San Antonio Personal Training

11/3/07

While I am sitting here watching college football I wanted to write a quick blog to let you know about our November Boot Camps in case you or someone you know were still considering joining.

If the boot camp you were considering joining is full then please contact me and I will do what I can to either squeeze you in or create another boot camp that would work for you.

M,W,F:

6:00am-7:00am-Mens Boot Camp- Full

7:00am-8:00am- 1 spot Left

12:00pm-1:00pm- Several Spots Left

5:30pm-6:30pm- Several spots left

6:30pm-7:30pm- Full

T,TH:

6:30am-7:30am- Cancelled

8:00am-9:00am- Beginners Boot Camp- 2 spots Left

5:30pm-6:30pm- Several Spots Left

If you are a beginner or a senior interested in attending our fitness boot camp then please consider our 8:00am-9:00am T,Th boot camp.

I hope everyone is having a great weekend and I look forward to seeing you next week to start our next boot camp session.

Make it a great day!

Nicholas Wood

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11/1/07

Wow, it is November already!  This year has flown by and I want to thank all of you who have helped make MPT into what it is today.  Things are going great at the studio.  We are busier and busier every month and our clients are getting great results.  Thanks for working so hard and helping us build a strong reputation.

Yesterday I went and taught an aerobics class for seniors at Coker Methodist Church here in San Antonio.  Not only did I meet some of the nicest people around, but I also learned a few things by watching the group interact.

At the studio I currently have a couple of seniors who train privately with me, and Jenn has a few who will be joining our beginner boot camp on November 5th.  Having worked with these clients before I knew ahead of time that seniors could really work hard and that they take directions a lot better than some of my younger clients.  That being said, when I went to Coker yesterday I found some things that really suprised me.  Number one, seniors are influenced just as much by their piers as us younger folks.  When I would have the group do an exercise they had not done before, they would not stop working at it until they got the hang of it, or they would simply modify the exercise to fit what they could do. They did not want to be the one who couldn't do it.  This really impressed me and I told the group that.  Additionally, I found that seniors love the social interaction that occurs while exercising.  They made jokes with one another and with me, they helped one another learn how to do certain exercises, and they smiled a lot. 

It was a lot of fun working with this group, and I will be back to work with them every Wednesday now.  I appreciate the groups willingness to accept me as part of their own and I hope they continue to enjoy our workout sessions.

If you are a senior or if you know a senior who would like to participate in this group please don't hesitate to contact me and I will get in touch with the person in charge to get you signed up.

Make it a great day San Antonio!

Nicholas Wood

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Everyday I receive 5 different business e-newsletters from various places and people usually trying to sell me some product or service.  I always read this newsletters though, because in most cases they have pretty decent advice.  This morning I received a newsletter that talked about business owners needing to slow down and take baby steps to achieve their business goals. 

As I read this I started to think about you.  If you are looking to get back in shape you can't just jump into working out and dieting without having a plan in place.  If you do, failure will be sure to follow just like a business will fail without a business plan.  You need to implement baby steps that will help lead you to your goals.  It took you a while to get out of shape, it will take you a while to get back in shape.  If you try and do to much at the very start you will burn out and you won't accomplish your goals.

The first part of your plan needs to be a committment.  You must committ yourself to working out and you must committ yourself to reach certain goals.  Without goals there will be no reason for working out.  Write out these goals and then create a map on how you are going to achieve your goals.

This part of your plan doesn't need to be detailed.  Ask yourself, How often will I workout?  3, 4, 5 days/week?  How long will I workout at each workout?  You must plan your workouts ahead of time to make sure you are working all of the necessary muscle groups and you need to make sure your workouts will actually get you to your goals.  Your map also needs to include how you will incorporate your nutrition changes into your life.  What changes will you make to your diet to help you reach your goals?  Are you starting off just trying to work on portion control or are you going to try and go on a complete non-carb diet. 

If you are serious about working out and getting back into the best shape of your life then you need a plan.  You need to go back and implement baby steps into your workout program to help you acheive your goals.  It is easy with the vast amounts of information out there to get so caught up in micronutrients, supersets and other details that you forget the basics.  Sit down today and create a plan.  Lay out the baby steps for yourself with a good basic exercise program and basic nutrition program.  You will be happy you did!

Make it a great day San Antonio!

Nicholas Wood

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10/29/07

I often hear my clients say that they wish they were back in the kind of shape they were in when they played football or basketball or soccer or gymnastics.  Whenever I hear one of my clients give a statement like this,  I ask them how many hours a week they exercised when they were in that kind of shape.  Typically, I hear numbers like 10,15 or 20 hrs/wk. 

If you are looking to get back into the best shape of your life you are going to have to make a committment to yourself.  Odds are that you don't have the extra 10, 15 or 20hrs/wk to exercise that you had when you were participating in competitive sports.  That means that somehow you are going to have to make up for that lost time in some way.  The best advice I have would be to make up for these lost hours of mandatory exercise by making your lifestlye more active and helping your body by following a good nutrtition and exercise plan.

Back in the old days when you were in your best shape you spent countless hours every week exercising.  Now you spend countless hours behind a desk and computer at work or taking care of the kids at home.  Both of which can be exhausting, but not the productive kind of exhausting created by exercise.  To try and make up for lost exercise hours, try to make your daily routine more active.  When you are at work, skip the elevator and use the stairs.  Park your car a long distance from the front of the grocery store.  When you find yourself watching t.v. do a few pushups, followed by a few squats, along with a few crunches.  It may seem small but the little things you can do to make yourself more active can go a long way in getting you back into your "playing shape."

When you were competing in one sport or another, you didn't have to worry to much about what your diet was.  As a matter of fact you were so active that you had to eat more than you wanted to just to maintain weight.  Things are different now and you have to pay attention to what you are eating if you want to see great results.   Many of the diet plans out there are great if you are looking to lose weight, but if you want to build muscle then what do you do?  Do some research, visit me or find a good nutritionist to help you create a good nutrition plan and then stick to it.  Nutrition is 60% of the solution to getting you back into the great shape that you want to be in.

Finally, with the limited amount of free time that you have to spend on exercise you don't want to waste it by doing exercises that won't help you reach your goals.  If you want to look the way you did when you were in athletics you can either go start that sport up again, or you can find resistance and cardiovascular exercises that mimic those sports without the damage to your body that some sports can cause.  With the proper exercise plan you can workout efficently and get great results without spending hours and hours in the gym.  The time you spend in the gym should be intense however, with little time for talking and relaxing. 

So you don't have the mandatory football practice after school anymore, and you don't have a committment to a team to make you workout everyday, but you can still get great results and have the body you want.  Instead of working out for hours a week, you are just going to have to adjust a few things to make sure you are active, you are eating the right things at the right time in the right quantity, and that when you spend time working out that you are using that time effectively.

Make it a great day San Antonio!

Nicholas Wood

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