I have worked in commercial gyms for years now, and have watched every sales tactic and technique imaginable when it comes to personal training. Often times, a new client is presented with a questionnaire asking about their preferences regarding a personal trainer– “Would you prefer a disciplinarian type, or an empathetic type?” I always thought
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What You Should Look For When Hiring a Personal Trainer Getting in shape is a daunting task, but it can be made much easier with the help of a certified personal trainer. However, many people don’t know how to go about selecting the right trainer. There are three major areas one needs to focus on
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How to Organize Your Weight Training to Best Effect When trying to design an effective strength training program, the first thing to note is that there is no singular right or wrong way to organize everything. An efficient and effective training program is going to take certain parameters into account and work with them: your
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In Henry Rollin’s article Iron, (If you missed it, read it here…) he spoke of his introduction to weight training via his high school advisor, Mr. Pepperman: “He told me that I was going to… buy a hundred-pound set of weights at Sears. As I left his office, I started to think of things I
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If you’re dieting, weight lifting can help you lose fat instead of muscle and bone. Most people don’t realize it, but when they diet, only about 60 to 75 percent of the weight they lose is actually fat.

Stephanie – Weight Loss Workout Share

12 weeks is a boatload of time to make tremendous changes to one’s physique, provided one is willing to do what it takes: be consistent with diet and exercise, and train hard on a daily basis. You can ready for the beach in 12 weeks.

Do everything you can to put the body into a caloric deficit, while simultaneously doing everything possible to keep the metabolism high. If you achieve this, you’ll achieve your health and fitness goals.

You may have heard that muscle mass burns a lot of calories, and this is true. Muscle is what we call metabolically active. A lot of muscle on a body is like a big engine in a car– it burns a lot of gas, or food. Fat, on the other hand, is metabolically passive. It’s like a real efficient 4-cylinder– great gas mileage. So what happens when you put the body into a caloric deficit for an extended period of time?

There’s a very fancy buzz word that you hear all of the time nowadays– metabolism. Everybody talks about how important it is to have a high metabolism, but nobody seems to really know exactly what the metabolism is.