Cardio: Before or After Your Workout?
One of the biggest debates out there regarding your cardiovascular exercise (running, spinning, etc) is whether or not to do it before or after your workout. A lot of people, even many trainers, default to “whatever your personal preference is, do it.” I cannot tell you how many times I hear people say “I would [...]
Read moreAnother inspiring success
“I know we all face trials and stumbling blocks on our journey to great health, so I thought this story might encourage and inspire you!” -Shawn
Read moreAnother inspiring success story
“I know we all face trials and stumbling blocks on our journey to great health, so I thought this story might encourage and inspire you!” -Shawn
Read moreAnother inspiring success
“I know we all face trials and stumbling blocks on our journey to great health, so I thought this story might encourage and inspire you!” -Shawn
Read moreCardio: Why so (in)tense?
This high-intensity cardio group class craze has been spreading around the fitness world lately. High Intensity Cardio is also known as HIT Cardio. A lot of people ask me about the benefits and drawbacks of HIT cardio compared to your traditional long sustained cardio, so here’s some perspective.
Whether it’s hiring a personal trainer or simply [...]
Intensity Technique: Decrease Rest Time In-Between Sets
To make fitness livable long term, we have to balance consistency with a dose of reality, making sure it works into a manageable lifestyle. I tell people constantly there are 168 hours in a week, and if you can give yourself—and me or one of our trainers—3 or 4 of those, we can get you [...]
Read moreIntensity Technique: Rest/Pause
Our trainers get a lot of questions that boil down to a common goal: Better workouts, better results, in a more time-efficient way to fit people’s lifestyles. That means that sometimes we feel we can’t get resistance/weight training AND cardio workouts in and still manage to balance work, family and everything else.
Here’s a great tip: [...]
Intensity Technique: Super Sets
Our trainers get asked all the time about how clients can achieve better results in a more time-efficient way to fit people’s lifestyles.
Here’s another tip that’ll make a huge difference: It’s another Intensity Technique you may have heard of, called a Super Set. A super set is taking 2 or 3 exercises and doing them [...]
Intensity Techniques: Giant Set
The last few weeks, I’ve been sharing insights from our training team that clients have found to be successful tips at increasing results in the same amount of time, making workouts way more efficient. Here’s another one:
A Giant Set is a term that describes a process very similar to what is often called circuit training. [...]
Intensity Techniques: Building the Pyramid (Staggered Sets)
Here’s another in our recent Intensity Techniques series we’ve been getting so much great feedback on: this one is what we call Staggered Sets (also known as pyramiding).
You’ll perform this technique by picking a weight that you can do 12 reps with. Perform your first set. Then add more weight and do 10 reps. For [...]