Wes Cole: Choose 2 Lose - Getting Started

TULSA - Wes Cole talks about the three major elements that all fitness programs should include.

Proper Nutrition Program - Without proper nutrition you’re spinning your wheels trying to reach your health goals. 

Multiple studies prove exercise without nutrition is for the most part ineffective for weight-loss. 

What makes matters worse is that exercise, especially weight training, initially damages the muscle. It’s only with proper rest and quality nutrition that your muscles heal and grow back stronger.

Cardio - Cardio is so important, and it’s why you will be doing cardio everyday from anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour. 

Cardio not only allows you to keep daily calories up at a more reasonable level, it also promotes blood flow and aids in recovery from weight lifting.

Strength training - People ask me all the time, "can you build muscle while dieting?" 

Not really. But, we lift during a fat-loss phase for different reasons. 

Muscle can happen in those who diet and don’t exercise  Intense strength training will assure us that the weight you lose will be the bad kind, the fat.

Questions from viewers:

Isn’t half an hour of daily cardio kind of a lot?

-Jill

Every time I start these exercise programs and start doing all this working out my appetite goes through the roof. What do I do?

-Stephan

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