Results from Your Fitness Regimen. What to Expect.

Someone who hasn’t ever embarked in an exercise program most likely has a false assumption of the reality about the results of working out.  Many are mislead to believe that a little exercise will make someone look like the models on the doctored up photos of fitness magazines.  I have trained hundreds of individuals, ofRead more

How to Lose Weight and Keep it Off

In my profession, I run into roller coaster dieters and they all have the same thought after they have lost a significant amount of weight… This time it will be different and the weight will stay off.  Trust me, I wish it would but the reality is, most likely weight loss through dieting will notRead more

Food and Exercise Timing

Here is the fitness question of the month for June.  If you have a question about fitness, please contact me and I may answer your question in my blog. “A lot of fitness magazines recommend that you eat six meals a day and exercise in the morning.  What if you have a 9 to 5Read more

The Difference Between Fat loss and Weight Loss

Ok I started at 160 lbs I am 5 feet tall and now I weigh 135 lbs trying to get to 110 lbs what is the difference between fat loss and weight loss? And what has better results? I received this question from my website blog inquiries this week.  It is a great question.  ThereRead more

Know When To Say When

When it comes to being an advanced exerciser, you need to tune in to your body’s limitations and back off when it’s talking to you.  Too many times I’ve seen people run themselves into the ground, causing injuries that set back their exercise progression.  It is good to push and challenge the body, especially becauseRead more

Exercises to Support Low Back Health

The first thing everyone needs to understand is that you body is a unit and every part of it interacts with the other parts.  If chronic tightness and weakness exist in any part of your body, it translates and effects another part biomechanically, creating strain and potential injury.   This can even translate from joints as far away asRead more

Is it Possible to Gain 5 pounds of Muscle in a Week?

Thank you Yanty for your question this week… “My calculations say ive gaenid 5 pounds of muscle?hey!.so ive been measuring my body fat every week, in the mornings along with my weight, waist circumference, lean mass and body fat in pounds. so my results seem to say that ive gained 5lbs of lean mass (muscle)Read more

Head for the Hills – Interval Training

Hill repeats are a great way to structure interval training into you cardiovascular workouts.  Push the uphill portions of any given course, then, rest and recover on the flats and downhills.  You can also stick to one hill and run/walk/cycle hard up, descend, then repeat.  The key to any great interval workout is to push aboveRead more

Proper Rep Range for Resistance Training.

For resistance training programs, your rep range will depend on your goals.  The more muscle you want to gain from your program the lower your rep range should be.  The basis of any resistance training program, should be between 4-20 repetitions to failure.  If your goal is just muscle gain, you need to stimulate typeRead more

Be Winter Workout Ready

Since we do all of our resistance training indoors, most people who regularly exercise don’t have a problem getting in their normal resistance training workouts during the winter.  The hard part is getting motivated to get out of your warm bed to go tackle an outdoor cardio workout in the cold.  Lucky, here in California,Read more