With a simple exercise assessment, the New Leaf Personal Exercise Program can determine your unique metabolic profile (your body's precise response to exercise). Using these measurements, you will know exactly the intensity level you should exercise to achieve your goals, whether it's shedding 10 pounds or dropping minutes from a 10-kilometer run. The New Leaf Personal Exercise Program removes the guesswork that defeats most exercise and diet programs. It is an effective approach to efficient weight loss and greater cardiovascular fitness.
The exercise assessment portion of the program is simple, comfortable and takes only a few minutes. The assessment is performed during a workout on a treadmill, stationary bike or other exercise equipment. After the assessment, your physiologist provides a full report that accurately identifies your aerobic fitness and optimal exercise intensity levels. This report is used to create a customized program to help you achieve your personal goals.
Your individualized program enables you to exercise at the intensity levels that are most efficient in burning your stored fat and improving your cardiovascular fitness. With the New Leaf Personal Exercise Program, you have a clear and precise road map to success.
Periodically during your fitness program, you will have the ability to be re-assessed to determine your improvement, and your program can be adjusted based on your new results.
If losing weight and keeping it off is your primary concern, the New Leaf Personal Exercise Program offers a resting metabolic rate (RMR) assessment in addition to the exercise assessment. The RMR assessment is performed while resting comfortably in a chair and usually takes 15 to 30 minutes. The measurements obtained establish the precise number of calories your body needs to maintain your current weight.
An exercise assessment can then be performed to identify the correct exercise intensity to maximize the burning of fat calories. Knowing the calories your body requires and how many calories you burn helps determine how much exercise you need and what your caloric intake should be.
To lose weight you need to burn more calories than you consume. Therefore, to lose weight it is important to know exactly how many calories your body needs each day and how many calories you burn during daily activities and exercise.
With the New Leaf Weight Loss Training Program a resting metabolic rate assessment and an exercise assessment are performed to develop a personalized program for your specific needs. Following your exercise assessment, a healthcare provider will provide you with individualized reports that include:
Your level of fitness and how you compare with others of your age and gender
Losing weight and keeping it off involves more than just restricting calories and increasing exercise. Proper nutrition, healthy eating habits and behavioral changes also play an important role. The New Leaf Weight Loss Training Program also educates you on proper nutrition, how much you should eat, correct meal planning and a lifetime dietary plan.
The New Leaf Nutrition Module is a web-based, educational component that gives you the information you need to become more fit and lose unwanted inches and pounds. The module begins with an online appraisal. Your responses generate short- and long-term goals and help develop the appropriate meal plan for your needs. It also creates a series of reports that graphically show your current health status compared to goal values, targeted objectives and a list of dietary recommendations and guidelines.
The Nutrition Module offers a series of kits with pertinent topics on nutrition, such as:
What and how much to eat
Meal planning
Healthy Cooking
Dining out
How to deal with slips or setbacks
Diaries are available to download and are used to record your daily food servings. In the middle and at the end of the program, follow-up appointments are made to measure and reports y your progress. The New Leaf Nutrition Module emphasizes an individualized, permanent dietary and nutritional change. When used with proper exercise, the program follows a proven process that leads to an ideal weight and helps you look and feel better.
