Optimal Weight-Loss Package
If you want highly personalized services for losing weight and achieving long-term success, this package is for you. It includes:
- BME (Biomechanical + Musculoskeletal Evaluation)
- Two Additional Personal Exercise Sessions
- DEXA Body Composition Scan - The Medical Gold Standard
- RMR (Resting Metabolic Rate)
- Personal Nutrition Consultation
- Private Cooking Lesson
- Lifestyle Coaching (Psychological Consultation)
- Vitamin D Testing
The Optimal Weight-loss Package, pre-booked, is $1,150 ($1,418 value).
This package is an addition to your Pritikin Program. In other words, after you make reservations for a one-week stay or longer at Pritikin, you may enhance your stay with this Optimal Weight-Loss Package.
This Package includes:
BME (Biomechanical + Musculoskeletal Evaluation)
Musculoskeletal problems like knee and back pain are common among individuals carrying excess weight. Not only are these problems painful, they can hamper your ability to exercise, making it difficult to shed body fat.
A Biomechanical + Musculoskeletal Evaluation (BME) conducted by one of our biomechanical consultants can greatly help in establishing an exercise program that is both sustainable and effective. Your BME will tailor your exercise program to your specific needs so that you can work out without injury – and without pain.
Your BME begins with a complete 90-minute evaluation of your posture, alignment, gait, muscle strength, range of motion, flexibility, and any pain or discomfort you feel in your daily activities. Our biomechanical consultants have each had more than 25 years of orthopedic experience.
You'll receive personalized exercise instructions based on your unique needs.You'll also receive written step-by-step guidelines and pictures of the exercises for future use when you return home, plus a dictated narrative detailing each exercise's purpose and benefit.
You’ll then receive 1 hour of personalized exercise coaching by one of our university-degreed exercise physiologists. Your physiologist will make sure you’re performing every exercise of your new routine correctly, and will help you design your daily home fitness schedule.
Two Additional Personal Exercise Sessions
You’ll continue the good work you’ve begun with your BME with two additional 1-hour personal exercise sessions. They’re the fastest – and safest – track to a leaner, fitter you.
DEXA Body Composition Scan - The Medical Gold Standard
Even more important than what you weigh is what your body is made of, particularly your amount of muscle mass and fat tissue.
Put simply, you’re much healthier (and better-looking) if you’re 220 pounds with a high percentage of muscle tissue than 220 pounds with little muscle.
The DEXA Body Composition Scan calculates your percentage of lean muscle and body fat from head to toe.
A DEXA scan is also very motivating. Regardless of what the bathroom scale says, you know you’re on the right track. You can feel it, you can see it, and your DEXA results prove it. The results also serve as a baseline for future reference.
RMR (Resting Metabolic Rate)
Having trouble losing weight? Your weight-loss struggles may be related to your resting metabolic rate, or RMR. Your RMR is the number of calories your body naturally burns every day with little or no activity.
Everyone’s RMR is different. Knowledge of your RMR is valuable because it will help you understand the optimal type and frequency of physical activity you need for achieving optimal body weight.
The very good news is that optimal workouts will improve your body composition by shedding fat and building muscle, which in turn will improve your RMR, transforming your body into a better fuel-burning machine.
There’ll be no more guessing about the best exercise plan to reach your goals. With your RMR, your exercise leaders can tailor the Pritikin Program to your body.
Personal Nutrition Consultation
Creating a customized eating plan with a Pritikin registered dietitian is very beneficial for guests with weight-loss goals. A one-on-one consult can zero in on those areas of real-world eating that challenge you most.
Our dietitians have solutions for virtually every nutritional challenge. Sometimes, just a few simple changes can make all the difference.
Private Cooking Lesson
You know what foods you love! In your personal cooking class, "confess" to our chef and, together, you and he will transform your delights into delightfully healthy cooking. You’ll bring home a whole new repertoire!
Lifestyle Coaching (Psychological Consultation)
Lifestyle coaching at Pritikin has proven very effective in helping individuals evaluate emotional and environmental issues that can lead to unhealthy eating and excess weight. Your consultation will help you take charge of your feelings and your food.
Vitamin D Testing
Vitamin D deficiency is strongly linked to bone loss and may also, emerging research is finding, be linked with other health concerns, including diabetes and atherosclerosis. With testing of blood levels of vitamin D, we will identify any deficiencies and, if needed, prescribe appropriate supplementation to help correct them.
The Optimal Weight-loss Package, pre-booked, is $1,150 ($1,418 value).
This package is an addition to your Pritikin Program. In other words, after you make reservations for a one-week stay or longer at Pritikin, you may enhance your stay with this Optimal Weight-Loss Package.
