Author: Jonathan Wong, Singapore Personal Trainer And Fitness Expert
The Singapore Fat Burner Debate - The problem with online advice...
As a personal trainer who gives fitness coaching, I know that my clients usually have a question (or 2, or 3 or more!) about fat loss. Here is one of the questions that was recently asked in a popular local online forum. Variations of this question are all over the internet.
"What fat burning pill or fat burner product should I be taking?"
In Singapore, Scorch, Hot Rox, Hydroxycut, pretty much any other thermogenic product all have convincing "ads". To cut a long story short, yup they do work.
BUT...
Only in the short term, and there are side effects.
The below systems are stimulated...
1. Nervous system stimulation (caffeine and other stimulants)
2. Thyroid (metabolic) stimulation
Does it work short term... yes. BUT no better than another 2 -4 weeks of healthy clean eating.
Long term, just like anything else, it hurts your bodies natural production and regulation of these factors. So its BAD.
Fat burners - if you are a fitness competitor/bodybuilder/going for a photo shoot, sure use them for 3-4 weeks then STOP. and do this only 1or 2 times per year.
If you are anybody else, eat natural food and lots of fish oil. Train hard and let the fat drop by itself.
All my clients get great results without any fat burning pills. Anyway, what do you want? A quick fix? Or a lifetime of healthy and lean living?
Once again the problem of online advice goes on... all the reasonable answers which talk about the consequences of fat burning stimulants were almost totally ignored and people just continued discussing about where to get the best stimulants and the best prices. Ugh. There is a Chinese saying. "You can bring the horse to the water but you cannot force him to drink". That is the state of almost all fitness forums online.
Written For www.CoachJon.com Singapore Personal Trainer & Fitness Expert
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