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Next March will mark 20 years since I started working in the Fitness Industry.

At Fitness First Derby.

The following February I moved to the new Fitness First at Sheffield and spent three years there doing 1:1 Personal Training.

I also took a few classes – partly for the income and partly as way to get in front of some members who might then be interested in PT.

The guy who ran the studio was called Rich (“2002 Fitness First Presenter of the Year Rich Hawke” as he’d correct me) and he became a good friend of mine.

But we did have one thing we disagreed on.

Part of his job was to keep track of studio usage.

Total numbers for each class and that number as a percentage of capacity.

He put the capacity of every class down as the same.

18.

I ran a Fitball class and we only had 15 Fitballs.

So I could only reach 83% of “capacity” even if every class was full.

I ran circuits classes you could get 20 or so in for.

His dance fitness classes could easily get 30+ people in the same space, so he regularly ran at 150+% of “capacity”.

Many a time I would explain to him that the classes should all have different capacities.

Based on how many people you could actually get in.

And that “by definition, you can’t have over 100% of capacity”.

Like how, by definition, you can’t be in a calorie deficit and not lose weight.

It might seem like you can.

That we might feel like we’ve “not being eating much but haven’t lost any weight”.

But there’s just something not quite right in our ‘calculations’.

Some numbers are a bit off at some point.

If we were using more energy than we were consuming, that energy would have to come from somewhere.

Unless we change the universally accepted ‘First Law of Thermodynamics’ – that we can’t create or destroy energy, just change it’s form.

Sure, there’s more to healthy eat than just being in a deficit.

And sure there are other places that energy can be stored in the body (and, therefore, released from) other than in fat.

But that energy would have to come from somewhere.

Our body can’t magic it out of thin air.

If we’re in a deficit our body will have to get that energy from somewhere.

And that will lead to weight loss over time.

Like we can’t go over 100% of capacity, we can’t be in a calorie deficit if we’re not losing weight.

When we accept that, it’s empowering.

We stop being a victim of our “metabolism” or genes or circumstances………

And we can start to create that average deficit over time.

Much love,

Jon ‘He called me Johnny Midnight, I called him Rick Pork, it was our ‘thing” Hall

Jon Hall
Jon Hall

When not helping people to transform their lives and bodies, Jon can usually be found either playing with his kids or taxi-ing them around. If you'd like to find out more about what we do at RISE then enter your details in the box to the right or bottom of this page or at myrise.co.uk - this is the same way every single one of the hundreds who've described this as "one of the best decisions I've ever made" took their first step.