Are you a beginner to exercise and don’t know where to start? This article has the recommend guidelines for how much to do and strategies to make it work with your schedule and your current ability. The best way to get fitter is to get started, then refine it as you go.
The key to accomplishing great fitness goals is to break them down into more manageable parts. Read on for some smart quotes to help you focus on the smaller goals in your fitness journey.
Simple tools like a kettlebell and a jump rope can give you an intense conditioning workout. You can sue a heart rate monitor and a few simple guidelines to adjust that intensity and get a great aerobic training effect as well. In this quick workout article I’ll show you how to do just that.
I was recently interviewed by Steven Sashen for his podcast “The Movement Movement”. It was great chatting wth him about what types of strength workouts are best for helping people to get started and keep moving. I’ve included links so you can listen, where ever you like to listen to podcast.
These weighted marching exercises will help you develop the full body strength you’d expect from carrying exercises. The big difference is that you can do them in a crowded gym or a small home workout space. Check out the videos and try them in your next workout.
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Tony started personal training to recover from injuries while going back to school. Check out his personal training story with Strong Made Simple.
Victoria was already a busy student at San Diego State University. She didn't have time to start working out if it was just going to aggravate old sports injuries. She decided to give personal training a try so she could avoid injuries while getting stronger and more confident in the gym.
When she started working with a Strong Made Simple personal trainer she learned how to exercise pain free and made the gym apart of her routine. Along the way she made new friendships and found an additional community to be part of in San Diego. She'll tell you all about it in the following video.
Jordan gave online personal training a try and hasn't looked back since. Learn how he and Anthony create monthly training plans that are catered to his needs so he can train and get stronger on his own schedule, outside of San Diego.
Lisa, AKA "Dr. Quattro", juggles a family, career, students and still makes time to take care of herself. Stronger all the time she has an uncanny ability to always lift her training partners with a joke or a great let's get this shit done attitude. Read more about her experience with personal training.
Danni came to SDSU from Macao. She joined the Strong Made Simple team and we've loved being apart of all of her exercise success. Read on about how this "Gym Unicorn" got stronger and toned with personal training and the Strong Made Simple community.
Patrick is a Strong Made Simple client that always brings a great attitude and effort, despite having the weight of grad school on his shoulders. That determination shows in the progress he's made with both weight loss and strength gains.
Candy joined the Strong Made Simple personal training community and has gone beyond overcoming her own barriers. She crushes her own fitness goals and in the process supports her training partners and others to be their absolute best by sharing her own experiences.
"When people look at me they can see a visual change. I am stronger, leaner, and more powerful. However, what they can’t see it is the changes on the inside...I've become a much different person. I am happier, confident, and willing to try new things."
Read about Monica's experience with Strong Made Simple personal training in San Diego.
"I am an ex-dancer, and as a dancer I was used to telling my body to do something and it listening. I sat on my butt the majority of my 4 years in college and it turns out 4 years is definitely long enough to lose a lot of that control over my body that I took for granted. Fast forward to now, I am a MovNat/Parkour/Krav Maga enthusiast who owes a good chunk of thanks to Brian for helping me regain strength to do what I love."
Brian isn’t just the best trainer at the ARC, he is amongst the very best in San Diego ... At the end of the day, Brian is a good guy who knows his stuff inside and out. He is fun and easy to work with. He works within my physical/health parameters ensuring that what I get out of the sessions is exactly what I was looking for.
- Ric Aguirre
Bodyweight exercises like push ups are challenging sometimes because you can’t always add the smallest weights to make a little bit of progress. Sometimes the change from one push up variation to the next is a little too challenging to do well. These exercises will help you bridge the gap between variations and help you keep making progress to do your first push up or more push ups, but better!