Italian diving star Tania Cagnotto tells of how she got started in the sport, how she trains and what makes a great diver. She also talks about the importance of nutrition to preparing a diver for success and how Herbalife has been a part of her successful routine. How she also needs to manage her weight for diving.
Health Meal Option For Athletes – Herbalife 24 Formula 1 Sport
Robert Forster, CEO and owner of Forster Physical Therapy & Phase IV Scientific Health & Performance Center, explains a safe and effective method to individualized training for life & sport.
Robert Forster developed the Herbalife24FIT program with Herbalife. His 30 years experience are now available on DVD.
Dr. Bruce Hensel interviews Robert Forster www.forsterpt.com about training and rehabilitating Olympic stars Kim Rhode and Allyson Felix.
Robert Forster is one of the leading physical therapists for athletes, both recreational and elite. Over the course of his 30-year career, he has successfully trained Olympic gold medalists, U.S. Open and Wimbledon champions, NBA superstars and triathlon world-record holders. Tired of encountering ill-advised training programs that only cause more injury, Robert created a new approach to physical therapy, which is divided into phases that follow the body’s natural healing and growth patterns. His practice in Santa Monica, California, provides athletes with effective, scientific and injury-free solutions for health and performance.
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There is a growing consensus that strength training can help you lose that belly fat faster than doing just cardio exercise alone.
In 1999 a group of researchers set out to explore the effects of resistance vs. aerobic training combined with an 800 calorie liquid diet on lean body mass and resting metabolic rate.
Two groups of ten individuals were placed on very low-calorie diets consisting of 800 calories per day. One group performed 1 hour of cardio exercise, 4 times a week by walking, biking or stair climbing. The other group performed 3 strength training workouts a week, consisting of 10 stations. During each workout they completed two sets of 8-15 repetitions, increasing to 4 sets of 8-15 by the end of 12 weeks.
In the end, the cardio group lost more weight than the strength training group. BUT…
The weight they lost consisted mostly of lean body weight, i.e. muscle. The group that performed strength training lost NO lean body weight, despite consuming a paltry 800 calories a day.
Another important discovery was how strength training actually increased resting metabolic rate or the number of calories the strength training group required at rest. The RMR of the cardio group dropped.
A second study, also done in 1999, by Kramer, Volek et al. set out to examine the physiological effects of a weight-loss diet with different types of exercise.
They took 35 overweight men and randomly assigned them to one of four groups:
Control group
A diet-only group
A diet group that performed aerobic exercise three times per week.
A diet group that performed both aerobic and strength training three times per week
After 12 weeks, the diet group lost 21 pounds, the diet plus cardio group lost 20 pounds (1 less than diet alone!) and the group that performed both aerobic and strength training lost 22 pounds of body weight.
For those of you who hate exercise, this might look like a good thing, right? After all, doing cardio actually produced one pound less weight loss and adding weights to the cardio only bumped up weight loss by 1 pound over not doing anything. For all that effort, who needs it?
BUT… before you give up exercise..
The amount of FAT lost for the diet-only group was 69% of total weight lost or 14.5 pounds.
The amount of FAT lost for the diet-plus-cardio group was 78% of total weight lost or 15.5 pounds.
The amount of FAT lost for the diet, cardio and strength training group was 21.3 pounds!
That’s SIX more pounds of fat lost over twelve weeks. To put that in perspective, that’s taking a lot away your midsection…just by doing some strength training a few times a week.
This study, in particular, demonstrates the importance of NOT focusing just on how much body weight you lose, but on how much fat you’re losing. While accurately measuring your body fat can be difficult, you can use a body composition monitor to help you. They can help you track trends in your body fat levels.
Why Strength Training Works
For light exercise, your metabolism may be elevated for just a few minutes after exercise, but for more intense activities, like weight training for instance, your metabolism may be elevated for up to 36 hours after your workout.
When you perform intense weight training, you’re burning additional calories for a much longer period of time than if you merely do cardio exercise.
Muscles are like ” far furnances” they burn calories…
