Brain2Body Lifestyle, Nutrition and Exercise Manual

By Simon Maryan

A manual to help you change the way you think about the lifestyle you want and how you can achieve it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Aug 25, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483510767

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Introduction

This program is a mixture of the most up to date, proven, scientific training and nutrition systems and is aimed at dispelling the misconceptions and misunderstandings in the fitness and diet industries. There are training and nutritional principles in this program that you may well know about, however, the combinations they are used in have been tried and tested over the last few years to create a unique system of living (exercising and eating) that is based on how the body maximally burns fat and builds and/or maintains lean muscle tissue.

This program can be used by anyone, at any fitness level as the level of exertion required is relative to your current fitness level. As you get fitter and stronger you will be able to train harder and longer. However none of these sessions are excessively long because intensity is preferred over longevity. If you are new to exercise or just getting back into it after a long break, the principle is simple:

Week 1 - exercise x 1

Week 2 - exercise x 2

Week 3 - exercise x 3

Week 4 - exercise x 4

If you want to continue to 6 times a week that’s up to you, but for most people, especially with the way I promote exercise, 3-4 times a week is plenty

There are three main aims/phases to this program:

1. Provide a 14 day intense kick start to reset your hormones to their default setting so that you can start with a clean slate so to speak

2. Provide a you with guidance on nutrition, exercise and goal setting designed to set yourself up for success. This will enable you to create goals that will help you burn more fat, with less exercise than you ever thought possible

3. Give you the tools you need to maintain this optimum level for the rest of your life while still being able to enjoy your food and lifestyle guilt free

First of all, to set your brain on the right path from the beginning, you need to delete what you have previously learnt about nutrition and dieting.

I really detest the word diet because the so called diet industry has lead us to believe that a short term regime to achieve a specific weight is the correct way to maintain a healthy body and mind. They do not look at a lifelong methodology and at changing peoples mindsets that will enable them to change their lifestyle to enhance their lives. This is why the diet industry is a very successful failure, because people follow diets and lose weight and invariably they gain it all back and very often even more than before the diet, only to go back through the same process to start all over again.

What a waste of your time, effort and money!!!!!

The human body is an incredibly complex and very smart and adaptable bio-mechanical system, in which small changes in your thought processes and perception can have a profound effect. This is what makes it challenging to find a system that will work for the majority, because although we are all human beings with the same generic system, we all function slightly differently on the inside. This is why some supplements work better for some people than for others and why we all need different amounts of protein, carbs and fats depending on our physical make up, BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate - the amount of calories we burn doing nothing in a 24hr period) and how physically active we are and the kind of physical activities we engage in. Your mind is the key to everything.

There are many factors to consider and this is why I have designed this manual to save you time and effort doing all the research, enabling you to concentrate on achieving your desired outcome.

Now is your opportunity to learn and understand the popular misconceptions out there in the fitness industry that people regularly fall foul of, and you will be ahead of the game. Below are a few examples:

Eating 5-6 small meals fire up your metabolism

Eating breakfast first thing in the morning is important

Never have treat days

Avoiding carbs

Avoiding eating at night

These may seem like sound philosophy, however this program will help you understand a new approach to life, training, nutrition and fat loss and will re-wire your brain to think and behave differently. At last you will have the code to break free from the destructive rut that Diets set you into, this code will allow you to achieve the body you have always wanted. After all A rut is just a grave with the ends kicked out.

This program will introduce you to the simple and misunderstood principle that fast tracks your fat loss and muscle gain, and that is periodised fasting & training, a scientifically proven strategy used by many top celebrities and athletes.

So are you ready to learn how to achieve the body and the lifestyle you’ve always wanted?

The Fat Loss Secret

Diets target the symptoms and not the brain & body as a complete system.

As I mentioned earlier, diets are short term focused to achieve a certain weight in a set period of time and this has a negative impact on your brain and thought processes as well as your body. This has the opposite effect long term on your body’s ability to work efficiently and effectively, and re-wires your brain to look short term. This is exactly why many diets fail and why you have probably looked at so many different diets searching for the one that will work for you by getting you to lose the greatest amount of weight in the shortest space of time. Standard dieting gets you to look almost how you want to for that wedding or holiday etc. What this does is put a band aid over an open wound, all it does is cover up the problem without fixing it.

By following this program of progressive training, good food and periodised fasting, you will re-wire your brain and fix your body from the inside out. It will allow your body to produce the right hormones at the right time in order to take advantage of your body’s incredible ability to use fat as fuel without sacrificing precious lean muscle tissue. This means you will burn up any internal fat around your organs (visceral fat) and your body will stop storing it there. Your insulin resistance will increase and you will produce much more Growth Hormone naturally and this will boost your metabolism and your fat burning capability.

The BRAIN2BODY SYSTEM will teach you how to solve short term problems quicker than you can imagine, yet at the same time, and more importantly, it will teach you how to re-wire your brain in order to make resetting your body much easier to continue to maintain the changes you have made. It is a lifestyle change not a quick fix, and to understand how periodised fasting works so well, lets look at it in more detail.

Periodised Fasting (adapted from intermittent fasting) is possibly one of the most talked about principles in the nutrition and training world at the moment and like many other principles it is growing fast. However, unlike many other nutritional principles it is advancing whilst challenging the long held assumptions about nutrition. I call it Periodised as opposed to intermittent, because it is built into your lifestyle in planned cycles yet still has the flexibility to suit any lifestyle.

Utilising periodised fasting works as a polar opposite to the old assumptions about nutrition and the results it produces are why it is becoming extremely popular. This is not simply a new trend, it is a resurgence of an age old principle and it is a massive change to the way people think about eating that makes life easier and extremely simple to put into practice in order to achieve the body you’ve always wanted.

Definition of Periodised Fasting

Periodised Fasting is planned periods of not eating timed with planned periods of eating.

How long each period lasts depends entirely on the type of Periodised Fasting program you choose and there are several (these are explained later on). Each program has its benefits and the choice depends on your own personal preference and what works for your lifestyle. Generally the programs consist of fasting from between 12 - 30 hours (with various pauses in between) and