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Injured Moose On The Loose

Published by admin on July 25, 2012 | Leave a response

She saunters into the gym in the usual fashion – 30 minutes early, wearing her workout clothes and cycling socks. She‘s ready to warm up; but something’s not quite right with this picture. Black and blue bruises darken her face from a nasty fall the night before and she models a brand new, white sling to support her arm from a broken collarbone she sustained in the tumble. Naturally, it matched her ensemble.

Of course we knew about the incident that left Susan worse for wear, but imagine our surprise when we saw her walk into the gym the very next day. Even though she’d suffered a broken collarbone, not to mention numerous bumps and bruises, the thought of missing one day of training at EarthFIT had never even crossed her mind. Oh! Did I mention that Susan is in her late 60’s?

OK. I feel a little like I’m breaking some ancient, cardinal rule by almost disclosing her age (Susan DON’T kill me!), but you just have to appreciate the fact that this sexagenarian didn’t allow her age, gender, height, or injury to stop her from working toward her goal. So what’s your excuse?

Susan started training at EarthFIT about almost 7 months ago. Like many of our clients, she wanted to do something for herself. She has since annihilated her initial goal and is on to bigger and better things. If you ask her what her new goal is, she’ll be the first to poke fun and say “to not fall anymore!” But you know what? That is a valid goal.

It’s a scientifically proven fact that Susan’s choice to continue training will help her recover faster from her injury faster. Exercise gets your heart rate going and as this occurs, more blood flow and oxygen will be sent to the injured area. With more blood flow comes more nutrients; some experts say that this can help the recovery rate by up to 50%. Of course we’ve made some adjustments to her training program. But Susan did what most people don’t – she persevered… and she continues to do so every time she comes back. She’s an inspiration to not only others who may feel discouraged from working out for one reason or the other, but to us – the EarthFIT Team.

So if you see Susan working out, give her a high five (to the ‘good’ arm please).

THE “DOG” DAYS OF SUMMER: WHY SOME BARBECUE FOODS ARE JUST THE PITS

Published by admin on July 18, 2012 | Leave a response

July 4th marked not only our Independence, but also – as crazy as it sounds – the International Hot Dog-Eating Contest. This year’s winner, a California man, scarfed down 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes. If this record is impressive to you, then you have to know that in a mere 10 minutes, this contestant consumed almost 20,000 calories, more than 1,150 grams of fat, over 400 grams of saturated fat, and 48,300 milligrams of sodium!

Do we even need to tell you what is wrong with this picture?

True, this is an extreme example of a very bad judgment call and most of us will, hopefully, never consume such a whooping amount of calories, saturated fat, and sodium in one sitting. But if you do happen to over-indulge on the typical barbecue fare this summer, you should be exercising to burn off all that weight-piling calories and artery-clogging fat. This may not be the kind of news you want to hear in the middle of the cookout season, but the traditional barbecue foods are not exactly weight and health-friendly, even if you don’t swallow 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes. Greasy hot dogs and brats, hamburgers on a bun, and mayo-based coleslaw and potato salad add up to a lot of calories and saturated fat. Add a six-pack of beer and/or sugary sodas, and you have a nutritional disaster on your hands. In my neighborhood in Beaufort, I’ve witnessed this first hand – without even mentioning desserts like ice cream, brownies, cookies, or s’mores.

Not only does this kind of food, if consumed regularly over the summer months, pile on pounds, but it can also put you at a higher risk for some serious medical conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. On top of that, consuming large quantities of processed meats such as hot dogs and brats, has been shown to increase the risk of colon and pancreatic cancer.

So can you still enjoy summer cookouts in Beaufort, or wherever you may be, while protecting your health and weight management?

Definitely! You just have to make smart nutritional choices. And, don’t forget to exercise regularly, so you can burn off all the calories and fat before they do any serious damage. Here are a few suggestions to keep those pounds off:

1. Be a pit master: For a healthier cookout, opt for a skinless chicken breast or lean fish, and grill some vegetables as well.

2. Crunch the numbers: Keep tabs on calories, as well as the fat and sodium content you are consuming.

3. Move it: This part is very important. Even if you eat a reduced calorie, low-fat diet, you need regular exercise – and more so, if you eat a lot of the above-mentioned unhealthy foods.

If you’re not one of our EarthFIT clients, then ask your Beaufort personal trainer or fitness coach which exercises are best at burning off all those extra calories and fat. But be warned that even a great workout may not totally offset poor eating habits, so you really should be careful what you consume this summer.

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CONNECT TO THE EARTH AND FEEL BETTER!

Published by admin on June 8, 2012 | Leave a response

What is Earthing?

Earthing is a simple practice of walking barefoot outdoors whenever possible and/or sleep, work, or relax indoors in contact with conductive sheets or mats that transfer the energy to your body. People who do on a regular basis say they sleep better, feel better, and have more energy during the day.

It is both a technology and a movement which is transforming lives across the planet.

It is safe and natural, for people of all ages, young and old, but it is not medicine or a substitute for medical treatment. If you have a medical condition, see your physician or healthcare provider.

How to experience Earthing…

Go barefoot outside for a half-hour and see what a difference it makes on your pain or stress level. Sit, stand, or walk on grass, sand, dirt, or concrete. These are all conductive surfaces from which your body can draw the Earth’s energy. Wood, asphalt, and vinyl won’t work. They are not conductive surfaces. Experience for yourself the healing energy of the Earth at work.

Ian Hart is a Body-Mind Transformation expert, the creator of EarthFIT Training Systems, co-creator of BACK PAIN RELIEF4LIFE, and founder of BEAUFORTPERSONALTRAINING.COM and MYBACKPAINCOACH.COM. Ian and his team help people get into optimal shape in the safest, fastest and most effective way possible, using cutting edge science.

A Threat To The Security Of Our Food

Published by admin on June 4, 2012 | Leave a response

I have known for some time now what has been happening with our food supply and a few months back with in two day period, I ran into 2 separate people in the community that had family members who were farmers and became directly affected by what is going on with the food supply in this country.

The people that I spoke to were telling me about their family members who decided to use the GMO seeds and certain pesticides back in the day when no one knew the effects. The farmers ended up with cancer and died. These same chemicals are in 80% of the food that we eat today and everyone is wondering why people are getting sicker and sicker. Most importantly, no one really knows what the long term consequence are for ingestion of GMO’s. We know for sure that there is a massive uprising of auto immune disorders and sensitivity to foods.

The only way to change is to start eating organic locally grown food that is free of GMO, pesticides and harmful additives and preservatives. The only issue is that a bill has yet to be passed forcing the transparency of GMO food that are in our super markets. I understand that organic foods can be more expensive in the short term but lets think about the future our health and most importantly the people who inhabit this earth when we are gone!

I always urge people to spend the extra money on high quality foods that provide more nutrients and energy so you feel better in your everyday lives and stave off disease and illness.

(Beware Of The Bears) Beaufort Personal Trainer Interview Martha O’Regan

Published by admin on May 16, 2012 | Leave a response

Beaufort Personal Trainer Interviews Martha O’regan

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Beaufort Personal Trainer Flexibility Training

Published by admin on April 17, 2012 | Leave a response

“Hey! What’s going on? It’s Ian Hart here the EarthFIT blog and I am going to go over today Improving Flexibility. A lot of times people are tight and they ask “what can I do to get more flexible, how come I am not getting more flexible?” Well, we have flexibility in our training but that is not our main focus. Our main focus are burning fat and getting people results. So, what I am going to do though is explain to you how you can continue to improve your flexibility on your own.
First off, if you train here you already know that you gotta to warm up. Before working out you gotta warm up, but that’s the same for stretching. You can’t stretch on cold body, it’s actually not beneficial for you and you won’t get results. For stretching, you gotta have enough blood flow and oxygen to the body where your muscles are heated up, your joints are heated up and they’re supple, and you have ability to stretch them.

So again warm up: a warm up should be a minimum of 5 minutes where you are sweating, breathing hard and you are loosened up. Then, just like training, you want to do repetitions. So I am going to go just out there and say OK: 3 set of 20-30 second holds to see results – to see progressive results, if you only hold it for 10 seconds, you’re not going to see that stretch elasticity happen in your muscles. It’s actually gotta to hold it past that and that’s where you see the release in the muscles so you are increasing your flexibility. So above 12 seconds minimum to see results research has shown. But, 20-30 seconds is probably going to be the best, and above 30 seconds is not really going to give much results.

Then it’s gotta be 3 times a week or more. Two times a week you will probably see a little bit of results but 3 times a week you’re going to see that more often. It’s gotta be progressive. Just like everything else, you got to add a little bit more stress to it. So when you do a Sit and Reach (when you’re reaching for your toes), you got to push yourself a little bit more, you got to reach even further and got to force yourself to stretch. So you actually feel a little bit more in your legs, a little bit more on your hamstrings than you did last time. And that’s how you’re going to stretch your muscles and move further and increase your flexibility. You have to do the same stretches over too, so your body adapts to whatever you are doing, or gets better to whatever you are doing. You have to do the same stretches and attack the same muscles to see improvement in them.

And then target the tighter muscles too. So if you have tight muscles you want to target those muscles because you’re probably going to get most benefit out of targeting those tight muscles where you know you’re inflexible. And this is common for most people that are tighter in their pecs – doing arm stretches: arms back, hands back and pulling the elbows back. Hamstrings and calves are also tight, but it depends on the individual as well. So, this just that one aspect that you can understand when you stretch to improve your flexibility:

– Warm up
– Do 3 sets of 20-second repetitions of the same exercise
– Three (3) times a week, in a progressive manner (so you see yourself going further each time whether it feels uncomfortable or not you gotta feel discomfort to actually see results in stretching and health and fitness)
– Do the same stretches; and
– Target tight muscles.

This is Ian Hart with the EarthFIT blog, I hope this helps you progress in your stretching and your flexibility. Have a great day!”

Walking Is NOT Exercise beaufort personal trainer

Published by admin on April 17, 2012 | Leave a response

“Hey! What’s going on? It’s Ian Hart here at EarthFIT blog and a few months back I was on WTOC in Savannah and I made a statement that people thought was controversial and that was that Walking is NOT Exercise. And I’m here again to say the same statement and frankly I am a little perturbed that we’ve come to a point where we consider and people consider walking as an exercise. Walking is an everyday part of our life. Now, I understand that if you have been sitting on a couch and haven’t been doing anything for years and you’re overweight and out of shape, walking could be an exercise to that person. Or someone who has been bedridden for months, then it could be an exercise but it should not be a standard for exercise.

So, we can see that walking has no effects on cardiovascular system, it has no effects on neuromuscular system, has no effects of skeletal muscle system, has no effects on your nervous system. This is again for someone in the general population (not one who is totally out of shape), unless you haven’t been walking at all, you’re not gonna see results from it. Now, to see results we need to adapt your neuromuscular system and generally that takes 4-6 weeks and that is through progressive program designed to stress the neuromuscular system. The body adapts very quickly. So if you walk one mile maybe two times in one week, first off you’re not going to see effects. Second, your body is going to adapt on that instantly. So right away, if you’re walking or if you walk in a daily basis from your car to your house upstairs your body is already adapted to walking, so then it’s not exercise if you’d go for walks.

OK. Again, progressive program designed to stress neuromuscular system and cardiovascular system; that is where your results are going to come from. So if you’re walking, you should either increase your speed into a jog – that is going to be a progressive part of activating your cardio system. But, you need to include weights that are going to stress your system – so heavier weights in a progressive manner. Like I said, it takes actually to 4-6 weeks to adapt your neuromuscular system so that just means the connection from your brain to the muscles in your body. Once you adapt your neuromuscular system, then you can go further progressing your exercise in success and results in your exercise program [be it weight management, weight loss, or simply a general health and fitness program]. So when we do assessments many times people would come in and say “oh I walk three days a week. I walk three days a week” and I tell them painfully that walking is not exercise and I was getting a lot of flack and I get sometimes an argument. But I just explained right here, if you want results, if you want to see fat burn, you want to see toning, you want to see energy increase, you want to see your strength increases, you cannot get that though walking, you actually can’t even get that what I just explained through running. It’s gonna be done through strength training mixed with cardio – that will give you results that you’re looking for [like weight loss]. So again this is Ian Hart with the EarthFIT blog. If you have any comments or questions go ahead and leave them below. Thanks.”

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Personal Training Beaufort SC EarthFIT Results

Published by admin on April 16, 2012 | Leave a response

“Hey! What’s going on? It’s Ian Hart here at the EarthFIT blog and what am I going to explain to you is a science behind how we decide what you should be lifting in your training. There is actually a science that’s broken down to percentages when it comes to you lifting specific weights and it is actually correlated to your results.

Your 20 Rep Max

When I say “Rep Max”, that means you cannot go beyond 20 Reps – you’ve maxed out and cannot go past it. That is 50% of your ultimate strength and your ultimate strength is based off in your 1 Rep Max.

Your 15-Rep max is about 62.5% of your 1-Rep Max.
10-Rep max is about 75% of your 1-Rep Max.

Example: we have many clients who had Osteoporosis or Osteopenia that has been reversed. Now for Osteoporosis, to be reversed you have to lift at 85% of your Max. This is based on research and studies lifting at 85% at your Max.

What happens is that puts enough stress on the bones that actually creates small cracks along the bones and then when the cracks are there, you go home, eat, sleep and recover. It actually builds back on your bones just similar to when the muscles is broken down and rebuilds. Now, for us to determine 85% of the Max, we can do that in our heads through training and kind of seeing where people lift.

If someone who has a 10-Rep Max on squats with a 100 Lbs, to get the 1-Rep Max, we say hundred Lbs. divided by .75 which gives roughly 1 Rep Max about 133 lbs. From there, multiply 133 by .85 to get a 5-Rep Max, and that gives us 113 lbs. 85% = 113 lbs and that is approximately your 5 Rep Max. So you have to do a 5 Rep Max to really get enough stress on your neuromuscular system to see improvement in Osteoporosis. But that is just an example for Osteoporosis. The same is also true for your health and fitness results.

So this is Ian Hart just explaining the science behind how we create programs and how we train for results in our training programs and this also gives you idea of why heavy weights are necessary to getting you results. So again, this is Ian Hart at EarthFIT blog. I hope you had a great day! Thanks!

By the way, here is one of our clients that has dramatically increased her bone density. She went from Osteoporosis to Osteopenia in about 6 months of training at EarthFIT. This is just one of the success stories that is truly quantifiable after a doctor’s visit. She also incorporated our Back Pain Relief4Life program to help get more blood flow, nutrients and oxygen to the much needed areas in the spine. Not only did it help bone density, it eliminated her back pain.”

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Beaufort Personal Trainer Movements For Results

Published by admin on April 12, 2012 | Leave a response

“Hey! What’s going on? It’s Ian Hart here at EarthFIT blog and I am going to explain to you about the science behind what gets amazing results, that allows for massive fat burn. Let’s look at how the body and movements work.

– SINGLE JOINT EXERCISES. Single Joint Exercise would be Curls, Tricep Extensions, Shoulder Raises, Leg Extensions, Leg Curls, Etc.

Activates one muscle at a time. There might be synergizer muscles that are included in that group but, you are essentially burning minimal calories. It’s not affecting the blood in your body or cardiovascular system and it is just focusing on that one area. Now, that can get you results, but it takes a lot more time and repetitions.

– MULTI JOINT EXERCISES, e.g. Push ups, Squats, Deadlifts, Walking Lunges, Rows, Push-ups, that’s just a name of few and there is a few more.

Multi-Joint Exercises are going to activate a lot more muscle groups.

Think about it: your bicep, it’s a small muscle that you are activating. When you do a squat-to-a-row (multi-joint exercise), you are activating your muscle, your bicep, but you are also activating your whole back. Next to your legs, your back is the largest muscle group . So when you do a squat to a row, you are activating your legs, your back, and your biceps, along with other small muscle groups and the core in between, everything all those muscles in between. So you’re literally activating your whole body and burning more calories. Whereas with a Single Joint Exercise you’re activating one.

Then we have FULL BODY JOINT EXERCISES, Squat to press, Snatches, Cleans, Lunges, Lunge-to-Row. These are total body workouts and are obviously multi-joint.

So just think about how that translates into a training program. If you stand around doing a curl, how many calories are you burning? Or, if you do the squat to a row, how many calories do you burning? Then there are a lot of other variables that go into how much weight you use. It is a whole process that’s allowing for your hormones and your circulation to allow for fat loss and fat burning.

So this just gives you idea of how Single Joint Exercises versus Multi Joint Exercises work. Full body, Multi-Joint Exercises will give ten times to a hundred times more results than ever just doing Single Joint Exercises. So if you are looking for fat burning and fat loss and getting the most and out of a training program then obviously Full body Exercises are going to be the best bang for your buck always and forever.

This is Ian Hart with the EarthFIT blog and if you have any questions or comments, go ahead and leave your comment or question below.”

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Beaufort Personal Trainer Shows Off Breaking and Entering Skills

Published by admin on April 10, 2012 | Leave a response

OK, let’s be clear: I’m not advocating a life of crime. This video is a real-life example of how training can be transferred into everyday life…

No, not a life of Breaking and Entering. It could be anything at all – moving furniture, gardening, you name it. It just so happened that my practical example is B&E in the middle of a Farmer’s Market. It wasn’t the most ideal situation, but in retrospect it was pretty funny and I can say that I’m glad that I’m in good enough shape to do what I needed to do in a desperate situation.

At EarthFIT we preach the importance of health and fitness all the time. I think this is a good example of why it is important.
If you have a funny story about how fitness has improved your every day life, or just any story about how your life has gotten better through improved fitness, go ahead and leave a comment below.

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