Invest in your health!

We all know saying that health is wealth but have we invested in our health as if it were wealth?

In today’s fast paced modern world, time frankly means money.   It is a given that engaging any competent, and certified, Personal Trainer to handle your fitness is expensive.  Few people, however, have wondered about what goes into developing a fitness program tailored to an individual.   Most people fixate on and are frozen by the price tag so they miss out on what is really a great opportunity.

Good Personal Trainers, the Personal Trainer from Executive Results Brisbane are an example, when meeting a potential client they begin evaluating that persons overall fitness.  They then move to reconciling that level with the client’s fitness goals and think up training techniques and possible training routines that would be interesting to the client.  Part of this analysis would be any health problems this person has and the ways it would limit the training program, diet for instance.  This is actually the easy part as all the pertinent data is readily obtained from the client or the client’s health care provider.  Also, coming up with a good program based on this is what Personal Trainers are trained to do.  The hard part would be keeping your morale up and your interest keen until you fulfil your specified goal.

Now, what if you had to do all this by yourself?  Think of the amount of time you would be using up just understanding your level of fitness and your health issues.  Your fitness program would also be a cobbled together, trial and error Frankenstein, “trying out something tried and tested” and seeing if it suits you is actually the same thing.  This is like playing Russian roulette with your health.  The only difference is that you suffer the consequences when you are old and gray, sometimes even before you are old and gray.

Cheap Personal Trainers are not an option either.  Why would you spend money on and time with someone who did not spend the amount of time and resources good Fitness Trainers did to get their credentials and training?  For instance, all Personal Trainers Brisbane have Certificate IV in Fitness.  This means that they invested time and money in order to learn things like training & nutrition, the symptomatology and diagnosis of sports injuries, and sports psychology among others.  This makes them a good investment for you.

Extreme Training

Faced with a growing body of evidence, TORNY JENSEN takes her Caveman Circuit Training one step at a time

Extreme Training

“You must crawl. If you stand up, the bungee will fling you back against the wall. It will hurt.” The warning rings in my ears as the bungee is tied around my waist and I begin a constrained “bear walk” on all fours across the gym floor.

The bungee is designed to provide resistance as I move forward.

I’m sweating and shaking and I’m not sure if that’s because of the workout, or the fear I’ll be tossed to the other side of the room.

I’ve signed up for Caveman Circuit Training.

Personal trainer and gym owner Anna Junghans tells me Caveman Circuit Training is one of the latest trends for those who like to get hot and sweaty. “Over the years everyone has been led into this old-fashioned belief that slugging it out in the gym for two hours every day is the only way to get results, but people are finally waking up and saying, ‘Hey, how come after doing that for six months, I’m not seeing any difference?’ ,” she says. “That’s why something like Caveman Circuit Training is so popular, because it’s so effective.”

The circuit workout is similar to a boot camp – the previous incarnation of the extreme workout. In the boot camps I’ve done, the emphasis has been more on cardio, while caveman aims to improve strength, dexterity and fitness through seemingly old-fashioned workouts.

In my 45 or so minutes of “introductory” caveman training I use a sledgehammer, push tyres, lift kettle bells, do burpees and swing ropes.

At the end, I’m buggered and sore.

“That’s the thing about this sort of training, people come here and think they’re fit because they can run – but this really shows how fit you are,” Junghans says.

Junghans says the very fit often wear gas masks during microfitness short, intense workouts – to mimic high-altitude training: “It’s for people who really want to take their fitness to the edge.”

Richie Cranny from Sydney’s Platinum Extreme is another advocate of full-on fitness.

The mixed martial arts expert says more people are using combat techniques to reach their fitness goals. “The training is so diverse – you’ve got all the best elements of 78 martial arts into one. Mixed martial arts used to be for people who wanted to compete, but now the training side of it has really been recognised as a huge plus for anyone looking for new ways to train,” he says.

Cranny, who trains The Biggest Loser trainer Shannon Ponting, says fear of the unknown is the biggest factor stopping people getting involved in extreme training sessions. “When they first hear about it, and even if they really want to do it, people can be too scared to take that first class,” he says.

But Melody Carstairs from Extreme Body Gym in Melbourne says while fear may initially stop people, the ego eventually drives them into the gym.

“The majority of my clients, I would say, come here because they want that picture-perfect body. They want everything hard, and they want it overnight,” Carstairs says.

“A lot of people also initially have lazy attitude, not realising how crucial weight training and diet are. I change all that for them.”

.The professional bodybuilder and body sculptor also contends people don’t have to spend hours in the gym to achieve amazing results.

She lives by an 80-20 rule – put in the hard yards 80 per cent of the time, and give yourself a break in the remaining 20 per cent.

But she says people will not get the look they want unless they consistently work hard.

“I think the key to a sculpted look is getting a trainer who walks the walk,” she says. “You don’t want someone with perfect genetics. You want someone who’s sweated it out and knows what you’re going through.”

Written by Torny Jensen from mX Newspaper

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John Goodman Weight Loss

I never thought he would pull this off, I thought for sure he’d end up like John Candy or something, but good on him!

John Goodman’s been noticeably skinnier of late on “Treme” and in that maybe-not-so-controversial “Be the One” Gulf Coast restoration video. About 100 pounds skinnier, in case you were keeping track.

Goodman just shared a few of his tips with People: He quit drinking three years ago, hired a health coach, exercises six days a week now and doesn’t eat sugar.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2010/08/john-goodman-weight-loss.html

Here is someone else with a weight loss story to tell