5 factor diet plan
“The 5-factor diet” is very popular now in the USA. It was presented by fashionable guru of star fitness Harley Pasternak.
Results of this diet were checked up in practice and it is very highly appreciated by many Hollywood celebrities, such as Halle Berry, Eva Mendes, Benjamin Bratt and Jessica Simpson.
Sounds exiting, but what is such especial in this diet? Is it work in a real life? For the best understanding of an essence of this technique let’s review basic postulates of the diet.
“The 5-factor diet” is entirely based on the glycemic index (an index of the maintenance of sugar in blood).
The control of this index is the base factor for definition of action of various kinds of food on a human body. Easier speaking, you make a conclusion the food is harmful or useful for your organism by this index.
Dieticians assure: the products, which influence on the glycemic index, serve as a principal cause of increase in weight, and as a result there is a false feeling of hunger and speed of a metabolism decreases.
Based on this fact, “the 5-factor diet” offers the daily schedule of food, consisting of a five meals.
And the food should consist of five basic components: fibers, complex of carbohydrates, cellulose, digestible fat acids and drinks without sugar addition.
By Pasternak’s theory, regular physical activities are applied in addition to five-single food intake.
It distinguishes «5 factors» from other similar diets in which the basic attention concentrates exclusively on food intake, and physical exercises are not an obligatory appendix to the diet.
This emphasis on physical exercises has communication with the basic trade of the author of a diet (he is a fitness instructor). And you can also recognize that the Hollywood stars have the harmonious and trained bodies not because of following to any miracle diets, but because of regular and exhausting physical activities.
For the effective and simple diet Harley Pasternak suggests to make the program of five most simple physical exercises and carry out them five minutes everyone five days in a week. This express fitness will occupy only 25 minutes a day. If consider, that many celebrities torment themselves with physical exercises daily, it is surprise, that Pasternak’s program has so pleased to them.
Here an approximate set of exercises for 25-minute training.
- At first five minutes cardio-exercises: run, bicycle, jumps on a skipping rope, vigorous dances.
- Then ten minutes of power training: begin, for example, with biceps workout and push-up.
- Then next exercises are knee-bends with weight or without it: two approaches on 25 times.
- Every week add one approach, but reduce number of repetitions until five approaches on eight times.
- In the end of training – five minutes of exercises on a press and five minutes of run.
This diet sins only with one deviation from rigid rules of “five factors». The diet should be observed only six days in a week. On the seventh day you can eat everything.
Because of this day disputes on efficiency of the given diet do not cease among experts.
But let’s return to a food during six “5-factor” days.
The diet should contain fibers, a complex of carbohydrates, cellulose, digestible fat acids and drinks without sugar addition.
What could you eat? For example, it can be fast meat, small salad and a glass of water.
But it only one of variants. By rules of “5 factors”, you can make many kinds of your meal. It is a basic advantage of this power supply system.
How long you should keep this diet? It is easy to guess: five weeks. If the result does not satisfy, the fitness diet can be continued.
How much effective this diet? Disputes on this theme do not cease for a long time. But, despite it, popularity of a diet in America grows prompt rates, and Pasternak’s book «Five factors of fitness» instantly became the best seller.
Try it! And if this diet solves your problems with weight, means, in your case «5 factors» really work.
Hi there,
great ste i really like the information here i think people will find it appealing due to the set time involvment and the simplicity of it great stuff…
Hello great blog,
very informative and easy to follow thank you..
nice article, i have heard people talk about Pasternak’s book, i hear he is great when it comes to weight loss… thanks for the review