Ms. Namita Nayyar:
What is your diet? Do you take a particular fixed regulated diet comprising of nutrients and vitamins to keep you in perfect health?
Ms. Cindy Landolt:
I’m very reactive when it comes to diet, meaning that I like to experiment with different foods and nutritional supplements to really find out what does and doesn’t work for me, I think this is extremely important and something that I work closely with my clients to achieve.
When I discuss a diet plan with them, I first need to know what they like to eat, they often react asking “well what should I eat?” this is the wrong approach altogether, I could write a calorie perfect diet with the absolute optimized ratio of carbohydrate, protein and fat balance, along with optimized meal timing and spacing relative to my prescribed workout routine, but do you know how many people would truly be able to integrate that to their lifestyle and then maintain it?… VERY few, so it’s important to create a diet plan that works WITH my trainees and doesn’t become a chore. Now that’s not to say that they can eat everything that they want, there are some foodstuffs and choices that are just NOT in line with the type of training results that they want to achieve.
I personally, ensure that I eat 5-6 meals spaced evenly throughout the day and biased so that the majority of my carbohydrates are consumed early in the day, total calorie intake is relative to the amount of energy I need to complete that days tasks, so I will eat more if I need to and less if I have an easier day, this is important, as many people eat the same amount regardless of the amount of energy it will take them to get through their day.
Remember that it’s all just energy, so if you are looking to lose weight then you need to ensure that you have a slight caloric deficit throughout your day and you need to go to sleep with only protein in your system, don’t carry carbs to bed with you, this is really counter productive. I’m also a fan of keeping your metabolic rate high throughout the day with the use of thermogenic fat burners and CLA, as well as supplementing my protein intake with shakes to ensure my muscles repair sufficiently. When used with a caloric deficit in your diet and some specific fat loss cardio the results from these supplements are astounding!
Conversely if your diet is intended to build muscle then, you need to have a caloric excess throughout your day to ensure you have sufficient surplus calories to build muscle, bare in mind that these calories should be heavily biased towards protein, you need to ensure that the weight gained is actually muscle! So eat just enough carbohydrates to fuel your workouts and complete your day, but eat an excess of protein through shakes to grow new muscle tissue. From there it’s just a function of time and discipline.
Ms. Namita Nayyar:
What is your motivation to take a multi-faceted personality of a fitness model, personal trainer, media personality and nutritional expert?
Ms. Cindy Landolt:
Interestingly the fitness modelling aspect was a by-product of my training, my very first website was created in 2009 purely as a means of promoting my personal training services in Zurich. I needed some pictures of myself, simple portraits at first. At that point I wasn’t aware of the concept of ‘Fitness Modelling’, it was something that I was approached about and not something that I sought directly.
In fact 90% of the emails that I received over the first few months were offers for fitness modelling and product promotion, the latter being something that I am very cautious of.
I have actually never paid for an advert of any kind in Magazines, on TV, Radio or online!
I just created my website and used the testimonials of my clients, it wasn’t long before news spread that there was a girl in Zurich who was getting spectacular results for her trainees and my personal training diary was full.
From there I received a lot of emails asking for training advice online, and so I started to create an information based newsletter, where people receive a lot of free information directly from me through: www.cindytraining.com/newsletter-english
I also created a lot of free downloads and E-Books:
http://personal-trainer-zuerich.cindytraining.com/all-downloads/
This is when my ‘Media Personality’ began to grow, based purely on the results that people where having from using my methods, this is when my reach became global.
I enjoy the media exposure and I like to promote my knowledge and methods, but I always insist that the exposure is ‘on topic’.
I have turned down a couple of Reality TV shows in central Europe that would no doubt have massively increased my viewer base, but the message becomes blurred.
I’m happy to be recognized globally as a knowledgeable fitness trainer, nutritionist and model. But the moment that the focus shifts towards aspects of my life that are outside of this bracket I feel that I am weakening the connection that I have with the followers who are benefitting from my training advice.
So to re-visit your question, my motivation is to provide the absolute best advice to my trainees and followers, if that results in me becoming a personality who transcends the fitness world then that’s great! But it will always remain my objective to educate and help people in achieving their physical goals!
Ms. Namita Nayyar:
You have glowing skin and gorgeous hairs. Do you take some kind of skin treatment to keep it young and glowing and secondly what you do to your hairs to make them look so stunning?
Ms. Cindy Landolt:
Again I think it’s as a product of a healthy diet, I don’t use any specific products that act directly to influence the quality of my hair or my skin, it’s merely a positive by-product of a good clean healthy diet using supplemental protein shakes and CLA with constant hydration.
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