Personal Training
Our approach to fitness is based upon the fundamental and natural laws of the human body and specific to the client. We focus to improve the body in the categories of weight loss, weight gain, flexibility, strength, speed, power, and endurance. With our client's commitment, we guarantee success.
Mike’s Top 10 Diet Tips
- Eat breakfast within one hour of waking up in the morning. Make it something quick and simple. A piece of fruit is all you need to tell your body it’s time to wake up.
- Eat something every 2-3 hours. Be creative and plan ahead. You won’t always have time to fix a meal, so pack several small snacks to take with you to work. Trail mix, a piece of fruit, or healthy dry cereal can be just the fix to get you from breakfast to lunch and or from lunch to dinner.
- Portion control. Learn what a portion is. Eating too much of even a good thing is not going to help you when you’re trying to regulate your eating habits.
- Stop eating before you get full. Teach yourself to stop eating when you don’t feel hungry - not when you’re full - and certainly well before you’re stuffed. Consuming excess calories, no matter what their origin - carbohydrates, protein, or fat - turns them into fat, if the body doesn’t need them.
- Eat your fruits and vegetables. Don’t just rely on powders and pills. There are many components of real food that even scientists don’t yet understand. A balanced diet means more than just vitamins and minerals.
- Eat for nutrition. When planning out your diet, try to pick items that offer the most nutrients with the fewest calories. Foods that are considered unhealthy can sometimes be all right, if you don’t eat as much and combine them with a healthy choice. Corn tortilla chips with homemade salsa or homemade bean dip can become a healthy idea if you don’t pig out on them. But the same corn tortillas with cheese dip is a bad combination.
- Drink more water. Drink water like there's no tomorrow. The last sign that your body needs water is thirst. Often when we think we're hungry, our body is really saying “I need water”.
- Alcohol has calories too. Consuming too much alcohol is no better than eating too much food.
- Avoid eating when you’re bored. Many people are guilty of eating without thinking about it. If you put into practice many of the steps above, eating when your bored will become a thing of the past. Remember - excess calories get turned into fat, even carbohydrates and protein - no matter how healthy.
- Stop consuming all food except water 3-5 hours before bed. Chemically, food wakes you up. To get the best night’s sleep we need to have no food in our stomach. This doesn't mean that you go to bed hungry. Protein, fat, and some carbohydrates can take 2-4 hours to digest. If you are currently eating as late as one hour before bed, try moving that to 1.5 hr this week. Next week try 2 hours. Slowly progress to 3 hours. Many people will never need to go any further. If you do get hungry try a glass of water first. If you still feel hungry, try a piece of whole raw fruit. Fruit can pass through the stomach in as little as 20 minutes.