Don't Listen To The Losers!? The 5 Common Mistakes People Make Who Regain Weight & The Proven Strategies To Avoid It

So what do I mean by don't listen to the losers?

We are in a fast paced society and when it comes to weight loss, it can never happen fast enough. When you hear about someone who lost 30 lbs. in 30 days, you think they are amazing and you want to emulate everything they did to get the same results. 

Now that is an exaggerated weight loss but what about the person who dropped 30 lbs. in 12 weeks. That's a more realistic number and a very healthy amount of time to lose weight and in fact we've had numerous boot campers do just that. 


But a lot of times what happens with fast weight loss is that the weight comes right back on 6 months down the road if you don't pay attention. 


So don't always assume that the person who lost a ton of weight in a short period of time has all the answers and you should model after them entirely. 


The people you need to be searching for and modeling your actions after are the ones who have lost the weight and kept it off for a period of 1 year or more, ideally 3-5 years! They have learned to make health and fitness a part of who they are and it's a lifestyle now, not just a short term goal. 


In the video below I am speaking to a group of the Wealth For My Health contestants about this very topic and how to avoid gaining all your weight back after you've reached your weight loss goal. 

Wealth For My Health Trainer Mike Bevard Talks About Maintaining Results- Lincoln, NE from Mike Bevard on Vimeo.
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For more information on the Wealth For My Health Challenge and to learn how to register for the next challenge that starts in August, click HERE. 

Registration deadline is August 23rd. 

A Lesson Learned....

I just received this email the other night from one of our valued members:

“ A co-worker decided to try another bootcamp/fitboxing class. A lot of red flags came up. An uncertified instructor, one level for all & a push to do back to back classes. I cautioned her to be careful and hoped she would change her mind and come to a Capital City Boot Camp. Today when she came to work, on crutches, the message was clear. She was pushed to do back to back classes at an intensity too high for her fitness level.

While x-raying her leg, shock ran though my mind. This was not just a sprained knee and ankle! It was a twisted fracture of her fibula.  Surgery is almost warranted and injury to the knee is
still to be determined. A warning to all, not all boot camps are the same or safe! Don't put your body in the hands of just anyone. Mike, feel free to pass this on. It may be a while before this nurse can exercise again, but my goal is to have her attend a class with a real professional instructor in a safe environment.

Thanks for pushing me to the limit, being aware of my weaknesses, and using your knowledge to provide correct and efficient exercises.”

-Raquel :)

Now after I read this I was upset and this is just another example of what’s wrong with the majority of the “boot camps” out there.

Most of the boot camps out there are just glorified aerobics classes trying to do cookie cutter workouts with the main goal of just getting you TIRED! Anybody can make you do hundreds of pushups and situps and make you tired…that’s not how it should be done.

And most of the boot camp instructors want to get tons of people in each workout to make lots of money and they just hire an “aerobics” instructor instead of a certified fitness professional to teach the class. That’s a recipe for injury like you’ve read above. 

A proper boot camp should provide an orientation before you even step foot into the workouts to properly indentify your fitness level and address any concerns you might have with certain exercises.

A proper boot camp should be more like a personal training session tailored to each individual in the group with proper exercise progressions and regressions for each fitness level.

The instructor should be constantly correcting technique and monitoring you instead of participating in the class like an aerobics instructor.

They should provide a proper movement preparation phase like foam rolling and band activation stretching and then go through a proper group warm-up to get the body ready for the workout and a proper cool-down phase to prevent unwanted injuries.

The bad thing about the name “boot camp” is that it’s associated with large group classes that go through a random arrangement of exercises that do nothing but wear you out. There is no scientific training program in place because they change the workouts everyday for so called “muscle confusion”. This makes it hard for the client to learn the proper technique and form for the exercises and they can never build up the skill to do it properly which eventually leads them to get injured and never wanting to be involved with a boot camp again.

There needs to be a scientific training program developed by a certified fitness professional that get results, but more important, keeps you safe.

Now if you want all the bells and whistles that some of the other boot camps have out there and risk not getting results or worse yet, getting injured….then you have the freedom to choose that type of program. But if you want a boot camp that’s more like a group personal training session designed by a professional to keep you safe and get results, then contact us.

Be sure to do your research and know what you’re getting yourself into.

Get after it!

Mike

PS- If you want to be a part of the best and most safe fitness boot camp in Lincoln, we have our next orientation this Saturday, July 17th at 10am and we begin a new session of camp on Monday, July 19^th. Contact us at 402-910-0743 to schedule your phone consultation.