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9/29/2018

Strength Training and Type 2 Diabetes

The American Diabetes Association recommends two to three sessions of resistance exercise per week, on nonconsecutive days, in addition to other types of physical activity. Learn more in this article from Idea Health & Fitness Association, which includes exercise tips from me. Contact me if you have any questions or want to set up some sessions to develop your personalized program, or visit TrainerCary.com for more information.

1/08/2018

Your "Go To" Workout

It’s that one essential workout that you’ll commit to memory, keep in your back pocket or save on your cell phone. You’ll know the exercises you need to do, the order of exercises; and you’ll easily adapt it to your changing fitness level and goals using the chart below. You’ll get better results too, because you’ll waste less time st the gym - you’ve got a plan and you’re sticking to it.

The program is designed as a circuit of compound or super sets. You work opposing body parts, with continual flow from one exercise to the next, rest only as needed. This maximizes your time and can also help burn more calories each time you Workout.

Beginners focus on building endurance, and do 1-2 sets of 15 repetitions; if you’re doing 2 sets, repeat the super set before going onto the next exercises. If you’re working out on your own, weight selection is trial and error: if you can only do 12 reps, it’s too much weight, if you can do 20 reps it’s not enough weight.

Goal	Sets	Reps	Weight (% 1 Rep Max)	Rest*
Endurance/Beginner	1-2	12-20	Low-Moderate (60-70%)	0-:90
Increase Size	3-4	8-12	Moderate - High (70-85%)	0-:60
Maximum Strength	3-6	1-10	High - Maximal (80-100%)	3:00

*when trading with compound sets, the second exercise is considered an active rest periods

Get Your "Go To" Workout" and feel free to let me know if you have any questions.

12/13/2012

My Advertising Life

Before becoming a personal trainer in 2004, I had a 25+ year career as an advertising agency executive. Here are some of the advertising campaigns that I was involved in and a little story about each. Some have links to TV commercials some have examples of magazine or newspaper ads. The ad agencies I worked were known as Jordan Case & McGrath, GeersGross, Lowe Marschalk, Wells Rich Greene, and Favara & Raffle.

Weight Loss Tip: The only way to lose weight is to have a calorie deficit.

Change your diet to take in less calories than your burn. increase exercise and lean muscle mass to burn more calories than you take in. Or, try a combination of these techniques.

Many supplements that claim to "raise your metabolism" are simply stimulants that raise your heart rate --- you may as well drink 6 cups of coffee, which you probably would not be willing to do. And supplements are not FDA approved. Guarana, for example, contains very high concentrations of caffeine and has not been evaluated by the FDA for safety, effectiveness, or purity.

Nutrition Recommendations for Athletes

"Protein recommendations for [male] endurance athletes are 1.2 g/kg body weight per day, whereas those for [male] resistance and strength trained athletes may be as high as 1.6 to 1.7 g/kg body weight per day...Little information is available regarding requirements of endurance athletes who are women [and] data on female strength athletes are not available. These recommended protein intakes can generally be met through diet alone, without the use of protein or amino acid supplements, if energy intake is adequate to maintain body weight." *"Data are not presently available...to suggest that athletes need a diet significantly different from that recommended in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans...(55% to 58% of energy from carbohydrates, 12 to 15% of energy from protein and 25 to 30% of energy from fat)." * "Before exercise, a meal or snack should provide sufficient fluid to maintain hydration, be relatively low in fat and fiber...be relatively high in carbohydrate...be moderate in protein and be composed of foods familiar and well tolerated..." * "...Athletes should consume a mixed meal providing carbohydrates, protein and fat soon after a strenuous competition or training session." Source: Nutrition and Athletic Performance, Joint Position Statement by American College of Sports Medicine, American Dietetic Association, Dietitians of Canada

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