Simsbury Fitness Expert Predicts Future of Personal Training in 2009

For the past seven years this top Simsbury personal trainer and boot camp instructor has continually been showered with questions concerning the ever changing fitness industry. People have grown tired of the traditional overpriced one-on-one personal training services. Busy men and women of Simsbury, Avon, Canton, West Hartford, and all of Farmington Valley want fast effective weight loss program.

Being that it is January, the Mother of All Fitness Months, as we in the fitness industry like to refer to it. It is sad to think that once again the fitness industry and mostly personal training services have again failed to produce significant results on a broad scale. The obesity epidemic has yet to be effectively reversed and is plaguing our society. Even more specifically, the sickening fact is that American adults keep getting fatter, more lethargic and less healthy as mirrored in the growing population of youth obesity. I do feel however, that 2009 will bring a host of new fitness trends to provide a long-term solution to the growing problem.

Fitness Trend #1 – Fitness Boot Camps Will Rise, One-on-One Personal Training Will Fall

Fitness Boot Camps are the most popular and hottest thing currently in the fitness game. With the current state of our economy and with the talks of recession people have been even tighter with their budgets. A Fitness Boot Camp business model creates an ultimate win-win for personal trainers and clients, thus making the one-on-one alternative obsolete. Fitness trainers can better leverage their time while providing the client with a cost-effective means to see results in their weight loss program. Too many personal training services are overpriced and don’t provide any type of social support. In a Fitness Boot Camp clients now have better access to personal training services in a unique and rewarding team environment that provides better social support, accountability and results for only a fraction of the cost of your traditional one-on-one personal training.

Fitness Trend #2-Interval Training Destroys Aerobic Training By Providing Faster Fat Loss 100% Of The Time

High-Intensity Interval Training is gaining recognition world-wide as the best form of improving your fitness and fat loss. The focus of interval training is on the intensity of the exercise, quality over quantity. Intervals consist of alternating between short bursts of all out maximum effort high-intensity effort, and active recovery periods for a much faster, quicker and focused amount of time (typically intervals of 30sec/90sec work best). This interval training style has been proven to burn up to nine times more fat and improves overall fitness faster and more effectively than the aerobic alternative.

Fitness Trend #3 – Lean Protein and Fiber The Carbohydrate Addicts Answer to Improved Health, Performance, and Body Composition.

There is now overwhelming scientific research that proves a diet high in lean protein and fiber is more beneficial in burning fat. Protein is by far the most important component of each and every meal or snack you consume daily. Protein builds lean muscle helping make your body a more efficient fat burning machine by increasing your metabolic rate. Fiber (from fruits and vegetables, and more importantly green vegetables) helps slow digestion for a steady supply of nutrients and sustained energy, it helps prevent overeating at each meal, and keeps you feeling satisfied between meals. By supplying your body with a combination of protein and fiber every two to 4 hours, you provide your body with the right combination to help you achieve a healthy, leaner body.

Yours in Health,

Tyler English, NASM-PES, CPT

Tyler English is a local Simsbury personal trainer, boot camp instructor and real world fat loss expert. To book him to speak at your local Simsbury or Farmington Valley company, club, or organization please contact him by email at farmingtonvalleybootcamp@gmail.com or by phone at 860-716-6257. For a free 1-week trial to his Farmington Valley Fitness Boot Camp to experience the best personal training in Simsbury and Farmington Valley please visit www.FarmingtonValleyFitnessBootCamp.com or www.FarmingtonValleyFitnessBootCamp.blogspot.com

Turn 2009's Resolutions into Real Results

Simsbury Personal Trainer Shows You How to Get Real Results in 2009

Over the last seven years, I have helped countless people maximize their overall health, performance, and body composition faster than ever before. Understand this, I know how to help people lose ugly, unwanted body fat faster than ever and build a sexy lean physique. Now without a shadow of a doubt, a big reason for this is because our integrated rapid fat loss training and nutrition system is second to none. I have conducted countless hours of research and trial and error and experimentation and I have had hundreds of people as real world case studies to prove that our system flat out works. Though today I want to share something even more powerful; something that must be set in place before you can even start to think about following a fitness program.

So, let’s just get right to it. What do you think is the real secret behind my client success? Well, if your answer was my aforementioned training and nutrition system, then your answer is wrong. Yes, it’s an incredible program, but unfortunately it’s useless if someone is unwilling to start it AND stick to it, right? So, it appears that the most important component of changing your body is finding the motivation to achieve your goals, and that’s the primary focus of this article today. I am going to literally walk you through the initial consult and three step goal setting process that each one of my clients undergoes before they start working with us. This is so important to weight loss success that I now require it for any new client to be considered for joining our program.

Before I get into this goal setting process, I just need to get something off of my chest. I know a lot of people think goal setting is just a cheesy, useless thing. Unfortunately, these people just don’t get it and frankly if you are one of those people, please do us both a favor and stop reading this article and go buy another useless weight loss book or pill because I simply cannot do anything for you. I can only help people who want to learn. I simply cannot help people who already think they know it all and think they are too good to take some time to figure out what the hell it is that they actually want to accomplish. The bottom line is that the most successful people out there, and I mean not just weight loss success, I am talking business, lifestyle, etc., are shamelessly goal driven. They know exactly why they want to do something and harness that super motivation to figure out what and by when they want to go about accomplishing that. Furthermore, they plan and prepare for every possible roadblock they will encounter in their path to success. This is what I want to teach you how to do today, so let’s get to it!

Step One- The Why: Why do you want to do this?

This is where it’s time to get real. In almost every initial consult I do, when I ask why they have contacted me today, here is the typical blanket response that I first hear:

“Well, I just want to get healthy and lose weight I guess.”

Nope, I don’t buy it. Sure, I know they want to lose weight and be healthy, I mean who doesn’t, but really WHY do they want to do this? I mean, what is it that’s going to get them up at 5 am to get their morning workouts in or take a couple of hours on Sunday to plan and prepare their meals for the upcoming week? It sure isn’t “being healthy” because for some reason this just isn’t a very powerful motivator for most people (though it should be).

Let’s face it: everybody, including YOU, wants to look better naked. Stop giggling, you know it’s true and frankly that’s okay because the desire to improve one’s appearance is the most powerful motivator there is. This shouldn’t be such a big surprise since the main life mission of humans, or any species for that matter, is to procreate. This is instinctual. And obviously, looking better makes this more of a reality.

So, after a little digging, I find out the real reason why they want to do this; I find their past or pain and then establish their current and future ambitions. Some people want to be able to mow the lawn in the summer with their shirt off and not feel self-conscious. Others want to get back into their favorite pair of pants that they haven’t been able to get one leg into for the last five years. Then there are those who want to look and feel more attractive to ignite some passion back into their relationships and/or put for their best image at work. And of course, my personal favorite is preparing for big events that have built in deadlines. Wanting to get as lean and tight as possible to rock that dream bathing suit in Argentina, or get off the plane in Texas when visiting family you haven’t seen in two years to blow them away with your new body, or being a classic beauty in your wedding dress on the big day, it all works! This is the stuff that gets people jacked up and ready to commit to making some real changes. How do I know? Well, I just shared with you verbatim the exact “WHY’S” of some of my own clients.

So, the first thing you have to figure out is your personal WHY. To make this even simpler for you, just answer this question: what are your physical dreams? Once you establish this, everything else is easy baby.

Let's make it happen,

Tyler English, NASM-PES, CPT

P.S. Come back on Wednesday. I am going to explain the last 2 steps needed before embarking on the journey of a fitness transformation.