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Dynamic Nutrition – Your Key to Fitness Success

It is a frustrating truth that no matter how hard and how well you are training, at some point in time, you will reach a plateau that you just can’t get over.

When you’re bulking up, this is because your muscles do not have enough nutrition to continue to grow. As you train, your muscle mass increases and you get stronger and you may need to eat more protein in order to maintain your evolving physique.

Similarly, if you’re cutting back your progress can be slowed down because excess nutrition is limiting the rate of fat loss.

When it comes to nutrition, small changes in your diet can mean big changes to your body.

Your nutrition needs are constantly changing and achieving the best nutrition plan for optimum fitness is a complex task. As your fitness improves and as your body changes, you need to fine-tune your nutrition in order to continue making progress. This is called dynamic nutrition.

When you reach a plateau, fitness experts recommend that you adjust your daily calorie intake by 500 calories for a period of a week. If you see no result you then make a further adjustment.

Some people fail to recognize the need for this change and stick rigidly to the same printed nutrition plan that served them well at the start of their fitness program.

Others know that they need to make alterations but find it difficult to work out what to do.

What they all have in common is that they risk making slower progress or in fact no progress, despite keeping up a tough exercise and training program.

When it comes to nutrition, small changes in your diet can mean big changes to your body.

It’s easy to work out how to change the number of calories you eat each day but making sure that you get exactly the right proportion of carbs, protein and fat is vital and this is where most people go wrong. The calculations become complicated and without expert guidance it is easy to make the wrong changes or just not enough of the right ones.

But if you are going to get over your plateau, dynamic nutrition will dramatically enhance your progress.

The experts agree on this and Men’s Fitness magazine summed it up when they said:

“If you learn how to eat right, you can double the benefits of your training; crafting that body you want in half the time”.

So, whether you use a program like plan:one with its unique Dynamic Nutrition Technology that works out everything automatically for you in seconds, or do it the hard way and calculate your requirements manually, dynamic nutrition will deliver the fitness results you want.

Tips for Choosing Sports Kits

Any experienced player or coach can tell you about the importance of players having sports kits. It does not matter whether you are in school, sports club or organization team, you must have one. The kits contain sports gear which is mandatory to wear while playing. Official suppliers such as Adidas, Nike and Errea have dominated the markets over the years but of course still facing challenges from their competitors from the emerging market. Below are some tips which can help you to choose the best kits when you are going to the field.There are several fantastic varieties of team wear and equipment. Such include sport kits, training wear and accessories. Visiting the showrooms mean that the interested individuals will be able to select the ranges that march their desires. Established and upcoming shops offer fare discounts to the customers. Custom sportswear and personalized clothing can also be tailor made to the interested teams. It is also possible for the interested teams to design their own kit and have the this delivered. The verities that are in place range from sports clothing, sports footwear, sports bags, sports equipment and brands. The online market is a comprehensive means of comparing what different stores have in offer before settling for what works best.Latest Sports kits ranges can be found in the leading suppliers and in most cases have special offers. Tracksuits, wears for training and equipment complete what the suppliers offer. Sports leisure wear including caps, shirts and T-shirts is also available. The major sports brands have over the years produced quality the wears for the major tournaments across the nations. Several kit brands are being witnessed and the dominant names such as Adidas, Nike and Puma have held the market by storm. The top kit suppliers have their strongest selling strips and enter into sponsorship deals with teams. This means that they continue to supply they teams with the sports gear for the time agreed until the contract expires.Depending on the relationship that the Sports kits supplier has with the team, they can continue to influence more teams into sponsorship deals. It is difficult to predict the dominant brands in the market today since the competition have picked strongly. The race for dominance on the brand variety has taken a major shift and the kits that were least purchased are today attracting strong attention. The major factor that many teams consider in the kits is the style of the prints. Different brands launch new styles of print to attract teams that have not settled for specific kits.With outstanding, unique and original style, the volume of sale experiences a major growth as a result. It remains to be seen what the outstanding style of the kits will dominate the market over the coming years. Before walking to the showrooms to select the sports kits, those interested can initially find information online. This offers news about the new brands in the market, including the brands, special offers that are in place and the dates in which to expect new brands.

The Five Pillars of Marketing Success

Does the following give a pretty good picture of your current marketing activity?You have a website but you’re not really satisfied with it. You go to networking events once in awhile. If someone asks you to give a talk, you’re happy to do it. You post on Facebook and/or LinkedIn semi-regularly. When you find the time, you send an article to those on your relatively small email list. You occasionally set up meetings with colleagues to explore opportunities.Now there’s nothing wrong with any of those marketing activities. And usually, they will result in landing some new clients.But this is not the approach that works to get a steady, predictable stream of new clients.Please don’t tune me out here, thinking, “Well, I really can’t do more than this. I’m already stretched thin. If you give me too much to do I’ll get overwhelmed.”I agree. It’s not that you need to do more marketing, it’s that you need to shift your marketing paradigm from one of “Randomness” to one that is “Focused.”Random marketing is just that; it’s all over the place. You do a little bit here and a little bit there on an inconsistent basis. You are trying to keep your face, name, and message in front of your prospective clients but the results are unpredictable.The Random marketing paradigm is not very effective because it doesn’t gain a lot of momentum. You don’t do enough of one marketing activity to grab the attention of your prospective clients and move them to take action.The Focused Marketing Paradigm is very different. It’s based on repeatedly communicating very directly to your target market with a very definite end in mind. It gets the attention of your prospective clients and they ultimately take action.The Focused Marketing Paradigm has Five PillarsUnderstand and implement these five pillars and I promise you’ll see a shift in your marketing results.Pillar One: Focused GoalsA Random goal is saying something like, “I’d like to attract a few more clients to my business.” Not very compelling is it?A Focused goal is much more specific. “My goal is to land 3 new clients in the high-tech plastics business in the Houston area with an average project size of $30,000 each by the end of the year.”The more detail, depth, and specificity about the goal, the better. You’ve really thought through what you want to achieve and also have confidence that you could deliver if you did reach your goal. It’s so real to you that you can taste it.What is the Focused Goal for your marketing?Pillar Two: Focused Program or Service Random programs or services are generalized consulting, coaching or training programs. “I offer management consulting and training to corporations.” Kind of vague, right? But this is what I hear all the time.A Focused Program or Service is more tangible. “I offer the high-tech plastics industry Management Acceleration Programs for emerging leaders in the industry.”In my business, I’ve always offered programs: The Marketing Mastery Program, the Marketing Action Group, and the More Clients Club. And each program has very specific parameters, deliverables, and objectives. It sure makes intangible services easier to market and sell.What is the Focused Program or Service you’re offering?Pillar Three: Focused Target MarketIn the above example, the target was the “high-tech plastics industry.” But it’s more common to hear things like, “I work with large companies who want to increase productivity.” This is too general and it makes it hard for clients to know if you understand them and can help them.A Focused target market is where you are absolutely clear what kinds of people or companies can most benefit from your expertise. And then you articulate that clearly.I worked with a financial planning company last year that targeted middle class families in the Buffalo New York area. Guess who they attracted to their practice? When people read about who they worked with on their website, they said, “That’s Us!” and called them.Who exactly is your Focused Target Market?Pillar Four: Focused Message and Value PropositionA Random message or value proposition tends to be too general and can be hard to pin down. It avoids making a promise that is meaningful to the prospective client.Messages such as, “We offer the best service in the industry,” or “Smart insights into great management,” are meaningless to your prospective clients. The value is not immediately obvious.A Focused message or value proposition zeros in on exactly what your clients get and what it means to them. I admit that this can be the marketing pillar that is hardest to pin down. Ultimately you have to test a number of different things.For the re-launch of the More Clients Club, my current value proposition is: “Everything Self-Employed Professionals Need in One Place to Attract More Clients.” And now, of course, I’m bending over backward to deliver on that promise.And a marketing message or value proposition is much more than a sound bite. Your message must permeate every aspect of your marketing, from your website to the emails you send out. Your prospects need to be constantly reminded of the value you offer.What is your Focused Message or Value Proposition?Pillar Five: Focused Marketing StrategyA Random marketing strategy is much like the collection of marketing activities I outlined at the top of the article. You’re just all over the place, throwing something at the wall, hoping it will stick, with no organized system or plan.A Focused marketing strategy is more like a putting on a theatrical production. You have the script, the actors, rehearsals, and opening night, all executed on a strict timeline.Two examples:For my Marketing Mastery Program, I held a series of introductory teleconferences, invited those interested to apply for the program, interviewed each applicant, and then converted 50% into participants. Over a 6-week period, I filled my business for a full year – four years in a row.A career coach in one of my programs recently filled her practice in three months with a focused campaign of personalized emails designed to get appointments with her ideal clients. Then she converted a large percentage into paying clients.That’s the power of a focused marketing strategy.You need to identify the right marketing strategy for your business, but even more important is the way you organize and implement the strategy.Developing a focused strategy is the most complex and challenging of the Five Pillars. You can’t just put together something haphazardly and hope you get the equivalent of a professional Shakespearian production.What is your Focused Marketing Strategy?If you work to build a focused plan with these five solid pillars, your marketing will work better and faster, attracting more of your ideal clients, usually at a higher rate.I recommend you work on one pillar at a time. Write them out and fine-tune them until you feel confident and excited about them. Yes, you will need to do some research and study to make sure your plan is viable. But this is certainly better than spinning your wheels with a random strategy that is going nowhere.Cheers, Robert