‘Fitness camps are the best way to losing weight’
Monday 10th May 2010, 2:30PM BST.
A PERSONAL trainer who is returning to Guernsey to run his fitness camp business has criticised some of the techniques he has come across in the UK that people use to lose weight.
Jon Le Tocq (pictured), who has relocated to Guernsey and brought his business Storm Force Fitness with him after four years of running a personal training and bootcamp facility in Nottingham, is urging islanders to forget quick fix diets and having gym memberships that they never use.
He begins his first set of Guernsey-based fitness camps next Monday and believes they will dismiss some of the myths about health and fat loss.
‘People are going to discover very quickly that what they have been told about nutrition and exercise to get a lean, healthy, energised body is well off the mark.’
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Another “don’t listen to that one, listen to this one”.
I’ve actually had a read of some of this chaps literature, and I must say it doesn’t sit well with me. It’s very much an extreme view of eating/dieting, to the extent that you can no longer drink tap water. I ended up putting the material down as it was written in such a way that I felt this guy was trying to control almost every aspect of someone’s life, some could read this and feel almost bullied into following it. It’s written to almost scare you into doing something, and if you deviate even slightly you may as well have not bothered.
Having had a quick Google, it also emerges that one of the marketing lines is basically along the lines of “I’ve been away and learnt lots, but Guernsey instructors have stayed on the island and aren’t up to date”. Is this fact? If so back it up, because I could probably find local gym/fitness instructors who frequently attend UK training/seminars to keep up to date. Of course if he is correct he better not stay for long as otherwise he might get out of touch just like all the rest of them over here!!
Another question I would like to raise is regarding “People are going to discover very quickly that what they have been told about nutrition and exercise to get a lean, healthy, energised body is well off the mark.”, I was under the impression that it’s all about sensible balanced diet, and exercise. How “well off the mark is this?”
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I ran for a bus once and it did me no good at all.
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‘Calories in’ have to equal ‘calories out’….. simples!
If you enjoy the process of putting the ‘calories in’ as I do, then the easiest way to up the ‘calories out’ is to look for ways to incorporate exercise into your daily routine. For me that is to exchange sedentary weight gaining driving whenever possible, for health boosting walking and cycling. Ditto taking the stairs and ignoring the lift.
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Captain – as you rightly point out, the majority of us don’t need to spend a fortune paying someone to tell us that (a) fad diets don’t work and (b) a long term lifestyle choice of a healthy balanced diet combined with regular exercise will ensure we are reasonably fit and healthy. Whether we choose to act on that advice is another matter of course.
Then again, I don’t plan to climb Everest any time soon or have a body that would make Usain Bolt jealous, so I guess it depends how “lean, healthy and energised” you want to be. This kind of regimented programme might appeal to the ultra fit, gym fanatics or someone wanting to train for a marathon but I doubt it will appeal too much to the rest of us.
I have no intention of spending the rest of my life eating a strictly regulated diet whilst spending every waking hour in the gym. Others might, and I imagine it will be those who will give these ‘camps’ a try.
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Rosie has hit the button,but I will add Living in a healthy way both mentally and physicaly is all about self controland not many have that
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Just to throw a spanner in the works here. Recently in the news there have been a couple of professional footballers, one in wales and one in south america, who have died of a heart attack. Fit as a butchers dog and young men. Now, compare this to the immense athletes that are pro darts players, who have strict diets of 25 pints, 40 fags and 15 pie and chips a day, who seem to thrive in their sport and dont seem to drop dead of a hear attack, I have to wonder just how good for me this getting fit and healthy by rabbit food and excercise really is. Reach for the pies to live a long healthy life!
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Stop eating so d*mn much and get some exercise!!
There, top advice. That’ll be fifty quid, please.
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Golden Brown – fear not. Sudden Cardiac Death can happen to anyone. You only hear about athletes ‘cos it’s properly surprising when someone fit and healthy drops dead. Some tubby dead accountant discovered surrounded by crisp packets and bottles of merlot is hardly news.
As for the story itself… well, surely a fatness boot camp is intrinsically a fad? 6 weeks of having some shaven head military wannabe shouting at you is no different to 6 weeks of eating only cupcakes (the current Miss Student Bob diet du jour).
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