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Weider exercise equipment holds its own weight and then some. Whether you are at a beginner, intermediate, or advance level of fitness, these home gyms fit the needs for any level. Need more weight? With over 220 lbs of resistance packed into your choice of single-stack or double-stack home gyms, Weider exercise equipment will not only meet but also exceed your expectations of quality home fitness. Let’s take a look inside the home gyms and look at the features its has to offer.

Variety is the spice of life and this saying hold true even in the fitness industry. Starting with home gym equipment and ending with commercial gym equipment, the following information will you give you an inside look at why Weider exercise equipment surpasses other home fitness gym setups.

Platinum Plus Home Gym

The virtual world of the internet is most likely in your home already, so this makes perfect sense that the digital age is merging with home fitness. The Platinum Plus Home Gym allows you to control your resistance at the touch of a button. Electronically controlled, to give you complete command over your workout routine. This compact all-in-one machine boasts up to 240 lbs. of digitally controlled resistance, to help you reach your goals. Wither personal training features, a curl station, a squat station, lat tower and more this home gym give you the flexibility to be able to perform the basic to the most complex exercise movements allowing you to tone and grow muscles like you would at regular gym, except no waiting in line! At the touch of a button, you’ll move from one exercise to the next without lowering your heat rate. The Platinum Plus is a good way to start out for the beginner, taking the guess work out exercising so you can concentrate on reaching your goals while seeing the results of your hard work.

Let’s keep moving, keeping in mind that variety is king when exercising, maybe you are just not ready to step up to a home gym just yet. That’s OK! Weider offers a machine that I like to refer to as getting back to basics. Back in the day we didn’t have all this fancy home gym stuff. Pull-ups and push ups meant getting on the ground and sweating it out! Don’t forget about tricep dips, I use to do dips of the edge of my bed. Now there’s a key piece of equipment that gets you off the ground.

Weider 200 Strength System

The Weider 200 strength station boasts four different stations in one machine. Tone your abs and get ready to wash clothes on your abs with the vertical knee raise station. Develop explosive power in your chest and triceps with the dip station, I dare you to try 3 sets of ten on push ups and switch right to triceps, talk about a serious burn. Build your back and arms with the pull-up station, including variations like wide grip, narrow grip, side-to-side and front-and-back. Work your chest muscles more completely as you drop your body deeper with the push-up station handles. Are dips to easy for you, find a weight belt to add resistance. This is entire station is old school merging with new school looks.

We’ve covered a lot today and we just touching the tip of Weider exercise equipment. Early I said we are taking a look at started home gym equipment and then ending with some kick. Check this out! Now you can bring a commercial touch to your home gym.

Weider Club Sidekick

The Weider Club SideKick, features the Switch Plate 50 hand-weight system and an adjustable weight stand-offering the best in quick, customizable weight training. The Switch Plate 50 lets you quickly choose the amount of weight that’s right for you-from 5 lbs. to 25 lbs. per pair. With the SideKick weight stand, you can move the weights up or down and in or out, to better fit your workout needs. It’s a weight bench! It may be all you need to kick of your fitness plans for 2008.

The Bottom Line

Weider exercise equipment shouts “We will, We will, make a rock out of you!” It’s simple, Weider provides variety for ready-to-be home gym owners or already home gym owners with superior home fitness equipment, the experience Weider glows with in the fitness industry gives me the confidence that any home gym owner using Weider’s equipment will not only reach their fitness goals, but also continue to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

What is going on all you fitness crazed braus and sisters? I do hope you are well…

It is December and it is time for my annual fitness year in review.

Sadly, it seems that the fitness industry at large has not made any great inroads into providing a short term, long term or any term solution to our country’s large scale obesity epidemic that is not just a national crisis (oh yeah, it is a CRISIS on a freakin’ GRAND SCALE) but, a world wide catastrophy (Alright, officially a pandemic).

SCARY STUFF, MAN… SCARY, SCARY STUFF!

The sickening fact that our country has become through both poor nutrition (NOTE-no thanks to some real crap and far too long perpetuated information from the mainstream) and a lack of REAL EFFECTIVE exercise, (NOTE-i.e. GARDENING, even if it is ALL OUT, REDLINE, HIGH INTENSITY INTERVAL WEED PULLING AND LAWN MOWING does not qualify as exercise…) not only more fat, more lethargic and more sick and getting sicker; we have succeeded in passing down to our youth a new disease called TYPE II Juvenile Diabetes. Now, this is just straight up NUTTS!

Man, things have gotten’ screwed up big time! And, now we have to make things right. So, what I am going to do is provide some real positive upside strategies that, for lack of a better term, will be the fitness ‘trends’ of 2010. These ideas will help both our youth and adult populations find what maybe better solutions to acquire better health and well being.

What is done is done. Now, it’s time to get this country back to being the STRONG & FIT nation we deserve to be!

Sound good to you?…Cool! Here we go…

2010-The year we will finally get our fit together and GET. FIT. DONE.

Fitness Trend #1- Fitness Boot Camps Will Take Over One-On-One Personal Training

Hey, after this two year long recession who can afford a $60 one-on-one personal training session anymore? Answer=Very few.

Well, with problems comes solutions. And, the emergence of the fitness boot camp has provided the solution to the personal training problem. Boot camps are the HOTTEST thing going on in the fitness world right now! The boot camp model provides the ultimate win-win for both trainers and clients making one-on-one training virtually obsolete. Fitness trainers are better able to leverage their time because they can provide their service to larger groups and maximize profits. Fitness clients (boot camp members) are better able to access personal training services in a unique and dynamic team environment that provides great motivation, energy, social support & accountability for only a third or less of the cost of the average personal training session.

If you are looking to lose weight, look GREAT and feel better in 2010, do yourself a favor… save some of your hard earned $ and simply get better results by joining a local fitness boot camp.

This will be the best decision you will make ALL year!

Fitness Trend #2- Interval Training Will Give an UNDISPUTED Beating To Long, Boring Aerobics Workouts… A BEATING!

Why is High Intensity Interval Training gaining rapid popularity? Because it freakin’ works…BIG TIME!

It crushes endurance type training because endurance training (lasting 30-60 minutes or more)

focuses on volume of training. Here is a typical example: Your average runner will pound the pavement for the same amount of miles, at the same pace, over and over, day after day, week after week, month after month…beating down their bodies and getting less than exciting results from that investment of time and energy. They are burning off weight by wasting away muscle and destroying their metabolism at the same time. This method sounds like a poor ROI for someone who really wants incredible, long lasting results from their exercise program.

Now, bring in the power of HIIT. High Intensity Interval Training focuses on a much more substantial variable for productive exercise; and that is quality or intensity of training. HIIT works similar to resistance training in that it stimulates the body’s systems to maintain and even gain lean tissue. And gaining muscle is the key to a ‘fat rippin’, look better, feel better, BE BETTER METABOLISM!Hey, did you know that fat burns in muscle? More Muscle…Faster Metabolism!

Put in yet another way-Unless you want to LOOK like the top 30 minute finishers at any marathon race, it is probably not a good idea to train like one!

If you want science behind this idea just look at these two landmark studies-

The Tabata Study and The Gibala Study

2010 is the year you will “Ripp It Up” with ALL-OUT-EFFORT type of HIIT work, and you will look better naked for it!

Fitness Trend #3- If We Want Improved Health, Performance and A Killer Body Then…

We need to get rid of those unnecessary sugars in our diets!

This is not some kind of trendy, fad type of rhetoric. If anyone still thinks a high carb, low-fat diet works then they probably have not recognized the obvious devastation that this type of diet has caused.

Here is a very short list:

- 2/3 of our population is Overweight/Obese.

-Diabetes up 400% since the food pyramid of 1986 (Recommends lots of grains

and cereals, and low fat)

-A new disease…Juvenile Onset Diabetes (another name for Type II Diabetes)

-Cancer diagnosis have gone through the roof! Highest rates in history.

Hey, what does a tumor FEED on? SUGAR! Hmm…

-Cardio Vascular Disease (High carb diets stimulates the liver to drench the

the circulation with triglycerides and LDL’s)

-High Carb diets cause and support Metabolic Syndrome

-A recent John Hopkins University Study has changed the way doctors will treat certain cancer patients. By eliminating carbohydrates in cancer patients’ diets, oncologists have found it unnecessary to treat many types of tumors with toxic doses of chemo as well as radiation to shrink or, entirely eliminate the presence of these tumors.

Great books to read and establish a sound understanding of how our bodies REALLY respond to the foods we eat are:

‘The New Diet Revolution’ by Dr. Robert Atkins, M.D.

‘The TNT Diet’ by Jeff Volek, PhD RD.

‘Protein Power’ by Dr.Michael R. and Dr.Mary Dan Eades, M.D.’s

‘The Paleo Diet’ by Loren Cordain, PhD

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! READ!

Fitness Trend #4- Fitness Boot Camps For Kids? Yeah, Why Not!

Lets face it many of our school districts have limited or eliminated gym class based on budgetary or other B.S. reasons. The reasons are not that important as the fact that now we have a real issue of addressing the fitness of our youth outside the school setting. (Unless the kids are involved in sports at their school). No worries though, because of Youth Coach Brian Grasso and his International Youth Conditioning Association, there is now a growing trend of youth specific exercise programming in fitness facilities throughout the world. The IYCA has developed incredibly effective programming that is relevant to age groups ranging from 6-9, 10-12, 13-15 & 16-18. The programming takes into consideration the neural development of pre and pubescent kids so they can learn and adapt movement and exercise in appropriate developmental patterns. A real important fact with youth and exercise is this: Kids that are exposed to fun and effective exercise early on tend to continue with a healthy and fitness oriented lifestyle for LIFE!

To learn more please go to International Youth and Conditioning Association

Fitness Trend # 5- Fitness Anywhere & The TRX Will Rule The Fitness Roost

Man, I started using the TRX four years ago. When I was throwing the straps on top of the cable machine at our local health club, everyone was looking at me like I had 3 heads on my shoulders.

Well, four years later I have to say “if you are not using the TRX, you are the odd man out!”

Hey, If you have a chance to use THE MOST PROGRESSIVE & VALUABLE EXERCISE TOOL

the fitness industry has seen in years, JUST DO IT!

You may never go back to “machines” again. http://www.fitnessanywhere.com/

Alright those are my Top 5 fitness trends for the next year.

Now, I want to close this up by asking- “If I were to give you some real easy tips to follow (well, maybe not so easy in practice) for the ultimate, one-two belly fat burning punch for that kick ass New Year… New Body You…

Would YOU Follow Them?”

a.Change your mindset about food

Eat Lean, hormone and antibiotic free meats;cage-free eggs;wild caught fish(salmon); raw veggies(e.g.BIG ASS SALADS); moderate amounts of locally grown and/or organic fruits; raw nuts and seeds; WATER…WATER…WATER;low-sugar whey protein powder (post workout); and ‘Goof Off’ now and then. (Read TNT Diet by Jeff Volek)

…Look for my book. It will be available soon!

b. Find a local ‘KICK ASS TRX USING FITNESS BOOT CAMP’ and ENLIST!

c. Eliminate stress from your life as much as you can. Control whatever you can, and the rest well, is not up to you anyway, so just chill.

Follow these a b c’s and YOU WILL HAVE THE YEAR OF YOUR LIFE! I PROMISE!

It’s 2010 Baby! Time to ‘Ripp It Up’ and GET. FIT. DONE.

You WILL Have an AWESOME Year!

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General studies in personal training fitness schools involve education in anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, pathology, and principles of business. Typically, hands-on instruction in personal training fitness schools entails healthy dietary guidelines, exercise program design, personal training, metabolism and how food fuel is used for energy; supplements, vitamins and minerals; energy balancing, muscle testing and analysis of both upper and lower extremities, and various massage techniques, among others.

While personal training fitness schools vary in course duration, generally many of these health programs are approximately 250 hours in length, and cover CPR and first aid as a basic part of the education.

In general, graduates of personal training fitness schools earn a certificate or diploma of completion; however, they are also eligible to take the NSCA-CPT certification test to become certified personal trainers.

In addition to becoming fitness instructors, successful candidates who have acquired satisfactory education from one of several personal training fitness schools and who have achieved certification, can also work as entrepreneurs in the field and open private aerobic clinics and fitness centers. Additionally, experienced fitness trainers can opt to work at spa resorts, alongside major sports teams or at sporting events, health clubs, or other physical therapy facilities.

Personal trainers and exercise instructors earn a respectful living. In fact, ambitious candidates can earn well over $55,000 annually. So what’s stopping you from moving forward with your career aspirations?

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I used to own one of those big pulley system weight machines. It cost me a couple of thousand dollars and was really good quality. I sold it on Ebay for $150 last year.

Now I use low cost equipment and get heaps better results. I can go outside and train, or I can train in front of the television. I can train in the living room and watch the kids at the same time. Or I can pack it all up and take it to the park and train with friends and clients in a different setting. No longer am I stuck in the study. And as I said, the results have been amazing. So what do I use?

First off I would recommend a good set of adjustable dumbbells. You know the ones where you can add or remove weight plates as required. I actually have a couple of sets. One I keep quite heavy for use with leg exercises and one set that I change around a lot more depending on what exercises I am doing. These will probably be your most expensive purchase, but you will use them over and over. There are so many different ways to use them and you can easily work your whole body in any number of ways. Almost any exercise can be done with a set of dumbbells.

Another piece of fitness equipment I use a lot are my medicine balls. There are so many different ways to use medicine balls too. You can get them quite cheap at large sporting goods stores or from the internet. I use a 4kg one and a 6 kg one. I use these in every session with my Personal Training clients and Bootcamps too. They are great to use on your own or for partner work.

One of my most used pieces of equipment is a step. I had a friend build me one from some timber he had laying around. It is about 12 inches high and wide and about 4 foot long. Clients can get on either end of it and step up and down together. It is amazing how much harder they can go with someone else to keep up with. The step combines well with the dumbbells or the medicine ball for step ups, step downs, sideways step ups, lungeing off the box or onto the box or even dips off the side. You can also jump on and off the box or even use it to do push ups with. Put your hands on it to make them easier, or your feet to make it harder. Clients that find it hard to get up and down from the floor, can even do ab exercises on it and it doubles as a bench as well. To improve fitness, a step is invaluable.

Another cheap piece of fitness equipment is the humble skipping rope. Uses are obvious and you will be surprised how hard it is if you haven’t tried it lately. If you persist though, you will improve your fitness really quickly with regular jump rope sessions and they are great for weight loss too.

There are many other inexpensive items to include in your home gym set up. These can include resistance bands which are great to take on holidays and yoga type mats which come in real handy when training outside on hard surfaces. Kettlebells are a great item to have, but they can be quite expensive so search around for them. There are many suppliers on the net. I use them a lot in my training sessions and my clients love them too. There are many kettlebell exercises for either strength development, endurance improvement or fat burning, and they work really, really well.

These are just some of the inexpensive ways to equip your home gym. Don’t be fooled into thinking you need an expensive pinloaded weight machine. All of my clients, not to mention myself, have fantastic results without them.