"With the panoply of training programs out there claiming to be the new or best way to lose weight and be healthy, how can one know what to do? If you are new to exercising, where do you start? You just want to reach your goal. You are not looking for a PHD in exercise science. You are busy with your career, your family, having a social life. The intent of this article is to bring clarity to the subject while keeping it simple. First, let’s address the elephant in the room: There are NO shortcut, NO magic pill and NO fairy dust. Take out your note pad and write this down, the single most important attribute to reaching your goal is… CONSISTENCY. That’s it. Take Action. Get moving. Keep doing it. Once you have made consistency your middle name, I’d like you to meet Mr. EFFICIENCY. He will make sure you don’t make the gym your permanent residence. "

"A few weeks ago, a good friend of mine sent me his workout program and wanted my opinion on its design. When I reviewed the program I saw a bodybuilding routine geared towards building muscle mass. He told me that in addition to the weights, he was also doing cardio to help his fat loss, which is his main goal. We agreed to have lunch to discuss his routine and discuss body composition training. During lunch, he made an interesting comment, even though he had to do a little research on the net and grab from programs here and there, his program had been pretty easy to design. I have to be honest, the program itself wasn’t wrong. But as our conversation went on, I found out that it wasn’t addressing the issues that we were talking about. In addition to weight loss, he wanted to increase his biceps strength (a lacking bodypart). When I asked him how he had addressed this issue in his routine, the answer was that he didn’t know how. Also, many important variables had been overlooked in his routine. By the end of our conversation he had realized that program design was very complex.