Renegade

Are you feeling sluggish and can barely get through the day without your eyes lids drooping? Many individuals have the tendency, when tired, to move less. Yet this is counterproductive to increasing energy levels. In fact, one’s first thought should be, “I need to move more.” Utilizing energy produces more energy. After a workout endorphins are pumped throughout the body leaving one in a better state both mentally and physically.

In addition, to physical activity, proper nutrition is also imperative. While many individuals eat poorly, they also eat sporadically. During the long hours in between meals blood sugar levels significantly drop causing one to feel lethargic and mentally unfocused. To keep blood sugar levels even small meals should be consumed throughout the day, preferably every 2-3 hours. The solution is not to eat less but to eat more nutritious foods frequently throughout the day.

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Jennifer Calderone
Hordon Lifestyle Management

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

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