This program covers all fitness aspects that gaurantee results--Nutrition, Cardiovascular exercise, resistance training, dietary support, and education.  Your nutrition will be the foundation to your success.  I will determine the proper caloric intake and ratios of fats, carbs, and protiens that will get you to your goals and help prevent failure.  Plus I will take all the guesswork out by designing the menu plans for you weekly.  We all know  DIETS DO NOT WORK!!!  You will get to pick all the foods!  As we are going through the program we will adjust the foods used, so you are getting the right calorie and ratio amounts.  It is ignorant to think that a person will eat the same thing all the time, so it will be very important that we know what foods you eat when you are at work, at home, in a hurry, bored, sad, mad, happy, etc.   My motto is "keep it realistic".   Here is an example of one of the many education materials that you will need to know to allow life long fitness.

Prevention of Overtraining

By: Larry Husted
Published: 2008-10-08

Overtraining is a serious issue and is often experienced by regular exercisers and athletes alike.  Overtraining is the point at which your body begins to breakdown as a result of repetitive action on a body part from an exercise or “training” pattern.  Some of the typical signs of overtraining are:

• Increased aches and pains
• You’ve become injured or reinjured
• Decreased performance, cardio respiratory function or strength 
• Insomnia, headaches
• Reduced training capacity, inability to recover properly between workouts
• Mood shifts:  irritability, lack of motivation, depression, anxiety, lethargy
• Decreased appetite, loss of lean body mass
• Sickness:  increased bouts of colds, flu etc.

If you have become injured, the first step is to rest and decrease intensity until you fully recover from your injury.   Then gradually return to your prior levels. In terms of prevention, exercisers need to change things up a bit or periodize their workout programs often.  Simply put, periodization means that exercisers can workout with varying frequencies and intensities to prevent their bodies from breaking down.

In this program your cardio will be adjusted on a weekly basis in a progression manner.  One can't expect to reach goals by not continually increasing the level of the workload.  You will get a detailed printout/graph of the heart rate ranges you need to be in and time ranges that will work the best.  Your body adapts to exercise very quickly and burns less calories each time you do your cardio sessions.  Realistically you are not going to burn more than 350 calories during a session of cardio and there is 3500 calories in a pound of fat.  With this in mind, we cannot afford to allow any less calories to be burned.  Overtraining and injury are the main causes of quitting or decreasing level of exercise by an exerciser.  What happens when you quit or have to decrease the workload?  You stop losing or start gaining weight!!  Now you must be asking yourself how can I increase my cardio capability to levels higher than ever before or up to an athelete's level.   Well that is where the weight training comes in.   Any one can do presses, pulls, squats, etc.  None of these are going to get you the long lasting results or even get you to your ultimate goals.  First we have to understand what causes failure or plateaus.  I will educate you on all of this and much more.  

What is unique about the exercise part of my program is that it is the most individualized program around.  Everything is taken into consideration when designing your program: past injuries; current pains or injuries; abilities in balance, flexability, and reaction time; available time; strength, endurance, and power; recovery abilities; past experiences with exercise; and much more.  If you improve quality of life out side of exercising then you end up burning more calories all day long.   First I will determine any joint dysfunctions (ankle, knee, lumbo-perlvic hip complex, thorasic spine, shoulders, and neck).  Muscular tightness and weakness result in unstable joints, which lead to injury or plateaus.  If your abilities to do things in everyday life decrease then that means you are burning less calories.  One hundred calories you burn less every day equals in a year ten pounds of fat gain.  Do you remember that old saying "you are only as strong as the weakest link".  It is true when it comes to human movement.  The muscles that we want toned and to look good are our primary movers, but there are muscles that we can't see that determine how much improvement we get in those muscles.  Also if you are needing to increase performance in exercise (weights or cardio) or in a sport, you need to make sure no pains or injuries develope or your goals are at risk.  Every week I will send your flexibility exercises, stabalization exercises, and strength exercises that will progress you toward fitness levels that you never imagined.  I also have exercise plans for atheletes and for muscular developement.  Each print out has detailed directions and pictures that will give you visual cues.  I will be able to answer any questions through email or instant messaging.  My phone will be available for scheduled times. 

We have just skimmed the surface about science based fitness.  I could write a book if I was to get into detail but when we make it more individualized it will be easy to understand.  I wish I could help everyone and I really believe that education is the key to stopping the problem of obesity, fad diets, and mis-guided information about exercise. Check out my blog for more scientific information.