Holiday Fitness Tips

Plan your non fitness days.

You should probably keep Thanksgiving open as a day to splurge, but plan 3 other days for cheating during the holidays and no more days without fitness.

Only eat sugar stuff right after a fitness training workout. That means within 20 minutes of strength training when your body won't store it as fat.

Do a brief strength training session, or a brief cardio session each day over the holidays to keep your metabolism fired up. By brief, I mean no more than 12 minutes (if you have questions about this, just email me).

Take an extra long walk around the mall when shopping.

Do your fitness early in the morning so you won't be tempted to miss them due to shopping, family, parties, etc.

Eat breakfast within one hour of waking. You'll be less tempted to eat sugar when you've started the day with good nutrition.

Limit alcohol consumption to cheat days. Having lite beer doesn't do any good if you are on a low carb diet. Alcohol does the same thing, as if you just dumped straight sugar into your body.

Drink more H2O. Whatever you do and wherever you go, bring your water with you. It will keep you hydrated, and flush toxins out so that your metabolism and body systems are working at their best.

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Steve Preston - President of Fast Fitness has been training and counseling clients for 15 years. He offers personal fitness training, metabolic testing and customized fitness and nutrition plans. His new guide "How to Build a Leaner, Firmer Body in Six Weeks" teaches busy moms and executives how to drop pounds and lose weight working out just 12 minutes per day. His guide offers individualized weekly work out routines and menu plans to help make life easy. You can read more about his guide and his other fitness guides and services at: http://www.fast-fitness.net