We have to start getting back to our roots and connect with what works for us and keeps us healthy.
Along with properly moving your body, there are a couple of points to get you started:
- Eating for your metabolic type and what works best for our bodies. Eat Organic, Grass-Fed, Pasture-raised, Free Range, Wild Caught…in short food that would come from the earth naturally. Realize that we need to focus on not just three macronutrients (Protein, Carbohydrates, Fats) but also a cascade of secondary nutrients. When you eat organic, and for your metabolic type, you end up eating foods that satisfy your body and processes well. That means no bloat, no weird desires, and positive headspace. If you count calories or use some other dogmatic restrictive approach, you are setting yourself up for failure. That sort of restriction usually doesn’t last long; you end up feeling hungry and unsatisfied and more than likely will binge/spurge later on the “bad” foods.
- Drink enough quality water. Water is one of the most critical staples for our health and fitness. If we are dehydrated, it can present as a whole host of physical problems that we will waste time and money trying to diagnose and cure.
You should be drinking half your body weight in ounces of water, and its best if you get it from an Artesian or Spring source. Filtered is the bare minimum, quality electrolytes (Celtic Sea salt) need to be added occasionally.
Getting these two aspects down will go along way to reducing unnecessary weight on your structure and improving your energy so you can work out more efficiently.
If you have a lot of aches and pains and you are overweight, losing weight should be your primary goal. If you don’t, your body won’t retain as much of the training as it should because it is always trying to adapt to having too much weight. Without losing the weight, you won’t get very far.
When setting up your program, use most of your focus on this aspect. Start working on drinking the proper amount of water, eat for your metabolic type with smaller portions and work on getting in 45 – 90 min of consistent low impact cardio where your heart rate is not above 50% max.
Whether you need to lose weight or not, EVERYBODY should take the Metabolic Typing test attached and figure out how much water they are drinking. Then add it to the goal sheet you downloaded, so you can now make improvements if needed to keep your program moving forward.
Take a couple of minutes now to take the metabolic typing test to find out where you are now. Save the results in the Solcore client tracking form and then take it in three months again after you have been trying to make changes and tracking.
