Nutritional Guidance For Health, Fitness and Weight Loss

A personal trainer does much more than designing and enforcing an exercise routine. By offering services in dietary management and nutritional guidance, I can help you achieve optimal dietary fitness in caloric intake, management of insulin levels, making healthy food choices and meal timing to get the most out of your workout schedule or personal fitness training sessions. It's important to understand that there's no one-size-fits-all perfect diet. Especially if you pursue physical fitness and an active lifestyle. For example, the nutrition, calorie requirements and dietary profile of someone into Olympic weight-lifting is going to be very different from those engaging in more aerobic activities like gymnastics or running. Competitive bodybuilding requires the most demanding balancing act of caloric intake, timing of eating patterns and more during 'Bulk up' and 'Lean down' phases.

Recommended Bodybuilding and Weight Training Books

Here's some of the best-selling fitness book titles worth checking out. If you're serious about getting in shape and packing on muscle these beef-up books offer thorough, deep coverage of your body and physiology, muscle anatomy, exercises and more. Transforming your body and making a fitness commitment starts in your brain - and what you learn helps translate into real results at the gym.
           

Muscle Building Bible	Weight Training Anatomy	BodyBuilding A-Z Manual
Muscle Anatomy 101 Frederic Delavier	Bodybuilder Encyclopedia Arnold Schwarzenegger	A-Z Body Building Robert Kennedy

Best-Selling New Fitness Books 2012 - KettleBell Mainia

Been browsing through some of the latest fitness books being offered and found some rather unique exercise, diet, exercise and bodybuilding titles for the new year. Of note: Check out these Best-Selling Fitness Books 2012to see what's high on peoples interests.

Interestingly, Kettlebell Training ranks high on the list. Kettlebells - Those balls of iron with a built-in handle aren't new. But modern fitness trainers and coaches are using them in new, novel and more effective ways to maximize the benefits of weight-training.

Kettlebell RX

For Athletes and Coaches

When one performs a kettlebell workout, it isn't just doing a single isolated move to engage one muscle group. Rather, think of it as "Muscle Multi-Tasking". For example, in a basic swing, you swing the kettlebell between your legs while lowering into a squat position. Then swing the kettlebell up to about shoulder or chin height as you move into a standing, upright position. After you perform this move a dozen times or more, you'll decidedly feel it - everywhere! It's one of the many reasons why modern fitness enthusiasts still love the kettlebell. Every major muscle group can get a workout at the same time. It’s just a far more efficient and a smarter use of your workout time than simply isolating muscle groups.

Basic 10# Kettlebell

Ideal For Newbies

In future blog posts I'll be featuring some of the other books I recommend to my Personal Training clients and friends who: Want to get the most out of their workouts - Or, to try new things to keep challenging their muscles in their otherwise predictable fitness routines.

True Physical Fitness - Going Beyond Your Comfort Zone

A real commitment to achieving a state of true physical fitness is a scary thing. There's usually no blood involved, but there needs to be sweat and tears. A workout needs to stress your physical and mental abilities to their max to tell your body to fight to survive it. That it really is a fight for survival. And that's when exercise delivers the results you can see - and feel in the more routine physical activities of your daily life.

Even if you've made a Fit For Life commitment to integrate focused exercise into your routine, that is really only the beginning of your journey. Even if you make it a point to set aside time for an at-home, outdoor or gym workout - what happens - the absolute intensity and focus during that session largely determines the degree of benefit you'll receive from it.

Many of us tend to stay within our Comfort Zone. You know, that easy pace of whatever physical activity you're engaged in that doesn't leave us too out of breath, where we don't sweat too much, where we stop before it feels too stressful and 'hurts', or by short-cutting the workout because we think it takes 'too long'. And as a result, by NOT leaving your comfort zone, one really sabotages much of the potential benefit they're hoping to achieve.

And that's where a Personal Trainer or attending a regularly scheduled Fitness Class comes in. There's so much value in that EXTERNAL voice telling you what to do next, how to do it properly, and to keep going. There's value in a trained and experienced voice that repeatedly asks you to step out of your comfort zone and do 15 seconds more repetitions, to increase the weight, to focus your intensity - when you might otherwise stop. For too many of us, we stay within our comfort zones and sell ourselves short. Sometimes a little external motivation is all we need to become the better, fitter selves we want to be.

G-Force Workout Classes at World Gym - Palm Springs

My unique version of a G-Force Fitness class is a fun 55 minute rapid-paced strength and muscular endurance exercise class held 3 times a week at World Gym Palm Springs California. It's absolutely guaranteed to make you sweat! Each G-Force Workout hits every major part of your body: Chest, back, shoulders, biceps, triceps, legs and abs - utilizing dumbbells, your body weight resistance, aerobic steps and an indoor running track.

In a typical G-Force class session, each workout sequence is divided into three parts. Each part is broken into several incremental 30, 45, 60 second rounds of heart-pumping, muscle-strengthening interval training exercises, all set to a fast-pace 130 beats-a-minute high-energy dance music mix!

This special combination of standing, squatting, step and reclining exercises for strength training and cardiovascular fitness is designed to help you get stronger and leaner. It also increases your vascular and muscular endurance and tones and adds definition to one's muscle mass.

Perhaps, best of all, a G-Force Workout is appropriate for all age groups and physical fitness levels. Just starting out? Drop the hand weights, slow your pace and simply use your body weight for adequate resistance. Looking to get really ripped? Attack the moves in double 'Cardio' time. Want to develop one's muscle definition and endurance? Switch up to heavier hand weights for a turbo-charged resistance session!

Fitness Training In Palm Springs California

People from around the world visit - or move to Palm Springs for it's fantastic desert climate in the winters - or to literally bake in the warm sun of summers. It's a restful haven for vacationers filled with numerous active lifestyle activities, or poolside resort get-aways to escape the stress of life's routine.

As a Gay personal trainer, Palm Springs offers a vibrant LGBT community I'm glad to be a part of. Although we have an aging, retiree demographic, many are bent on maintaining a healthy, active and fit lifestyle into our Golden Years. And one of the best ways to maintain that is through daily fitness and exercise. From biking to hiking the San Jacinto mountainsides, to swimming and sunning, to routine workouts at the numerous gyms, Palm Springs offers a great place to feel young, grow old, and have a fit, fun and fabulous life inbetween!