7 Reasons To Avoid The Gym!

Many of you have had an experience or two that have just made you never want to go back to your gym or health club.

Well, yesterday I was enjoying an intense full body workout at one of the gyms I regularly workout at when BOOM the power went out! Now I understand this was probably an electrical problem or something along the lines of that but I have come to realize there are just some things that will always happen at these big box gyms.


Here are my 7 Reasons To Avoid The Gym!

1.) Cardio Queens - You know the type I am talking about. They spend the entire session at the gym on a treadmill walking, walking and walking. Usually this accompanies some type of talking with their friend who is next to them.

2.) Meat Heads - These are the same muscleheads who celebrate every Monday of the week as International Chest Day. These guys find the need to wear your young son's tank top along with sweatpants because they have yet to discover how to work their lower half.

Monday is "International Chest Day" at Your Local Gym/Health Club

3.) Sickness and Disease - How many times have you witness someone sneeze while using a piece of equipment or fail to clean up after their sweaty body. Gyms and health clubs are one of the dirtiest places you can visit.

4.) Useless Equipment - 90% of the equipment you see in these facilities is useless. Most trainers at these gyms and health clubs forget to understand the bodyweight before external resistance rule because they want to "impress" their prospect. You can get an effective working using minimal equipment like a set of dumbbells and your bodyweight.
Machines are USELESS for fat loss!

5.) Lack of Open Space - This probably happens to you every single time you visit your gym. Gym owners focus on impressing you by filling up the training floor with overpriced, oversized machines that take up all the prime real estate. All you need is space baby- space to move freely and explore your own body’s capabilities.

6.) Annoying People - This quite possibly is probably the biggest reason I avoid most all gyms. PEOPLE ARE SO FRIGGIN' ANNOYING! Your workout time is your time and your time alone. If you are like me. I don't talk to anyone and I don't like being interrupted while I'm cranking it. For most people going to the gym isn't about getting results, it's about socializing.

7.) Bad Trainers - Sorry but most trainers SUCK! They get certified by a money hungry certfication agencies with no support and program design that dates back to who knows when.

Look why would you even want to join a gym when you can see great results and create an intense atmosphere for a fraction of the cost in your own home. You don't need to put your hard earned money into a gym membership.

Our members join Farmington Valley Fitness Boot Camp because they are like-minded people who want something different. They want results and to avoid all the things that come with your typical gym/health club. See what they are all talking about http://www.farmingtonvalleyfitnessbootcamp.com/

Dedicated to your fitness success,

Tyler English, NASM-PES, CPT

Bad News Bowl of Veggies

Hi Campers!

As many of you begin to tackle your nutrition and have begun to make a positive lifestyle change I wanted to share this with you.

It's just about impossible to gain weight just by eating veggies. I mean seriously, you'd have to eat a LOT of 'em.

BUT...

Salads are a different story altogether. Why is it that every time people want to get rid of their belly fat they break out the salad bowls and start eating like a rabbit?

Thing is, MOST salads people eat are loaded with fat and calories. It's as if people think bacon, cheese and ranch dressing suddenly have amazing fat burning properties when they're on top of a couple of carrots and broccoli.

Look, you probably don't really want to know how much damage you did the last time you ate "healthy" and went to the salad bar for lunch.

But what's done is done. Here are the tips you need to remember the next time you order one. They are from the Head of R & D at Prograde Nutrition, registered dietitian Jayson Hunter:

1) Ask for the dressing on the side and dip the tongs of your fork in the dressing and THEN pick up some salad. It gives you just enough flavor and keeps your calorie intake under control.

2) Choose a salad that has grilled protein in it such as chicken or fish. Remember, it should be GRILLED and not fried.

3) Sorry, leave off the cheese and bacon bits. You know why ;-)

I thought you all should know Prograde Nutrition is currently having a BIG 10.9% off everything January Celebration Sale to celebrate the New Year.

Yes, that's 10.9 as in January of 2009 ;-)

Here are some other details I want to make sure you know about:- Again, you receive 10.9% off all Prograde products until Thursday, January 15th at 11:59pm EST.

- The coupon code you enter at checkout is:
012009

- The website is http://tylerenglishfitness.getprograde.com

Yours in health,

Tyler English, NASM-PES, CPT

P.S. - The sales ends TOMORROW night!

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