Renegade

Looking for the perfect holiday gift this year? Not sure what to get an individual that has everything? Let me suggest the gift of health. Why not purchase a personal training package for a friend or loved one? This is not a useless gadget that they will try once and then toss in a drawer or just another trinket that will clutter a shelf. This is a gift that could potentially add years to their life. It can curb disease, restore energy and vitality, increase self confidence, and aid in mental health. Everyone wants loved ones to live a long and healthy life and there is no better way to ensure this than by helping them make fitness part of their life.

Jennifer Calderone
Hordon Health
www.hordonhealth.com

Unfortunately, today most individuals lack the ability to perform the most basic of moves. Yet a solid foundation, basic movement, must be established prior to moving to more advanced work. However, given the need for instant gratification, individuals often skip the elementary work and plunge into advance work without any type of preparation. The end result is injury.

General Physical Performance or GPP is one of the key components of Renegade training. GPP is comprised of body weight exercises both weighted and non-weighted. These basic exercises should be standard in one’s training to increase basic fitness levels and provide other benefits including, but not limited to, improving work threshold and offering a unique variation to training. The addition of these exercises performed for 30 seconds each, for a total of four rounds, will begin to create a solid foundation of fitness.

Jennifer Calderone
Hordon Health
www.hordonhealth.com

Success is a result of risk taking that often involves choosing an unconventional path, otherwise known as the proverbial “road less traveled.” It is not traditional mainstream thinking or the standard way of doing things that result in success. Instead success is a result of going beyond the norm, being an individual and choosing a different path.

This equates perfectly to fitness. Many individuals flock from one fitness phenomenon to the next, believing it is best. Yet this is not the case. The only reason fitness gadgets or programs gain popularity is due to well-financed marketing campaigns, not due to results. In fact, I recently witnessed an advertisement for the Wii system’s new item, “The Biggest Loser.” This may prove to be an item many gravitate toward given the popularity of the television show. Yet, it is laughable at best. Standing in front of the television with remote in hand while simulating chopping wood is not working out. Try chopping actual wood with an axe. That is a workout!

On the other hand, Renegade training is training that extends beyond the typical confines of “the box.” It goes outside the box, far beyond the norm providing unprecedented results. It is not the next best thing, but THE BEST!

Don’t follow the rest, be the best – Renegade.

Jennifer Calderone
Hordon Health
Boston, MA
www.hordonhealth.com

Are you feeling stuffed after your Thanksgiving Day celebration? Many individuals have already kicked off the holiday season with excessive caloric consumption and will not stop until the end of the month. However, this vicious cycle is hard to curb once it begins. To make matters worse, the combination of excessive food intake and lack of exercise tremendously diminish energy levels. Do you really want to spend the holidays trapped in this unhealthy cycle? Why not strive to feel better by exercising at least one or two days per week. Energy levels will increase and, following a workout, you’ll be more likely to think twice before consuming unhealthy foods.

Give yourself the gift of health this holiday season, contact a Renegade trainer in your area.

Jennifer Calderone
www.hordonhealth.com
Boston, MA

You will be better tomorrow at what you do today. I often think of this line, Renegade founder, John Davies said at one of the conferences I attended this year. While this holds true in most areas of life, I think this phase serves as a source of motivation when applied toward exercise. As many individuals have experienced, exercise is challenging especially in the beginning phases. Yet the body is amazing and can quickly learn to master movements. I have a client who could barely touch his toes during our first Yoga session, yet in only a couple months time, he is now able to put his palms on the floor. Another of my clients, with minimal strength several months ago, can now snatch the Olympic bar over head. I marvel at the body’s ability to adapt and the improvements gained through perseverance.

When you find yourself struggling through a workout or unable to master new exercises remember, “You will be better tomorrow at what you do today.”

Jennifer Calderone
Hordon Health
www.hordonhealth.com

Unfortunately, anyone can become a personal trainer. The field does not require a degree but rather the purchase of a text book and multiple-choice test to receive national certification. Sadly, these mediocre standards have resulted in nothing more than a field teeming with lackluster individuals devoid of professionalism. A man with hypertrophy or a woman with a nice figure does not warrant a career in personal training nor does it provide the qualifications necessary to be a fitness professional. Often the same haphazard methods utilized in these trainers own workouts are employed to train all clients because that is the extent of their knowledge within the field. Yet this is not the way to enhanced functionality, performance, or health. Many of these individuals, lacking basic common sense, do not realize there are serious consequences to improper weight lifting technique.

Renegade trainers, on the other hand, are held to completely different and far superior standards of excellence than any other trainers in the industry. An effortless payment and purchase of a book is not the manner in which one becomes a Renegade trainer. It is an elite group of individuals that not only requires recommendation by a current trainer but also requires a certain caliber of individual. Once certified the trainer must actively pursue avenues that will continually enhance their knowledge within the field through seminars, articles, books, videos and more. Most importantly, the founder, John Davies, does not hide behind a large corporation with a staff of customer service agents fielding questions but is always available via phone or email, serving as a mentor to all that fall under his wing.

Mr. Davies’ does not only insist on high educational standards but in addition requires absolute professionalism, morality, honor and excellence. These are the marks of distinction separating Renegade Fitness Professionals from all others.

If you’re ready to train with a fitness PROFESSIONAL, contact a Renegade Trainer in your area and experience the difference.

Jennifer Calderone
Hordon Health
www.hordonhealth.com

There used to be days when I didn’t feel compelled to work out because I was tired or simply had too many matters that required my attention. However, when I took a moment to think about the myriad of individuals that didn’t have the same luxury of choice in this matter, my feelings rapidly changed. Viewing exercise from this perspective, helps to serve as a reminder that it is a positive experience and not one that should be begrudge or regarded as punishment. I am lucky enough to be in great health and able to exercise daily. Sadly, not everyone is this fortunate due to either debilitating physical and mental disabilities or severe health issues. When you find motivation waning, stop, take a moment and visualize a day where you may not be so fortunate to have this choice. All too often we take these things for granted. Be thankful you are able to be physically active and don’t let your choice slip away.

Jennifer Calderone
Hordon Health
www.hordonhealth.com

As the days in November roll on I begin to think about the fast approaching holiday season. It is one of the most joyest times of the year, yet as a fitness professional it is also one of the most trying. I feverishly attempt to discourage clients from giving into the many temptations that will come their way. They have made a commitment to health, and a few moments of indulgence is not worth trashing months of tireless effort. Yet for most, the holidays become nothing more than an excuse to over consume as proper nutrition continues to takes a permanent vacation.

The gluttonous holiday season is then followed by a new year and nation of individuals who resolve to “get healthy,” “join a gym,” and “lose weight.” These individuals make their way to gyms attempting to undo excessive caloric consumption with intense exercise. You see them every night for a few weeks. Then, little by little, numbers start to dwindle until finally they have all but disappeared.

While many start the year off with the best intentions to get fit, it is often short lived when motivation is lost within a matter of weeks. This is because as a culture, we tend go to extremes from eating to spending. Many individuals believe they can lose years of weight and shed a lifetime of bad habits overnight by exercising every day. Making matters worse, we are a society used to immediate gratification. The idea of patience has become extinct and if a pound or two is not dropped in a week, motivation vanishes. What individuals fail to realize is they cannot progress with no formal exercise to working out every day and expect the trend to last. The mind and body, which has not even adapted to a day or two of exercise, will not be able to handle this type of intensity. Moderation is the key even with exercise in the beginning phase.

The best way to make exercise a permanent part of one’s life is to hire a personal trainer and begin by working out two to three days per week. Hiring a trainer will force exercise to be a regular scheduled event which will help combat the myriad of excuses that would otherwise surface. The trainer will prescribe appropriate exercises and make sure they are performed correctly to maximize effort and minimize injury.

It takes months for a habit to form and it is no different with exercise. Hire a Renegade Trainer and resolve now to make this the year exercise becomes a permanent part of your life. Take life head on, don’t be content sitting on the sidelines.

Jennifer Calderone
Hordon Health – www.hordonhealth.com
Boston, MA