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Infomercial Fitness- Are WE Next?

Friday, May 14th, 2010

I have never done P90X. I have definitely watched the videos. I have also never done that Insanity one. But I have also watched those fitness dvd’s. I have opinions on both, but don’t care to go into those. They are definitely both hardcore, amazing workouts, but can everyone do them? I don’t think so. This got me thinking. I need to make a fitness dvd program, that is geared towards not only the people who are elite athletes and who want to get ripped, but also the guy next door, who wants to just live longer, and have a more enjoyable life. What do you guys think? I’d love to have some feedback on this, as I am going to go ahead and follow through with this project I think needs to be done. Any questions, tips, recommendations, or donations are greatly appreciated. You can email me at tony@tonycress.com. Thank you guys for your time. This is going to be one heck of an experience.

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Personal Training-Working Out Your Mind

Monday, April 19th, 2010

When you work out, do you think about anything in particular? If you get personal training, are you thinking about the exercises you are doing, or is your mind wandering? Do you feel the muscles that are called upon for each exercises, or do you just go through the motions, until the desired number of repetitions are completed. A lot of your gains in fitness have to do with your mind, connecting to your muscles. If you don’t think about your six pack working, how do you know it is? If you don’t feel your hamstrings tighten in a curl, are you really getting the most out of that workout. You have to know the feeling of using muscles. So what i suggest to you is this. Do a yoga class, or start doing more balance exercises. It’s amazing how you might feel when everything you do is on one leg. All of a sudden, muscles throughout your foot, around your knee, and hip, are activated. Muscles you didn’t know could get tired, get tired. In yoga, you have to learn balance as well. Learning how to contract the right muscles, will give you bigger gains in the weight room, and will also keep you away from injuries. So, go meditate already.

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Las Vegas Personal Training- Welcome To The Show

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

Las Vegas, watch out. There is a new personal trainer at TonyCress.com, and her name is Emily Bussey. She was a former client of mine, who posessed the drive, intelligence and knowledge to follow fitness as a career. Every time she would come to fitness camp, she would dominate the workout, and I would see her in Las Vegas Athletic Club, working her tail off, trying new exercises. I knew she would be a perfect fit for what we here at TonyCress.com want to accomplish with our clients and our personal training. Emily is a former college athlete, playing volleyball at Adams State. She has battled after finishing her college career, to become, what I think, is close to the ideal female physique. She knows what it takes to get in shape, and I feel that she can be successful in helping others attain that goal as well. I also needed the opinion of the opposite sex for a lot of my programming, and I think Emily is the perfect fit. Right now, she is taking on new clients, to help them reach their health goals, and she teaches our Monday Fitness Camp. If you are interested in working with Emily, feel free to give me a call, or email me, and let me know. 702-489-7587 or tony@tonycress.com . Emily is a great addition to our team, and I know she will be able to help you out! Oh yeah, if you wanna look at a funny challenge between us, you can check it out on youtube here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkWf1tSEO58

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Las Vegas Personal Training- Got Any Tips?

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

Hello my personal training fans. Just sitting here in Las Vegas, thinking about a few things. What is it with guys in the gym or fitness center? Why must the majority of them pretend to be the most genius people out there when it comes to women’s workout knowledge. One of my clients inspired me to write about this. So, let’s say you are a guy, in the gym, and you see a girl who is getting her exercise on. I’ll tell you right now, don’t go hit on her. But you wanna talk to her. Don’t. Oh snap. You walk up to her, and you say, “Hey, can i show you how to really do that exercise?” I slap my head in disbelief. Seriously? Did you just do that? Come on man. At least wait until she’s done with her workout. She’s in better shape than you, and she knows more than you do most likely. Anyway. Just had to rant. Have a good day kids:)

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Warm Weather Workouts- Las Vegas Personal Training

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

It’s getting warm here in Las Vegas! This means I’m going to start taking my personal training clients outside soon. For all of you who want to get some workouts done outdoors, I have a few tips for you. When you are working out outside, you have to remember to hydrate. Sometimes we don’t realize how hard we are actually working out when we leave the gym, and you DO lose a lot of water being outside. Ever seen people at the pool who aren’t even doing much but they get carted off in an ambulance because of dehydration? Yeah. Ok, next step. Wear layers. You’ll find out at first, you’ll think it’s too cold, then all of a sudden you be dripping sweat. Be prepared to get naked:). Another thing, if you want variety, go to a park. You’ll find playground equipment, benches, and some parks even have workout challenges posted around the park. This gives you tons of options to play around with. And lastly, run fast. When you are outside, go all out. Have fun, be a kid again and get dirty!

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Las Vegas Personal Training- Pool Ready Bodies pt. 1

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Las Vegas has a bunch of meatheads in it. Simply put. Personal training, I don’t run into this often, but when I go to the gym, I definitely do. 75% of guys in the gym are there to do one thing. That thing is building muscle. Peoples workouts are based on what’s the best for building size in their pecs, or what will make their six pack show, or how to get bigger arms. And i am not in the minority. I want to have bigger muscles, and I want to look better at the pool. That’s what it’s all about right? Las Vegas is gearing up for pool season, and guess who’s busy trying to pack muscle on to a few smaller frames? ME. That’s who. And to the people who are personal training with me, rest assured, you’ll be happy with the results you get. The people who aren’t, I do have some advice for you. Although you do want to gain muscle, and look good for the pool, don’t count on your bicep curls to get you there. Incorporate exercises that involve your whole body. What’s the point of spending two hours in the gym, and isolating every muscle you can. Let’s work out calves for an hour. What sense does that make? I’m gonna do 15 different types of bicep curls. Really? Why? Why would you do that? What if you did a pushup with a squat thrust? How many more muscles are involved in just that? This is way more efficient than your bodypart split. And since you are activating more than one muscle at a time, you’ll get multiple the benefit.

Now, this isn’t the only aspect you need to gain muscle. If you are not getting enough energy in to fuel that muscle growth, your muscles won’t grow. EAT. Eat food. Lots of it. If you are working hard, you have to get extra calories. I still know people who only eat once a day. No matter what your goal is, THAT isn’t gonna help you. Obviously you need some protein to fuel muscle growth, but without carbs and fat, that protein will be useless. So get a good balance, work out using multiple muscle groups, and get some good sleep. Those will help you look great for the pool.

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Working Out In Vegas!

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Working Out in Vegas! As opposed to waking up in Vegas. Thanks Katy Perry. Anyway. What are you little fitness maniacs up to today? I have just been busy as all hell with my personal training, and the show American Storm. My first Las Vegas billboard went up today for my training, and not surprisingly, it’s a picture of my six pack with my website. Pretty simple right? Funny thing is, it’s located right on top of the parking lot in the casino where the Chippendales perform. Call me guys, I can help! Just playing just playing. Those guys work out hard. I see a few of them at the gym, when I get a chance to make it there. That’s the problem being so busy. Well, its not really a problem, because you can make your workout a priority, and luckily for me, I can work on my abs right in my backyard. You can too. Everyone can. There are tons of pieces of makeshift gym equipment. See that tree over there? That’s your pullup bar. See that knocked down telephone pole? Deadlifts.. How about that bench in the park? Step ups, dips, box jumps and decline pushups. You get the idea. There is exercise equipment all around us. You just need to look at things in a different way. What may have been meant for office use, could very well be meant for your shoulder development. Open up your minds to the possibilities of everything you see around you, and you’ll find you do, in fact, have time to work out.

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Las Vegas Personal Training-It’s Not All Beach Muscles

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

Through personal training, I have come to realize a few things. One of these things, is your workouts should not consist of just beach muscle exercise. I’m sure some of you know what this means, but not everybody. Beach muscle exercise, is basically exercises to make you LOOK good. Examples of this include bicep curls, bench press and situps. They work your ‘mirror muscles’. Stuff that when you look in the mirror, you can see. While that’s all well and good, there are muscles in your body that don’t involve what you can see on the outside. There are muscles in your shoulder region that allow you to do that bench press without your shoulder completely detatching. There are muscles in your legs and hips that allow you to land from a jump without breaking your ankles. The sad thing is, in todays world of fitness, most people are only looking for what makes them look pretty, not what helps them live a productive injury free life. You need to work out the muscles that allow your beach muscles to do what they do, otherwise, you are looking at injury down the road. These stabilization muscles play a major role in what that six pack looks like, and whether or not you look like igor, or a proud peacock. So your next workout, try this simple tip. For every exercise you do that you are standing, stand only on one foot. Let me know how that goes. And also, make sure you decrease the weight by about 15%.

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Las Vegas Personal Training- These Crazy Videos.

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Personal Training, has evolved over the years. There is so much going on now with fitness, and so many different options, that who knows where the good trainers are. I look around Las Vegas, for example, and there are tons of personal trainers. In shape, out of shape, old, young, new and veteran. Lots of choices. Then there are these at home “personal trainers“. I’m talking about all these new exercise videos. Complete programs, nutritionally, and fitness wise. Basically takes the work out of everything. They just tell you what to do. I have a problem with this for a few reasons. I’ve watched a couple of the videos, and though they do have some good principles, and some great exercises, some things come to mind when i watch the actual workouts. People tell me, “Oh yeah, it’s kickin my ass”, or “I couldn’t even get through the whole yoga video”. I think that may be a problem. I watched an “abs” video on one of these programs. Now, I have a six pack myself, and I think if i did this whole abs workout, myabs may rip apart. It was 15 minutes, of non stop exercises. Of course you are going to be sore. I could tell you to do 5000 pushups right now, and guess what, you would probably be sore….. REALLY sore. But is that going to progress you, or get you in better shape? Maybe, but probably not. My point of this is, these workouts, just off what I’ve seen, are not designed for the average person trying to lose weight. They aren’t even designed for the average in shape person. They are basically a classic case of overtraining, which, will probably get you in pretty good shape at first, but then overtraining injuries will develop. When you push your muscles too far past their limit, compensations occur, then you start moving in a way that your body is not designed to do, just to finish the exercises. Later, you’ll wonder why your back hurts, or your knees kill. I’m not saying there isn’t something to learn from these workout videos, but I don’t know if they are the healthiest way to go about getting in shape. If these work for you, I am happy for you. But if you think that these videos are just too hard, they probably are. I don’t want to stall anyone from their fitness goals, so if you are already doing this, keep it goin gangsta. But don’t just jump into any of these videos, without seriously taking a look at the progressions of them, and making sure they are safe for your fitness levels.

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Las Vegas Personal Training-Fast Fitness Food

Friday, February 12th, 2010

In my personal training experience in Las Vegas, what I commonly run into is people who don’t know what to eat. They especially don’t know what to eat when they are in a hurry. Nutrition is more important than you would ever imagine when you are focusing on accomplishing fitness goals. More often than not, that is what separates people from having a decent body, to people to have the body they want. So I’m going to give you a few quick meals you can have for after your workouts, or when you are just on the go.
1. Almonds. Actually, any nuts for that matter, except chin. Nuts are pretty perfect because they have great fats, and some protein to help build muscle. You don’t have to refrigerate them, and you can carry them around in your pocket.
2. Kefir. I get the smoothies at places like Whole Foods or Trader Joes. Great source of protein, and tastes pretty great. This does have to be refrigerated though.
3. Peanut Butter Jelly Time! Yup. You heard me. This is PERFECT for after a workout. Has carbs, protein, and fat. Great recovery food. But try to eat it only after your fitness:).
4. Cottage Cheese. Some people hate it. I love it. High protein, low calories. Just means muscle.
There ya go. There’s four quick foods to eat when you are on the go. Stay healthy, and join fitness camp. Its fun.

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