4 Tips for Maximizing Your Power Half Hour Results

Jan 4
16:11

2013

cheryl boswell

cheryl boswell

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Tips for maximizing your weight loss with Power Half Hour with Tony Horton.

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My first thought when I hear people who have been neglectful of their bodies say they want to lose weight,4 Tips for Maximizing Your Power Half Hour Results Articles is that the person probably needs more structure.

What I do in conjunction with my fitness blog is help people gather choices which might be a good fit in helping them reach their goal. I largely avoid restricting those choices. At the same time, I admittedly do pick winners or ones that I prefer over others. Then I try to share reasons for my preference.

My belief is that there are common general principles at work in every home or gym program which make it a winner or a dud. If you don't walk away with a greater understanding of these basic principles, than I feel like I have failed you as an advisor.

Losing Weight Is Easily The Most Sought After Fitness Goal But Also The Most Poorly Understood

We exercise and eat right foremost because we want to look good. There are other reasons which we also care about such as feeling better, having more energy, and greater ability to ward off disease. The reality is that we are always starting with a vision of our ideal body outcome and working off of that. If we aren't seeing that outcome, we should. It will serve as a primary motivator in our making good choices.

Losing weight is step one for many of us who have neglected our overall health and fitness through the years. It is the most widely desired of the big 3 body outcomes. (Remember the Big 3 are: losing weight, getting really fit and ripped, or adding muscle and size.)

Let me tell you what you don't need to be concerned with when trying to lose weight. You don't need to be concerned with counting calories. Instead your focus should be on what you eat. You also don't need to become a distance runner or worry about hitting the gym and the exercise bike for hours on end. Moderate paced overly long exercise routines represent diminishing value return on time.

You Need Structure and I Endorse Power Half Hour by Beachbody but Only if You Take These Strategies With You

Power Half Hour is my recommended workout for someone looking to lose weight from a beginning fitness level. It is 60 days in duration and features workouts 6 days a week for a total of only a half hour each from start to finish. It varies the workouts so you are using different muscle groups every day. This muscle confusion gives you a great calorie burn and using resistance in the form of weights or bands, helps reshape your body.

The workout has three things I think you must have in any workout program: First, you need high intensity. Second, you need structure from experts. Third, you need variety to prevent boredom. Then the rest is up to you. You don't need to always feel like it, but you need to always do it. At 30 minutes start to finish, Power Half Hour takes away the excuses.

4 Tips For Best Power Half Hour Results

1. You will notice the program tempts you into skipping stretching because it has it's own dvd. Don't do that. You will risk injury and plateau your results.

2. Track your daily results and resolve to be better in weight or reps each time out. Now here's the key with this strategy: don't start out with too much fire in your belly and try to defeat the program right out of the gate. Just follow the program and work persistently as hard as you can, but not too hard. Pace yourself and do what Tony Horton says.

3. Do the workout in the morning first thing. You will feel great and it will help you burn food more efficiently without storing it as fat. Plus it will allow you to build on the workout by doing more fun and active things later on in your day.

4. Don't expect miracles with just 60 days. The program is a starting point. Look to take the principles you learn from it and then do another program or the same program. You are on a journey with fitness. You will go right back to being fat really quick if you don't make exercise and eating right your consistent actions.