WorkoutSmart Personal Training

Healthy body, healthy mind

Researchers have long known about the link between exercise and brain function. In elderly populations, even small amounts of daily exercise showed increased levels of concentration, learning ability, and abstract reasoning – not to mention memory. Most theories have cited increased blood flow & better oxygen delivery to the brain as the major mental health benefits of exercise, and this is undoubtedly true. read on

WorkoutSmart! Exercise your mind!

Free Brand Name Equipment with Your Workout Smart Program

How can we improve on the value we deliver through the WorkoutSmart personal training programs? In addition to decades of expertise, we’ve decided to throw in the equipment as well!

Now included with the purchase of 6 or more sessions is brand name equipment you will use to improve your core strength, balance and flexibility in your own home:

• Adjustable height STEP 
• 65 cm (25.6-in.) stability ball with pump
• 2 vinyl-coated 1.4 kg (3 lb.) dumbbells
• Medium-weight resistance band

WorkoutSmart! Exercise with confidence!

(Our free equipment offer was so popular that our inventory was depleted before August. Contact us for current promotions!) 

According to a new study published in Science Translational Medicine yesterday, doctors at the Massachussetts General Hospital demonstrated that 10 minutes of brisk exercise could deliver over an hour’s worth of benefits.

The catch? It helps if you’re already fit. In fact, marathon runners metabolic response exceeds that of s

Are 10 min of exercise as good as an hour?

edentary and even active individuals by a large factor. But that’s not what we, at Workout Smart, are concerned with when we read this type of new study.

Our concern is that unprepared, sedentary individuals will begin to engage in intense activity for 10 minutes at a time in the hope of making quick progress, resulting in potentially serious harm to themselves.

Always remember to workout smart - not necessarily hard or fast - because your health and safety must be your primary concern.

If you guessed that electrolytes have something to do with electricity, you’d be right! Muscles and nerves are tissues that react to electrical impulses, but to do so adequately, they depend on a few key molecules. Such molecules enable and lubricate diverse activity between these hard-working cells. For example, to contract muscles, you’ll require the right combination of calcium (Ca2+), sodium (Na+), and potassium (K+).

Enjoy an effective and natural electrolyte replacement

Various hormones regulate kidney function that in turn balances your electrolytes. For moderate intensity (60 to 90 minutes) activity, try eating some dried apricots, salted almonds, bananas, or even pickles after your workout.

You can try adding less than a quarter teaspoon of sea salt to your water bottle, but our recommendation is to try a sports drink for effective electrolyte replacement. Choose one that contains all the key electrolytes required by the body, including sodium chloride, potassium, magnesium, and calcium.

Enjoy your Workout!

Think diet soda is better than regular pop? Think again.

According to Science News, artificially-sweetened diet drinks may be linked to insulin resistance (metabolic) syndrome and type 2 diabetes.

“When the gut’s taste sensors encounter something sweet, they send a ‘prepare for fuel’ missive that results in cranked-up insulin levels in the blood,” the biweekly reports. Insulin signals the body to draw glucose from the blood and store it in the muscles and liver. Except when the sweetener is artificial, the body gets all ready and then there’s no energy to harvest.

In addition to these findings, published studies also suggest that more weight gain is attributed to diet drinks than to regular ones. Researchers speculate that over time, reduced-calorie sweeteners like saccharin, aspartame, and sucralose condition the body to no longer associate sweetness with calories, thereby disrupting its ability to accurately assess caloric intake.

Our take: an active lifestyle requires glucose to replenish its energy stores, so go ahead and indulge in a sugary drink once in a while! And remember that if you’re going to Workout Smart, you also need to replenish your electrolyte stores!

Go to any gym, anywhere and you will find personal trainers salivating at the thought of selling something to the next person who walks in. Their willingness to help everyone is evident. But not everyone is ready to be helped, and the cost of personal training is only a small fraction of the problem.

Most people aren’t ready to embrace physical activity and make a commitment to fitness. Even fewer are ready to join a gym, regularly visit and get value from their workouts. Fewer even would even consider working out with a personal trainer and only a fraction of those would respond positively to that form of interaction.

WorkoutSmart clients are a rarer breed still. They differ from the norm in many ways. By all accounts they can be defined in contradictory ways:

• they are committed to physical fitness, but not interested in committing to a gym
• they are passionate about their health and well-being but not eager to experience the trial and error of adapting to the status quo
• they value return on investment much more than merely comparing the cost of a gym-based trainer with a WorkoutSmart professional

WorkoutSmart: definitely not for most, maybe perfect for someone you know.

Hint: It’s not because WorkoutSmart is the cheapest personal training business around! It really isn’t!

But it may well be the least expensive!

People share WorkoutSmart because they have discovered – in some cases, after a lifetime of searching – a personal training business that works!

Satisfied clients are our most valuable asset

Hint: Smart clients don’t pay for the hour of time spent with a personal trainer!

• They pay for decades of experience and demonstrated professional expertise
• They derive value from tried and proven safety techniques
• They really benefit from effective exercise modifications

and they hit the mark on their goals! That’s progress worth talking about!

WorkoutSmart: results worth getting excited about

According to multiple fitness industry surveys:

1. 88% of all people (in the UK and US) do not ever go to a gym
2. 47% never exercise at all because of time or other constraints
3. only 16% of gym users say they enjoy it with a whopping 70% seeing it as a difficult chore

So why do things the hard way? Workout Smart, in the comfort of your home (or office), every day or every other day!

1. Don’t believe the magazines! Muscle and exercise magazines list myriads of exercises to show variety and freshness of content. That doesn’t mean you should follow them!
2. Stay away from the muscleheads at the gym! Their exercise routines probably do not apply to you and they’re at a different stage in their conditioning altogether!
3. Don’t overtrain! More is not better, especially when you put physical strains on your body. Workout Smart, not hard! Your body will thank you.

Good personal trainers are a rare breed. Great personal trainers are the stuff of legend. Luckily, we’ve got them and we can now tell you how to identify them:

1. They look the part
2. They act like the best in the business
3. They have the credentials to prove it
4. They pay attention to you and spend the time to ensure you’re comfortable
5. You have a strong feeling that they know what they’re doing and are great at communicating it
6. They have a great sense of timing and know how to pace the session for your benefit and constraints
7. They are easily reachable and strive to help you reach your goals well after the end of your session

Enjoy your workout! And remember: don’t workout hard! Workout Smart!