This actual charge data shows that of three approaches to fitness, traditional training, doing nothing, and mine, mine saves you the most money by focusing you on healthful food choices, self-directed training, and only a few supplements—ones that actually work. See a larger-size version of this table here; download it for yourself as an Excel file here.

This data uses the following cost assumptions:

• for training: traditional training calculated as five $50 paid sessions a week (and that's conservative—many trainers, me included, charge a lot more); doing nothing obviously calculated as zero sessions a week; and Jump Start training calculated as the average weekly cost of six $125 paid sessions a year

• for supplements: traditional training supplements calculated as including the often-recommended (but ineffective) whey protein, HMB, NO2 growth-enhancer, carnitine, glutamine, nitric oxide creatine ehtyl ecdysone complex, tribulus terrestris, and ZMA protein-vitamin complex; doing nothing calculated as including the worthless Relacore heavily marketed on TV; and Jump Start supplements including only those enjoying the legitimate support of current, credible scientific evidence: creatine, glucosamine-chondroitin, and a regular-dose multivitamin-multimineral (supplement prices from GNC's drugstore.com)

• for food: traditional training food includes so-called "heart healthy" foods overly high in unhealthful forms of protein and missing appetite-controlling and healthful forms of fat; doing nothing food includes traditional American foods overly high in protein, refined carbohydrate, and unhealthful forms of fat; and the Jump Start foods includes the beans, fruits, nuts, vegetables, and whole grains emerging research is showing can substantially impact your weight and health (food prices from Stop & Shop's peapod.com)

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