One thing that often makes people delay starting a diet is the issue of the diet meal plan, so let’s look a bit closer at the different options.

When you choose your diet, it needs to suit your personality and requirements. You may want a short sharp dramatic loss, or you may want a longer term sustainable method. The short sharp method is not recommended by general health and medical consensus, but some people still prefer this option. Often it is because they want to lose weight for a particular event such as a wedding.

If you have 10 days until your wedding and you cannot get into your dress, then a crash diet may be indicated. But with this type of diet you will almost certainly gain back all of the weight that you lost right after the event. So if you need to lose weight permanently, something slower and more sustainable is a much better option. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Guardian Newspaper in England had a series of articles last week listing how the British army assesses the fitness level of new recruits as well as the whole training plan to get the army in shape. There are lots of interesting pdf files that help you to see how in shape you are as well as a plan to get you in better shape.

Army Fitness test

Official British army training program

I looked through the workout and it is quite simple with weight workouts 2 or 3 times a week with cardio on the alternating days. One day of week is a rest day which I believe is really important.

When I say that the weight workouts are simple I do not mean that they are easy I just mean that it is only a few sets. I will be listing my simple exercise routine sometime over the next few days as well do you can compare the two.