Choosing between group classes and solo workouts depends on your fitness goals, budget, and personal preferences. Both offer unique advantages and potential drawbacks. Here’s how they stack up in terms of safety, variety, personalization, accountability, fun, cost, and motivation: Motivation Group Classes: Winner. Working out with others can push you to work harder. Group dynamics…
Top 10 Reasons to Hire a Coach
Hiring a coach, whether for fitness, nutrition, business, relationships, or wealth management, can transform your personal and professional life. Coaches bring expertise, motivation, and accountability, which can help you reach your goals faster and more effectively. Don’t forget to sign up under “Weekly Fitness Tips” to automatically receive my latest blog post in your inbox!…
Finding Your Own Personal Coach
If you examine most professional, elite athletes, you’ll notice they have an entourage of coaches, nutritionists and trainers who help them achieve their performance and athletic goals. These are the most talented and motivated people on the planet so if they can benefit from the services of a coach or trainer, can you imagine how…
Fall in LOVE…With Fitness!
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, the LOVE bug has struck many making it a great opportunity to address the benefits of working out together with your special someone. Spending quality time with your honey will help to keep you both healthy and fit and will benefit all areas of your life including your…
Combination Training
Combination Training…. Time is of essence! In a one-hour workout, it’s difficult to achieve a proper warmup, an adequate cardio workout, a challenging strength training segment, some postural exercises and an appropriate cool-down and stretch. How do we fit it all in? Most people want results in the shortest period of time. Who wants to spend 2+…
Conditioning To Improve Your Golf Game
Conditioning To Improve Your Golf Game Spring is here and that means it’s time to dust off your golf clubs and get outdoors. Long time golfers love their sport so much they spend a lot of hours and money attempting to perfect their swing, fine-tune their skills and lower their score. But very few gung-go…
If You Can Do This You Might Live Longer….
Can you stand up or sit down without using your hands? If you can do this you might live longer! A recent study conducted at the Clinimex-Exercise Medicine Clinic in Rio de Janeiro, found that people who can sit down and get up using only one hand — or no hands at all — are…
What’s Your Excuse?
We all have one. The excuse that stops us from exercising. What’s your excuse? Not enough time? Well, if this was your excuse….it isn’t anymore! Beth Goldstein, NSCA personal trainer for more than 21/2 years, will help you enjoy an amazing year with this simple but effective cardio and resistance routine. Complete her workout three…
Refresh Your Workout!
Need something to refresh your workout and bust the boredom? How about a hill workout to build strength and cardiovascular efficiency? There is no zoning out on the hills! Sara Fletcher has been a NASM Certified Personal Trainer for 3.5 years and is a competitive road cyclist who sees a steep hill and wants to ride…
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…