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You dont even need to gain muscle mass to lose weight... alot of people have quality muscle already underneath all that flab... Plus stats say, and its reality, that fatter people have more muscle mass then their leaner counterparts. Ive always been a strong strong believer of the 1 thing at a time rule. You want to maximize any gains/loss' .. concentrate on 1 thing at a time and your body will change the most/the quickest this way.

As a personal trainer you have to understand and realize that not everyone is helpable even though it's our job to help. This guy here fits into that catagory perfectly.

With any serious client a list is made, a sorta, todo sheet where as you have to follow these guidelines in order for me to help you, help yourself. The guidelines most of the time deal with food, lifestyle, and other various easy all around things. The guidelines are signed by both me and the client, and theres a nice note at the bottom saying if you dont follow these guidelines you are not only wasting my time and expertise, you are wasting your own as well. Most trainers do something like this, and most have clients who break all the rules and drop off the face of the earth because they just arent ready/werent motivated enough/whatever it may be.

Another one of my beliefs and slogans as a personal trainer is... "Shut the F uck up and Move." This being said, less talk, more action. Exercise is something you need to swallow your pride at the beginning, set a plan, stfu with the complaining and just do it. This is the only way to get anywhere in life fitness wise.

S2: Your doing Police training right.... I want you to go check this site out... If you and phil start meeting up, start doing some of these workouts of the day. Theres a ton of elite atheletes around the world apapting to this method, and ton are law enforcement/firefighters/military.... I suggest you give it a try.

http://www.crossfit.com

For instance...

Quote:3 Rounds of
Wall-ball – 20 pound ball, 10 ft target. (Reps)
Sumo deadlift high-pull 75 pounds (Reps)
Box Jump – 20” box (Reps)
Push-press 75 pounds (Reps)
Row – calories (Calories)

Why this type of exercise works. Instead of just using one system in your body and splitting up cardio, strength, endurance, etc exercises ... What crossfit aims to do is tax all your systems with various workouts. It attempts to replicate how our bodies work in real life during sports/atheletics. We rarely only use a certain system at a time, so training them 1 at a time is less efficient. Research has indicated for YEARS this is a far more effective stratagy at becomming an all around top level athelete then any other method.

Anyways... this is my 2cents for the day on this subject...