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Take Care for fitness and fat loss

Do you take good care of yourself?

Well you either do you or don’t. Because actions are more valuable than words.

Some tips for self-care include:
  1. Live Healthy, eat healthy foods, get enough sleep, exercise regularly, and avoid drugs and alcohol.
  2. Practice good hygiene.
  3. See friends to build your sense of belonging.
  4. Try to do something you enjoy every day.

This is where the performance goals in fitness play in

If you truly want to get the leanest body you’ve ever had, you have to get better. Stronger perhaps, faster, or more skilled. Muscular endurance and recovery time.

Med ball push up

Med ball push up

You force the body to change. Becoming faster or more skilled at controlling heavy resistance are key to training the body properly. Progression is everything.

We could all do a little better

It’s good to have support around you. Celebrate healthy attitudes and reward the pursuit of fitness for life, longevity, and anything you’ve ever worked for.

Recovery activities will help you do more sooner

How does one manage the stress of life? I think about the meaning of it, what the message represents. When in doubt, exercise self-care.

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Orangetheory Fitness attacks the Big Climb 2015, fights blood cancers

The Big Climb is about Elevation

You must rise up. To rise up is to fight against cancer and there are many ways to do this.

Incline and vertical training for fat loss

There is something I can be passionate about for rising up. Working your way up the pull of gravity is key to the disease prevention lifestyle.

Disease prevention with incline training

Fat loss, muscle tone, and improved cardiovascular health can be achieved through a moderate-to-high intensity training regimen with fresh nutrition.

That’s why I captained the Big Climb 2015 Seattle team

Team Orangetheory Fitness Seattle at the Big Climb 2015

Team Orangetheory Fitness Seattle at the Big Climb 2015

The above picture was moments away from the starting stairwell to go up 69 stories in Seattle’s Columbia Tower.

A gray day won’t stop us now

Getting to the top is the inherent value, if the view is decent then bonus

Getting to the top is inherent in value, if the view was amazing then it would just be excess

Make it to the top!

Here is Seattle in all of its spring glory, I was happy to be catching my breath with this in sight

Here is Seattle on an inevitable day with the gray and I have sweat through my shirt just now

Congrats to the finishers

Woo feels good to finish! Rachel and Julianne celebrate

Feels good now! Julianne and Rachel celebrating Big Climb 2015 achievement

Looking over the Puget Sound and downtown Seattle, Queen Anne, and Magnolia

Not one of Seattle's finest days when it comes to views but still enough to appreciate

Take in the view and then let’s go eat something

Thoughts about the Climb 2015

This fundraising effort was rife with support from many individuals. I appreciate you all for that, and for being here reading this. Here are a few thoughts I have about the Big Climb 2015

  • Your heart is the most important muscle and you should eat to support it
  • When I consume a beetroot, carrot, kale juice, it’s because I feel like it helps me breathe better
  • Breath in through the nose, out through the mouth
  • Use your upper body and core strength to pull yourself up and to push through the turns
  • Core strength improves with progressive resistance training
  • Pump yourself up and do what it takes even if it means some self talk!
  • Do it again for next year

Our team will continue on. We celebrated at a Sunday Happy Hour downtown and then walked home thanks to our city dwelling lifestyles.

Later that day

The spring day in Seattle departed with rays through lingering levels of moisture

The spring day in Seattle departed with rays through lingering levels of moisture

Thank you for reading and stay tuned

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Set records, achieve personal bests and feel good about your health and fitness through exercise

Achievement through fitness

Through my career in fitness, I have met many achievement oriented individuals. Additionally, I have met real people with less than ambitious hobbies.

Validation vs. achievement

Most people want to be looked at positively in the eyes of others. If at times, you felt without others, it’s great to re-establish and find new connections. If you want people to find you physically attractive, perhaps you would select an outfit that looks fitting and appropriate for the occasion so that you can feel confident in your appearance.

Performance based goals

Your exercise program must include progressive resistance. There are unlimited ways in which you could practice your body through resistance training. Free-weights are common tools across the world for developing skill and strength in movement patterns.

I made this makeshift sled at my last gym. Furniture sliders and some steps which a pvc pipe to keep the weights in placed. This is conditioning that destroys fat everywhere.

Morning sled push session. This conditioning exercise destroys fat everywhere.

Practically speaking, you want to make progress in activities that make you move hard. Work hard with your pushing and your pulling and your hinging and your squatting.

All out intensity

Start optimizing your lifestyle. By gaining strength, speed, and power then you will achieve personal bests. Then you will have begun to alter the course of your body’s lifeline by activating your healthier genetic identity.

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How accurate are heart rate monitors for fitness and exercise?

Heart rate monitors for workouts are a growing trend

There’s no surprise why — advantages from science help us with health and fat loss results.

The pod is near the heart

The pod is near the heart

 

 

How effective are heart rate monitors for fitness and fat loss?

Highly effective. You or your coaches are able to use real time bio-feedback that gets you motivated! I’m not saying they are always perfect.

Downsides of heart rate monitors?

Exercisers who use heart rate monitors may sometimes notice fluctuations in the readings (from a really low HR to a really high, momentarily). How am I to know if it is the pod that malfunctions or if it is the garment that connects to the device.

If you have paid for the class experience or are just a participant, the fluctuations can be distracting.

Over time, I have realized that some individuals are simply more prone to the variations. Perhaps the impact from the exercise would be a suitable explanation. And even though the technology is available to the public, we all come in different shapes and sizes. We wear things differently.

Highly valuable tools for fitness and fat loss

When you find what works for you, use it.

Then develop your skills with the tools you have available.

Performance based goals reign supreme.

Stay tuned…

 

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Why Form and Function should be the focus more than just aesthetic ideal

There is some inspiration about the movement of others

Just think about all of the ways in which people can move. Everyday we display mobility, movement patterns, and how we interact physically with the environment.

Do whatever it takes to get your heart rate up

Do whatever it takes to get your heart rate up

Often we move for practice, whether it be football players doing drills or dancers coordinating moves, the way we move represents something about us.

We can look at fitness as movement

Maybe it’s not what you look like, or that you don’t look like anyone else. Fitness is expressed more through one’s movement. And there are many ways to get active.

Effective methods include resistance training, HIIT, strength, and bodyweight training.

Why not get stronger? There are many ways you could invest your time. Do something that supports EVERYTHING else.

Anyway that’s my words for now, stay tuned.

 

 

 

 

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