Whether you can’t wait to bare it all on the beach, or if you’re still working toward a weight loss goal, exercise is the key to looking and feeling great in summer months.
But why else should you exercise? Here are the top 7 reasons to exercise this summer:

Reason #1: To Melt Fat Away

The most coveted side effect of exercise is, of course, fat burn. The combination of a challenging exercise routine and a balanced meal plan is the best known way to lose fat. Here’s what losing fat feels like:
Your pants become loose

People around you begin to say that you look great

A glance at yourself in the mirror makes you smile

Your energy levels soar

You feel amazing

Reason #2: To Alleviate Pain

Regular exercise is a great way to alleviate chronic muscle and joint pain. Persistent back pain can be lessened by strengthening your core, and you’ll protect yourself against injury. It amazes people when the chronic pain that they’ve lived with for years begins to fade after starting a regular exercise program.

Reason #3: To Increase Lean Tissue

More muscle is good for many reasons. You see, muscle requires many more calories each day than fatty tissue. In fact, one pound of muscle burns 30-50 calories each day at rest – compared to a measly 9 calories per pound of fat.
When you exercise your body composition will change to contain more lean tissue, thus resulting in extra calories burned while you sleep. What could be better than that?

Reason #4: To Stay Young

Tim D. Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College in London, led a study on the effects of exercise on aging. The results were astounding. They found that exercise appears to slow the shriveling of the protective tips on bundles of genes inside cells (called telomeres), which means a slowing of the aging process.
“These data suggest that the act of exercising may actually protect the body against the aging process,” said Spector.

Reason #5: To Prevent or Control Type 2 Diabetes

Regular exercise helps to stabilize blood sugar levels. This is something that people with type 2 diabetes, or at risk for type 2 diabetes, gain substantial benefits from.
Exercise improves the body’s use of insulin, and the related weight loss improves insulin sensitivity. Of course patients with type 2 diabetes need to get guidelines from their doctor before starting an exercise program.

Reason #6: To Lower Blood Pressure and Cholesterol LevelsExercise has shown to lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels for these two reasons:
Weak Heart Muscles pump little blood with lots of effort. By exercising you strengthen your heart muscles and train them to pump more blood with less effort. The stronger your heart is the less pressure will be exerted on your arteries.

Exercise Increases HDL levels in some people – this means a decrease in your risk for heart disease. Other heart disease risk factors such as weight, diabetes and high blood pressure all show improvement with regular exercise.

Reason #7: To Feel Great

The first thing that clients tell me after starting an exercise program is how much better they feel.
Most didn’t even realize how bad they felt. It is easy to get used to feeling sluggish, achy and unmotivated.
Exercise boosts your energy levels and makes you feel amazing.
The quickest, easiest way to guarantee that you’ll meet your fitness and weight loss goals is to work one-on-one with a qualified fitness professional. You’ll be held accountable with your workouts and you’ll be instructed properly and shown techniques and strategies that will expedite your results.
Call or email today to get started on a program that will take the guesswork out of fitness and to set your results on fire.
What are you waiting for? Lace up your shoes and get moving!
 
Yours In Health,
 
Coach Blair

I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately on how long you should work out and at what intensity level for the BEST fat loss results.

I know you want to maximize your time and efforts too, so thought I’d
share my answer with you to clear up the confusion.

For the past decade, dieters and fitness enthusiasts have been mislead
into thinking that lower intensity exercise is the best way to burn fat.

This is likely because exercise at lower intensities primarily uses fat as
the “fuel” source … and higher intensity exercise uses carbohydrates as

fuel.

However, the most important factor in losing fat with exercise is the
TOTAL number of calories burned, NOT whether the calories burned
are from fat or carbs.

I can’t tell you the number of people I’ve trained who refused to work
hard because they were afraid it would take them out of their “fat burning
zone.”

Research has proven, time and time again, that exercising at a low intensity to stay in the “fat burning zone” is incorrect. At lower ntensities, you burn more calories from fat … BUT you burn fewer TOTAL calories.

Remember, “Fat Loss Key #1″ is in order to lose fat, you absolutely

must create a caloric deficit. That is, you need to expend (“burn”) more
than you consume. Period. There are no exceptions to this rule.

So, whether your cardio sessions are 12, 20, 30, or 45 minutes long, the
higher the intensity, the more TOTAL calories you will burn. And the more
TOTAL calories you burn, the more fat you burn.

In addition, higher intensity exercise not only burns more calories, it also
elevates your metabolism more (and longer) after the workout is over.

That’s right, with higher intensity exercise, you can actually condition
your metabolism to work more efficiently throughout the day! (be sure to
exercise at safe range for your fitness level)

Coach Blair

http://amblerbootcamps.com

Regardless of what you think of the current administration, the media has made one thing perfectly clear: Women everywhere are BIG fans of Michelle Obama’s arms including my personal training clients at my gym in Ambler.

Now I know that past First Ladies have not worn sleeveless dresses. And you may not think it’s appropriate. You may love it. Whichever way you feel I think we can agree on one thing: The woman DOES have some sexy arms on her!

In fact, I’ve seen some reporters condemning her arms because they are flat out jealous of how good she looks.

After doing some research online it’s become clear that the First Lady makes it a priority to exercise. In fact, according to news reports she and the President get up at 5:30am three times a week to workout. Imagine that, two people as busy as they are MAKING time for fitness. Kind of puts the lame old excuse, “I’m too busy”, to rest of good, no?

Hopefully whomever is designing her fitness program is recommending she consume the proper post-workout nutrition. You see, research has shown that recovery of muscle nutrient stores can be enhanced by consuming a specified mixture of carbs and protein immediately after a workout. This greatly improves the recovery time from exercise.

What does that really mean?

It means you’ll make the most of your workout so you can get those sexy, toned arms as fast as possible. It’s also exactly why I recommend a recovery shake to all my clients at my gym.

And while I have no idea if Michelle Obama enjoys College Basketball, Prograde Nutrition is having a sale on their Prograde Workout recovery shake to celebrate “March Madness.”

Which is great news for you because this delicious shake will help you accelerate your lean tissue growth and fat burning. And that means the fastest way possible to sexy arms!

Here are all the details:

– Again, because it’s College Basketball March Madness , the sale is 10% off all purchases of Prograde Workout

- When you checkout you will enter this coupon code to save the 10%:    NCAA2009

(yes, that is UPPER case sensitive)

- The offer cannot be combined with others from Prograde Nutrition and it ends this Friday, March 20th at 11:59pm EST.

- If you choose their Smart Ship option the coupon applies to the first order only.

- Prograde Workout is NOT available in stores anywhere. You can only find them online here: Prograde Workout

Look, I’m not kidding about how much Prograde Workout will improve your exercise performance. It tastes great and it’s ready to drink in less than 60 seconds.

How Bad Do You Want It?

Blair

http://3dfitness.net

PS – Remember, it’s 10% off all Prograde Workout purchases this week only. The sale ends this Friday, March 20th at 11:59pm EST.

PPS – Prograde Workout is NOT available in stores anywhere. You can only find them online here: Prograde Workout