Stronglife Body Transformation NZ

Congratulations Tommy!! 🙌 🙌 🙌
🔥 30kg down!
"The Stronglife Health & Performance program has changed my life"

What Tom has to say about the program 👇👇👇
"Well 26 weeks done and dusted, Thanks alot to my trainer Dan Wait. Your a legend mate and are a great trainer. The Stronglife Health & Performance program has changed my life, the amount of energy I have now is unbelievable compared to 6 months ago, so thanks to all involved with this program, you do a great job.
Now the Numbers: I'll start with something I've worked on over the last 6 months is my 5km run time, I've gone from 38.41mins to 27.39 mins to do 5km, but also I can now run 8km non stop
Weight Started at 134.7kg Today 104.5kg
Waist Started at 132 cm Today 104cm
Hips Started at 122cm Today 104cm
Chest Started at 119cm Today 105cm
So big changes both in measurements and energy levels, so thanks again to Stronglife.
Next goal get under 100kg, under 100cm waist and do a 10 km run."

Congratulations Jonathan! over cm lost off his waist in 26 weeks
Amazing work 👏

"Today is the end of my 26 weeks.
At the start my goal was to loose my belly and improve my appearance.
At the end of this journey I have not only lost the bulge like I wanted, but more importantly I have learnt how to manage diet, exercise and lifestyle.
What I found was that slowly chipping a little away each week was the key to fat and weight lose being SUSTAINABLE.
By following the habits of the program completely I was able to forget so many of my old bad habits and focus on the new ones that have set me up to continue into the future.
I started the program thinking that I knew most things but the best thing I did was to forget everything I thought and LISTEN to my coach and ASK questions to understand WHY I needed to make the changes and how it would assist.
Thanks Dan Wait for keeping me accountable and helping me to learn and appreciate a new lifestyle.
Some stats from my journey
Chest - 96cm to 85.7cm
Hips - 96cm to 80cm
Waist - 100cm to 79.1cm"

Clinton has smashed it in his first two weeks of the program! 10.2kg down in the first two weeks! Everyone is different, you shouldn't get stuck comparing yourself to others. Hats off to Clinton though!!

✅ Effective
✅ Enjoyable
✅ Loads of Supportive

🏃 Cardio VS Resistance Training 🏋️‍♂️ ..................................................................

Let’s start with cardio 🏃

Firstly do we need to do cardio to lose weight?

No we don’t, all you need to do here is look at some of the leanest athletes on the planet. Physique competitors often get super lean for the stage without any cardio.

The extra energy burned from cardio sessions can definitely HELP burn more calories each day and create the calorie deficit required to lose weight, but cardio alone won't guarantee that. The calorie burn benefit actually isn’t even in my top 3 reasons for doing cardio.

In fact, a Pom by the name of Ross broke a world record recently where he swam around Great Britain for 157 days straight. This guy was literally swimming for 12 hours per day... what a fu***ng machine! And guess what? He actually came back heavier than when he started.

Now I don’t want you guys to think I hate cardio, far from it actually, I really enjoy staying aerobically fit. And here’s why -
When we are fitter, we basically end up with more oxygen in our bloodstream. This is going to give us more energy. It’s going to allow us to sleep better. It improves our s*x life and enhances our recovery levels, and it keeps our heart and lungs strong.
There are heaps of benefits to cardio, and the great thing is we can achieve a decent level of aerobic fitness without having to go crazy with it!

3 x 30 minutes sessions per week, keeping your heart rate between 130-150bpm, is enough for most people to reap most of these benefits. Most people come out way too hard when starting cardio and end up hating it because they are making it a lot harder than it needs to be.
Think about how much easier is it to eat better when you are sleeping better and have more energy, in my option that is where the value really is!

Now let’s talk about resistance training 🏋️‍♂️

Resistance training is basically weight training. It can be done with weights or it can be done with our body weight and anything that produces adequate resistance.
Resistance training also burns energy during a session and, depending on how we manipulate the sessions, we can potentially take advantage of cardio benefits through our weight training too.

A big benefit that resistance training has over cardio is that it works to grow our muscles! This is going to help get you leaner! After all, when we are talking about weight loss what we really want is fat loss right??

You guys might have heard me talk about this before, but a good example to illustrate my point here is a guy that weighs 100kg - If he loses 10kg and gains 5kg of muscle he is going to lose 15kg of actual body fat! Compared to someone just doing cardio, even if they maintain all their muscle which is unlikely, they’ll only lose 10kg of actual body fat instead of potentially 15kg.

It ends up making a big difference to your physique and how you actually look. Having more muscle also increases our metabolism, so fat loss will be easier to maintain if you keep training.

Resistance training also makes us STRONGER! And who doesn’t want that?

Additionally, it:
✅ Helps our posture,
✅ Helps with chronic disease management,
✅ Gets our body better at shunting blood sugars to muscle stores rather than sitting in our blood or going to fat stores, which helps regulate insulin, and is great for avoiding diabetes!
✅ Assists with mood and s*x drive,
✅ A good weight training program will help with flexibility and muscle balance and help prevent injuries! It’s great for our bones and joint longevity when done correctly.

Cardio vs resistance training - one isn’t better than the other, and our programming at Stronglife often combines the two. You see, both have so many benefits, but if your main goal is dropping body fat, starting with some structured resistance training and some lower intensity cardio is generally best.
Figure out what you ENJOY and do more of that. It might end up being a couple of days of bodyweight exercises at home per week so you can maintain muscle and stay injury-free to run all the time, if that’s what you like.
The context is super important here too, so ask your coach if you are unsure about anything and make sure you’re doing more & more of what you enjoy.

Amazing work Michael! there is always ups and down but when you trust the process amazing things happen! 💪