Nick’s Blog
Things to Know Before Joining a Health Club
When you go to any Health Club, you will be given a contract. You need to be sure of what you are getting in to. Many will give you “outs” that will only cost you more money when you try to leave. Others will lock you in for 2 or 3 years without you even knowing it.
Two Truths For A Healthier You
For those of you who know me personally, you know that when I speak about fitness, I speak the truth from an educator’s standpoint, and not a sales or marketing standpoint. I do this out of my true love for fitness, and for all of you.
Dangers of The Low Carb Diet
Low carb, high protein diets are the latest dieting craze. However, before you jump on the bandwagon, you may want to consider a few things: Low carb (ketogenic) diets deplete the healthy glycogen (the stored form of glucose) stores in your muscles and liver.
Another Big Interval Training Myth
If you’ve spent time looking for information about how to make fat loss faster and easier, there’s a good chance you’ve read about interval training. If so, you might have seen claims that interval training is “nine times” more effective than aerobic exercise in the so-called fat-burning zone at promoting fat loss. This, unfortunately, is a myth.
Baby Greens, Shrimp & Pickled Butternut Squash
The pickled butternut squash recipe is also a great accompaniment for white meats or fish.
How To Get Started On A Fitness Program
It’s that time of year again, and you still haven’t achieved the fitness goal you set for yourself last year. Millions of people become more dedicated to their exercise program in January and February. The Gyms and Health Clubs that promote the quick fix, double their new enrollment, and member participation is at an all-time high.
Progressive Overload
What does it mean? Now because of an amazing thing called Google you can find out why many of the large big box gym chains and most personal trainers do not want you to know about “progressive overload.” Or worse, they don’t even know themselves!
Tips For Sticking To Your New Year’s Resolution This Year
Isolate your resolution and perform the correct activity to achieve your goal. Fat loss and weight loss are different Cardio and aerobic training are different. Increasing muscle strength and muscle size is also different.
Making Progress in Your Fitness Program
No matter what your goal is: muscle mass, strength, speed, weight or body fat loss, etc. the most important factor in your training program is making progress. Progressive overload is the gradual increase of stress placed upon the body during exercise training and is what makes your muscles grow bigger, stronger and faster.
The Truth about Common Fitness Industry Terms
After almost three decades of being in the health/fitness/bodybuilding industry in one form or another, as trainer, membership salesperson, manager, or club owner, I have heard all the catchy industry terms that are used to sell supplements, diets, and all these new fad exercise plans, routines and programs to people.
Timing is Everything
Since your muscle tissue needs nutrition every 3 to 4 hours, it makes sense to time your meals 3 to 4 hours apart. The optimum daily meal schedule would be to eat 4 to 5 times per/day for fat-loss/lean muscle maintenance, and 6+ times per/day for muscle gain.
The Old 80/20 Rule
In business, when I first started managing people I learned that (80% of the work is done by 20% of the employees) this also holds true in the Fitness Industry when enrolling new members. However, it works the exact opposite in the “Big Box, One Size Fits All” gyms and training programs.