BEST PERSONAL TRAINING IN NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

July 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment

 

Congradulations, you  hired a personal trainer. You meet on day one. The trainer asks you a few questions, then BAM….right into a grunting, heart racing, muscle burning workout. You are sore for five days after your first workout, and you can hardly walk down the stairs. A few weeks later, you notice joint pain, from your back to your knees. The trainer DOES NOT explain WHY you are doing any of the exercises, except for “it will get your heart rate up.” If you have experienced this, I would highly re-think your trainer’s level of experience or care for YOUR body.

Question?

Did your personal trainer complete an assessment of the way your body moves while doing simple tasks? Bending, Stepping, pushing, reaching, squating, etc.

If the answer is NO, you are in trouble. Your personal trainer should always evaluate you BEFORE you start the first workout. If not, you are setting yourself up for injury.

How does your trainer know what exercises and workload is best for YOUR body? This is what makes the PERSONAL in personal training! Would you take your car on the road without knowing the tire pressure, fluid levels, or monitoring the tread on the tires? Personal trainers should take the same care with YOUR body before the real exercise program begins

The Tone Up Club fitness coaching is very unique because the client’s body is screened and assessed BEFORE any exercise routines are performed. We take pride in knowing the current ”status” of the client. This is accomplished by determining their strengths and weaknesses. A strength may be great shoulder mobility, but a weakness may be lack of glute strength. These strengths and weaknesses ultimately determine how a client will move to perform each exercise. Therefore, we develop exercise progressions that maximize results and minimize injury. Clients enjoy their exercise sessions with The Tone Up Club because the intensity and selection of exercises is within their capability, with room for progress.

Best Personal Training in Nashville

The Tone Up Club

 

 

 

 

 

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Marriage and Weight Loss

March 3, 2012 By 2 Comments

        

Men have several outlets to stay physically fit during a marriage:

Pick-Up Basketball games

  • Flag Football Leagues
  • Hockey Leagues
  • Golf/Tennis Tournaments
  • Workout Partner at gym

On the other hand, women do not have as many outlets to stay physically fit during marriage. The role of being a wife/ mother can take the role of another full-time job. They sometimes carry the burden of being “super-mom”, taking care of the entire family; kids and husband. Mothers prepare the kids for school in the morning, preparing their meals/snacks for the day. Mothers drop their their kids off to school, then have to fight rush hour traffic to make it  to work on time. They pick up their kids after school, following their baseball or soccer practice. It’s time to take the kids home and prepare dinner for the family. Clothes and dishes have to be washed. The kids need help with their homework before bed.

If the wife/Mom has NEVER been active growing up, it can become very hard to become active once they enter the role of a wife/parent. Unfortunately, women often gain weight after marriage due to new family/job demands and lack of exercise.  Choosing a weekend basketball pick-up game with the “girlfriends” or meeting them at the gym to lift weights is typically not an option for a wife/mom. Therefore, women often look to their husbands for exercise encouragement. This may include wanting to take weekend walks/runs in the park or playing tennis together. Men, we occasionally do not see these forms of exercise as challenging, so we do not find any interest in doing these forms of activity with her. Men, we sometimes fail to realize that exercising with our spouse:

  • Creates teamwork
  • Supports her physical activity needs
  • Provides quality time
  • Provides motivation to achieve her exercise goals
  • Shows her that we CARE

Additional support includes hiring a personal trainer to help her with her exercise and nutrition accountability. Personal trainers can help structure her workouts accordingly while meeting her physical ability. Personal trainers are also great at providing the necessary encouragement and leadership to help achieve  body-composition goals! 

Although I am a personal trainer, I hired a personal trainer for my wife to keep her consistent with her workout program. I showed my commitment to her fitness goals by:

  •  Losing the ego. “We can’t be her personal trainer.”
  •  Preparing healthy dinners TOGETHER. 
  •  Choosing healthy entrees WITH her while dining out
  • Choosing physical activity events together; playing basketball together, walking in the park

 

Pictures

Before and After Photos of my beautiful wife (above)

Krystal Lewis

                                                                                                                                                

  Lost      

  15lbs                    

4% Body-Fat

3 inches in Waist and hips

 Gained

Improvement in Overall Self-Confidence by setting a goal and achieving it.

Increased Energy

 New Spark into Marriage

 Confidence to wear bathing suits

 I can wear my old pair of “skinny jeans ” again

 ”I brought my sexy back.” Krystal’s words (LOL)

  YOU GO GIRL!

                                                                              

 

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I need to strengthen my core!

December 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Half-Kneeling Medicine Ball Chops in ActionYou are finishing up with your weight training workout, and you have 10 minutes left. The green light comes on………… “I need to strengthen my core”! So we grab a mat and perform crunches until we feel a good burn in the mid-section. Core training is done……..I can go home now. We’ll, not quite.

If our goal is to reduce the size in our waist line, to visually see defined abdominal muscles, we need to focus on weight loss nutrition rather than stomach crunches. Spot reduction, exercising a body-part to REDUCE its size, is the biggest myth in fitness. Let’s leave this idea for those late night infomercials that try to sell you the fountain of youth in an AB Roller.

We need to understand what the “core” is before we can get it stronger. We can then take the correct approach to working the core how it is designed to function. The “core” not only consists of the abdominal wall, but it consists of the scapula, entire spinal column, pelvis, sacrum, along with the hips and glutes. A strong core is nothing more than the amount of energy you can transfer throughout your body, from your upper body to lower body, or lower body to upper body.

You want a stronger core, then integrate the core with EVERY exercise that you do. Unfortunately, this takes a great amount of STABILITY. That’s why it’s important to always begin core training with STABILITY before strength. Core STABILITY requires us to move our arms or legs with minimal movement of the spine. Ex: push-up. Core STRENGTH requires us to move the spine while moving the arms or legs. Example: crunches, sit-ups.

Can you perform a push-up without your back sagging to the floor? Can you lift a bag of groceries off the floor with only one leg, without rotating your hips? If the answer is no, then STABILITY is your answer.  Ditch the crunches and go for stability work for the “core”. Our Core Stability featured exercise is the Half Kneeling Medicine Ball Chop.  It’s a great partner exercise to develop upper body power while stabilizing your spine and pelvis. You will be surprised how much of a stable core will improve your ability to lunge, squat, deadlift, and push-up.

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