Hello Everyone,

My name is John but you can call me Jdec if you like. This blog is for those who want real fitness advice from a real fitness professional. If you follow my advice, programs, and rules you will soon be on your way to a new you. Let me first give you a little info on myself. I have been involved in sports and the fitness industry for 24 out of my 28 years on our amazing planet. I first got into the fitness field in junior high to increase my speed, agility, power, and overall athleticism for sports. As my body began to develop into a man, my passion for fitness grew at a rapid rate. I decided to obtain my degrees in the fields of Exercise Physiology and Movement Science in College. Through my education and hands on experience, I have become an expert in my field. I currently work in Cardiac Rehabilitation as well as being a Personal Trainer. These two careers have given me so much vital knowledge in the field of fitness and it is time to share my gift with the world. Not only do I know and understand the fitness aspect of the industry, but I have vast knowledge and experience of the clinical side as well. By this I mean working with heart disease individuals, diabetics, pulmonary disease individuals and so on. Through this, I not only have the ability to help healthy individuals, but ones with disease as well and most important the prevention aspect of disease. Heart Disease is the number one killer here in the USA. Many of you may think that will never happen to me or ill start eating right and exercising later in life when I'm at a higher risk for disease. This is a vital mistake and can take years away from your life. The earlier you start, the better your chances are of never being diagnosed with a disease. Well enough with the intro, its time to get healthy and begin our lifestyle modifications. as the months pass by, we will go into more advanced training programs and eating habits. Remember slow and steady wins the race. If you lose to much weight or gain to much muscle to fast your going to go right back to where you were and may even look worst. The first two things I need you to do is take your heart rate as soon as you wake up for the next 3 mornings. Once all three values are obtained we will figure the zone in which we will keep your heart rate in while training to obtain optimum results. What I also want you to do is to start drinking water. If you do not know, water is vital to our body and how it functions. If you a dehydrated, your kidneys will not function properly causing your liver to work overtime. There are many reasons why we would want our liver to not work twice as hard, but the one we are focusing on is metabolism. Our liver is what generates our metabolism. Having your body properly hydrated will allow for your kidneys to work properly as stated before and not over work your liver. This in turn will allow for your metabolism to work at its normal rate instead of slower because your liver is no longer working for other organs. If you so not like the taste of plain water, try squeezing some lemon or lime into it. There are also companies out there that make flavored water such as propel. If you like the carbonation, seltzer also comes in many Flavors. You want to stay away from vitamin water or sobe water as these products are high in sugar. Water also makes you feel full which will decrease your calorie intake over time. If you drink soda or other drinks high in sugar start cutting down on these. There is no reason we should gain fat from quenching our thirst. If you must drink soda, buy diet. I know what your thinking and no it does not cause cancer. The studies done on artificial sugars were conducted on rats. The amount the rat was given on a daily basis would be the equivalent of us taking in one bathtub full everyday. If you enjoy ice cream or ice cream sodas, buy some redi whip and through some on top of the soda. This tastes great and has only 20 calories per serving and less then 1 gram of sugar. Try it our, it really cures the craving without putting the calories and sugars into our bodies that regular soda and ice cream do. I will end this first blog to our new bodies by apologizing for such a long first post. There is so much to discuss and for me to share with you. I am excited for all of you who will follow my blogs and change their bodies for the rest of their lives. Remember this will not be a temporary improvement but a life long change. It will be bikini season all year long for you ladies and for us men, no shirts ever needed again. Until next time.

Jdec.

Remember, pain is only weakness leaving the body. Let's have it go on a permanent vacation because without pain, there's never any true gain.