Kickstart Your 2025 Fitness Goals with the Ultimate Nutrition Guide
Fuel weight loss and enhance workouts with sustainable tips and an accessible weekly approach from sports nutritionist and fitness coach Chris Barakat.
For many, a new year means new opportunities to lose weight, work out more consistently and improve your overall wellbeing. But aggressive goal setting can often derail the most well-intentioned people. To optimize your chances of success during Four-Week Fast Track: Accelerate, Tonal has once again partnered with professional natural bodybuilder and fitness coach Chris Bakarat, MS, ATC, CISSN. The Ultimate Nutrition Guide not only demystifies the science behind weight loss, but provides easy-to-follow tips for a sustainable lifestyle approach.
“The better we understand the variables that have the greatest impact on our body weight, composition, fitness, and overall wellness, the more likely we are to make decisions that align with our goals,” says Barakat. Some factors–like our genetics–are beyond our control when it comes to weight management, but many, like our activity levels and what we eat, can have an immense impact on how we look and feel. The key, Barakat says, is incorporating those changes in manageable ways.
Before starting a new fitness plan, it’s essential to understand what these variables are and how changing them will affect your body. The Ultimate Nutrition Guide kicks off with a detailed breakdown of the factors that influence weight loss, and provides specific weekly and monthly targets based on your current weight and goals.
“Many New Year’s Resolutions revolve around weight loss, and while many people have had acute success losing weight, they can’t sustain the approach and keep the body fat off,” says Barakat. Aggressive methods like restrictive dieting often result in negative side effects such as extreme hunger, low energy, poor mood, reduced cognition, and decreased training performance. Baraket believes that employing a sustainable approach is the best way to avoid these harmful effects and set yourself up for greater success in the year ahead.
To complement Four-Week Fast Track: Accelerate, Barakat shares four actionable goals in this downloadable guide.
Week 1: You’ll learn how to accurately calculate how many calories you should be eating every day and adjust those targets based on your fitness goals.
Week 2: Barakat breaks down the importance of each macronutrient when it comes to building balanced meals and increasing muscle.
Week 3,: You’ll gain a better understanding of how to optimize your diet with nutrient-dense foods and volumize your meals.
Week 4: You’ll incorporate everything you’ve learned to enhance your training days through better nutrition.
“Rather than completely overhauling your dietary habits and personal preferences, you’ll have better long-term success by making smaller adjustments that will intentionally improve your overall approach,” says Barakat.
Whether you’re looking to lose weight or rebalance your body composition, you may want to consult a doctor or registered dietician to ensure that your proper nutrition requirements are being met. To personalize a plan that meets your needs, your health history and any current dietary restrictions should be taken into consideration.
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