Ms. Namita Nayyar:
You have glowing skin and gorgeous hair. Share with us your haircare and skincare routine.
Ms. Svava Sigbertsdottir:
I believe everything that is on the outside is generated from the inside. If you are healthy on the inside, it will demonstrate on the outside. My diet is healthy, I train and sweat out any toxins there are, I watch that I am content and strong in my life, which is very important. I might have much on, many stress factors, but I am not stressed. Therefore I am not bringing damage to my cells. Nor psyche. And that is my hair and skin care routine. I put no chemicals on my face, I do not heat damage my hair by blow drying it or straightening it. For me, combing it and washing my face is work enough! Hahaha!
Ms. Namita Nayyar:
Give us some of your famous hormone-managing fitness tips.
Ms. Svava Sigbertsdottir:
90 min before you train have no carbs. When you train you want to activate your fat burning hormones and you cannot do that properly with your insulin elevated.(carbs elevate the insulin).
Often, no matter how hard you train, there will be a stubborn area where you feel like you just cant get rid of. For many women it is the hips and bum area and for men the stomach. ( but it can of course be other areas as well.) There is a scientific reason behind this. On every fat cell there are two receptors called Alpha and Beta receptors. The Alpha generates fat storing and has little blood flow, the Beta generates fat burning and is rich in blood flow. In these stubborn areas, there are much more Alpha receptors than Beta, which is the reason why it is that much harder to get rid of the fat. This we also take care of.
In order to do so, few things need to happen. First of all no insulin (the 90 min rule), then high intensity training is needed to activate your fight or flight hormones as they are the ones that make these receptors work. Therefore, training in your “fat zone” as they say, where you can talk while you train, is not going to cut it. Up it. Be uncomfortable the whole time.
Now, after this has all been done and the fat is out, due to the low blood flow in these areas, you need to keep the blood flow up so the body is able to transfer the fat to places where it will get burned. Therefore after you have done your Viking program, you always have a ten min jog. Nothing fast, just to keep you warm and blood flowing on the inside. Or do a yoga flow. Or dance. Anything, just move.
Your fat burning hormones go through your liver. Therefore healthy liver is crucial. Vegetables help cleanse it, which is another reason why we have so much of them. Before you go to sleep, is where your other 90 min rule is. No carbs 90 min before bed. The first hour is of sleep is very important, height of recovery hormones doing their work and they need to be free from sugar to be fully smashing it.
Ms. Namita Nayyar:
Share with us your Top 5 Weight-loss Tips for women.
Ms. Svava Sigbertsdottir:
1. Stop focusing on what your body looks like. You are not your body.
Therefore, stop letting your body dictate you; How you feel about yourself, the value you give to yourself, the love you have for yourself. You are so much more than you give yourself credit for. You are strength. Your are resilience. You are power. You are fire. You are joy. You are kindness. You are empathy. You are beauty. Use your body to bring out these elements of you. Your body is your amazing tool. Use it as such and treat it as such. Train it, take great care of it, love it. But never mistake it for you. Stop lower the standards for yourself so much that you actually believe that your whole worth lies in how your body is shaped. You are not your body nor are you your body´s slave. You are the boss. Lets get you to start acting like it.
Train for your performance. Your actions. The body will follow.
2. Prepare.
Preparing is crucial. Know what you are going to eat, know what you are going to do when you train, know what your goals are, know where you are going. Planning and preparing gives you that knowledge. And knowledge is power.
Prepare your out meals ( work lunches and so on) either 3 days in advance or do it the night before when you are doing dinner. Also know what you are having for your other meals in advance. This makes healthy eating easy. And much easily doable.
Always have a training plan. Never start your session without knowing what you are going to do. You need to have a program. Otherwise it is very difficult to progress, to last through hard sets, to not give up. Having a certain exercises that you have to finish before you can stop, pushes you on.
3. Set training goals.
Each month have a training goal. Set out to do certain amount of full push ups or sprint at a certain speed or this many burpees in one minute. Anything. And then smash it. Having goals is the same as preparing. It pushes you on. You know where you are going. You can see the mountain top. You just need to focus on going up.
4. Stop weighing yourself.
Muscle is heavier than fat and denser. Therefore you could stay the same weight but still be more toned, with much less body fat percentage, healthier and happier, and you could miss out on all that joy because you haven’t lost any weight. Or heaven forbid, you might have gained some and this could, wrongly so, discourage you. Watch that you are focusing on the right things. This is why it makes no sense having weight goals instead of training goals. Throw the scales out.
5. Start keeping check on what you think and say to yourself about yourself.
Negative self talk is exhausting for your soul and causes physical harm. Literally. Your neurons will re-wire, your cells will re-generate with more stress receptors, your energy goes down along with your fitness level. Stop bringing harm to yourself.
When you train, the mirror in the Gym is not there for you to negatively judge what you look like. Its not there for you to constantly shame yourself. Its not there for you to have a destructive internal dialogue about your body on a loop.
Its there for you to assess what you are doing, your actions, your posture, your technique. In a positive way. “I should be able to do this better” is a sentence that I want you to take out. Right now, you are doing it to the best of your ability. And that is enough.
And the mirror is also there for pep talk. Quality, trashy, game on pep talk. The mirror is there to help you.
Ms. Namita Nayyar:
Who has been your greatest influence and motivator in your success in the field of fitness?
Ms. Svava Sigbertsdottir:
Any woman who is better themselves is such a motivator for me to keep bettering myself. My inspiration are women with full time jobs and partners and kids and still wake up at 6 am to train. Women who walked out of relationships that were making them less. Women who stand up for who they are, no matter how much that will rock the boat. Change takes courage. Courageous women are my inspiration. And that I get to help many find their courage, is what motivates me.
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