting is so great because you not only get what one-on-one coaching from you guys, which is awesome, but there’s also other people to kind of help you along the way with both how to do things and just some camaraderie.

I think a lot of people see videos on Facebook to get their initial taste of what EarthFIT might be like and so seeing so many positive results, I think makes anyone skeptical about anything, but actually coming into the gym and seeing that as real and that all of the coaches put in so much work to everybody and it’s so individualized, all of that skepticism just floats away the first class that you have.

Testimonial: Julia's Fitness Journey with EarthFIT

I would recommend EarthFIT to anyone who’s interested in doing any kind of movement. I would give them my phone number. Even if you feel like you can’t do anything right now, and you mostly just hang out on the couch, you guys are so good at taking people from absolutely nothing to wherever it is that they want to be. The hardest part of getting over it, I think is just coming in the door the first time meeting you guys, everybody is so easygoing and so truly interested in helping people, which is hard to find.” –Julia

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Beaufort Fitness: How To Get Rid Of Muffin Top Naturally

Beaufort Fitness: How To Get Rid Of Muffin Top Naturally

Published by on January 15, 2021 | Leave a response

Good morning, everybody. Welcome to muffin top Monday. That is right! And today’s video I’m going to go over and address one of the most common problem areas for people. I’m again asked a lot about it. It is the muffin top. At first, I had no idea what it was. I had to look it up on Google. Google showed me it’s this area right here above your hips right here. Where that little, extra letting sticks out of your jeans. If you got a lower cut shirt, It will stick out as well – that is the muffin top. So today I’m going to show you some exercises, how to strengthen that area. Specifically, the muscles we’ll be targeting are the obliques. But before we get into that, I do want to note it’s very important… you’re listening to this, like I’ve said, in other videos, you cannot spot reduce body fat okay? You can not spot reduce body fat. Meaning, if I just do a bunch of oblique exercises, my muffin tops kind of not go away. It could strengthen the muscles of your obliques and give it a slightly tighter look. Just because muscle is a little bit tighter than a fat, but it’s not going to completely eliminate it. What you need to do for that is get proper nutrition and exercise regularly. Get proper rest each night. So nutrition, exercise, sleep. I know it’s not the funnest thing in the world to tell you repeatedly, but those are the most important, it should be the cornerstone. Now that being said, you got everything on lock. You’ve been doing all those consistently for a while. We could do some isolation exercises for the obliques to kind of strengthen and tone that muffin top. So we’re going to get into those now.

Beaufort Fitness: How To Get Rid Of Muffin Top Naturally

I’m going to give you three quick ones here. First one we’re going to want to do is a (1) side plank. So you go down here all the way down to the ground. Bring those hips up. Now when we’re in the side plank, you want to first make sure our shoulders, our knees and our ankles are all in one nice line here. Raise the hips up. Squeeze the butt forward. You want to squeeze this area right here up your abs. If that’s too easy for you, you could raise a foot off and hold it there for a little extra of resistance. You would turn over. After a minute of doing one side, you’re going to turn over and do it on the other side. If you can’t quite make it a minute yet, that’s fine. Break it up to 30 second intervals is fine.

Beaufort Fitness: How To Get Rid Of Muffin Top Naturally

After that, we’re going to stay down on the ground and we will do (2) bicycle abs. Now, I see this done wrong very frequently. The best way to do this is you’re going to want to go slow and controlled. If you’re a beginner, here’s a way that you can do it properly, you’re going to take one hand, place it on the ground there. So this shoulder is staying down in this instance as my right shoulder. Cause I’m going to go up with my left shoulder, immediate at my right knee here. So I would go up, squeeze the core, go back down slow and controlled. After I’ve mastered it with two feet on the ground, raised 2 feet, go there and then we can alternate back and forth. But remember the opposite shoulder down, go slow and controlled, especially on the way down you want to squeeze the core there.  

Beaufort Fitness: How To Get Rid Of Muffin Top Naturally

And then we’re going to go to a heavier (3) single arm carry. Let’s called it suitcase carry. Now, if you don’t have a 50 pound dumbbell like I do at home, you can find something, a bucket, fill it up with water. Grab a bag of rice, grab your kid by the collar, carrying him like this. I’m just kidding. Don’t do that. 🙂 Go ahead. When you are doing your carry though, you want to square your shoulders up, walk nice and slow and controlled there. Try and bring your belly button in and up. Squeeze your core the whole time. You want to keep these shoulders square. That’s what’s going to work. This is if you’re keeping these square, if we’re leaning to this side, that’s not going to work. And please do not do this exercise. When you’re doing that. (Please see the video) You’re just going to stand up and walk nice and slow. Think about a minute or so down a minute, minute and a half down on one side and then a minute, minute and a half on the other. 

Beaufort Fitness: How To Get Rid Of Muffin Top Naturally

And I’ll throw in a bonus exercises. This one’s for more advanced people. It’s a windshield wiper. You’re going to go down on the ground here. Keep that chest elevated. You just drop your feet out to the side here, go down, and then you’re going to use your core. You’re going to flex your core to pull it back into center. Don’t use your hips there. So go down and even think about it. Just kind of leaning with your knees there, and then I’m going to squeeze my core and that’s, what’s going to bring it back to the middle. Don’t use your hips to move it back to the middle. If you’re not feeling that one quite a bit, you’re probably not doing it right. Okay. So just focus on those other three then. So to recap, to eliminate that muffin top, first thing you’re going to do is focus on your nutrition. You’ve got to quit eating as many muffins. You’re going to want to focus on your exercise and you’re gonna want to focus on that rest. That’s gonna eliminate the most body fat. And then once we got those habits down on lock, we can do some isolation for the obliques that is more of that muffin top area. That is all for today. Thank you for tuning into muffin top Monday. I hope everybody has a fantastic rest of their week. Stay strong!

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Beaufort Fitness: How To Prepare Yourself For The Weekend

Beaufort Fitness: How To Prepare Yourself For The Weekend

Published by on January 15, 2021 | Leave a response

Beaufort Fitness: How To Prepare Yourself For The Weekend

Happy Friday everybody! Thank you for tuning in. I hope everybody has had an amazing week so far. I hope you’re preparing for the weekend to do something you love with the people you love. And today’s video I’m going to go over really quickly. How do you prepare yourself for the weekend? Maybe you find yourself every weekend, that’s the time that you fall off. That’s the time you feel like you’re gaining the most weight. You’re going back into the gym on Monday 10 pounds heavier. How do you prepare yourself for that? On Monday, I did a video about how to recover from a bad weekend. We’ll talk about the preparation today. So we’re going to go through 3 quick easy steps.

(1) First step is actually to prepare. Look at what you got on the schedule that weekend, maybe you have a big family event coming up where you know that your uncle Bob is going to feed you a bunch of burgers. So, and you just can’t resist uncle Bob’s burgers, right? So prepare for that workout ahead of time. Drink some water, maybe eat a little bit less. I’m not suggesting that you starve yourself so you can eat more. Not that binge restrict mentality, but if you do have a healthier relationship with food, you could incorporate some fasting again, only if you have a healthy relationship with food, then incorporate, you know, if you know, you have a big meal coming up fast a little bit and then eat more calories later, also prepare your meals. If that’s something you really struggle with, a lot of people will do great meal prepping throughout the week. And then when it comes to Friday, all their meals are gone and they just wait until Sunday to start cooking again. It makes the meals there, have them ready, have them ready to go. A little preparation will go a long way. I’m sure you’ve all heard “If you fail to prepare, you’re preparing to fail”. Keep that in mind.

(2) Step number 2, schedule some movement. I track a lot of clients’ steps whether it’s my clients online or here at EarthFIT through my accountability app. I can see it syncs up to things like their Apple watches, Fitbits, things like that. I can see their steps throughout the week and initially, when I take on a client, a lot of times, you’ll see, they’ll have a certain level of steps throughout the week and then the weekend comes and they’ll drop. Sometimes it’s drastic. It’s like six, 7,000 steps. So that’s usually the first first thing I’ll address with them is, Hey, let’s boost our steps up. Let’s boost our movement throughout the weekend. And what will happen a lot of times is, you know, we’ll eat a lot of food, we’ll be on the couch. Football’s on everybody that knows me, knows I love football and we’re sitting down all day. We’re not moving. So schedule a workout, schedule some daily movement, schedule a long walk. A couple long walks is actually the most optimal there. You’re going to want to schedule frequent movement. Okay.

(3) Third thing. Focus on your sleep. A lot of times our sleep is all over the place on the weekends. We’re staying up a little bit later. We’re drinking alcohol before we sleep. So we’re not getting that quality deep sleep that we need to really facilitate recovery and fat burning. So you’re going to want to really just try to prioritize your sleep, you know, go to bed at a reasonable time. I’m not saying you need to go to bed at 7:00 PM, but try to get a full eight hours in and think about your sleep and how that affects you. A lot of times when we’re tired the next day, it will mess with our hunger hormones. So we’ll eat, we’ll make poor nutritional choices. And then after we make those poor nutritional choices, it makes us tired so then we’re sleeping on the couch and then we’re not moving. So focus on your sleep. 

So those are the 3 steps again, to recap, just prepare, go into the weekend. Look at what you got, look at your schedule ahead. If you’ve got a big event coming up, prepare for it. Schedule some movement in step number 2, you want to get out, move just, don’t be a couch potato all the weekend. And step number 3, think about your sleep. That one will probably go the farthest out of all of these, really think about your sleep and you’re going to get great results. Okay. So if you incorporate most of those, you’re going to see great benefit. Thank you for tuning in today. I hope everybody has an amazing weekend. Stay tuned. There’ll be a video on Monday and everybody, stay strong!

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Betsy Breaks Her Fitness Plateau At EarthFIT

Betsy Breaks Her Fitness Plateau At EarthFIT

Published by on December 22, 2020 | Leave a response

 Betsy was skeptical of all gyms, decided to try EarthFIT and she wished she would have done it sooner. Check out her testimonial. 

“Before EarthFIT, I have always exercised cardio, yoga, all sorts of different things, but I had plateaued. And when I turned 50, I realized I needed more, I wanted more for my body and brain. I was skeptical about all gyms, which is why I never joined one. And, I just didn’t see the point of it if I could do it at home on my own, I have done individual training. I did the beach body programs with Shaun T the insanity. And I did those regularly and I saw results with them but then, you know, again, I plateaued and I needed the individual encouragement and pushing, and knowing I could do more. The things I thought I could do when I got here, I found that I couldn’t do them or I was doing them wrong the whole time, which I think is why I wasn’t seeing the results that I wanted to see. I’ve strengthened and toned my body and my brain. I was worried that I was going to become feeble-minded and weak as I age. And I certainly feel stronger in both areas. I’ve been doing this almost a year now. And, I, everybody I see, I say they need to come, I tell them my story that I was skeptical about all gyms for 25, 30 years, I never did. And what I’ve seen in myself in the past year has just totally been worth it, wish I started earlier.”

It is important to remember weight loss is a  journey with ups and downs. Losing weight is not always going to follow a downward linear progression. There will be days your weight goes up and days it goes down, as long as the long term trajectory is on the correct path, success can be obtained. With that being said, here are five things to consider if your journey has hit a roadblock – Breaking Through A Weight Loss Plateau (Click Here)

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How To Recover From A Bad Weekend

How To Recover From A Bad Weekend

Published by on December 15, 2020 | Leave a response

Beaufort Fitness: How To Recover From A Bad Weekend

“Today’s Q and A, I’m going to go over one of the most commonly asked questions I get. It comes up almost every single Monday. It’s “Sam, What do I do now that I had a bad weekend?” All right. We’re going to get right into that. Usually this question comes to me in the form of one way or another. It’s “Sam. I went out with my girlfriends, I had a bunch of drinks. I forgot to exercise.”, “Sam, I sat on the couch and baked a bunch of cookies.”, “Sam, I watched football and ate pizza. Now I weigh 10 more pounds, what do I do?”

Well, I’m going to tell you there’s a three-step approach. We need to take your first step (1) We need to forgive ourselves. Okay. Whatever you ate, it happened. It’s over with, okay. Before you were probably feeling really good if you’re staying on to your exercise and nutrition, now you might be feeling a little physically and mentally beat up because you’re not at optimal health. So you’re walking around really thinking about how can I get back in this? And you feel bad. First thing we have to do is break that negative feedback loop. Okay. What we want to do is forgive ourselves. Say it happened. Okay. Remember, you’re only one meal away. One day away from being back to being at your optimal health. Okay. One meal away, one day away from being back on the path to success. Okay. So always take that with you.

Step number (2) We got to hydrate. We want to rehydrate a lot of times when we have things like alcoholic beverages or less than optimal food, it’s going to dehydrate you. So you want to rehydrate, get ready for the week that’s to come.

Step number (3) Stick to whatever plan you’re on, whatever plan your coach recommends to you. Okay? You want to stick with the exercise routine. You don’t need to go out and do anything drastic and cause further stress to your body. So you don’t need to go and run 12 miles just because you had a brownie… stick to it. Okay.

And then if there’s a bonus step, it would be to learn from your mistakes. I’ll make another video on how to prepare for things, big events as the holidays come up, but you can kind of recognize what patterns what’s triggering me to eat a certain way. Do this so you can learn from your mistakes and just better yourself. But again, to recap, you need to forgive yourself. We got to hydrate. We have to stay with our normal exercise routine and then try to learn from our mistakes. Everybody makes them it happens. That’s all right, we’re all human. Just remember you’re one day away from being back on track to being your healthiest self. All right, everybody have a great Monday and everybody, stay strong.”

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Beaufort Fitness: How Often Should I Workout?

Beaufort Fitness: How Often Should I Workout?

Published by on December 15, 2020 | Leave a response

Beaufort Fitness: How Often Should I Workout?

“Hey Everybody! Thank you for tuning into today’s Q & A. Today, I’m going to go over one of the most frequently asked questions. It’s “Sam, how often should I be working out? How many minutes a day do I need to spend working out? How many hours a week do I need to spend working out? How many days a week should I be working out?” I’m going to cover that in today’s video. We’re going to get right into it… nice quick one for you guys today. So to answer the question, how often should I be working out at point blank? Give me a drum roll, please. The answer is it depends. It really depends where you’re starting from. And now I know that’s not the answer most of you want to hear, but you’ve got to think if you’re starting out from the couch, it’s going to be a lot different than if you’re starting out from somebody that’s already intensely exercising three to four days a week. 

Okay? the best recommendation I can give to you to make this specific to you is hire a coach. Tell them your goals, work with that coach. They’re going to prescribe you the best possible program for you. Okay? I’m not going to leave you guys with it depends. Get a coach answer. Okay? I’m going to give you a general prescription for fat loss for beginners and then people that are already training three to four days a week.

So for beginners, the first thing you want to do is you’re going to want to increase your frequency. Okay? You’re going to bring your frequency up with exercise. So you’re, want to get off that couch. You’re going to move as much as possible. So every single day you could be moving for about 30 minutes. When I say move, that does not mean go to the gym and start using every piece of the equipment, you could find beating yourself up for 30 minutes. That means just simply getting out, making a habit out of moving could be walking.

It could be doing some light mobility or stretching things.

Beaufort Fitness: How Often Should I Workout?

So once you get that down and you’re ready for more, you’re ready for better results, faster results. It’s time to increase your intensity by weight training. So you’re going to start to weight train one to two days, maybe three days a week for most optimal results. You’re going to want to go with between three and four. Once you get that habit down, you’re in the three to four range where most of my current clients are; they’re intensely weight training three to four days a week. Then we’re going to add in things like mobility, aerobic conditioning in your off time. A lot of my clients say, Sam what should I do in my off time? How much time do I need spending outside of seeing you in my off time. And simply what I tell them is you need to be doing things, mobility. That’s going to increase your performance in the gym.

You want to work on those types of things, because if we can increase your performance in the gym, when you’re already training those three to four days a week intensely, you can make that better. You can push it more intensely. That’s going to give you better results. It’s going to push you closer towards your goal. So to wrap it up a few things to consider when your frequency goes up, your intensity is going to come down a little bit, meaning you’re not going to go from three to four days a week lifting super heavy than going to seven days a week lifting super heavy, no. Your intensity on those other days needs to come down and vice versa. If you’re, you know, lifting super heavy three days a week, but you want to add more frequency. 

And again, that frequency, that frequency is going to come from things like mobility, aerobic conditioning to improve our performance in the gym. So I hope that answers that question for you. If you need any further clarification, feel free to reach out to me. If you have any other questions, message me, leave me comments. I’m here to help you. If you need a coach, you don’t have a coach. You’re not sure. Hey, how often should I be working out? I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what you just said… Reach out to me. You can reach out to Beaufort personal training. We would love to see you at EarthFIT or online wherever you are. We’re bringing it to you. Everybody, stay strong.”

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