Q: I want to workout at home, but I don't have any equipment. Will I be able to accomplish anything?
A: Yes. Of course, it is always better to have access to quality cardio and resistance equipment. However, it depends upon your condition and goals. A lot can be done with no equipment. Also available by mail order is a range of excellent home equipment, including resistance bands, ankle weights, dumbells, balls and other easily stored and relatively inexpensive, yet effective items. Please check out our links pages for websites offering such equipment. You must remember, the most important ingredient needed to change your body is desire, motivation, hard work and commitment. If you have these, the rest will fall into place.
Q: I have done everything, but I still can't loose weight. Is there anything you can do for me?
A: Losing bodyfat effectively is the result of a combination of a specific diet and calorie burning aerobic exercise carried out consistently for a particular duration of time. We usually find that when you think you are doing "everything," one or more elements specified above is either not being carried out correctly or is not being carried out at all. Sometimes folks will try a variety of fad diets one after the other for short periods of time and then give up. Or they may get on the treadmill at the gym for 15 minutes two times a week and wonder why they can't lose fat. Bodyfat reduction or "getting lean" is the single most requested goal of clients who come to us. Our trainers will work with you on an effective diet and fat-burning exercise program and will discuss how long you need to sustain this program to achieve results. They will then help you to attain the discipline and motivation to carry it out.
Q: I do hundreds of sit-ups but still have no definition in my abs. How do I get a six-pack?
A: Getting abdominal definition is only partially accomplished through specific ab workouts involving crunches or flexion of the abdominal muscles. For the most part "definition" of abs is accomplished the same way that "definition" of any other body part is accomplished: by losing the fat that obscures the muscle and building the muscle. Losing the fat is done through diet and aerobic exercise, not abdominal crunches (or sit ups). But even if you lose the fat, to see a nicely developed six-pack, the ab muscles need to be developed. This is accomplished by intense ab crunches with or without added resistance for about eight to fifteen repetitions, four to eight sets, about three times a week.
Q: After I start working with a trainer when will I begin to see results?
A: This is an impossible question to answer without knowing your present condition and training history. There are many variables including your specific starting point, genetics, and metabolism as well as your consistency, commitment and time you are willing to put into training. You will get results commensurately with what you put into your training and diet. Also, we can set up programs that are aimed to work very quickly, but involve exceedingly stringent dieting and training. Generally we like to suggest that, if you are starting from a very low level of fitness, you take it slower at the beginning so you can accustom your body gradually to a training program. We want you to be fit and fabulous for your lifetime.