Try to get 5-9 servings of fruits & vegetables a day. It sounds like a lot but you will be meeting your fiber goals, eating less fattening meals because of the volume these foods take up in your stomach and nourishing you body with the over 200 disease-preventing phytochemicals found in fruits & vegetables.
Grab a Granny Smith
An apple a day can keep pounds away, a study from Penn State University at State College reports. People who ate the fruit before a meal consumed 15 percent fewer calories overall than those who didn’t munch on a Macintosh. Apple eaters spend more time chewing, so they feel full on fewer calories.
Take a break from work and join us for “LUNCH EXPRESS”
Short on time and need an energy boost? LUNCH EXPRESS is your answer! Starting in September every Monday and Wednesday 12:15 to 12:45 we will be offering a variety of classes for your fitness needs. Short, sweet and taught by Livingston’s best instructors! Enjoy Spinning, Zumba, Yoga, TRX toning, Boxing, Pilates, Step and Circuit plus more. Mark your calendars and come join the fun!
NEW! TRX Class taught by Allison
Join Allison as she leads you with a unique, fun, functional and extremely effective class. TRX’s are the newest craze that’s being used by elite athletes and our military to train and get into the best possible condition with one simple piece of equipment. Suspension Training bodyweight exercise develops strength, balance, flexibility and core stability simultaneously. The TRX is a highly portable performance training tool that leverages gravity and the user’s body weight to enable hundreds of exercises for every fitness goal. Your core and sense of balance are always challenged and you always work multiple muscle groups at once to perform an exercise. This is a fun, unique and never boring class.
CLASS CHANGE
Teri’s STEP class will be back August 31st on Wednesday 8:45-9:30 a.m. (This is just step not step’n abs)
Fall Fat Blast begins soon!
This annual and biggest of our weight-loss challenges starts on September 28th and runs for 7 weeks ending just before Thanksgiving so you can show off your new physique to your family. There will be 5 teams led by trainers: Carol Stern, Dustin Brown, Teri Miller, & Sheila Golie. For $250 you can receive 21, butt kicking and butt shaping training sessions which is a savings of nearly $600 OFF regular personal training. Hurry and sign up! Teams fill up fast.
Change is in the air
Keep posted for new events and activities by Total Fitness this fall! We are expecting to broaden our classes and branch out into the community of our great little town.
Tired of the same old workout?
Looking for a level of fitness that your current exercise routine can’t offer? Are you experiencing nagging injuries that just don’t seem to heal? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are a likely candidate for cross-training. The benefits of cross-training are numerous. It reduces the risk of injury because the same muscles, bones and joints are not continuously subjected to the stresses of the same activity. Cross-training also adds variety to your workouts, making your routine more interesting and easier to stick with. One of the easiest ways to start cross-training is to alternate between activities—walking one day and swimming or bicycling the next. Or, you can alternate these activities within a single workout, spending five minutes on a treadmill, five minutes on a stationary cycle, and so on for a total of 30 minutes.
If you can’t exercise regularly, there’s no point.
Not true. Every bit helps. Only twelve weeks of regular exercise improves your fitness measurably on an exercise treadmill, but all exercise improves your blood sugar, blood pressure, and triglycerides levels, EVEN BRIEFLY!
Creating a Barrier
When exercising outdoors on a hot, sunny day, light-weight, light-colored clothing combined with plenty of sunscreen on both exposed and unexposed skin is the way to go. However, if overheating isn’t a concern, dark-colored, tightly woven clothing is more effective at blocking UV rays than say, a white T-shirt, which allows UV rays to reach the skin. Another barrier against sun damage comes in the form of eyewear. Protect not only your eyes, but also the skin around them, by wearing sunglasses that block 90 to 100% of the sun’s UV rays.
And, last but not least, wear a hat.
