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Personal Training The Thinning of the Herd

Posted: 02/07/2012

These past 8 weeks, the local gyms I travel to for my own “destination workout” have been fraught with frenetic activity, lines waiting for cardio equipment, people waiting for weights and machines, all of which are accompanied by the wandering of new potential “gym rats” on club tours. In general it is an overall sense of a cram fest of people all tackling...

Personal Training Application Makes All the Difference

Posted: 01/22/2012

You’ve decided, “I’m going to get into shape”. You are motivated, you are determined; you are ready to get after it. There’s no stopping you, this time. A delicious ad for a treadmill appears, and “that’s it”, “I’ll buy a tread mill and use it everyday”. You execute your purchase, obtain delivery and set up your...

Personal Training Resolution Solution 2012

Posted: 01/18/2012

Resolutions are merely a group of solutions that you intend to find and use as you move forward on the road of self improvement. The important thing is to seek out those solutions and embrace your new beginning with anticipation, positive attitude, visualizing the end goal as being already accomplished. That is, “live as if” it has already happened. It may not be...

Personal Training Let's Get Flexible

Posted: 12/13/2011

Tight muscles, cramped joints and a lethargic body is not how you want to ring in this winter season. Instead, prepare your body for winter exercise by introducing stretching into your overall health and fitness routine. Don’t worry, you don’t have to schedule tons of time to make stretching beneficial and effective. Ten minutes will do the trick.Start with the BasicsWhen...

Personal Training Routine Maintenance

Posted: 12/10/2011

Undoubtedly, all of life’s routine’s get sorely tested in the coming weeks. Our “customary and regular course of life procedures” goes out the window to make room for the varying holiday activity that ends the year. Do they have to? Well, no, they don’t. It comes down to how you view your routines, and what are THE most important routines you stick...

Personal Training Workout to Eat or Eat to Workout

Posted: 12/08/2011

This is a common question, convenient excuse, hopeful reason, and consistent dilemma. Do you work out so you can eat whatever you desire? OR, do you eat to fuel you workouts and your health? The holidays are here and along with them come the well known culprits for weight gain culminating the years end. On average people end the year 5 to 10 pounds heavier due to the plentiful...

PERSONAL TRAINING: Application Makes all the Difference

Posted: 10/17/2011

You’ve decided, “I’m going to get into shape”. You are motivated, you are determined; you are ready to get after it. There’s no stopping you, this time. A delicious ad for a treadmill appears, and “that’s it”, “I’ll buy a tread mill and use it everyday”. You execute your purchase, obtain delivery and set up your...

PERSONAL TRAINING: Fitness Saboteur "A LIST"

Posted: 10/06/2011

AttitudeYou are worthy of having the best life, the best health and the best future, but you do have to will it in to existence by working at it consistently, thinking you can. When the voice of self doubt talks to you along the journey, cast it to the curb and think thoughts that propel you. “I am strong, I am able, I am getting better/stronger each day, I will do it,...

Personal Training: Debunking Fitness Myths

Posted: 09/14/2011

Over the year’s lots of fitness ideas, trends and methodologies have been bantered about. For the serious minded, myths about fitness need to be brought to mind in order to stay the course, and get the most from the time and energy invested. Let’s dispel some.Training Every Day Gets Better Results.Well, not typically. Your body needs rest in order to recover and adapt...

Personal Training: Less CAN BE More

Posted: 09/09/2011

In our fast pace, easy access to everything, high demand for instant gratification lives it is easy to lose sight of fitness being a journey. We want it now. We want the weight off now. We want the svelte look now. We want the skinny jeans now. We want off of our blood pressure, cholesterol and assorted meds now. We want more energy, less stress and better sleep NOW. It is part...