Personal Trainer Secrets Issue Mar 26 2007

Fitness Articles of the Week
The Benefits of Hiring a Personal Training Business Consultant

The pressures of owning and operating a personal training business can be a tremendous load to carry all by yourself. Effective time and business management requires that you free yourself from doing all the work on your own, particularly the work that consumes large portions of your time with little monetary return for your efforts. Learning to delegate to others actually makes you more productive. Time squandered results in squandered profits.

Making costly business mistakes can also squelch the success potential for your personal training business. Avoiding costly mistakes is one really good reason to hire a personal training business consultant. The success of your personal training business is riding on how few of the BIG mistakes you make in your business. A personal training business consultant can help you avoid the costly errors that could derail an otherwise sound business. (read more)

Getting Lean With Whey Protein

Everyone wants to look their best, regardless of their age, gender, or level of education. People today want to be slimmer, healthier, and stronger than they have ever been in their lives. The answer for these people is not just to diet to lose weight, as that rarely works. The answer must include to exercise to build lean muscle, even as they regulate their diets. the addition of vitamins and supplements is helpful both to this process, and to taking back your health, overall.

One supplement that is arguably the most useful for building lean muscle mass is whey protein. Whey protein is a milk byproduct; it is separated from milk during the process of making cheese. Whey has the highest value of all proteins for providing branched-chain amino acids, which help you to build and retain muscle tissue. (read more)

Massage Therapy: the Good, the Better, the Best

Massage therapy isn’t only an enjoyable way to work out kinks, cramps and stresses – it’s also therapeutically beneficial for improving circulation, enhancing muscle tone, aiding digestion, and boosting your immune system. Massage therapy is considered to be a holistic remedy, meaning that it benefits a variety of muscles, organs, and functions beyond just the body part that is being massaged. Common types of massage include Swedish, sports, deep-tissue, shiatsu, and reflexology.

Swedish massage may arguably be the most widely used and best known type of massage. With the intent of relaxing the body, Swedish massage combines long, flowing movements and focuses on improving blood flow while eliminating tension in your muscles. Trained massage therapists use a combination of five strokes to achieve maximum benefit. (read more)

For more information on these or other health-related subjects, contact Scott White at swhite@personalpowertraining.net.

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Imagine Me – in a Fitness Competition!

After raising three kids (the youngest just entered his sophomore year in high school), I decided it was time to finally start taking care of me! In all the rush that comes with being Mom’s Taxi Service, Personal Tutor, Gourmet-on-a-Budget, Corporate Wife, and Realtor With a Smile, I realized about a year ago that I had gotten lost in the shuffle. I hired a personal trainer and began to eat better, and soon I started to look and feel great.

One night, I was up late doing some client paperwork, and the TV was on. There was a program on a cable station about the Mrs. Olympia competition. Now, I’d always thought those women with all the muscles were ugly and very masculine-looking . . . but as I heard the narration on this show, I turned to watch, and I was hooked! I didn’t want all those HUGE muscles, but I wanted to get fit enough to compete in a local fitness competition. I didn’t tell my husband, because I knew he would laugh at me . . . but I did tell my personal trainer, because I thought he would support me and help me reach my goal. I was infuriated when he told me I was too old and would never be able to get in good enough shape to compete, let alone win a fitness competition. That just made me all the more determined to do it!

I told my family . . . and they rallied behind me. My daughter even went online to do research for me, and found this e-book, Fitness Competition Secrets. I bought it right away, and now I’m well on my way to competing in my first competition! I am mailing off my registration this week to participate in the Miss Fitness Rocky Mountain competition this November. I might not win – but I sure will give it my best.

Thanks, Scott, for teaching me how to eat, which supplements to take, and what to expect so that my first contest will be an exciting, memorable challenge, not something that has me petrified. I can’t wait to go back and tell my EX-trainer that I competed. Imagine if I actually place . . . or win!!

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