Certified Personal Trainer in Shreveport - Personal Training, Fitness, and Corporate Wellness in the Shreveport-Bossier Area
I have recently started working at Speed Works Sports Performance Academy in Shreveport, LA. I will be training clients and holding bootcamps there. We will also be starting a Women’s Health Division. Keep checking back for updates, and you can visit their site at www.SpeedWorksAcademy.com.
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!
We’ve all read the magazine articles and seen the news stories: Americans are increasingly obese, even to the point of obesity in children becoming a near-epidemic. This isn’t surprising considering our largely sedentary lives, but when you have to balance work and family and still find times to exercise thirty minutes a day, five days a week, it all gets a bit overwhelming.
The secret to finding time to work out is to combine formal exercise with micro-exercises, and common sense, to get that needed exercise in. Mix it all up with healthy food and enough sleep (because you can’t lose weight if you’re sleep deprived), and fitness, while not quite in the bag, is a lot simpler than you think.
Here are some ideas to help you find the time in your own schedule:
You may have fallen into the habit of eating at your desk and working through your lunch hour, instead of getting away from the office, but that’s one habit you need to break. You’re not getting paid for that hour, so make sure it’s your time. Many gyms offer classes during the common 12 – 1pm lunch hour, and some, like Calvary Baptist’s Family Life Center, which specializes in women’s health, offer half-hour circuit training workouts so you can have your exercise and still find time for a healthy lunch. Some major corporations even have on-campus fitness centers, so you can work up a sweat without having to waste travel time.
If there isn’t a gym near your place of work, or you prefer a more social lunch break, consider forming a walking club with friends or co-workers. Walk around the block a few times, then have lunch before you go back to your desk.
If you work from home, you can still use your lunch break for fitness – take the dog for a spin around noon. You can wave to your neighbors, see what everyone’s seasonal décor is, and up just enough sweat to feel good. Best of all? You can shower in your own bathroom when you return.
Special tip: Give yourself a reward. After a month of exercising every lunch hour, treat yourself to a facial or manicure during that period instead.
This isn’t possible for everyone, but most of us can fit some kind of informal exercise in, during our commute to and from work. If you live close enough to walk or bike to work, save gas while you burn calories and leave the car at home. If you regularly use mass transit, consider walking to the next stop after your usual, or getting off one stop earlier. Perhaps you could bike to the parking lot for a community rail service, or bring your bike, and cycle from that one-further-stop to the office, if it’s a bit too far for foot power.
If driving is your only way to get to work, you can still make your commute count, by parking as far as possible from the building doors, forsaking the elevator for the stairs, and taking the long way to and from your desk.
For those of you without a commute, you can still sneak in some exercise. That flight of stairs that leads to your basement or attic office can double as a step-system. Just spend a few minutes at the top or bottom stepping up and down one step, before you take the whole flight.
It’s really easy to sleep through the snooze alarm and stay snuggled under the sheets until the last possible moment, but if you can make yourself get up just half an hour earlier every day for a month, and use the time to exercise, you’ll have formed a new, healthy habit (and you can still sleep in on weekends, if you like.)
Even better, you don’t have to leave your home. Pop in an aerobics or walk-at-home DVD, or get that treadmill or stationary bike out of the garage and put it in the bedroom, where you cannot avoid seeing it. Since you’re working out at home, you can pedal in your pj’s while watching the morning news, then shower when you’re done. (We advise exchanging the fuzzy slippers for real shoes, though.)
Let’s face it: the chances of going back out to the gym after you finally make it home, are pretty slim. Instead, go directly to your workout before you go home, or invite some of your colleagues to form a pick-up basketball or soccer game after hours. Skill levels aren’t important; activity and fun are.
As an alternative, you could book a tennis or badminton court and have a friend meet you, or agree to meet at the batting cages or driving range at your local leisure center or golf club. (The batting cage is also helpful in working through aggression if your day was particularly stressful.)
If connecting with your spouse is difficult, combine fitness and fun by meeting for a ballroom dance class after work. Dancing is actually an incredibly good workout, and helps improve posture and balance, too.
Many of you have to balance your kids’ schedules as well as your own, but the good news is that you can save a bit of planning by exercising with your kids. On school days, you can walk to school (or the bus stop) with younger kids, and meet them after school. With older kids, there are even more options, like turning family game night into family fitness night with trips to the local pool or park, the ice (or roller) skating rink, or even miniature golf (it’s better than nothing).
If you have very young children you can pop them in the stroller and take them with you when you walk the dog, or – if you’re dog-free – find a friend or neighbor who also has an infant, and take walks together.
Of course, the key to all of this is to pick one or more of these ideas, make a plan, and stick to it. Common wisdom says that it takes 21 days to form a habit. What habit could be healthier than finding time for fitness?
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.
The Shreveport Times has a new story detailing the convenience of a home gym. Here are some excerpts:
But Shreveport personal trainer Blake Wiggins, 39, opted to go another route by turning his garage into a home gym.
“With the equipment I have, I can do most anything that can be done in a commercial gym,” he said.
Keene said the reason for an upgraded home gym is simple.
“Psychologically, if the aesthetics of the room are more pleasing, you’re more likely to use it. You have to make sure it’s an inviting space that you wouldn’t mind using rather than a little dungeon in the basement.
“Natural light helps. Fluorescent lighting is bright, and that’s good. It keeps you awake. Mentally, it keeps you alert, which is how you want to be when you’re exercising. TVs, sound systems — all of that makes you want to go in there. It makes you not dread exercising so much.”
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Hintz said not only does he and his wife work out on a regular basis, but their children work out, too.
“The kids, who are 7 and 5, saw how much we enjoyed it so they’ve gotten involved, too,” Hintz said. “I use it on average about four days a week and both of our kids will get in there and do cardio.”
Personal Training in a Box: Today is the U.S. Launch of the Wii
The Wii fit is projected to sell 3 to 4 million units in the United States and will probably sell out in Shreveport very quickly.