Custom Fitness Concepts

One question that I am often asked when someone is about to start boot camp is whether they need to be in shape to begin this type of program. The answer always is a strong and definite “NO”.

A few things we tell people who are worried about this include:

• It doesn’t matter where you start – our job to take you from...
  
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I recently had a fairly new client write me (anonymously) and tell me that he/she is never coming back to my program because he/she hurt his/her hamstring during class. She went on to blame the trainer, the workout and the lack of a proper warm-up. Now, since he/she was anonymous, I could not do any research to understand better what had happened. But it did get me thinking about injuries and whose fault they really are when they happen.

NFL football players are phenomenal athletes, surrounded...

They are popping up in retail strip centers everywhere – fitness clubs that allow you to workout anytime you want, 24 hours a day, for a very low monthly fee (some as low as $9.95 per month). With prices this low, how can you go wrong?

America is the capital of the world when it comes to fast food, drive through windows and get what you want when you want it, so why not have it this way with fitness? The business plan is simple: Keep it cheap, get it when you want and make sure you...

Have you ever watched a baseball game where the best hitter on a team goes zero for four? Have you ever watched the best wide receiver in a key game drop two passes at a critical time? Of course!

We have all watched others have a bad day. Sometime a whole team will have a bad day.

But when it comes to working out, do even the fittest personal trainers have bad days? You bet we do!

It’s All Relative…

Just because someone is more fit than you are...

Help I am stuck at a “fitness plateau”

Let’s face it. When you get into a routine, especially one that you love in the beginning, it can quickly become boring and disinteresting. Many of you joined a health club simply because it seems like the thing to do. You know you have to exercise to maintain a healthy life, so joining a gym or a more expensive health club seems like a natural fit, right?

In the beginning of your membership, of course you...

Over the past few years, boot camp fitness training has become very popular. Some might say it is “all the rage” in modern fitness training. The reasons are simple…it’s a change from the old fitness routines, it’s fun, it’s led by a trainer and it’s outdoors. In a nutshell – it works.

At Custom Fitness Concepts, we look at the outdoor bootcamp program as breaking the mold of how the fitness industry...

Drive around on any Saturday or Sunday morning and you’ll likely see more ladies than men out jogging, walking or doing some other aerobic type exercise.  So, the question begs, where are all the men?

It’s been my experience after 12 years in the fitness industry that men tend to focus on getting bigger and stronger by using weights and machines at a gym.  Women on the other hand, tend to look for aerobic activities either outdoors such as running or walking, or indoors such as...

For a lot of guys, the entire point of working out is to be bigger, stronger and, to some extent, sexier. The problem is that getting bigger requires a lot of work and there isn’t a good trade-off between the effort that you’ll have to put out to get bigger and the results that you’ll get back from it.

One the thing that the 95% of guys who obsess over getting bigger do to sabotage themselves is neglect cardio or

Are you someone who exercises on a regular basis but throws out your back when lifting something like groceries or a child? Have you ever been on a plane and struggled to lift your suitcase above your head to place it in the overhead bin?

If so, you know what it means to be functionally UN-fit.

Functional fitness – defined

Fitness professionals consider “functional fitness” as exercises for everyday life. Functional exercises focus on preparing your body to do...

There are many different ways to plan a fitness routine. One of the ways you want to plan a fitness routine is in the sense of having a long-term plan. You can make a plan for the entire year that will ensure that you always have a goal to reach and that you give yourself adequate time to rest and enjoy the results of your efforts.

In this blog post, we will outline the absolute best way to establish a fitness routine for 2012.

The First Quarter

During the first quarter...