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 4
Our annual Spring Makeover Challenge allows our clients to participate in a fun, friendly team competition to help them shed that extra winter layer that most of us put in because it’s colder, darker and days are shorter. Each of our trainers have teams and we all compete against each other to see who can…
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…
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…
Cardio to Tighten Those Glutes!
Cardio to tighten those glutes! As the weather warms, it reminds us that beach season is on its way. Thoughts of swimming suits and bikinis can either excite or frighten you depending on how well you’ve taken care of yourself all winter. For most women, the area that causes most concern is the fat that seems…
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…
You Don’t Have To Wear Spandex!
You don’t have to wear spandex, spend hours at the gym or take up running to be active! There are lots of ways to be active. Walk the children or grandchildren to school, then jog home Push the mower with extra vigor Get an exercise DVD — and use it! Speed up the housework —…