When it comes to your health and fitness goals, there are a lot of different ways to achieve the same results. At Northwest Personal Training, we host an annual Spring Makeover Challenge when our clients and trainers compete against each other using different approaches to maximize fat loss in a 6 week period. So far in this…
Spring Makeover Challenge – Week 3
There are a lot of different ways to achieve the same results. That’s why during our annual Spring Makeover Challenge, our trainers and their teams compete against each other to see who can shed the greatest amount of body fat in 6 weeks using different approaches. So far in this series, I’ve shared with you 2…
Spring Makeover Challenge – Week 2
Last week, I shared with you Derrick DeLay’s “Interval Diet” approach to maximizing fat loss during our Spring Makeover challenge. It basically requires you consume a super healthy, low calorie diet Monday through Friday and then eat whatever you want on the weekends in combination with some cardio and weight training. If that approach doesn’t work for…
Spring Makeover Challenge – Week 1
In the colder climates, it is common over the winter months to gain a little weight. The days are shorter, it’s cold outside and we just don’t get as much activity and access to local healthy fruits and vegetables. It’s one of the reasons that every spring we launch our annual Spring Makeover Challenge to help our…
Latest & Greatest Fitness Tips Hot Off the Press – First of 2 Part Series
I just attended the International Personal Training Summit in Seattle and wanted to share with you some of the highlights from the event. I hope that at least one tip will resonate with you and inspire you to reach for your Personal Best. Dr. Len Kravitz on Exercise Conditioning: The biggest difference been sedentary couch…
Designing Your Cardio Program – A Little Bit of Everything is the Best Approach
Last week, we discussed the type of Cardio activity to include into your fitness program. Today, I wanted to educate you on a few more training principles that can help when designing your cardio program. First, every good cardio program should include aerobic and anaerobic exercise with some variable impact and agility training. Read below for…
Stress and Lack of Sleep Make You Fat
Have heard how stress and lack of sleep makes you fat? Let’s face it, it’s common for people to be running from appointment to appointment, deadline to deadline always feeling behind on everything. Whatever happened to the days where you actually got home at around 5:30, had dinner and sat on the front porch talking…
Getting Rid of Stomach Fat
Summer is on the way and so, understandably, we get lots of questions from clients wanting to know the best exercise to get rid of stomach fat so they can look their best in their bathing suit. Unfortunately, and clients never want to hear this, there is not one specific exercise that will help you get rid of abdominal…
Burn Fat – Should You Go Hard or Easy?
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…
Reboot Metabolism: Lose Fat
I know that you LOVED the kick butt workout we showed you last week that you can do from home and that you got a quick and effective workout in with the workout I gave you 2 weeks ago…and now it is time for week 3 of the “Get Lean in 2013? workout series! This…