Fitness Boot Camp - Fall 2009
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Certified Personal Trainer in Shreveport - Personal Training, Fitness, and Corporate Wellness in the Shreveport-Bossier Area

I will be having a new Fitness Boot Camp at Calvary Baptist in Shreveport. Sports Spectrum will be giving a free shoe clinic Thursday, 9/24/09 at 7:15 pm for everyone that is registered for the bootcamp.
When: Monday’s & Wednesday’s, September 28 - November 18, 2009
Time: 6-7 AM
Where: Calvary Baptist, Shreveport, LA
To register, please contact me.
Calvary in Shreveport’s Boot Camp is back by popular demand - and right in time for the beach! If you are ready for a real challenge, this is for you. This intense, fat burning, full body workout will push you to your limits. Hurry and sign up today - the boot camp will fill up quickly. To register for the boot camp, email me or call 318-687-4922 Ext. 220.
WHEN: April 7 - May 28, 2009, Tuesday and Thursday evenings 6:30pm - 7:30pm
WHERE: Calvary Baptist Family Life Center, Shreveport, LA
COST: $50
REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS APRIL 2!
“Thanksgiving kicks off a season when Americans typically spend the next six weeks enjoying their favorite holiday treats only to make it their New Year’s resolution to shed the extra three to seven pounds they’ve put on.
With two-thirds of Americans already being overweight or obese, additional holiday pounds can wreak more havoc on people’s bodies than the obvious extra padding. Holiday stress and excess calories can precipitate attacks of angina or even a heart attack in people with underlying disease.
Therefore, the new exercise guidelines, released last month by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, are just in time to get an entire population moving.
Some healthcare plans are offering mobile fitness centers to help kids get in shape.
Judy Brewer and Robert Burton shared an early morning laugh as they dried off after their water aerobics session at the Southern Hills Pool.
The low-impact exercise has many health benefits for seniors and many in the group are searching for ways to continue the program year-round. “It’s been a great program,” Brewer said.
She drives from Shreve City to attend the program. “I’m not intimidated. There are all shapes and sizes and colors. It’s fun, and the fellowship is why I come,” she said.
For the past 12 weeks at the crack of dawn each Monday through Friday, an average of 32 seniors jump into the Southern Hills pool.
For late risers, there was also an evening class at 8 p.m. Burton has partaken of water aerobics for three years now.
“It’s great for your joints and arthritis,” he said.
I will be holding a fitness boot camp in Shreveport, LA, from October 2 - December 18, 2008. Information is as follows:
Why not head into the holiday season a step ahead of the rest with this intense, fat burning, full body workout? This indoor/outdoor class will challenge any fitness level and give you the motivational support you need to keep going!
Hurry up and register because the classes will fill up quickly!
When: October 2 - December 18, 2008; Tuesday and Thursday mornings @ 6 AM
Where: Calvary Baptist Family Life Center
Cost: $50
CONTACT ME TO REGISTER.
I will be leading an eleven week boot camp in a few weeks. It will be held at Calvary Baptist Church in Shreveport, LA. I will post more details tomorrow. It will be a very challenging workout and is open to people of various fitness levels.
If this isn’t a sign of the world going crazy, then I don’t know what is. One of the most popular fad diets on the internet right now is the “cookie diet.” Supposedly this diet consist of eating cookies during the day and just eating one meal - dinner - each day. There are actually several variations on the cookie diet, but they are all based on the same concept.
I always recommend that my personal training clients stay away from these kind of “fad” diets and instead follow a balanced nutrition plan that includes sufficient servings of fruits and vegetables. Combine that with regular doses of physical activity and you will see results! Please contact me if you have any questions or would like to discuss this further.
Researchers at the University of Kansas medical center have discovered that physically fit Alzheimer’s patients have larger hippocampuses, a part of the brain, than their counterparts who were not as physically fit. The hippocampus is the part of the brain that is very important in memory and learning. This is the first study that showed an actual physical size difference in the brains of those who are physically fit. This gives us another good reason to exercise and stay fit, whether it is with a personal trainer, working out at your house, or working out at a gym.
Physically fit Alzheimer’s patients had larger hippocampuses, the brain structure key to memory, than those who weren’t as well conditioned, said researchers at the University of Kansas Medical Center, in Kansas City, Kansas, who are scheduled to present the results today at the Alzheimer’s Association’s International Conference. Research released earlier this month linked exercise and brain volume in Alzheimer’s disease for the first time.
Before these studies, research focused on healthy people, showing exercise improves thinking by boosting blood flow and growth hormones in the brain. These findings suggest the same could be true for those with Alzheimer’s. In normal aging, the brain’s 100 billion nerve cells die. The disease accelerates the process, attacking the hippocampus first.
“This is the first time we actually have a structural change we haven’t seen before and gives us an avenue for further investigation,” Lisa Ravdin, director of Neuropsychology at New York-Presbyterian, Weill Cornell Medical College in Manhattan who was not involved in the study.