After training hundreds of clients to lose weight I have noticed two general approaches to better nutrition. One approach is to take a concept for better nutrition and apply it to their current diet. The other is a technical approach of counting calories and/or macronutrients. Concepts can be as simple as not eating past 7pm. They can also be complex, requiring reading a 400 page book as a pre-requisite. If you follow any these concepts strictly you are almost certain to see results. Simple Concepts include:
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It is the start of a new year and we are all excited to get after our fitness goals of losing weight, adding muscle, and feeling healthier. We have our schedules cleared of holidays and parties for weeks. Now is the time to really step it up, get exercising, and eat healthy. This is a fun time of year for me because I get to work with so many motivated clients who are ready to see their bodies change. After many years of coaching the New Years mentality client (including myself EVERY year), there are some key points to keep in mind. For those who may not know me, I have been a personal trainer for over 8 years now. I have always been very physically active my entire life. I typically take an aggressive approach to fitness and athletics. I mention myself as vigorously active because this issue typically affects vigorously active or athletic adults. As told by my sports medicine doctor this issue is common with bodybuilders, power lifters, football players, rugby players and other sports that require heavy lifting and power. In my case I was intermittently lifting heavy weights. This dysfunction will cause many odd and confusing symptoms that most doctors will have no clue on how to diagnose it. Explaining my issue to many types of doctors before and after being correctly diagnosed by my sports medicine doctor, I received the common reply, ”I have never head of that” or “that doesn’t make sense”. This is an unknown issue/injury to most doctors. Many seemed to believe my pain and discomfort was psychological resulting out of anxiety. Anyone who has experienced this issue will tell you that the symptoms are very real and many times painful.
I must apologize ahead of time to readers for not having all my medical information related to this issue. Being some time ago I can not remember my specific diagnosis, but it was some type of neuritis. They were pinched nerves causing all these symptoms and my inclination is there was an underlying issue leading up to the muscles pinching nerves. I will do my best to update this blog as I dig up more information. Also know that this blog is about my experience with this specific issue and there are many other issues/injuries that will have some of the same symptoms. Please read carefully and if this blog falls in line with your current situation it may be of valuable use to you. I am not a doctor, but when very few doctors are aware of this issue and there is little information on the web pertaining to this issue, I felt it necessary to write this blog to help others suffering from this injury/dysfunction. For a detailed explanation of this issue, read my updated blog on psoas nerve entrapement. First symptoms I first felt these symptoms when doing a fairly heavy bench press. Normally I kept my feet up on the bench, but I had them down this time to give more stability for a heavier bench press. I was doing a 6-8RM intensity, which was a gradual change from my 12-15RM a few weeks prior. I felt a jolt of electricity shoot roughly from my belly button area to my groin. It was very uncomfortable so I scaled down my workouts. Throughout the next few weeks I felt light tingling, numbness, and discomfort in my groin and genitalia. Unfortunately I chose it ignore it. About a month after the symptoms from the bench press, I spent a few days moving to another apartment. This brought new symptoms of abdomen and pelvic pressure and discomfort. It felt like I needed to defecate frequently. Although I did, afterword the feeling remained. A week or two later I suddenly awoke in the middle of the night with extreme pressure in my genitals. This was very confusing and scary as now I definitely knew something was wrong. My initial inclination was that there was a nerve issue, being that all of the symptoms were so different but within the same general area. Another two weeks later very painful symptoms arose. In addition to the previously mentioned, I had intermittent severe pelvic pain to the point where I could not stand up. I experienced constant pain in the superior (top) portion of my testicals, mostly on one side. I experienced intestinal pain and diarrhea. There was burning in the upper thigh region. The best way to sum up the general feeling was that it felt like I was consistently being hit in the testicals. |
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