Are you considered obese?

women are considered obese when they have a body fat of 32%, and men when their body fat is at 25%. Obesity puts you at an increased risk for disease through low grade inflammation.⠀
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Exercise may help fight obesity by tipping the energy balance in an individuals favor as well as reducing circulating cytokines associated with development of atherosclerosis, diabetes, and inflammation. Exercise also reduces the accumulation of visceral fat storage, which is the primary cause of adipokine dysfunction.⠀

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So Over Instafamous Trainers

Fitness stars posting wrong information?! Does that really happen….OH YES! And for whatever reason, the bigger the following, the faker the tan, the more shredded the abs, the more fit facts get screwed up. BE CAREFUL where you get your advice from, I seriously cannot stress it enough! Just because someone has abs and a million followers and claims to be a fitness professional doesn’t mean they know what they’re doing. You can be anything on the internet, ESPECIALLY if you know how to market.⠀
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And to those fitpos screwing up your fit facts….SHAME ON YOU! Make mistakes about stuff that has nothing to do about what you claim your profession to be, but don’t screw up on what you actually claim to know.⠀ typos i’ll let slide only because i’m the queen of typos 🤣

 

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Got Genetics?

We’ve all heard people say “oh it’s genetics” But how much does genetics actually affect us? 25-40% of what happens to us is not in our control. What we can control is our behavior and our environment. Genetics determines our potential capabilities as well as what we are at risk to developing or more susceptible to. It also influences the way our physiology adapts to exercise and our physiological occurrences. ⠀
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However, by no means can we use genetics as an excuse for diabetes when all you eat is processed sugar.⠀

 

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Exercise is NOT One Size Fits All

Exercise is NOT one size fits all. Yes, I have my fitness guides, but I advertise them as general guides. I preach that they do not compare to personalized fitness, but I’m also aware that not everyone cares for personalized attention. But it’s important to note that exercise is something that should be done on a personal level. Because while our bodies are the same at their roots, life, genetics, and daily activities make your needs different compared to someone else’s needs.⠀
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And please, don’t fall for the fit stars who hire people who don’t know what they’re doing to be your trainer, while they sit back and collect the bucks. Or the trainers that copy and paste programs from body building.com. Or even the ones that use the same “personalized” program for everyone.⠀
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Do your HOMEWORK! and know that when you train with me on a personal level online or in person, you’re getting ME and 100% customized programs based on your goals and the results of your needs analysis.

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Putting Movement First

When I talk about putting movement proficiency first, i mean being able to successfully execute the kinetic chain of an exercise. Did you know any of the following issues can put a damper on your movement execution:⠀
-excess or insufficient motor unit activation (typical offender for performing a movement incorrectly)⠀
-Inefficient fiber recruitment (typically leads to lost force output)⠀
-Lack of motor unit synchronicity (typically leads to a reduction in force output or speed)⠀
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The good news is, this is all trainable.⠀
Want to improve your firing rate? Utilize both heavy and fast exercises to activate fast-twitch fibers⠀
Want to have better recruitment? Utilize activities that make the most of time-under-tension⠀
Want to improve synchronicity? Utilize rehearsal rills that replicate patterns and speed during specific plays or for life⠀
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Let me help you move better! LetlerFit@gmail.com⠀
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Biagioli, Brian Dominick. Advanced Concepts of Personal Training. National Council on Strength and Fitness, 2012.⠀

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Breaking Down Your Muscle Fibers

Every time I hear someone say an exercise targets fast or slow twitch fibers and have zero idea what they’re talking about, drives me crazy. While science is currently investigating I believe the last number I was told was 16 fiber types, the general teaching consensus is 3. Type 1, Type 2a, and type 2x. Fast and slow twitch in the science community btw is slowly starting to fade away because they realized thats not the best way of describing our muscle fibers. But for now, I put them into the blog explanation below:⠀
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Your type 1 fibers are known as the slow twitch muscle fibers because they have the slowest firing rate, least amount of force production, and smallest circumference. They are however most resistant to fatigue and have the greatest aerobic efficiency of the other fibers.⠀
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Your type 2a fibers are known as your fast twitch oxidative fibers because they have a fast firing rate, produce moderate force, and have a moderate circumference. As opposed to the type 1 fibers, your type 2 fibers fatigue rapidly because of the high force production and they aid in extended work at lower force output.⠀
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Lastly, your type 2x fibers are known as the fast twitch glycolytic fibers and have the fastest firing rate of the 3 muscle fibers, the greatest force production, and largest circumference. They fatigue the fastest, but have the greatest creatine phosphate efficiency.⠀
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Biagioli, Brian Dominick. Advanced Concepts of Personal Training. National Council on Strength and Fitness, 2012.⠀

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Do Your Cardio!

Did you know that sedentary individuals have a 20-50% greater risk for developing hypertension compared to individuals who are fit?⠀
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Regular exercise can decrease your risk of developing hypertension by:⠀
-improving arterial vasodilation⠀
-Facilitating Baroreceptor adjustment⠀
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Overtime aerobic exercise can reduce diastolic and systolic measures of Blood Pressure by 6-7 mmHG. In order to accomplish this you want to make sure you are exercising aerobically 30-60 minutes, 3-4 days per week at a 60-70% of VO2 Max intensity.⠀

Think a personal trainer and healthy food is expensive?⠀
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-Hypertension costs the US 64 Billion dollars per year!⠀
-By simply reducing your blood pressure by 12-13 points your risk of heart attack goes down by 21% and any deaths associated with CVD go down by 25%⠀
-a 10% decrease in total blood cholesterol level may reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease by up to 30%⠀
-47% of heart attack and stroke victims die before getting emergency assistance⠀
-90% of all middle aged adults will develop hypertension at some point in their remaining life.⠀
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Moral of the story: CARDIOVASCULAR EXERCISE IS IMPORTANT…as much as I hate doing it⠀

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Stop Looking For Short Cuts

I’m smiling in the featured image, but that smile turns upside down when people ask me about sweat creams to burn fat. BLEH.⠀
People love to pair them with their waist trainers, but really they’re just as a dumb as an invention…but at least sweat creams don’t harm you…they just make you waste your money. Sweat creams, fat burning creams, whatever you want to call them they do just that..they make you sweat….but what happens when you drink water while you’re exercising and after you finish….the sweat you lost gets replenished so you lose NO WEIGHT….if you do…you may be looking at dehydration.⠀
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Moral of this Blog: NO SHORTCUTS IN FITNESS…they’re probably going to harm your body or just cause you to waste your money.

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Exercise and Injury

If you’re new to exercise, I always say better too little than too much to start. As starting with too much leaves new exercisers more prone to muscle strains, muscle tears, and/or bone fractures.⠀
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And if you’ve been exercising for quite some time and find yourself constantly with aches and pains resulting from your exercise. The problem is YOUR TRAINING….it’s poorly programmed…sorry to be the bearer of bad news. But you are not a badass for getting hurt all of the time and pushing through it.

Are you ready to move better and stop getting injured? DM me now!⠀

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Aerobic Exercise and Atherosclerosis

Did you know that by lowering blood pressure (exercise can lower your BP by 6-7 mmHG) and by reducing circulating LDL cholesterol via aerobic exercise you reduce your risk of developing atherosclerosis?Atherosclerosis when combined with hypertension increases your risk of developing coronary heart disease, ischemic stroke, and peripheral vascular disease.⠀
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Aerobic exercise helps the liver to produce for HDL (high density lipoproteins), which then translates to being able to pick up circulating LDL for transport to the liver so that it can be metabolized instead of sticking to your arteries.⠀
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If you have limitations that keep you from high intensity activity, the good news is you can achieve the same benefits related to HDL productions with moderate intensity (will take a little longer though) as long as you expend 1200-1600 calories per week in total energy expenditure.⠀

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