Combination Training….

Time is of essence! In a one-hour workout, it’s difficult to achieve a proper warmup, an adequate cardio workout, a challenging strength training segment, some postural exercises and an appropriate cool-down and stretch.  How do we fit it all in?  Most people want results in the shortest period of time.  Who wants to spend 2+ hours in the gym?

Combination Training is the answer to your prayers. 

Combination Training is an integrated form of training that combines lower body, upper body, trunk musculature and balance training all into one exercise, accomplishing three times as much training in the same amount of time.

Combination Training is also a more natural and functional way of training.  Can you imagine any daily task that you complete regularly that involves only one joint or muscle group.  Our bodies just don’t function in an isolation fashion.  When you get out of a chair, bend down to pick something up or lift something to put it on a shelf, your entire body functions as a team.  And all sports require your muscles to work together.  And yet when we train in the gym, most people generally train their muscles separately focusing on only one body part at a time.  It would be like a football coach Read more on Combination Training…

Improve Your Balance:

 Consider these statistics:

• One in three adults over the age of 65 will fall at least once a year.
• Twenty percent of persons 75 years or older require medical treatment due to falls and over 50% of those hospitalized from a fall will die within one year of the fall due to secondary complications. 

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As the days get longer and warmer, many head outdoors for workouts.  But many people wonder why, after starting an outdoor jogging routine, they develop shin splints or knee pain shortly after.

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Burn Fat – Should You Go Hard or Easy?

Spring is here reminding everyone that shorts, dresses, skirts, tank tops and bathing suits and in the near future.  That tends to be the kick in the butt than many need to start taking better care of themselves to lose fat and tone up.

But many people are still confused as to which intensity of exercise will burn the most amount of fat.  You may have heard in the past that lower intensity activity will maximize fat loss or “Go at an easy, slow pace for longer to burn fat”.  The thought was that if you worked too hard, you’d just be burning sugars and not fat.  So many fit people lowered the intensity of their workouts fearful that they were not burning fat.  Unfortunately, they were misled and many people still believe that low intensity activity is the best way to maximize fat loss.  The reality is that theactivity that expends the most amount of TOTAL calories will lead to the most amount of fat burned.

Yes, during lower intensity activity you will burn a greater PERCENTAGE of fat and during higher intensity activity you will burn a greater PERCENTAGE of carbohydrates or sugars.  But the important point to note is that the total amount of fat burned is Read more on Burn Fat – Should You Go Hard or Easy?…

What are the Best Exercises for a toned abs/abdominal region?

Spring has arrived and that means summer is just around the corner.  I’m sure that makes many of you just as happy as me!  It’s also motivation for many of us to shed some of those winter layers and get into beach-body shape.  Desiring a toned, fit physique is normal and for many, the stomach region is a major problem area.  Abdominal crunches have become the gold standard of ab exercises, but they may not be doing as much as we think to give us the toned mid-section and strong torso we need to play sports, walk, lift or perform other daily activities.

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