Is Aerobic Exercise The Answer To Fat Loss??
I see it every day people doing hours on the treadmill or the bike.
Others taking a 60 minute aerobic class on an empty stomach
Even more people coming in and just doing the elliptical for an hour and then doing a few crunches and then hitting the showers.
Does aerobic exercise burn fat? Yes and No. Meaning it can if you have everything else right!
If your not eating enough of the right calories and the right balance of foods you could be burning muscle for fuel!
Aerobic exercise is good for your heart and lungs, its also good for burning calories, which in turn will create a calorie deficit to lose fat.
But aerobic exercise can actually slow down your metabolism. Aerobic exercise is catabolic, meaning it can sacrifice muscle tissue if done wrong or for too long.
Aerobic exercise is not EFFECTIVE for fat loss by itself. You need to have a concern for muscle!
You need to challenge and protect your muscle through resistance training and actually eating ENOUGH to maintain muscle.
Resistance training is #1 in losing fat and keeping it off. Why because the more muscle you have the fat you burn!
If you are not doing resistance training you are not going to lose fat and keep it off!
If you are doing resistance training and have been doing the same routine for more than 2 months! You need something new!
Add in the right nutrition plan with the right exercise routine you have now created a fat burning machine.
Are you not sure if you’re doing everything right to reach your goals?
Then what are you waiting for?
Contact me know to find out all the options I have for you to succeed!
Your Fitness and Nutrition Coach,
~David Modderman
Filed under Nutrition, weight loss by on Jun 29th, 2009. Comment. 
Weight Watchers is a quite popular diet program based on low fat eating, exercise, and group counseling. Every food item from ice cream to pizza has a point value based on its nutritional content. You can eat as much as you want as long as you stay within your points. To assist the dieter in their lifestyle changes all members are encouraged to attend group discussion and counseling sessions, mostly in person, at local Weight Watchers centers. As of late they have come with out a new creation called Flex points, this is just the same program in a better marketing package. In the Flex plan they have added a weight watchers point calculator and use more weight watcher recipes. Most dieters are given a reserve 35 points (flex points) to use for unplanned activities or cravings. I see no difference from before.
I have many clients that say they had success on the Weight Watchers plan in the past. Yet I always question if it worked so well why are they seeking out a NEW solution? It obviously didn’t work for them in the long term. If it worked so well why didn’t they stick to it?
Weight Watchers in my opinion used to be a pretty sound program, far as trying to help people, but as of late it seems to be using a lot of slick marketing and advertising to bring people in. Far as being successful that’s a different story. They usually advertise telling people enjoy the foods you love and lose weight while you do! The points plan controls the amount of food you consume but not always what those foods are. So you could be potentially eating less food but not exactly better choices for healthy weight loss and long-term success. So the dieter thinks he or she is making some healthy changes in their diet by eating fewer calories and staying within their points but could be consuming higher sugar and fat meals, meals that are not balanced enough, or high enough in calories to support your metabolism. See the problem here? The points system does not differentiate between foods high in sugar or high in carbohydrates protein or fat. This diet is assuming all calories are calories and they all affect your body the same way. I’m here to tell you they do no!
Some foods are more easily stored as fat, some foods effect your blood sugar levels more than others, some foods are actually more thermic, meaning your metabolism actually increases trying to break these foods down! Some foods combinations can make you fatter, while some can make you leaner. If your goal is long-term fat loss (not just weight) then the specific foods you are consuming are more important than the calories from food in general. When will people realize calories are not BAD! Calories are fuel for the human machine. Without the right amount of calories you will slow down are metabolism, and store more fat in the long run. You need calories and the right ones.
Now Weight Watchers is actually selling their own processed frozen meals. They are nice for convenience yes…but are they good for you? No, not really they are balanced yet they are loaded with sodium, preservatives and have a have a paragraph for the ingredient list. You can make the same meal yourself for the same the price and with fewer preservatives. Any diet that cost money to join and then try to sell you their own food has other interests in mind.
Exercise is not a #1 priority for this Weight Watchers program and if your goal is long- term success it should be! The problem with long term diet counseling and group support which most Weight Watchers program includes is you develop no self- reliance and self- discipline to do it on your own, which is crucial to succeed long term. This diet is added to my list that use low calorie deprivation to lose weight on a scale. Weight loss on the scale is not accurate indicator of fat loss. I know many people who lose lots of WEIGHT on a low calorie diet and then long term they gain the majority of it back. Their are 3 things you can lose on the scale:
1)Water
2) Fat
3) Muscle
There are better and more successful options people..trust me.
Your Fitness and Nutrition Coach,
~David Modderman
Filed under Lifestyle, Nutrition, weight loss by on Jun 9th, 2009. Comment.
You can’t really miss it on the Internet these days. Seems like everywhere you look there’s another company promoting the nutritious Acai Berry as a weight loss miracle.
And that’s why I thought it was critical to write you today. I want to make sure you know my opinion on the subject.
First, you know better than to believe you’re going to pop some pills – ANY pills – and have the pounds and inches melt off like magic. If you’ve been listening to me for any length of time you know true fat loss comes from a variety of factors, including exercise and proper nutrition.
I received and e-mail today that said: “Busy mom loses 30 pounds in 30 days without diet OR exercise”
Sound to good to be true? Well it is! Anyone losing 30 pounds in 30 days is losing lots of water and probably some muscle.
Second, any fitness expert worth their fees will tell you that any diet that promotes you eat any one food all day long and then eat a sensible dinner, well, don’t bother. Yes, you will lose some weight short-term, but as soon as you go back to your old eating habits – and you know you will – you know exactly what happens.
Third, the Acai Berry contains VERY powerful antioxidants and it is getting a lot of good press for that very reason. Yes, antioxidants as in the extraordinary nutrients that help fight the free radicals associated with aging, cancer risk and other degenerative diseases.
And while on the subject, I wanted to fill you in on something that has recently come to light. Did you know that coffee berries (the berry that covers the coffee bean) is one of the most powerful antioxidants on the planet? It’s something researchers have discovered in recent years.
What’s really cool is my friends at Prograde Nutrition have just created an amazing Whole Foods based Anti-Aging formula called Prograde Longevity that includes both Acai Berry and Coffee Berry. Oh, and it also utilizes Green Tea, Pomegranate, Wolf Berry and Biovin Grape (Red Wine extract.)
Just to give you an idea of how powerful this formula is, well, you’d have to eat an entire POUND of raspberries to get the same ORAC value. And in case you’re not familiar with the term, ORAC stands for Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity.
I have been taking “Longevity” for the last month to prevent the holiday flu and cold bugs…..and to cleanse my body.
So far so good! 
You can read more about “Longevity” by
Clicking HERE
Your Fitness and Nutrition Coach,
~David Modderman
Filed under Lifestyle, Nutrition, weight loss by on Dec 18th, 2008. Comment.
Weight loss is always a New Year’s resolution in January……….
Come New Year most go on a low calorie diet and do cardio/aerobic exercise like crazy in hopes to see that number on the scale go down…..
Unfortunately, this is the wrong approach…….
Weight Loss on the almighty scale can consist of 3 things:
1) Water
2) Muscle
3) Fat
If you are not exercising and eating correctly most of your weight loss will consist of water and muscle…..
Water is temporary and meaningless yet shows up on the scale! But losing muscle will prevent your body from burning fat efficiently! If you are doing anything that’s causing you to lose muscle you are setting yourself up for long term failure…..and you will gain the weight back.
Diets and cardio are NOT the answer…….
The Right exercise and the Right Nutrition are!!
It’s about fat loss people not about weight loss….
Anyone can lose weight…but can YOU lose fat?
Your Fitness and Nutrition Coach,
~David Modderman
Filed under Nutrition, weight loss by on Dec 13th, 2008. Comment.
When you’re shopping for foods on a fat loss program there is 3 food ingredients you should be trying to avoid at all costs:
1) High Fructose Corn Syrup- an unnatural sweetener made from fructose and corn. It’s injected into food to increase shelf life and to make it taste sweeter so you will buy more of it.
2) Bleached/Enriched Flour- flour that’s been bleached and stripped of fiber and vitamins and then some of the nutrients are added back in so it can legally be sold as food.
3) Hydrogenated Oils- trans fat the #1 cause of heart disease in a America.
-Foods containing these ingredients are unnatural and your body will easily store them as fat. Foods that are more natural will be used more efficiently as fuel and not stored.
Some foods contain all 3 of these ingredients…so be careful and read your food labels!
Your Fitness and Nutrition Coach,
~David Modderman
Filed under Nutrition, weight loss by on Dec 12th, 2008. Comment.
It’s December………………
Are you waiting like everyone else?
Waiting till January to starting eating better and exercising?
One of the top News Years resolutions every year is to lose weight, get in shape, and get healthy. Yet most fail to follow through with this in January maybe they do for a few weeks and then eventually they get busy and quit all together.
Do you want to fail like everyone else?
Then maybe it’s time to STOP waiting and START doing!
Today is just as a good day as any to start that workout and that eating better.
Just think if you start now you will already have made it a habit by January and you will already have 1 month of results before anyone else.
Your Fitness and Nutrition Coach,
~David Modderman
Filed under Lifestyle, weight loss by on Dec 2nd, 2008. Comment.