The aim of the intensive LSVT BIG training is improve people's ability to make bigger movements. These movements can then be generalized for different functional activities and situations.
However, research has shown that approximately 20% of overweight individuals are successful at long-term weight loss when defined as losing at least 10% of initial body weight and maintaining the loss for at least 1 y.he National Weight Control Registry provides information about the strategies used by successful weight loss maintainers to achieve and maintain long-term weight loss. National Weight Control Registry members have lost an average of 33 kg and maintained the loss for more than 5 y.
As our program is intended for the development of permanent healthy behaviors and not for acute dramatic weight loss, we advise patients complying with the program to anticipate an average weight loss of 1 to 2 pounds per week, or roughly 1% of their body weight per week, which is considered to be an optimum amount to preserve muscle mass while burning fat.