Setting Dietary Parameters

No matter how many times you fall off the horse. You get back on. Every time you get back on, you get a little stronger. And a little more familiar with the process.

Until suddenly you just get it. It feels like it’s happening of its own accord. You realize a very individual decision, and triumphed over karma and genetic inheritance.

Difference approaches work for different people. Counting calories may work for you. Here’s what’s most effective for me.

Smoothie for breakfast. My kind of smoothie. Just fruit, various leafy greens or cucumber, and water. No protein powder, cartoned orange juice, or anything that’s not fruit or vegetable.

Lunch is the main meal of the day. It should be balanced, satisfying and delicious. Don’t waste caloric intake on something that’s not worth it, like bread, unless it’s something special and fresh.

Diner can only be raw fruit or vegetables. All the carrots you want. All the grapes. Any veggie that catches your eye. A salad.

Here is where the battle is won or lost. Go to bed a little hungry, and you’ll wake up 2 pounds lighter. Use your sleep as a method to knock off the pounds. And in the morning you’ll be and feel thin again.

Keep to that program and you’ll look great.

For gaining weight, do weights, protein shakes and eat more.

And don’t get discouraged. Ciao, Pietro

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Getting Back On The Horse

A fine line exists between safety considerations and coddling yourself. Ridding yourself of some injures takes ceaseless work for years. And what might seem like a set-back is often just part of that process.

And sometimes a doctor tells someone to quit working out over some health issue, and forgets to untell them. Those long hiatuses from exercise is exactly what the body doesn’t need.

Hypochondriacs often contract the very illness they fear the most. You see this tendency with pople who are extremely fearful of their knees, for example, and invariably create knee problems by avoiding stress in that area.

Knee problems, and not all but a vast majority of ailments of the body, are direct or indirect consequence of a lack of exercise. The same is absolutely true of back problems.

I say with certainty because of all the experience I’ve had with both. 7 spin classes a week, 2 abs classes, chest and legs, hot yoga, hockey, refing, etc etc, some doctors would say I’m crazy. But my knees and back, quite literally, have never felt better.

So my advice, get back on the horse.

Ciao, Pietro

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Inferared Heaters, No More Boiling Pots On The Stove

I’m in the ideal profession, personal training. I deal in health. And its ancillary by-product, vanity.

Sometimes it takes is a health scare (of yourself or a loved one) to put life in perspective. Then there’s no denying, health is the most valuable commodity on earth. All forms of currency, gold, diamonds, pale in significance.

By reinforcing those values in other people, I am reminding myself. This is what really matters. The time spent on a bike or treadmill or matt or in bed with a compatible partner, whatever creative means you can find to get your  heart rate up to its highest decibels, is what really matters.

… or so those were my thoughts as I installed infarered heaters. Panacea Studio enters the 21st century.

My cat, Ocean, who doesn’t need to practice yoga because he is yoga, luxerates prone under that radiant heat like he’s sunning himself.

You can too.

Ciao, Pietro

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Finding What Works For You

There is no one-way to workout. No secret exercise that will magically give you the body you want without the sweat and toil. Or special diet that’s right for everyone all the time.

A personal trainer can accelerate that process,  freshen up a stale program, lessen the risk of injury. But ultimately it comes down to prioritizing your individual physical needs with what you’re willing to do.

Life is a creative process. And so is the most effective workout and diet.

You may start out on the treadmill and graduate to spin classes. And only then discover you can kill 2 birds by doing your cardio on a matt through your abs with short and long gruelling sets, and love the meditative in-the-zone quality of it.

For real results, you have to do it even when you don’t feel like doing it. You’re always glad you did it once it’s done

Find what’s right for you. And if that’s hot yoga Wednesday nites at Panacea we’ll all be better off for it.

Ciao, Pietro

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