Online Personal Training Testimonial

Here's a brand new testimonial from the latest member of Team DaveHPT.

My FREE weight loss program is at close to 92,000 hits by now, which is amazing. Like I always say, the important part here is that it's A LOT of people who are NOT going to be sucked in to scam products or dangerous, restrictive diets.

Now, as to the paid program this testimonial refers to, you should check out this before and after transformation post over on wordpress. File under DHPT Online Coaching Testimonials.

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Vegetarian and Vegan Strength Training

Video highlights from training last weekend.



So how should vegetarians train for strength and aesthetics? The same way as anyone else with the same goals. You need to train strategically and methodically towards your goal body type, with a balanced program primarily focussed on resistance training with a little extra cardio or interval training as well.

On the nutrition side, IIFYM or flexible dieting principles still apply. In fact, they have never applied more than they do in the case of vegetarian and vegan athletes. You do need an appropriate total calorie goal, with an appropriate ratio of protein, to carbohydrate, to fats. Obviously you will have less choices of protein sources than an omnivorous human would, but there are no shortages of vegetarian or even vegan protein sources. Generally speaking, a vegetarian or vegan is likely to have a much more comprehensive micronutrient intake, due to the inclusion of greater amounts and variety of fresh vegetables in their diet.

There's a new entry over on my main website all about Vegetarian And Vegan Personal Training In Brunswick, you should go check that out.

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80,000 successful weight loss clients in 6 months

Yes, it's true... true that that is the sort of headline most people would use to stretch the truth just a little bit and big note themselves to look like some kind of industry leader or something. What's actually happened though is that my Lose Weight No Bullshit website has just turned 6 months old and has just clicked over 81,000 views.

Actually it's a little older than that in terms of having started building it late last year... but whatever. We're six months into 2013 so this is the 6 monthly review. Or really it's the review of the 6 monthly review that I already posted on the actual site.

Uhhh, let's run through it in point form:

• Over 81,000 total views.
• I don't know how many individual people that means, but it's still a lot.
• I don't know how many that means have actually read and followed the free weight loss education and exercise program, but it'd be a lot.
• I don't even know, because I've lost track of the amount of people who've written in to tell me they have started the free program, that they love it and are making great progress and seeing great results.
• DHPT Coaching Via Email (aka paying) clients getting STRONG and looking AMAZING. Plus their photos getting stolen by marketers on their stupid "fitness motivation" type pages on facebook, tumblr etc.

Pretty damn good, eh?

So mostly I get nice messages from people telling me "Dave I'm doing your free program and I love it" but there's also some bewildering messages from people who I guess heard that I'm an answer trainer and want my advice. It's bewildering because there's a whole free system on there, the people who follow it love it and love the results they're getting... but there's the one or two who think that stuff doesn't apply to them and maybe I can come up with something new just for them for free or something. I dunno.

So anyway I'm trying to discourage such behaviour so without further ado here's my FAAQ. That's Frequently Asked Annoying Questions, if you couldn't guess.

Q: I'm [this weight] and [this age] and I want to lose [this amount of weight], but [this circumstance]. What should I do?

A: Start with my free program.

Q: I do [some other activity or program] and I think I eat pretty healthy. I lost [this amount of weight] but I don't seem to be losing any more. Why not though? What am I doing wrong?

A: How should I know? Have you read my free program?

Q: Why aren't I seeing the same results as your clients in those photos? I eat clean and I run or whatever.

A: They're doing my program, you're not. If you want those results you need to do my program.

Q: OK I read your program. But why aren't I seeing results with what I'm doing?
A: You don't get results from just reading my program and then continuing to eat and exercise the same way you always have. You need to ACTUALLY DO what it says in my program.

Q: I did the maths according to what it says in your program and I believe I should be eating [this amount of calories]. I usually eat about [this other amount of calories]. Why aren't I losing any weight?

(I swear to god, I've been asked this a few times now)

A: Eat the correct amount.

 

Q: I read your program and it says I should do [this], but why wouldn't I do [this other thing] instead?

A: You tell me, why WOULD you do that other thing instead?

I think that's about all. I need to stop I'm getting annoyed again just remembering these.

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Top ten truths about fitness and weight loss you refuse to believe.

Normal sized human beings, circa 1983

Well... hopefully YOU will believe by the end of this article if you didn't already, but these are the hotly disputed but actually true facts that people need to face up to.

1: The Body Mass Index IS a suitable and accurate assessment.

Let's set this straight, once and for all.

As of the past couple of weeks... I'm obese. aka BMI 30.

Now, a lot of what you might call BMI denialists might read that last sentence and say "see? how can you be 'obese', you're a trainer, you're healthy and active. This proves the BMI is flawed!"

No.

It took me YEARS of hard work to get up to this size. And if you think training was the hard part, you'd be wrong. The hard part was training my APPETITE in order to be able to consume enough food to maintain this body weight. Now... it might be easy enough if I didn't train, ate high calorie junk with no nutritional value day in and day out etc... but to consume enough calories with some attention to macronutrition ratios and end up at this weight with a reasonable ratio of lean mass to body fat... eating that much was HARD WORK.

In plain English, it's not normal to be this size. It's out of the ordinary. Now since I'm phenomenally strong my body is putting all of that extra fuel to good use... but to be at this weight (relative to my height) due to an inactive lifestyle and excessive consumption of unhealthy foods. That's clearly not the ideal condition for a human being to be in, and it should never be considered normal.

The scary part is, there are people out there so much bigger than I am, and not because they're elite strength athletes.

Now to further illustrate my point... I was watching some old episodes of The Goodies on youtube the other day and the first thing I thought was "wow, look how skinny people are". Then later on, I watched one of those embarrassing "spring break" type movies from the early 80s on tv. Again... I'm struck by how slim people are, especially women's arms. You know what though? Those are NORMAL SIZED human beings... probably around BMI 22 or so.

We're just not used to seeing normal sized people any more, and when you really stop and think about it... isn't that terrible?

Here's a great article explaining the Body Mass Index.

Stay tuned I've got 9 more of these to come in the days ahead! In the meantime if you haven't done so already, go check out my new profile on the gym's website especially if you're looking for a Personal Trainer In Brunswick.

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Personal Training In Brunswick, promo and testimonials video

Just a little sneak peak at the new promo & testimonials video I am putting together. This is actually like, out takes or something. I have other takes of my parts that I like better and will use in the finished video.

What you can see here is me in the infamous leg room at Doherty's world famous 24/7 gym in Brunswick, and a few testimonials from local PT clients and worldwide online coaching clients. There'll be more people in the finished product. It's going to be awesome.

Local people interested in Personal Training In Brunswick can go check out my profile at Doherty's Gym website, and if you're not a local you can go read about my Online Personal Training program on my official business site.

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