Personal Training Clients Not Losing Weight
Q: I am a trainer my self here in India. I recommend my clients a diet plan as such.
7-730: corn flakes with milk or oatmeal or 2 brown bread slice with milk glass or 3 eggs with milk.
10:1030 :fruits or salad (avoid fruits like Grapes,banana and only take 1/2 apple at a time)
1-130: 2 breads of whole grain with extra vegetable or pulses and legumes.
4-430: same as 2nd meal or 2 brown breads with tea or coffee without sugar.
7-730:2 Breads of whole grain and extra green vegetable and pulses or legumes. or fish or chicken breasts.
10:1030: glass of milk.
For carb cycling I even recommend them to leave India Breads made out of whole grain for a week and eat good carb in breakfast on 4th day for carb cycling.
I strongly recommend to eat good quantities of boiled vegetables ,pulses , sprouts ,fish and chicken breast.
I make them do good weight trainings, aerobics and cardio. But still I m not getting good results for my clients. Their is reduction that too of mere 1 or 2 kg a month . And then it stops.
So kindly recommend any changes in diet plan if required .and any corrections I should introduce.
A: There're a few things going on here that need fixing...
- You really shouldn't prescribe the same diet to all your clients. A 140 pound woman should not be eating as much as a 200 pound man.
- The diet you listed is too way too heavy on bread and milk as well. Even whole grain breads are still heavily processed by the time you eat them. Unprocessed grains like old-fashioned oatmeal or any number of pulses would be a much better choice than bread. Milk, while it does have protein, also has quite a bit of sugar. It is OK in moderation, but it does not make a good meal by itself (as you have in the evening).
- Overall that diet is lacking in protein. There're a lot of different meal combinations you listed, but altogether for one day it still adds up to maybe 80 grams of protein at most. The target you should set for your clients is one gram of protein per pound of bodyweight per day (i.e. a 150-pound man should aim to consume 150 grams of protein daily).
- Along those same lines, meal 2 and meal 4 have no protein to speak of.
- Meal 6, as I mentioned before is not a complete meal.
If you read through http://www.mikesfitness.com/content/nutrition you'll get guidelines for how to plan out a good diet plan. Carb cycling is really not necessary (though it probably doesn't hurt anything either). But you should definitely have less focus on bread and more focus on leafy vegetable and legumes. More focus on eggs, chicken, fish, and vegetable protein like tofu is needed too.
You didn't go in detail on what kind of weight training you prescribe to your clients, but it needs to be using fairly heavy weights and focusing on large compound movements that stress all the major muscle groups. Just doing a lot of bicep curls and crunches will not produce any results. You can read about weight training in http://www.mikesfitness.com/content/weight-training
Finally, you need to focus on each client individually and understand specifically what he or she is doing or not doing that leads to lack of progress. Chances are different clients are having different problems with their diets and training. Some probably aren't eating right foods, others are eating too much, others don't do right exercises, others are not using heavy enough weights, and so on. There are a lot of places where things may be going wrong. You need to pinpoint the problem for each client.
Hope that helps. Good luck to you and your clients!