It’s officially 2020! We made it to another year, and you’re probably doing the same thing you did at the start of 2019, 2018, 2017, etc..  You promise yourself that this year is going to be different. You’re going to eat better, lose weight and change your life around.

There’s an old saying that if you keep banging your head against the wall it’s going to keep on hurting. So, if these “resolutions” didn’t work in the year’s behalf, how is this year truly going to be different?

So many people have been riding the “fat loss program” rollercoaster forever. On January 1st they decided to go to the gym and just do all the cardio machines in an attempt to undo all their bad habits from the year before.

January, February, March, and April, they ride the “cardio train” with minimal body change results. They quickly become frustrated and give up, falling right back into some old bad habits.

During that time they’ve lost important muscle mass, destroyed their metabolism so it starts to work against them, gotten overuse injuries from “pounding the pavement”, and just ended up more tired and hungry from all the cardio.  That’s right, studies show that doing tons of cardio makes you eat more, makes you more hungry and usually crave carbs (to replace the energy you just expended.

Now the question becomes, if starving yourself and doing tons of cardio isn’t the best way to lose weight, how can you meet your goals in 2020 the right way?

Enter Strength Training….

When the focus is on getting strong(er) (getting more jacked, lean muscle, ripped… whatever you want to call it) there is a shift in your whole body and mind connection. You lose the stress of “worrying about losing weight” and instead know you are strictly focused on increasing weight and getting better each week/workout. Getting stronger is bettering your body = win/win!

Stressing out about losing weight all the time takes a negative toll on your body. It raises your cortisol levels to the extreme (which causes you to actually hold on to/gain weight) and kills your hormones.

Strength training helps to create a positive hormone response that will help increase your Testosterone levels and Growth Hormones levels, and regulate your Grehlin, Cortisol, Leptin levels needed for optimal performance, recovery, and health. All of these hormones are pivitol in losing weight and changing body shape.

Strength training also helps keeps (and increases of course) the muscle mass you have. This added muscle mass helps with metabolism, health, athletic performance, and even normal everyday tasks like going up and down stairs, walking around, carrying laundry, grandkids, etc.

And for those of you that just cringed at me using the term “muscle mass”. Gals (and even some guys) muscle mass does not been becoming a huge body builder. Can we stop fearing something that is so powerful, makes us badasses, strong(er/her) and more functional? Muscle mass is what literally changes your body composition and body in a good way. It’s literally what “shapes” us, whether you’re looking for long and lean, or bulky and muscular.

So in 2020, are you ready to finally make that positive shift in body, health, mind over to focusing on getting strong(er), more athletic, creating more muscle mass? If you are, then my team at Jtab Training is ready for you!