Getting married means that you are about to appear in a staggering number of photos. To help whip you into astoundingly good shape for the big day, we asked Bodyism’s Mike Tanner to not only help you look great walking down the aisle, but on your honeymoon.
First of all, ‘Be Kind To Yourself’
The term “Be kind to yourself” comes from learning from mistakes, punishing yourself with training too hard or too much can have a negative effect on your body and mind, you’ll constantly be sore and tired and that’s not the result we should be after when training. Real changes come when you first accept and love yourself for who you are. You more like to look after something you love.
Reduce Your Toxins
Your body has “filters” designed to deal with a certain amount of toxins, when you take on board more toxins than the body can handle it stores them in your body fat to keep them out of trouble, unfortunately then your brain will see the body fat as helpful and keep it as its providing a service. Reducing toxic overload allows the body to filter the overflow of toxins and your body will naturally drop unneeded body fat. Reducing your toxins pre wedding will not only help you look great (especially if you hold any weight on your face) its guaranteed to make you feel and perform at your best.
Make a Lifestyle Plan – Not A Quick Fix
The Bodyism lifestyle plan is about making lifestyle changes to help people become healthier. People constantly underestimate the power of small changes done consistently. Through our process we help people find what changes are going to be most effective to make as its always best to deal with the actual problem not the symptoms. Changes made in this manner have a long lasting effect as they become part of the new you, quick fixes only have a temporary result.
Start As Soon As Possible
The sooner you start to add exercise to your new lifestyle the better as a change in your lifestyle affects you and your partner. Having a regular exercise routine before your wedding will help you have one after your wedding, Results can be as quick as 8-12 weeks if you are eating healthy choices combined with exercising.
Take Supplements
Bodyism’s supplement Serenity helps to improve the quality of sleep and a good deep sleep helps to produce healthy male hormones. Androgen (male hormones) are also very helpful for fat loss). Male optimum, is really good to take in combination with your training and it helps with anxiety and stress which is possible pre wedding.
Get Those 8 Hours of Sleep In
We noticed that throughout lockdown people started to feel the benefits of regular sleep, sleep is an important focus point as without it it makes everything else unnecessarily harder, your likely to crave high sugar foods and less likely to want to exercise.
And finally: The At Home Workout Plan
Full body “compound” movements are great for getting results due to the amount of muscle they use.
A1, Jumping alternate split squats (adding plyometrics to your workout really ramps up its effectiveness) x 20
A2, Spiderman press ups (great for shoulders, cost and arms) nothing makes a suit look better than good shoulders. x 20
A3, Side kick throughs (not only will it help build strength in your lower abdominals its also a killer dance move for wedding night) x 10
x 2 – 3 sets depending on currently fitness level
B1, Reverse lunges (back foot on tea towel) uses a towel under the back foot means more work for your front leg x 10 each leg
B2, Judo press ups, (start in a downward dog and then lower your nose towards the floor sliding forwards into a low close grip press up and repeat) x 10
B3, Seesaw planks (plank on your elbows and both feet on tea towel sliding back and forth) x 10
x 2 – 3 sets depending on currently fitness level
Do some gentle cardio twice a week.
It doesn’t have to be hard and fast as the benefits from cardio and mental as well as physical.
