Archive for January, 2010:

Youth Speed, Agility, Strength and Conditioning

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by Mel Fabros

Youth Speed, Agility, Strength and Conditioning, an offshoot of our Sport Specific Training, is designed to instruct older children and young adults the fundamentals of working out to get faster, more agile, stronger and have more endurance, so that they can play sports better and raise their level of fitness. As an added benefit, these students end up looking better, feeling better about themselves and having increased self esteem and self confidence. This may be just the thing they need to have an easier time coping with the pressures of growing up and attending middle school and high school. Class sizes will be limited so that we can insure students get the attention they deserve so they can learn properly. Remember, it only takes a few repetitions to learn to do something incorrectly and have that pattern ingrained in your brain and neuromuscular pathways. Unlearning the wrong way of doing something however, can take hundreds or even thousands of correct repetitions. So learn to do it right the first time! (more…)


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Working Out, and Working Out for Results

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by Tony Cress

Your local Las Vegas Personal Trainer at your service here.  Ever wonder why you go to the gym, work out, drink your protein shake, go out to the club for 7 hours, sleep, drunk for 5, then go to work hung over and not get that six pack you want before summer?  Well, I don’t.  Because I know why you aren’t getting that six pack.  You think you are eating right, doing the right things, but most likely, you aren’t.  Think about it.   Are you leaving the gym, drenched in sweat from your weight workout?  Are you getting a variety of whole, nutritious, colorful foods?  Do you get enough sleep?  Are you limiting your alcohol intake?  Most likely, if you aren’t seeing results, most of these questions will be answered with a word you tell little kids when they are trying to eat crayons.  NO.  Let’s talk about that first question.  Do your weight training sessions leave you tired, sweaty and dunzo?  If not, you probably aren’t doing all that much to get those precious muscles you want, or that pretty tone that all the ladies are looking for.  I see tons of people go into the gym, spend an hour or two in there, and come out looking like they just got done watching a movie.  The gym is where it all happens.  You work on your fitness, and try to do better each and every time out.  If you do the same old thing, that isn’t challenging, why do you think you’d get results from that?  If I ran into a brick wall, 100 times in a row, and didn’t run through it, what would make me think that the 101st time, I would actually make it through?  The answer is not genius.  Anyway.  My point is, you have to actively challenge yourself in the gym, or you aren’t going anywhere.  You won’t be in any better shape, you won’t see a six pack, if you do the same old exercises, the same old way, with the same old weight.  You have to do things that you think you might not be able to do.  It’s the only way to get better.  Practice your deficiencies, and reap the results.

- courtesy of www.tonycress.com


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The Science Of Building Muscle

Bodybuilding involves more than just lifting weights. It pays to have an understanding of human kinetics. How do muscles work?

Muscles develop by making them work. Muscles can only work when the body is in motion. They work extra when we are in full motion. Thus, to develop the muscles to the maximum, we must make them work to the best of our abilities. Hence, the bodybuilding principle of “No Pain, No Gain.”

You cant grow your muscles by doing not anything. You have to go around a lot. The only thing that will grow in points of inertia, if you remain stationary, is your weight. If you want muscle growth and power, you must work your body methodically. Muscle training is called a workout.

Muscles can be toned (or conditioned) by regular activities like brisk walking, jogging, and doing other slightly gray works. But toning muscles will not grow them in size and beauty. You have to do more lots more to have stunning muscles. You have to workout. By the very term “workout,” you can have a excellent thought of what it takes to grow muscles.

Bodybuilding procedures using weights and other gray-duty activities are the best-known muscle growers so far. You have to devote your life into this if you want extra visible muscles on you. You also have to do away with vices like smoking, drinking liquor, eating junk foods, etc.

Muscles grow in size only when they are moving. Try to be subdue in front of a mirror and you’d see no sign of any bulking muscle taking shape. Now, clench your fist hard, and muscle evidence will show at least on your forearm. This simple principle illustrates the potential of muscles being developed through repeated and graduated motions. As muscles are subjected to repeated exertions that gradually increase intensity, they grow and toughen.

The more intense the muscle activity, the better and quicker the muscle is developed. Hence, a systematic muscle development program incorporating increased muscle stimulation builds more muscles effectively. If your exercise features no such system of increasing efforts and challenges to your muscle strength, your muscles can only grow so much. Some exercises do form muscles, but only to a certain extent. The muscles built only become regulating muscles that enable you to perform normal tasks effectively. But they cannot exceed in performing beyond such tasks.

On the contrary, a fully developed muscle does not only allow you to do normal tasks; it is calibrated to reach its full potentials far beyond what regulating muscles can do. Bodybuilding helps you develop your muscles to the farthest.


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My New Years Fitness Plans

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by Tony Cress

I am a personal trainer in Las Vegas. I know some of you people think i shouldn’t have any goals myself when it comes to fitness, but I do. I like to exercise, and I love the benefits of exercise just as much as the next gym goer. I also have my own goals, and things I’d like to accomplish. They don’t necessarily coincide with New Years, or my birthday or whatever, but they are things i would like to accomplish. (more…)


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