As a Certified Personal Fitness Trainer for six years, I can confirm that nutrition and health go hand in hand. Nutrition, the process of providing and obtaining the food necessary for wellness and growth, is important to live a healthy lifestyle. It starts with your diet. Nourishing the body with proper nutrients is the most efficient way to maintain your health.

Remember to eat high protein foods like eggs, chicken, beef, bison, and avocados. Also, you need carbohydrates like grains, rice, grits, potatoes, and legumes (peanuts and beans), as well as fruits and dairy products. All of these are necessary to implement into your daily routine as well as exercise for great health. To prevent having health issues like diabetes and high blood pressure, eating fruits, yogurt and drinking plenty of water is essential to live your best lifestyle.

While nutrition plays a major part in our wellbeing, incorporating exercise into a well balanced diet is one of many ways to make yourself look as good as you eat. For overall fitness, exercise regimens like calisthenics, weight lifting, aerobics, swimming, jogging, pull ups and dips are beneficial for your health.

Recommendations for Gaining Muscle or Losing Weight

If you are looking to gain muscle, you must increase calories in your diet. You want to focus on protein based meals. You must increase your protein intake and eat more than one meal a day. When it comes to losing weight, you need to take starches out of your diet, have less sugar, drink water often, eat yogurt, maintain and manage your calorie intake with low calorie foods. Focus on the nutritional foods mentioned above.

Exercises Recommendations

To gain weight and build muscle with exercise, you want to lift heavy and build your muscle by lifting heavier as you increase your body strength. For losing weight, it’s good to tone up with lifting and bodyweight exercises like jumping jacks, pushups, calf raises. There are many other exercises that can help you lose weight. The key is to select ones you enjoy.