If you want to remain lean for life you must follow a program that keeps your basal metabolic rate revved up. Sitting will sabotage your fat-burning potential. Your thyroid will adapt by adjusting your internal thermostat and turn you into a fat storing machine. So will eating too many carbs. Inactivity also accelerates the loss of lean mass and cardiac function. You lose what you do not use, and inactivity also dulls the brain, which negatively affects muscle and nerve function. Strength, stamina and bone density decrease as high blood pressure, cholersterol and triglycerides increase.

You strengthen and condition your body so you can use your body without limitation according to its natural design. If you don’t, it slowly erodes. The best diet in the world cannot get you in shape or prevent the loss of lean functional body tissue caused by sedentary living. By itself, whole organic food cannot raise your vital capacity, preserve bone mass, strengthen your biceps or save your neuromuscular system from premature degeneration. YOU MUST EXERCISE and you must do it right. Without motion, you will lose the battle against oxidative damage and gravity long before your time.

So, if you’re looking to remain lean for life, consider these elements:

1. Resistance Training AND Exercise

2. Clean Eating- preferably organic

3. Supplementation

4. Rest and Recovery