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metabolic trainingSimply put, metabolism is the body’s way of converting food into energy, and then using that energy to sustain and build the body. It takes a complex and interrelated series of chemical and physical processes to accomplish that. A simple way to understand your body’s metabolism? It works a lot like the engine of a car.

To get up and go, your body needs food, much like a car engine needs fuel. Your body’s engine is your metabolism. When you rev the engine—say, when exercising—you burn more fuel. And when your engine is a finely tuned metabolism, your body burns its fuel most effectively, and with less waste. That means less fat and greater fitness for you.

Fueling your system is a calories in/calories out proposition. The “calories in” come from food fuels: fats, carbohydrates, proteins. The body uses each of those fuel sources for different purposes, and excess calories are stored in a way that is unique to each fuel source. (Take fat, for instance: The body has seemingly unlimited capacity to store excess fats, and it does so in a decidedly bulky way.

The “calories out” are burned off through physical activity such as exercise, the digestion of food, and resting metabolism. The amount of calories burned via physical activity is largely up to you: your activity levels and your workout routine. The energy it takes to use the food you eat requires a nominal 10% of the total calories out. Your resting metabolism—meaning the amount of energy required to do all the things a body does to stay up and running, from the breathing you hardly even notice to the thinking you’re doing at this very moment—commands most of the calories out, at 60% to 70%. Learning how to maximize that number gets to the heart of New Leaf’s metabolic assessment.

1. ASSESS YOUR SITUATION

When you’ve decided to boost your athletic performance—it’s time to take action. To get started, assess your situation. Find out what your body is capable of today. By determining your starting point, you can then chart a clear path to your goal.

sample metabolic testNew Leaf’s metabolic assessment is a simple, two-step process. First, there’s the easiest test you’ll ever take. It involves wearing a comfortable mask while sitting in a chair and breathing. That’s it. Next, there’s a little exercising to be done, but that doesn’t take long. Then, the science goes to work for you. For your very little effort, you get a lot of detailed, personalized feedback about your caloric needs, your current level of fitness, and a sense of what you need to do next in order to move toward your health, fitness, or performance goal.

This information will help you and your fitness professional chart a speedy path to redefining your fitness. The nutrition part of the assessment will help you develop a dietary plan that you can follow for the rest of your life, and a personal daily workout plan ends the guesswork about how often and how intensely to workout. Just follow the plan, and you’ll get results.

2. ACHIEVE REAL FITNESS RESULTS

Knowing how your metabolism works is essential to creating a plan to live healthy, look better, and perform to your full potential. Our New Leaf metabolic assessment and training program is based on decades of medical research and proven scientific know-how. Whether you’re just starting to exercise or you’re training for your next marathon, you can boost your metabolism. And that means you can achieve your goal of better health, fitness, or athletic performance—when your exercise and nutrition plans are based on your personal metabolic profile.

What’s a metabolic profile? Think of it as your metabolic fingerprint: It’s unique to you, and it holds all the info needed to create a highly successful, personal exercise training plan. Your metabolic profile helps your trainer determine how long you should exercise and how intensely (probably not as hard as you think!). Your profile also provides insight into the nutritional choices that will improve your health, increase your overall fitness, and ultimately enhance your athletic performance.

Top trainers and coaches, premier fitness clubs and sports teams, and health professionals of all types use the New Leaf metabolic assessment to measure how efficiently a body burns calories both at rest and while exercising. With the detailed, science-based snapshot of your metabolism that comes from the New Leaf assessment, your fitness or health professional can design a workout program that meets your individual needs, so you can achieve real results in less time with greater ease.

Learn more about how a personal workout plan from New Leaf can help you achieve your health and fitness goals:

  1. Metabolism 101
  2. What your metabolism means for you
  3. Your unique metabolic profile
  4. Your personal roadmap for better health, fitness, and athletic performance
  5. Tracking your progress
  6. Taking it to the next level.

3. A PERSONALIZED PROGRAMnew leaf technolog

Your New Leaf metabolic assessment delivers a wealth of personal insight into how your body fuels itself. But the greatest benefit of the assessment comes from what you do with that detailed information. Your personal details are the foundation of your personal workout plan—and that’s the key to burning fat during your workouts, instead of just burning time exercising.

The power of your personal program is that it is a complete program that addresses all your fitness-related needs. A total fitness program includes cardiovascular training, strength training, and nutritional guidance. Your New Leaf fitness plan includes cardio workouts, details about how often to do strength training, and access to EnergySmart, a nutrition program that delivers menus, grocery lists, and recipes tailored to your needs.

With “one size fits all” fitness routines, it’s easy to fall into the trap of shortcutting your cardio, ignoring strength training, or eating the way you’ve always eaten. But shortcuts like that will stop you in your tracks on the path to fitness success. To keep you on the go, your New Leaf-accredited metabolic specialist will develop a complete—and completely personalized—three-part fitness plan.

4. MONITOR YOUR PROGRESS

The foundation of your fitness success comes from monitoring your progress. Your New Leaf metabolic assessment tells you exactly where to begin your fitness journey, and it gives some idea of what potential you might achieve. Keeping track of the little victories (and, yes, the occasional setback) along the way will keep you on the path to fitness success. And of course, it’s the staying on track that guarantees you’ll reach your fitness destination.

The process of charting your path to success can be half the fun of achieving your goals. You can record the intensity of your workouts with a heart rate monitor. By monitoring your heart rate from workout to workout, you’ll know with confidence that you’re training at the right intensity, for the right amount of time. A convenient software program or fitness journal—eNewLeaf for workouts, EnergySmart for nutrition—can help you keep track of your progress in detail. And creating a circle of support can help keep you both accountable and motivated.

By monitoring your fitness progress, you can be sure you’re achieving the greatest results in the least amount of time.

5. BE IN THE KNOW—AGAIN

You assessed your fitness capabilities. You listened closely to the guidance your metabolic specialist gave you, and you’ve followed your meal plans. You worked out with dedication and focus (well, most of the time!), and you kept track of it all. Chances are, you’ve noticed a difference in your body. Now it’s time to find out just how much of a difference your effort has made.

After 6 to 12 weeks of exercising, your New Leaf metabolic specialist will recommend that you come back for another assessment. Why go through it all again? Not only do you get to make good use of your personal Assessment Pack again, you get yet another snapshot of where you are today. And that means you will be able to see the exact progress you’ve made.food health fitness

With the insight of a metabolic reassessment, your metabolic specialist can help you update your metabolic training program—one that takes into account the gains you’ve made in cardio conditioning, muscle mass, and a more finely-tuned fat-burning engine. Your New Leaf reassessment provides positive reinforcement of your health and fitness efforts, accountability to yourself, and a clear map of the twists and turns that lie ahead on your path to the next goal.

In fact, it’s a good idea to assess your metabolism consistently through the years, as your fitness levels, your body, and your life changes over times. Being fit and healthy is a lifetime achievement.