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Outdoor Fitness Boot Camp

inhometrainer — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:24:57 +0000

Outdoor Fitness Boot Camp

There’s still time to sign up for summer!

Classes start May 5th

Don’t miss out on this calorie burning, fat blasting workout that’s guaranteed to make you work hard, burn fat, build muscle, and want to come back for more.

Burlington, Ontario – April, 2010

Who: You and as many friends you want to bring.
What:The best calorie blasting workout you could ever do.
Where: Lion’s club park (James and Pearl street downtown Burlington)
When: Wednesdays 5:30 and 6:30PM start times and Saturdays at 11:00 AM (60 minutes each)
Why: Because it’s the best darn calorie blasting class you could ever do.
How much: Both days for $80 for the month or 4 classes for $44 or drop in for $15 each class.

If you’ve already had the pleasure of taking the outdoor class, then you know you’ll enjoy it again this year.

The workouts consist of metabolically charged circuits … Guaranteed to give you the maximum fat burning and muscle toning results you’re looking for.

To sign up, or if you have any questions please visit www.TnTBootCamp.ca, call 905-516-5999 or e-mail us at TnTBootCamp@me.com

If you’ve never tried one of the classes before and are curious to do so, please come out and give it a try. Mention this press release and your first class is FREE!

Fat blasting intensity

inhometrainer — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:27:44 +0000

“What intensity should I be at?” is one question that keeps coming up during group classes. The simple answer is, about 80% for maximum fat burning benefit.

How much is that I hear you asking? Well… it’s the same and different at the same time for everyone. What I mean by that is:

80% of 100 pounds is 80 pounds, right? Well 80% of 80 pounds is still 80% but it’s only 64 pounds.

So If I’m using 80% of my 100 pounds max and your using 80% of your 80 pound max, were training at the same intensity but I’m just using a heavier weight.

If I was to use your 80% I would only be using 64% of my max, which would be just hight than a warm up.

It’s almost like the same confusing question of, which is heavier an pound of lead or a pound of feathers? The lead right??? I know, a trick question.

OK, let’s look at this way… if your max is 15 full push ups and you stop at 12 each set. Your training at 80% intensity. If I do sets of 15 (my 80%), that would mean my max is 19.

50 – 60% = warming up

70 – 80% = Around your comfort zone, but still getting benefit

80 – 90%= Definitely pushing it. You’ll last about 60 – 120 seconds

90- 100%= Never mind with this. You’ll be close to passing out after about 30 – 60 seconds.

I hope this helps.

Play hard! The fun only lasts until you can’t play anymore.

Check us out at www.TnTBootCamp.ca

Fitness and your kids

inhometrainer — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:57:26 +0000

I just finished my Wednesday night TnT Boot Camp and my daughter was with me. My wife does the class while I teach it. Since we don’t normally get a sitter for my classes, my daughter joins in. Now she’s six, and she did as much if not more than everyone else in the class.

You really need to watch what you say AND do when it comes to your kids.

They might not listen to everything you say, but they definitely watch everything you do. If you start to see your kids gaining a bit of weight and you’re not sure why… Take a long look at what you’re doing in the way of health and fitness. Do you come home after work and sit on your duff and watch TV or do you get up and go for a walk or some other type of exercise.

YOU are what your kids are going to want to be like whether they know it or not. Try to make a good example and get up and stay active. You don’t have to join a gym or anything. Just get out and walk, hike, roller blade. Heck, play with them in the park. You wont believe the workout you can get “playing” with your kids on the climbing equipment.

Till next time… Stay active and keep motivating those kids.

Check out www.TnTBootCamp.ca for more on my class and how to incorporate it into your home exercise program

Health and fitness habits

inhometrainer — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:25:30 +0000

Remember this…

Good or bad, your habits will catch up with you.

To much healthy food will make you fat as much as to much bad food. Just not as fast.

The diet industry is a business… What business wants to lose customers?

Are you fooling yourself?

inhometrainer — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:06:08 +0000

You might wonder why I’m asking this question.

Many of my subscribers ask questions regarding eating and exercise that fall under the general category of, “Is this right for me?”

To determine if an eating plan or exercise regime is right for you, ask yourself, “What is my goal and why did I choose that?”

If you ask me what diet I recommend, I’d have to say none(!). Eat healthy and you’re good. If you remove anything from your eating plan to lose weight and then bring it back in when you’ve lost the weight, be prepared to gain the weight back.

A perfect example of this is reducing the amount of “carbs” you take in. It is true that you will lose weight when you reduce your carb intake, but make sure you know the reason why. Carbs hold water, so when you reduce your carbs, you lose water weight. Once you re-introduce carbs, you gain the weight back. A better solution is to reduce the amount of processed carbs in your diet and make a healthy shift to carbs that are whole grain and high in fibre.

FACT: There’s hundreds of diet plans out there and many dieting (books) that make billions of sales every year, yet more of the population is overweight and obese!

Next step is to concentrate on what you’re doing when you’re watching what you eat. I’m talking resistance training. You ARE doing resistance training, right?!

Well if not, why? You don’t want to get huge, too muscular and bulky??? Are you afraid of what your dieting friends will think of you when you pick up those dumbbells and start building sexy, shapely, metabolically active muscle? When they see your shape improve (while dropping fat) they’ll wonder what the heck you’re doing to look so gooood!

When you’re looking at dropping a few pounds, your resistance training is just as important as your eating. For example, weight training consisting of only single joint exercises like arm curls and leg extensions are a waist of time. You might think differently, but hear me out. How many calories do you think you burn doing an arm curl? Take a look at the size of your biceps (arm) muscle, compared to all of your back and arms muscles when doing a heavy rowing exercise. You can see how the arm curl is not a very metabolically active exercise. To drop those pounds, pick an exercise that has a high metabolic cost, (high calorie expenditure).

Doing resistance training at a level that’s too low, also wont get the job done. An intensity level of about 50% is a warm up level. You have to be able to take it to a level of at least 70%. To increase the metabolic cost of your workout try switching from a pushing movement to a pulling movement then hit the legs. By doing this you’ll be able to keep up the intensity while hitting all the muscles of your body at a very high level.

Circuit training is a great way to increase the metabolic cost of your training times, but remember to choose your circuits wisely. If you try something like the Curves model, think again. After a few weeks of doing machine based circuits your results start to diminish. The better choice is to use your body weight, exercise bands, and dumbbells. Let your body do the stabilizing and move as quick as possible from one exercise to the other.

If you’re wondering where to find a circuit like this, try this months’ sponsor, TnT Boot Camp at Tansley Woods. The workout is based on body weight training, medicine balls, exercise bands and lots of fun. Give it a try if you think you can handle it… Every Wednesday from 6:30 – 7:30 PM, $15 drop-in cost. Sign up by emailing, MyFitnessTrainer@me.com.

Till next month, burn maximum calories in minimum time with metabolic circuits!
Remember to check out our web site at www.CustomFitness.ca

Fitness Boot Camp!!!

inhometrainer — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:52:18 +0000

TnT Boot Camp

(Training n Transforming)

Who: You and as many friends you want to bring
What:The best calorie blasting workout you could ever do
Where: Tansley Woods, Itabashi Way & Upper Middle Road
When: Wednesdays at 6:30PM – 7:30PM
Why: Because it’s the best darn calorie blasting class you could ever do
How much: 4 for $44 or drop-in for $15 each workout
Contact us for pro-rated cost.

If you’ve already had the pleasure of taking the summer outdoor class, then you know you’ll enjoy the indoor version.

For those of you who haven’t had the chance to come out to the summer classes, we hope to see you here!

The workouts consist of metabolically charged circuits … Guaranteed to give you the maximum fat burning and muscle toning results you’re looking for.

To sign up, or if you have any questions please call 905-516-5999 or e-mail us at TnTBootCamp@me.com.

Come visit us on the web at www.CustomFitness.ca

Christmas workout

inhometrainer — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:13:50 +0000

Wow. Christmas is over and the New Year is about to come at us like no tomorrow.

This is the time where you need to start thinking of goals and setting yourself up to complete them. Yes, I said complete them.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who has heard about all these new year resolutions only to hear the same person a month later saying they really need to start working on it. Then another month goes by…

What you need to have is a resolution buddy. Find someone who is having the same goal as you and work at it together. Find a support group or have your family members behind you 100 percent. And make sure it’s 100 percent.

Stay tuned for more resolution completing tips coming soon.

In the meantime check us out on the web at www.CustomFitness.ca.

Talk to you soon.

No time to exercise workout.

inhometrainer — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:57:19 +0000

Here it is late on a Monday night after our daughter is (finally) staying in bed.

Jane and I want to do a workout, but we also want to sit and relax at the end of the day.

So we exercise then relax. What we did though was just about 20 minutes of circuit training with some resistance exercises and the treadmill.

Jane did 90 seconds on the treadmill while I did 2 sets of (about) 30 seconds of two types of resistance work.

We did this for about 20 minutes then called it quits. Now we feel better knowing that we actually did something when we really didn’t want to.

Anything is better than nothing when your trying to stay fit during the holiday’s.

inhometrainer — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:31:13 +0000

A quick note for going to the mall for some shopping. If you think you might be shopping for a long time, drop off gifts at the car once and a while. Just make sure you don’t walk straight to the car. Someone might be watching you.
Bring water. Maybe even some snack food stuff. almost all the food you are going to get aren’t of a healthy variety.

Keep gifts as equal as possible on both sides of your body and keep your chest up and shoulders back.

Get a leg up on relaxing

inhometrainer — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:46:54 +0000

I know from being on my feet all day that your feet and legs can get very tired by the end of the day.

I’ve given this information out but never as an answer. I’ve been telling clients to do this move to help relax their legs and feet.

It’s basically lying on the floor with your butt up against a wall and your feet up in the air resting on the wall.

PLace your feet on the wall while your lying down in front of it (face up – supine). Walk your feet up the wall until your lower back is flat on the floor and your legs are up as high as you can get them.

Hold this position for about 10 – 15 minutes and then slowly come down and wait a few minutes and return back up if your think you need to.

For more information like this log onto my web site at www.CustomFitness.ca and sign up for our complimentary monthly Health & Fitness E-Journal.