Losing Weight with specific Testing

Phase IV Scientific Health and Performance Center in Santa Monica specializes in something very important - checking the individual behind the weight loss and exercise program and trying to figure out that person's own bio-rythms. They actually perform blood tests on people, while they are on the treadmill and working out. The accurate physiological picture allows the trainers and nutritionists to determine just what needs to be done with that person at that point in time.

Generally most exercisers go high intensity for about eight weeks and burn a lot of calories. The body responds to exercise by releasing hormones to meet the demand, as the body sees the exercise as stress. But after eight weeks, the body adapts to that workout. The result? Weight gain, lethargy, or burnout.

"And that's when we have to change the stimulus on that person or the athlete; otherwise they're going to become apathetic. As the hormones fade, as the body no longer sees it as stress," says Forster.

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