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Principles of Exercise: How to Get the Best Fitness Results

  By Sasha Gusain  posted Aug 17th 2012 at 7:30AM IN | Avg Rating
Diet & Fitness


Balanced nutrition goes hand in hand with exercise

Exercise without balanced nutrition is incomplete and will never give you the results you seek. You cannot expect great cardiovascular health, good body composition, and optimal weight management, if you routinely binge on fried food and alcohol. Further, you won’t have the necessary energy needed for a challenging workout, if you skimp on the right foods. The same theory applies to exercise progression.

When your body progresses with exercise, it must also progress with nutrition. This is why you’ll find that athletes who train hard always alter their meal plans with every new workout. Several successful weight loss warriors, who did it the right way, will tell you that once their weight loss kicked in, they actually had to eat more to support more intense exercise – while still continuing to lose weight, or in other words: while building muscle and losing fat. This includes taking a good look at your meal timings as well.


  • Step out of your body’s comfort zone
  • The FITT principle of exercise: Frequency, Intensity, Time and Type
  • Progressions in ‘time’ and ‘type’ are inter-related
  • Balanced nutrition goes hand in hand with exercise
  • Balanced exercise – How specific is your exercise routine
  • How balanced exercise and goals are inter-related
  • Rest, Recover, Replenish

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