How to Avoid the Dubai Waist-line Boom Effect

Dubai is famous for the superlative lifestyle it offers—from the biggest malls to a plethora of gastronomic venues to please just about any kind of palette. Yet with this often comes the Dubai Waist-Line Boom effect; to help, Dubai’s highest paid trainer Amir Siddiqui at Symmetry Gym Dubai, reveals his methods to take charge of your fitness quotient.

The Concept

Three key points to beat the Waist-line Boom Effect, tells Siddiqui includes: hard exercise for short bursts only three to five times per week, completely ditch aerobic exercise as it’s an unnecessary waste of time, and add good quality carbohydrates back into your diet as the low carb method is DEAD. You don’t need it. Carbs are essential for your mental and physiological health.

Exercise Hard

Exercise Hard at least three and up to five times per week, if you have the time. The two primary variables to consider are: intensity and frequency. Intensity is the ability to work hard. Meaning each set should be terminated when you can no longer perform a quality repetition.

Frequency here describes the number of sessions per week for movement pattern or body part. Since anyone reading this is probably a novice to the fitness world, trying to get in three full body workouts per week is about ideal for most healthy beginners. That covers the learning component of movement execution and motor unit recruitment and thus optimizes strength gains, plus covers the metabolic demand needs and caloric expenditure requirement to see fat loss.

No Aerobics

Siddiqui believes that aerobic training combined with dieting causes metabolic down-regulation and may push your body’s natural fat set-point HIGHER once
you resume your normal daily calorie intake. The issue to consider here is that usually the people who have lost weight doing aerobics training, in the overwhelming majority of cases, had never exercised before. When one goes from doing nothing to something, we lose sight of the fact that what we are seeing is a one-time fix.

The End of the Low Carb Era

You need carbohydrates to fuel hard and to regulate your mood through the maintenance of healthy neurotransmitter levels. Going low carb disrupts mood, causes energy fluctuations, and creates a mental fog.

The key to diet is calorie control rather than focusing on ONE nutrient group – carbohydrates. Anyone that says otherwise simply doesn’t understand bio-energetics. The caloric theory is still the most valid concept when designing a fat loss plan. Want my formula? As a rough guide – you should not be ingesting more than 12 calories per pound of body weight if your goal is pure sustainable, permanent fat-loss.