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Do You Have Fitness Friends? Las Vegas Personal Trainer

Sunday, June 12th, 2011

SO I’m riding my bike on the back trails of Las Vegas today. It was pretty nice, around 90 degrees and sunny. Figured I’d get a tan. As I was riding, I passed a community recreation center. I passed by the outdoor pool, and tennis courts, and saw people in both. I love to play tennis, even though my shoulder tells me I shouldn’t. But it reminded me of something. If I wanted to play tennis here, I really wouldn’t have anyone to play with. Most of my friends, with weather like this, would rather go to a pool, or, they just aren’t very good at tennis. But it doesn’t just go for tennis. I play basketball every Tuesday, and to be honest, that’s one of my favorite times of each week. But besides that, I don’t really have any friends I can call and say hey, lets go play basketball. I’m just a fitness guy. I can’t help it. Most anything active, besides water sports for obvious reasons, I like to do. I just don’t know many people who like to do them. I know there are sites like Active and Meetup, and those are all well and good. But it raises a question anyway. Do you have people around you, who are into fitness? It helps, if you do. It limits the deterrents from getting your workouts in, if other people want to do active things with you. I mean, who doesn’t love Wet Republic, and Rehab, and laying by the pool and just hanging out? I’ve had a lot of those days myself, but to be honest, that’s not who I am. I think I just do that, because, that’s what everyone around me does. I’d MUCH rather go hiking, or to Utah for the day, and take up Red Mountain . I just don’t have a ton of friends who are into that? So, the point of this all is, if that’s what you are into, find friends who are into fitness too. If you don’t have that network around you, you’ll always have a hard time really enjoying your life, when what you really want to do, you aren’t doing. If you really love hanging out at pools, great. Good for you. It’s nice from time to time.

Tags: basketball, Fitness, Las Vegas, pool, Rehab, tennis, Wet Republic
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Las Vegas Personal Training- Pool Ready Bodies pt. 2

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Yo Yo Vegas! What’s up playas! I hear that all the time personal training. I don’t take a client unless they talk like that. Really. No, seriously. Ok. I probably don’t want to train you if i have to spend somewhere around an hour hearing you talk like that. But anyway, let’s get down to business. Last part of this blog, I was talking about how you can gain muscle to look good for the pools. Today, I’m going to talk quickly about how you can lose the last lbs. of body fat , and show of the muscles you gained in that six pack. Well first off, I am going to tell you this. If you can’t see a six pack, and you want to, it’s your diet. Yup. You think you eat really healthy, whole wheat this and low carb that, and sugar free this. That’s not really the healthiest you could be eating. How about all natural this, and you are hearing it here first kids, fruits and veggies? Yup. The nutrients in fruits and veggies are going to help you get cut. As long as you are getting your muscle building protein, those fruits and vegetables are some of your best friends. Even though you probably don’t eat your other best friends, but hey, it’s 2010. I don’t know. Along with what you are eating, you might want to see what kind of workouts you are doing? Are you doing 45 minutes on the treadmill every day? No? Good, because that isn’t gonna be what the doctor orders here. Get crazy with some dumbells, learn how to do plyometrics under a personal trainer who has experience with them, and start doing interval training. If you don’t know what any of those are, stop working out. Just kidding. Some of them are pretty easy to learn. For example, interval training is when you do a very intense burst of exercise, say for 15-30 seconds, followed by a “rest” period of say 1-2 minutes, then you repeat for anywhere from 10-25 minutes. You can do this exercise on a bike, elliptical, jump rope, treadmill, etc. So, if you want to get the next part of the pool ready body going, you want to look into these things. Got it Jersey Shore?

Tags: Exercise, muscle, Personal Trainer, pool, six pack, Vegas
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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.

Tags: Las Vegas, muscle, Personal Training, pool, six pack, work out
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