Tone in 12 Weight Loss Program

Tone In 12™ – A Week’s Worth of Exercise in 12-Minutes 
by Lisa Alexander

In early 2009, I had the good fortune of running across an Internet E-Book entitled, The Vanity Diet: Destroying the Weightrix by Las Vegas Fitness Entrepreneur Gregory Kelly. My life, weight, and physical appearance was spiraling downward so quickly that I found myself paying exorbitant fees ($395/wk.) for weight loss centers, personal trainers, and a regular gym membership to keep my body fit. Since I was working 60-hour workweeks, these three practices were beginning to become too much for me.

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When I started reading The Vanity Diet®, I couldn't believe what I was being told. At the time, I was working with the belief that exercise needed to be performed every day or at least three times per week in order to be of any real benefit. The root of this fallacy was the misconception that the recovery process in strength/muscle building was complete within 48 hours. We now know that this was not only untrue, but also patently absurd. The most recent research using muscle biopsies of high intensity trainers shows that the recovery process can last as long as 14 days in some cases, with the average being somewhere between 5 and 7 days.

There are many unconnected researchers such as Arthur Jones, Pete Sisco, Ken Hutchins, Jon Little, etc., whose thousands of hours with test subjects reach the same conclusion. The only reason someone would need to strength train on an every other day basis is if they weren’t working hard enough in the first place.  With proper guidance and effort, most individuals need just a single, weekly, vigorous, strength training session to maintain optimal levels of health.

For me, this paradigm shift forced me to rethink the entire concept of spending hundreds of dollars and several hours each week for these different services. I now know I can get better results with a properly supervised, isometric strength training session with a much lower investment of time, and for less than $50 per week.

How important is your time?  I recently read an article from Pete Sisco entitled, “What’s Your Time Worth?” Here is a portion of what Pete had to say on this issue.

“When I find myself doing some task the slow way or doing something I could pay someone else to do, my wife asks me the simple question, "But Pete, what is your time worth?" And it's not just the financial value of time; it's the lost value of not spending the time doing something more productive or more enjoyable. And when you put pencil to paper and actually calculate where your time gets spent and what it costs you (and probably your family) it is really shocking.”

Pete later goes on to demonstrate that the average person going to a gym three times per week spends approximately 13 hours per month there, and this does not even include travel time to and from, as well as time showering, primping, etc. The real number is probably closer to 25 hours per month, assuming the individual was faithfully going three times per week.

Twenty-five hours per month?  This is truly shocking if you stop to think about it. An individual making a modest $10 per hour is actually sacrificing $250 per month of earnings capacity, or taking away 25 hours in which they could be doing something more useful with their time (family, friends, career advancement, recreation, etc).

All of a sudden, that $19.95 per month membership isn’t looking like the bargain you thought it was.  It’s more like $19.95 per month, and several hundred dollars worth of your time. This also assumes that you are getting the best possible results training yourself, which based on my experience, is wishful thinking.  As someone who has been training with an instructor for the past three years, I can tell you with all certainty that I am not capable of getting the same results training myself as I can with a competent instructor.

It’s kind of like trying to perform as your own massage therapist. You may be able to go through the motions, and touch all the right places, but it just isn’t the same thing.

So, before you fall into the trap of buying a low cost membership to a club you’ll never go to, or a club you’ll go to but not know what to do, throw caution to the wind and experience the once a week, twenty minute workout. If you do, you’ll quickly realize just how much you’re time is really worth.

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