MOST Magazine Fitness APR-MAY'15 ISSUE NO.1 | Page 25

ELIZABETH POUR
Celebrity personal trainer and holistic nutritionist Elizabeth Pour shares
her philosophy on fitness, health, and food

A workout should be 4% of your day, the other 96%
of your day is filled with opportunity. Opportunities
to eat cleaner, be more active, and change
the habits that are keeping that 4% of your day
from being successful. As a trainer I identify the
limiting factors a person has that keeps them from
achieving their fitness goals. With a specialized
focus in holistic nutrition, food pairing, strength
building, interval training, and physical therapy;
it’s the unique combination I have developed that
helps each client see results.
The first step is getting out of your own way.
You have to go into it a fitness routine knowing
you’re going to start leading a healthier lifestyle,
otherwise it’s only natural to adjust your habits to
prevent change. Example: You do thirty minutes of
cardio at the gym, so at lunch you reward yourself
with a cookie because “you deserve it.” Newsflash.
That cookie cost you more than your cardio. With
diet, I believe food pairing and timing are key
factors to getting results. Fad diets revolve around
restriction and deprivation. Your body needs a
balance to optimally function. If you deprive your
body you may see rapid results, but you’re setting
yourself up to revert back to where you started; or
in most cases, worse off than where you started.

When I began training I had no intention of
sticking with it. I graduated high school at 16,
playing sports such as soccer and volleyball up
until then. At that time I never had to focus on
nutrition because I lived such an active lifestyle.
When you’re young your relationship with food
isn’t as apparent. Food is easier to think about as
flavor vs fuel. As the years went by, my interest
in food seemed to develop. It became a passion
of mine that surpassed sports. After graduating I
went to culinary school, to explore the food culture
I loved so much.
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