Top 5 Power Foods
If you have been focusing on what's wrong with your diet, it may be time to take a different approach. A recent Harvard Medical School study shows that the amount of healthy foods that you eat is more important than your weekly burger and fries tally. The more high-fiber, nutrient rich foods that you include in your diet, the less room you will have for unhealthy high-calorie foods. Keep reading to learn about the top 5 power foods that will help you lose weight, get fit and live a longer, healthier... read more ››
Lose Inches With Body Wraps
Body wraps can be incorporated into any weight loss or weight management program as an effective way to lose inches and maintain weight. Traditionally, body wraps were used by massage therapists and salon technicians to detoxify the body and provide therapeutic benefits as well as cosmetic benefits by relieving pain due to illness or injury and by improving the appearance of skin texture. Our bodies often contain toxins from the food we digest and the air that we breathe. Body wraps have also been... read more ››
The Arnold Schwarzenegger Bodybuilding Program
When Arnold Schwarzenegger started bodybuilding at 15 years old, he wasn't much to look at. He was an average sized, soccer playing teenager.
When Arnold told his parents he wanted to be a bodybuilder, they sought psychological advice for him! Little did they know that Arnold Schwazenegger would become a bodybuilding legend, and take the sport from a garage-gym pastime to a multi-billion dollar a year industry.
When he first started, he followed a strict bodybuilding program to gain muscle. Here's... read more ››
Sports-Specific Training - Learn how to improve:
Stamina to outmatch your opponents
Speed, through reaction time drills, faster footwork, and agility training
Strength, through a unique and powerful combination of plyometric and power strength training
Endurance - plain and simple, we work you harder, for longer
Your chances of making it through the season, through our advanced physical therapy knowledge in injury prevention and joint strengthening
Accuracy, through postural and biomechanical training. Literally,... read more ››
Stress Management - Learn how to:
Use physical therapy stress management techniques while exercising to drastically improve your mood
Find time during your day to manage the complexity of life and reset your system for home, work, or play
Handle good days and bad days in the gym (and not expect the same program for both)
Increase energy levels, so that you can dedicate yourself to what's really important in life
Find time for everything, now that you have so much more energy and such a better attitude
Feel... read more ››
Strength & Conditioning - Learn how to:
Maximize muscular endurance, power, and strength with each workout
Make walking up the stairs and running down the street feel like a joke
Play with your kids without getting out of breath
Improve speed with sport, so that you can keep up with athletes half your age
Get ripped, and find out you had abs underneath all along
Have more energy at the beginning and end of each day
Maximize stress management through a strength and conditioning program that has advanced stress management... read more ››
Shape Up in Just 12 Weeks
For a person who wishes to lose weight and strengthen muscle, we break down a 12-week program into two parts. First focusing on strength and gaining muscle, the second more focused on getting cut. If you are already at your ideal weight but want to increase muscle strength and tone, the program will be the same for the entire 12 weeks. Minor adjustments in carbohydrate consumption may be necessary.
IF YOU'RE OVERWEIGHT (Goals: lose weight, gain muscle)
Weeks 1-6
Training: Do low rep,... read more ››
The Truth About the Fat Burning Zone
Your Target Heart Rate Zone
Do you exercise because you want to lose weight? If so, you probably know that cardio exercise is a key factor in helping you lose weight. Many people are warned to stay within their 'fat burning' zone for the best results, but do you really burn more fat if you work at lower intensities? Is it the most effective way to help you lose weight?
The Ugly Truth
The body does burn a higher percentage of calories from fat in the 'fat burning zone'... read more ››
Burn 300 Calories in 30 Minutes
Put Down the Magazine and Get to Work!
If you're trying to burn calories and lose weight using cardio machines, I have a challenge for you: Put down the magazine, turn off the television and (gasp) stop looking at your watch. Okay, you can keep the walkman, but everything else has to go. Why the drastic measures? If you aren't paying attention, you may not be working as hard as you think.
Cardio Workouts at the Gym
The following workouts should give you some ideas on how to... read more ››
