Fitness & Exercise for Weight Loss
When it comes to exercise, many people always ask the obvious question- “What works?” The truth is that many exercise programs are effective as long as they meet three criteria:
1) Each session lasts long enough for positive physiological change to take place
2) The benefits from performing these workouts can be measured
3) The workout can eventually be adapted so that plateaus can be avoided
When it comes to ensuring your success in losing weight, staying in shape, and keeping those pounds off for the long-term, it is important you become capable in forms of fitness and exercise. What is the difference? Basically, fitness is how fit or in shape you are in. Exercise is what you do to improve your fitness.
No More Excuses for Missing Your Workout
Many of our campers aren’t in good shape because they don’t exercise. In our experience, adolescents aren’t exercising because they don't have the time to exercise - or - they do not know how to exercise or what exercises to do, so they hurt themselves, don’t see progress, get frustrated, and quit.
We get it. Getting in shape can feel like a mountain you just can’t climb, but with our help you will have success in starting up that mountain.
Gaining Skills and Having Fun while Exercising
Exercise is the activities you do in order to improve in an area of fitness. In order to improve, you need an exercise plan focused on what you like and on how to improve your skills. According to the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the five areas of fitness that a person can progress in are:
1) Cardiovascular conditioning: the body’s ability to sustain aerobic activity at a high level
2) Muscular strength: a particular muscle group’s ability to lift a weight
3) Muscular Endurance: a person’s ability to have sustainable muscle movement against resistance
4) Flexibility: a particular muscle’s ability to be stretched and moved through a full range of motion
5) Body composition: A person’s fat mass vs. fat free mass ratio
We’ll measure your progress in all of these areas and you will improve your skills. Best of all, with sports, activities, games, weight training, yoga, and aerobics, you are sure to learn many different ways to get active.
Improving your Fitness in a Big Way
Fitness is the level of ability and conditioning you have. It is important to realize that very few people are capable in all areas of fitness (and some campers don’t feel like they are good at anything). For example, a person who is a competitive marathon runner obviously has superior cardiovascular fitness, but may not be able to bench press 150% of their body weight (which is the standard that adult males should reach to obtain high muscular strength fitness). Or, someone who participates in yoga a few times per week is likely quite flexibility, but may not participate in plyometric activities to increase their vertical jump, so they may not be able to meet the standards for muscular power.
What does all of this mean? WellBalance has in-depth knowledge of what works for improving your fitness, and you’ll participate in all sorts of fun sports, games, activities, and personal training to ensure you improve your fitness and have fun doing it.
Knowing what works and then working at what you know.
WellBalance offers additional information on different aspects of our camp on these pages:
Why we are different than a traditional Fat Camp.
What does Weight Loss Camp look like at WellBalance.
How WellBalance Boot Camps can make the difference in your life.
We are more than a weight loss camp, we are focused on your overall health.
