{"id":90625,"date":"2016-07-05T16:29:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T16:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/why-your-personal-trainer-will-not-change-your-life\/"},"modified":"2016-07-05T16:29:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T16:29:06","slug":"why-your-personal-trainer-will-not-change-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/why-your-personal-trainer-will-not-change-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Your Personal Trainer Will Not Change Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Myth #1: We’ll help you lose weight.
\nMany fitness-focused social media accounts are bombarded by before and after pictures, which emphasize dramatic weight loss. This promotes an erroneous notion that fitness instructors are in the business of weight<\/em> management, when truth is that fitness instructors are in the business of stress<\/em> management. Exercise definitely helps people to live longer and happier lives by decreasing stress, improving mood, enhancing focus, and increasing overall stamina. But exercise is not likely to directly<\/em> cause weight loss. In fact, one of the best ways to improve your metabolism is by doing exercises that help you build muscle…meaning you will actually GAIN weight from exercising. Fitness instructors do not directly help people lose weight. They give people the means to be more active. This has a plethora of other benefits, and may eventually come with the side effect<\/em> of weight loss…but it might not. An article I saw published a few weeks ago (here<\/a>) captures the essence of what a lot of social media is failing to reveal about the fitness industry:
\n“By preventing cancers, improving blood pressure, cholesterol and sugar, bolstering sleep, attention, energy and mood, and doing so much more, exercise has indisputably proven itself to be the world’s best drug – better than any pharmaceutical product any physician could ever prescribe. Sadly though, exercise is not a weight loss drug, and so long as we continue to push exercise primarily in the name of preventing or treating adult or childhood obesity, we’ll also continue to short-change the public about the genuinely incredible health benefits of exercise…”
\n-obesity doctor Yoni Freedhoff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Myth #1: We’ll help you lose weight. Many fitness-focused social media accounts are bombarded by before and after pictures, which emphasize dramatic weight loss. This promotes an erroneous notion that fitness instructors are in the business of weight management, when truth is that fitness instructors are in the business of stress management. Exercise definitely helps Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}