Not a Diet Book: The Must-Have Fitness Book From the World's Favourite Personal Trainer

by James Smith

This is particularly relevant to females, who need body fat more than males. It’s a rarity to find someone who sits healthily at a very low body-fat percentage without then suffering from a range of other health problems, as you’ll find out later in the book. Also, something you’re not told is that women who compete often have periods of weeks where they can’t sit down for too long as it hurts their tailbone. However, when they go back to what is a healthy body-fat percentage, they feel a new sensation they didn’t before: they feel ‘fat’.

Too many people want to go from great shape to very great shape, purely based on what they’re exposed to on social media. I want those people to be paired up with a challenging performance goal instead of starving themselves for a new profile picture.

gaining fat is cyclical and a normal part of being a regular human.

The problems begin with not knowing how to lose that fat, and when you learn how to do that your life will become less stressful. Food

Fat loss is about liberation, freedom, eradication of guilt, being more confident and not just looking better, but feeling better for every second of every fucking day. That’s more than just having less fat, I can assure you.

Month on month, it’d be pleasant to see linear progressions on net reduction of weight, but at some point that’s going to stop and you’re going to have to give it everything you have to lose half a pound.

You need to pay close attention to your life outside of dieting and training. Life is far too fucking short not to have a career you cherish and love. Go after your passion, even if it means moving back in with your parents – because, ultimately, there’s a disease out there that’s killing the souls of millions, and that’s boredom with a payslip attached to it.