Weighting Line

1 opinion for Week 7 Weigh In

• Doug Splittgerber
  May 22, 2008 at 3:54 pm

  Hello Hope- a mutual friend, Scott Wharton, asked me to contact you to help you. I have been in the health field for over 40 years and yes, that makes me old, almost 58.
  You, and the rest of the over-weight population are sadly lacking in knowledge and understanding of your weight problem and its correct life-long solution. Reality is a hard pill to swallow but I have found that it is those people that are really desperate or are in pain that become receptive to learning. Up until that time, people resort to the magic, make believe fixes like NutraSystems, Jenny Craig, Curves and the other “weight loss” solutions that are only temporary at best.
  I am going to be “straight forward” and truthful with you and your other blogettes. I read your column about feeling sorry for the over weight and can sympathize with them because like the rest of the population, they are ignorant of how their body functions and why they look like they look.
  All overweight people, men and women, need to understand the underlying reasons for their body’s preponderance to hold body fat. The basic reason is that the body is basically not functioning on a musculo-skeletal basis. What I mean is the hips don’t work, so the hip, glute, upper thigh region is a quiet area as far as function is concerned, so the body is comfortable storing body fat in this unused area. This process is body wide and you only need to notice the body fat deposits to understand the underlying condition. Dysfunction happens first and the body fat deposits follow and continue until the dysfunction is corrected.
  To the unknowing person this sounds absurd. What do you mean my hips don’t work? I’m walking around, carrying my kids, etc. How can I do that with hips that don’t work?
  That my friends is the wonder of the human body and the compensation abilities that it has when it is forced to do what it can without any direction by the body owner. Read that again. The body’s ability to compensate is part of our survival mechanism and is as dominant as our will to live. Without guidance and direction from us, our body is forced to compensate which is where the dysfunction begins. For most women, they lose their hip function before they reach 20 years of age and it goes downhill from there.
  You can diet all you want, until you are eating a starvation diet, and you will not change the fact that your body is set up to be an “energy storing machine”. The body wide dysfunction dictates this. This is the reason why you saw body fat accumulating in the legs, hips and glutes usually before you out of high school.
  Women suffer most with this process. Add the hormone upheaval that takes place after child birth and pre, pari, and post menopause and you have an environment that is almost unbeatable. Your best and only weapon in this life long battle is MUSCLE.
  Muscle is the largest biologically active system in the human body and makes your body an “energy using machine”. In women, it is scoffed at, looked down upon and referred to only in the useless exercises like Pilates and Yoga as that long, lean, muscle look which is nothing more than a limp, elongated, flaccid, unfunctioning muscle that is similar to the upper bodies of most dancers and long distance runners.
  Biologically active means it needs calories, carbs, protein, and fat on a daily basis for its maintenance and continued function. This system is the destination for your food. Without it functioning, your body has no place for your food to go, hence the energy storing status.
  When it comes to the exercise of choice, most women choose something that is aerobic in nature. We call this the “follow the leader” type of exercise. Someone who doesn’t look like they ever had a weight issue in their live leading the class while you and the other overweight people attempt to do “your version” of what you think you are seeing. The sad fact for this and all aerobic type exercise,(walking, running,aerobic classes, steppers, bikes, treadmills, etc.)is that they are MUSCLE WASTING which means it forces your body to give up what ever muscle you aren’t using which makes the problem worse. The same holds true for chronic dieting. Your body would rather get rid of all skeletal muscle and keep all your body fat because body fat is life sustaining and you keep giving your body the message it is starving so most people see the starvation response, loss of muscle, retention of fat and accumulation of more fat after you quite dieting.(aka yo-yo dieting)
  You see the vicious cycle that is created because of all the ignorance. The level of misinformation that is abound is incredible and is there because the consumer is unknowing in what they want. They want to lose weight. That is absurd. You want to lose fat and retain and build as much muscle as possible. Your figure comes from the underlying muscle which supports your skin. Thats why when you lose some weight your skin just hangs and you giggle all over.
  What is the solution to begin to correct this life time’s worth of incorrect body usage and over dieting. The first step is knowledge of how the body you live in functions. We have compiled 75 years of knowledge in this primer on human function, YOUR BODY, YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. This is not a read once type of book but rather one that you need to read over and over again to learn. This is all about anatomical function, how to get your hips back functioning, how to properly position your spine for optimum function, etc, etc, etc. This is information that all other trainers talk about with their references to “good form” but really have no clue what it means. The whole body works as a unit and needs to be directed in everything that you do. Just like your car that you have to drive every time we are in it, your body needs direction for proper function.
  In Part 1 of our book, we go over the requirements for diet, women’s weight loss, the need for muscle and other pertinent topics. Part 2 is the layman’s explanation on how we function, why we hurt, and how to begin to learn how to operate your body better for vastly improved results.
  We include a DVD that uses the modality of properly performed stretching to teach the reader how to begin to properly direct their whole body at once while perform a specific stretch. This is not some insane Jillian Michaels workout but rather a workout performed by my wife and I to explicitly teach you exactly how and where your body belongs with each stretch. It is like learning how to walk for the first time which coincidently you learned on your own which is a major reason why we all walk different.
  We have a second book on Weight Training with 3 DVD’s which is the single most important activity you should be doing to rebuild your unused muscle that will use the calories that you will be eating. Get the connection? I will be back.

  Doug Splittgerber/Debra Corbo
  YOUR BODY, YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
  http://www.yourbodyyourresponsibility.com

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