Nutri-Sport & Full Potential Training tip -sled sprints
August 25, 2009 by Ryan Irwin · Leave a Comment
In this video, Daira and Tasha demonstrate a great way to do cardio. High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is an extremely effective way to accomplish many things including: increase one’s metabolism, improve cardiovascular conditioning and increase power output and explosiveness.
After a 5 min warm-up, repeat these 15-20 second sprints and 45 second moderate pace 10 times. Follow this by a 10 minute cool down. You don’t want to do this more often then 2-3 times per week as it’s taxing on the body.
Bodysculpting starts up again next week!
January 14, 2009 by Ryan Irwin · 1 Comment
Next Monday our Bodysculpting program starts another 9-week course. This program is unlike any out there as it’s a unique combination of weight training, cardio consisting of plyometrics and boot camp style workouts, nutrition (which is essential). Most importantly, it’s designed to help you learn lifestyle habits to not only make progress, but to keep it going afterwards!
Here’s how it works: 6 days a week, we do a combination of weight training and cardio. You don’t need to be athletic, plus it’s non-impact so it builds your body verses “bang it up”. The design is to help stimulate and build muscle tissue, and lose the bodyfat. While you don’t need to worry about “bulking up” keeping the muscle in place (much like a bodybuilder) is what keeps your metabolism going (which is a big downfall of “yo-yo” diets). So we jack up your metabolism, not too mention improve the way you feel and look! People usually continue to trim down even when they go on vacations as their metabolism is running full blast (pretty cool, huh?) Classes are small (no more than 8 per group) so that it’s not over crowded and can be supervised by our trainer (who has a B.S. and numerous certifications) to make sure everyone is doing things right and pushing it to the best of their ability. It’s like getting personal training at a group price! We have early morning and evening time slots, let us know ASAP as it’s almost full! Would love to help you “reach your full potential!”
Here is one of our clients who lost over 20lbs of bodyfat and gained over 10lbs of muscle!
Another client who lost over 15lbs of bodyfat and added over 5lbs of muscle!
Optimizing your metabolism
December 4, 2008 by Ryan Irwin · Leave a Comment
Everyone wants to lose bodyfat and gain muscle. Most want to try to do it at the same time. While this is possible, it is much more efficient to focus on one or the other. When we work with our clients, one of the first steps is to decide which goal is more important (building muscle or losing bodyfat). This is the area that we then attack.
By doing this, you optimize your metabolism. For example, to build muscle, you need an excess of calories (but not overly excessive-don’t want a bunch of bodyfat to pile on). While we carefully monitor and increase the nutrients, the client not only is adding muscle tissue, but is also speeding up the metabolism. Once we get bodyfat levels to the top end range we are comfortable with, we switch gears to fat loss. By doing so, we quickly create a calorie deficit, and couple this with a supercharged metabolism, the bodyfat comes off quickly. Then before the metabolism begins to slow and the risk of muscle loss sets in, we switch gears back to “mass mode” to add muscle tissue with a now lower bodyfat level.
This method of mass/cut mode is the most effective way to achieve the end result and help the client look and feel their absolute best!
