Popular Plans

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You don't need a gym to get fit
Can't get to a gym, or don't want to commit to a membership? This is an in-home and outdoor training program focused on body-weight exercises, functional movements, inexpensive accessories, and outdoor aerobic endurance training. It includes time-saving and motivational strategies to integrate a fitness mentality and healthy diet into your daily life.

Strength training fundamentals
There's much more to improving your strength than just 'lifting weights'. Whether you've never strength-trained before, are just beginning, or have experience, you can benefit greatly from learning appropriate movement patterns, resistance levels, technique, and proper nutrition to target your goals.

Use your gym time wisely.
Are you getting the most out of your gym membership? I'll show you how to use the equipment properly and how to use alternative exercises for variety in your workouts and avoiding crowded machines. Learn how to exercise at the right intensity to match your goals. I'll also teach you what and when to eat to help your body get the most from the time and money you've invested.

Intro to safe & effective running
More than than just 'running out the door': How to choose the right shoes. Running with good form. Simple strength and flexibility exercises to enhance running and help prevent injury. Increasing distance safely. Pick up the pace wisely. Safety on the road. Basic nutrition.

Run a marathon with confidence
Ready to run 26.2 miles? Avoid common first-time mistakes and injuries with a thorough training plan customized for you, your abilities, schedule, running routes, and goals. Includes: basic aerobic endurance testing, guidelines for training based on effort and intensity, shoe selection and management, strength and flexibility exercise, training and racing nutritional guidelines, pre-race and race-day strategy, optimum training and race recovery, and wisdom from hundreds of experienced marathoners. Like a marathon book written specifically for YOU. Find out answers to common questions like:

  • What changes can I expect in my body?
  • How fast should I train? On which days?
  • What should I eat while training? When?
  • What happens if I miss a day in my schedule? Or a week?
  • Why don't I need to run a full marathon in training?
  • How will I know if I'm over-doing it?
  • Can I integrate activities like swimming, biking or hiking into my training? How?
  • Should I lift weights or stretch? What exercises? When?
  • Should I drink water or sports-drink during the race?
  • What's 'carbo-loading'? Should I do it?
  • What should I eat during the race?
  • Everyone talks about shin-splints, stress fractures, ITB, and plantar-fasciitis - how do I avoid them?
  • How can I recover quickly after the the race?

Faster running: 5K to marathon
We'll test your present aerobic fitness level by determining your true maximum heart rate, VO2 max, anaerobic threshold, and lactate threshold. We'll optimize your running form, learn strength exercises specific to running, improve flexibility, and design a training schedule to improve your speed and shorten your race times.

Sports conditioning
An off-season program for improving strength, endurance, flexibility, agility, and performance for your favorite sport. We'll analyze the detailed movements and energy demands of your sport and position, and develop a custom training plan with exercises targeted specifically for improving your readiuness and performance. Sign up with teammates to really make next season a special one.

Wintertime outdoor fitness
"There is no bad weather - only bad clothing." How to get outdoors, hit the white, get fit, and beat the blues. While winter may not offer the most pleasant training conditions for some people, it does offer great opportunities for low-impact calorie-burning and endurance training with tremendous benefits. Cross-country or Nordic skiing and snowshoeing, for example, are great ways to exercise, with high calorie demands, targeting muscle groups that are very complementary to running or cycling. Find out how far and how fast to go. Get gear and technique advice.

Losing weight with exercise
A majority of health care professionals and trusted health organizations recommend a combination of increased physical activity and a balanced, calorie-controlled diet to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle. This program will introduce you to a variety of exercises aimed at losing weight while maintaining or even adding muscular strength, and feeling better. It will cover the basics of healthy eating and how to easily estimate calories and plan meals.

Learn how to simply boil down all the complex numbers like calories, grams of fat, RDA, percent-body fat, BMI, etc., and focus on exactly what's important to you. We'll test your own percent body-fat and discuss ways to reduce it. You'll also receive effective advice, based on my personal experience, for healthy eating and easily adding calorie-burning activities to your daily routine. Most importantly, we'll discover how to integrate these activities into your lifestyle in a time-efficient manner, to create a realistic plan that you can stick with and achieve.

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