Holiday lore suggests the average American – yes, that’s you and me – gains seven pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year. In truth, National Institutes of Health research indicates the gain is less than a pound, but still, the most popular New Year’s resolution remains losing weight.
With all the office goodies, fabulous parties and reverie, how do we battle the lurking bulge? Yes, yes, we know, working out and watching what we eat enhances fitness and helps maintain healthful weight, but often that’s easier said than done.
Enter educo-gym, one of the newest systems in the weight-loss revolution, claiming to be “the fastest way humanly possible to get in shape.”
MaryAnn Malone is owner and trainer for educo-gym in the Greenwood Village. She’s hoping to modernize how we view fitness.
“It’s not just training,” Malone said. “It’s an awareness of how we eat, nutrition. It’s focus on going back to a natural, low-glycemic diet, keeping the hormones in balance, keeping the insulin steady.”
The program includes nutrition counseling, exercise, food supplements, and three 15- to 20-minute weight-training sessions per week as the core workout. The training is so intense, you actually get your full cardio and weight training simultaneously. According to this concept, low-calorie diets and aerobics actually make you fat. Their system is designed to increase muscle mass, burn calories, increase energy and reverse effects of aging.
“The exciting part is the whole lifestyle. People have more success at work, phenomenal energy – the big thing is the energy,” she said, emphasizing that maintaining a healthy, fit body makes for a clearer and more fit mind.
