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Are You Ready For Summer?

Are You Ready For Summer?

Published by on April 21, 2021 | Leave a response

If you’ve put your winter clothing to the back of your closet and started focusing on the more revealing summer attire, it’s one step toward getting ready for summer. If those clothes don’t quite fit right or show every bulge, you need to make some changes in your life so you can have that summer fun in the sun and enjoy every minute at the beach or pool. Getting ready for summer isn’t just about how you look, it’s also about how you feel and boosting your energy level.

Walk away from that pastry.

That’s two great pieces of advice in one. You need to avoid pastry and focus on healthier eating, while increasing your daily exercise, which includes walking. Starting a healthy program means deciding what you want to achieve. Do you want to lose weight? Tone muscles? Or just have more energy? Identify your goals that will make this summer memorable and fun. Once you know what you want, you can start a program that will help you achieve it. Our training programs that include both exercise and healthy eating, can get you on the track to success.

All fitness goals start with a program of healthy eating.

I can’t say enough about how food affects your health and your fitness goals. If you want to lose weight, gain weight or just have more energy, what you eat makes a huge difference. If your diet is jam-packed with high sugar food and drink, you’ll end up tired by mid-day, with health issues and with weight problems. Just cutting out sugar, refined white flour products and highly processed foods or fried foods and substituting fresh fruit and vegetables can make a huge difference.

Get moving.

It’s spring and a time of renewal. Get out and enjoy the weather before it gets too hot. If you’re not quite ready for a formal exercise program, make it a habit to walk at least 30-minutes a day. You can even break it up to three ten-minute sessions and still get benefit. Take that a step further and start a workout program for faster results. Don’t worry if you’re completely out of shape. We develop a program that’s personalized and based on your goals, special needs and fitness level.

  • If you’re confused about how to reach your goals, we’re ready to help and streamline the process. Our nutritional program is easy to follow and our personal trainers will guide you to fitness.
  • Getting fit can be fun. Spend time in active play with your family. Shoot hoops with the kids. Go for a hike. Ride bikes or go out for a night of dancing. It doesn’t all have to take place in a gym.
  • Winners keep score. Track your progress. When you workout at Rising Fitness, we do that for you and help you identify ways to achieve your goals faster.
  • Don’t waste another summer wishing you’d done something so you could enjoy all the fun. It’s never too late to start on the road to fitness. You’ll feel better about yourself the minute you begin.

For more information, contact us today at Rising Fitness Gym

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Weight Loss Myths

Weight Loss Myths

Published by on April 7, 2021 | Leave a response

If you’re tired of all those weight loss myths, magic diets and ridiculous “get thin quickly” schemes you find on the internet? Many of my clients at Rising Fitness in Houston, TX were and came to get sound advice that really worked. We use science-backed training and an individual approach. No two people are alike and that should be reflected in their weight loss program. Some gyms and trainers do a one size fits all approach, which doesn’t work for everyone.

Just counting carbs and calories isn’t enough.

A calorie is a standardized measure of energy provided by a specific food. Any energy your body doesn’t burn is converted to fat for later use. When you count calories, you attempt to keep the calorie intake lower than the number of calories you burn. That doesn’t mean all calories are equal. There’s a lot of difference between eating 400 calories of a quality protein food and 400 calories from a simple carb. Protein goes through a different digestive process that causes you to feel fuller longer, while boosting your metabolism and aiding in the weight loss function. Calories from carbs like fruits and vegetables come with nutrients that help weight loss, while carbs from donuts with the same number of calories don’t. What you eat is more important than how many calories or carbs you eat.

Don’t weigh yourself daily or expect the same weight loss every week.

Weighing yourself every day, even if it’s at the same time, can be quite discouraging. If you expect to lose weight at a level rate, you’ll be discouraged quickly. A lot of things can affect how much weight you lose. Water weight affects weight loss and the amount of muscle you gained affects it, too. Judge your efforts over several weeks. If you’re doing everything right, you’ll be successful.

You need more than exercise to lose weight.

While working out is part of getting healthier and losing weight, what you eat makes a huge difference. In fact, there’s a saying that a great body starts in the kitchen. Weight loss is all about calories in vs calories burned and having all the nutrients to keep you torching calories. When you eat healthy and time your snacks to complement your workout, you’ll get more from your workout and lose weight faster. You need both a health diet and a program of exercise, which is why we focus on both.

  • One of the most prevalent myths is that you have to starve yourself to lose weight. The opposite is actually true. A super low calorie diet can actually lower your metabolism and make weight loss harder.
  • Some people focus on aerobic exercise for weight loss and skip other types of workouts. Aerobic training may burn calories, but they’re from both fat and muscle tissue. When you lose muscle tissue, your metabolism slows. Use all types of training, particularly strength training, for weight loss.
  • Instead of choosing special “diet foods” at the grocery, opt for more whole foods that have less processing is best. Even diet drinks can be a trap. Recent studies show diet soft drinks can actually cause you to put on belly fat.
  • Don’t fall for those television commercials that tell you that weight loss comes without effort by just taking a pill. Many of those “magic pills” come with a recommended low calorie diet and that’s really why you lose weight. The pills only make your wallet thinner.

For more information, contact us today at Rising Fitness Gym

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How Many Times Should You Workout A Week?

How Many Times Should You Workout A Week?

Published by on December 23, 2020 | Leave a response

If you’ve wondered how often to workout a week, you might be asking the wrong question or have missing information, like what types of workouts should you do and should they be varied. While it’s true that working out at least three days a week is a great start, you can actually do more and get good results, but not if you’re doing the same type of exercise every day.

You need all types of training.

If you’re only doing cardio, you’re not doing yourself a favor. You need a variety of training to achieve fitness in all areas, strength, balance, flexibility and endurance, also known as cardio. You need balance when you workout. If you do strength training every day, you’ll actually be doing your body a disservice. Your body needs at least 48 hours to recover, since strength training causes micro tears in the muscles. If you don’t have that time for your body to heal, it can cause muscle loss and set you back, rather than aid you in achieving your goals.

Start slower and add to your workout.

If you haven’t worked out for a while, you shouldn’t start by planning to work out at high intensity for an hour a day. It’s better to start slowly and work up toward a tougher workout. The reason is simple. Those initial workouts prepare your body and get it ready for tougher ones. If you do too much initially, you’ll either end up sore, which can lead to skipping the next workout, or injured, which leads to skipping the next month of workouts. Starting with a half-hour three days a week and building up to an hour, can help boost your chances for success.

Supplementing your workout can be quite beneficial.

If you’re working hard in the gym or online three days a week doing flexibility training and strength training, with a touch of cardio, there’s nothing wrong with going for a walk on those days off or doing yoga. Those types of workouts help you stretch your muscle groups and participate in active recovery. They’re easy on the body, but increase circulation to boost the healing of muscle tissue.

  • At The Worx, we can provide a program of healthy eating and exercise designed specifically for you. You won’t overwork your body, but will get in the right amount of exercise to see the transformation faster.
  • The longer you participate in a fitness program, the more days a week you can exercise, as long as it’s not all strength training. For the average person who isn’t a bodybuilder, strength training should never be done two days in a row.
  • No matter what your workout program, the key to success is consistency. Even the best program created by a personal trainer won’t work if you don’t do it on a consistent basis.
  • If you’re unsure where to begin, at The Worx, we offer two weeks of free at home training. You’ll get zoom workouts, meal plans and so much more, which takes the confusion out of how many days a week to train.

For more information, contact us today at Team Worx Fitness!

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