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An expert fitness team shares their cutting-edge program for achieving stellar abs-in just three hours a week. A strong, athletic physique, highlighted by a flat midsection with well-defined abdominal muscles, is the goal of everyone who works out, from lifelong gym rats to the New Year’s resolution crowd. But most people who seek these goals undermine their efforts. In The New Rules of Lifting for Abs, Lou Schuler and Alwyn Cosgrove offer unique programs based on the latest breakthroughs in exercise science. And, as they did in their previous books, The New Rules of Lifting and The New Rules of Lifting for Women, the authors debunk ab-training myths while showing readers how to strip off even the most stubborn flab. Surprising revelations include: • Washboard abs do not always equal a healthy, pain-free back • The crunch is actually a poor choice for most people • Extending the core can be much more effective than flexing ab muscles • It’s impossible to isolate the core muscles • And much, much more Readers get three months of intense workouts, combining fat-busting conditioning work with intense strength training, which they can easily expand into a yearlong program. Schuler and Cosgrove also include a nutrition component detailing how to eat for fat loss, muscle gain, and improved health. Home-gym friendly, and illustrated with more than 150 black-and-white photographs, The New Rules of Lifting for Abs delivers the goods. View more: bit.ly
Oklahoma’s offseason workouts cut short after series of secondary NCAA rules violations
Oklahoma’s football team has been required to give players a week off from athletic training during the offseason after reporting a series of secondary NCAA rules violations related to offseason workouts.
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This article is a continuation of Part 1, where we went over the first two rules in surviving the gym and moving on to bigger things in personal training. Now, we’ll get into the next five rules.
Rule 1: Conserve Your Money
Even if you’re selling on all cylinders and have a packed schedule, your pay here won’t really be anything to brag about. Although you’re selling your sessions for high rates, you may be taking home as little as a quarter of that money! But during this time you’ll want to start putting away some money to fund your move. You’ll need as much as a thousand dollars to get all of your web and equipment expenses covered, and you’ll need to put away a good two months of living expenses for the period of time after you dump the gym, and are still building your private practice. So be sure to pay yourself first and get to this figure as fast as possible.
Rule 2: Plan Your Escape Route
Now, as you’re conserving money and gaining your people and training skills, it’s also a good time to start putting the pieces in place for when you go independent. Start getting your website made, look into outside training options, and pick the areas you want to reach and decide how you’ll reach them.
I would even go so far as to start doing free or low cost advertising, and making deals with businesses and establishments that are willing to help you. If you do gain some clients, you can easily train them on the side, and you’ll have more leverage for when you make your full jump to going private.
Most important of all, start to gather testimonials from all of your clients. Take before and after pictures of them, and when possible, take some of video of them saying why you’re the best. This will be hugely important part of your marketing later.
Rule 3: Get The Heck Out of There!
Time to hand in your notice! By now you should have a few things cooking – you should have your site up and running, have explored a lot of the options out there for you to situate yourself, and ideally have a hand-full of clients. Once you’ve fully dumped the gym, you’ll be surprised how many more ideas and opportunities you see in front of you. Be sure to take advantage of them – actively seek referrals from you existing clients, and never stop looking for new ones. Now that you’re your own boss, and technically a business owner, make the most of it. And every now and then, take a minute to enjoy what you’ve accomplished – you’ve earned it!
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One question many trainers ask is whether you should work in a gym to gain experience when you first become a trainer, or if you can just skip this step and go straight to being independent. In general, you should try your best to get out of the toxic work environment of the big box-gyms. However, it turns out that working at one of these gyms may serve a purpose after all. They’ll help you gain some quick experience before you make the jump to doing things privately, outside of one of these “fitness factories”.
Sure, you could get this experience “in the field” by getting and training your own private clients . . . but if you want more of a structured environment to practice, the gym is ok for a short time.
And add to that the fact that practically every successful trainer did start out in a big gym, at least for a little while. If you’re into that “success leaves clues” stuff, then there might be something to this.
So here’s how I feel about the subject – if you’re going to do the time, you might as well do it right.
This article is here to help – it’s your health-club survival guide. If you’re slaving in a gym right now or just getting started in training, this post will help you make the most out of the health-club experience so you can exit with the skills necessary to conquer your area once you’re out.
Rule 1: Lead Your Platoon
Let’s face the facts – major health-clubs are unscrupulous sales factories, and the people that choose to work here aren’t really in a good place in their lives. Yes there are certainly some high quality people in these gyms, but they seem to be few and far between.
Keep that in mind when you go in – that you’re looking for experience, not a social circle. Do notbelieve or buy into anybody else’s negative influence. Everyone here is convinced that you can’t make it on your own, and for good reason – that’s why they keep working there! So keep your plans of going solo to yourself, and in the meantime, be the leader. Show them what being a pro is about.
Rule 2: Master Your People Skills
While a base of technical knowledge is necessary in personal training, the most important thing you can do is master your skills in dealing with and training people. I’m a big believer that the fastest way to learn something is to actually do it.
Do whatever you can in order to get the word out about your service.
· Offer Free Body Fat Promotions and Fitness Assessments · Try to Offer Special “Trial Packages” to get clients in the door. · Become known as a specialist (ie fat loss, elderly clients, bodybuilding)
Using these tricks will get you out in front of people and get them talking about you. This is what you want as a personal trainer.
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There are a huge amount of muscle building programs out there. Gaining serious muscle will involve using methods that will get you there as quickly as possible. The general rule in life is that the more of something that you do, the better you will get at it. The theory is that practice will get you better results. However when it comes to gaining muscle, the exact opposite is true for the vast majority of us. Each time you pick a magazine up all you see is bodybuiders who will tell you that to get muscles like them you have to train nearly everyday of the week. When we see there huge muscles we think if we follow their advice, we will get the same results. Unfortunately this is a mistaken assumption. Bodybuilders are built differently from birth. They are genetically gifted. These men don’t need as much rest to recover after training. Don’t think that we can use their methods of training. You need to accept this situation before you can start to gain muscle the correct way. A lot of people make the mistake of training too much when it comes to gaining extra muscle. Cut back on your training now if this is what you are doing. You will be able to see some pretty impressive results in muscle gain, in around 8 weeks, if you follow 2 simple rules. 1. Don’t overdo the amount of weight you train with. Don’t think about what others are lifting. You know it’s working for you when you find it challenging. Your training should consist of exercises that hit larger muscle groups. These methods hit the most muscle with one exercise. Squats are good for this. 2. Don’t train more than a couple of times a week. Believe me this is a far better way for you to gain muscle. Intense training does not only hit your muscles, but it also hits your entire nervous system. Yout nervous system may not have recovered, even if your muscles have. If your nervous system has not recovered, giving it further punishment through training, means it will be hard to cope. Without the recovery you can’t build up any muscle. When you’ve finished your training session have 3 days break. 2 days if you want. Just see how your body feels during this time. Many people will attempt this for a short time and then go back to their old ways. The fact is that if you have been using particular bodybuilding programs which haven’t worked, then something is wrong. Look at doing things differently.
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This article is a continuation of Part 1, where we went over the first two rules in surviving the gym and moving on to bigger things in personal training. Now, we’ll get into the next five rules.
Rule 3: Conserve Your Money
Even if you’re selling on all cylinders and have a packed schedule, your pay here won’t really be anything to brag about. Although you’re selling your sessions for high rates, you may be taking home as little as a quarter of that money! But during this time you’ll want to start putting away some money to fund your move. You’ll need as much as a thousand dollars to get all of your web and equipment expenses covered, and you’ll need to put away a good two months of living expenses for the period of time after you dump the gym, and are still building your private practice. So be sure to pay yourself first and get to this figure as fast as possible.
Rule 4: Plan Your Escape Route
Now, as you’re conserving money and gaining your people and training skills, it’s also a good time to start putting the pieces in place for when you go independent. Start getting your website made, look into outside training options, and pick the areas you want to reach and decide how you’ll reach them.
I would even go so far as to start doing free or low cost advertising, and making deals with businesses and establishments that are willing to help you. If you do gain some clients, you can easily train them on the side, and you’ll have more leverage for when you make your full jump to going private.
Most important of all, start to gather testimonials from all of your clients. Take before and after pictures of them, and when possible, take some of video of them saying why you’re the best. This will be hugely important part of your marketing later.
Rule 5: Get The Heck Out of There!
Time to hand in your notice! By now you should have a few things cooking – you should have your site up and running, have explored a lot of the options out there for you to situate yourself, and ideally have a hand-full of clients. Once you’ve fully dumped the gym, you’ll be surprised how many more ideas and opportunities you see in front of you. Be sure to take advantage of them – actively seek referrals from you existing clients, and never stop looking for new ones. Now that you’re your own boss, and technically a business owner, make the most of it. And every now and then, take a minute to enjoy what you’ve accomplished – you’ve earned it!
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12 Health Rules You Can Bend: Weight Training for Women
Here are 12 health rules that it’s OK — and sometimes even good — to break.
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