Giftin Wilson

Fitness Coach | Writer | Natural Body Building | Online Training

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Unfair Advantage:
To all young folks out there, grind while you have time and energy. Achieve an above-average performance and body. As you get older and responsibilities pile up, it becomes increasingly difficult to start from scratch.

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Being unKIND to others may/may not be a sin. But being unKIND to oneself is blasphemy.

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I began teaching my clients about anatomy and movement during workouts. They reported an increase in engagement and ROI after this.

The rate of both parameters is subjective, but an increase in customer satisfaction is guaranteed, given that you are also helping them reach their goals.

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Hitting a plateau on your weight loss journey can be frustrating. Monitor your progress in terms of muscle gain and fat loss.

At times, weight alone can be a terrible parameter for measuring your progress.

#fatloss #gym #muscle #weightloss

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Turned out the cause of every problem we ever face is “Not living in the present”

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Fat loss insights:

- Weightloss and fat loss are are completely different

- The 1kg that you gained over the weekend is not fat, don't worry

- Cardio + Strength training is superior to cardio alone

- Vegetables and protein are your best friends

- Sustainable methods like calorie defecit and movement is the most reliable and safe method of reaching your goal. Remember, it's a journey

- Cutting oily and high-sugar food is non-negotiable

- Patience combined with effort will help you reach your goal

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Fitness community is dramatically shifting towards hybrid training.

Aesthetics only will be irrelevant very soon.

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The fitness community is so powerful.

It's often misunderstood as simply having fun or spending time. But the true essence of a community lies in understanding one’s own levels, comparing it with the top people, and pushing oneself while receiving guidance.

It's a hack.

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For a fitness coach, empathy is the real deal.

All the knowledge, science, and maths in the world won’t help you acquire or retain clients if people don’t feel understood.

Clients don’t stay for macros.
They stay because you get them.

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Trouble pulling yourself up from the bed for the gym?

As soon as the alarm goes off, I visualise grinding and lifting heavy at the gym. That works every time.

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I am thoroughly convinced that warming up the neck muscles is also super important before any heavy upper-body exercise.

Neck muscle cramps can be horrific.

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It's both empowering and scary to realise that POWER-PLEASURE-PAIN can be caused by the same entity.

An entity can be a person or a passion

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Muscle Gain: Beyond Protein & Reps

It goes beyond the physiological mechanism.

Forget Diet & Exercise.

The real currency you have at present is TIME, ATTENTION & ENERGY. How can you grow muscle(or anything) while these 3 are all over the place?

You can grow/solve anything with these directed towards one thing.

[Giftin Wilson @GiftinW]

Unfair Advantage:
To all young folks out there, grind while you have time and energy. Achieve an above-average performance and body. As you get older and responsibilities pile up, it becomes increasingly difficult to start from scratch.

[Giftin Wilson @GiftinW]

@CoachDanGo Can't agree more

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The one common beginner’s gym injury that I see again and again is the Rotator cuff injury (commonly reported as shoulder pain while pushing and external rotation)

Cause:
- Lack of warm-up
- No progression
- Ego lifting
- Bad form

Encountered 7 in a month.

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@DivyaOYR @RossEdgley

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@DivyaOYR I agree that a jacked person doesn't always have to be fit. However a jacked person can also be world’s no.1 in endurance sports. Our body adapts to the training that we undergo.

Check this guy out.

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@FitnessGuide0 Calorie deficit left the chat

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@KiranKS Hahaha. I hope this was only sarcasm. Fitness goes beyond just the ability to squat deep.

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@CoachDanGo Loving how the talk about creatine is not confined to muscles alone💪🏼

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3 muscle gain mistakes that were silently killing my progress:

1) Immediate Cold Shower

It's an amazing way of recovery. But if your goal is growing muscles, you have to cooldown your body first, and maintain a gap of at least 20 min before a cold shower.

2) Overtraining

Let’s say you did shoulders today. Repeating the same muscles before 48 hrs steals the benefits of main recovery and growth.

3) Extreme Calorie Deficit

Protein intake matters. However lack of calories will hinder the recovery and shuts the energy that is necessary for growth. Your body has other survival functions going on and it will prioritize survival over growth.