Personal Training Gold Coast, Weight Loss, Personal Trainers

Stretching is the most overlooked aspect of fitness programs but it’s a problem that’s easily corrected. All it takes is five minutes at the end of your training session and you’ll start to reap the rewards. Stretching helps to improve flexibility, speeds up recovery, helps to improve circulation and aids in stress relief. It can also help to decrease lower back pain as a key culprit is tight hamstrings! Although stretching is built into your personal training sessions here at the studio, don’t forget to include some stretches after your strength and cardio session at home. Some key points to remember: hold your stretches for anywhere from 10-60 seconds, make sure you’re in a pain free range, don’t bounce at the end of the movement and remember to breath. Happy Stretching!

The person who gets the best results is the person going twice as hard for half as long because this reduced time commitment is realistic!  If you have already identified a lack of time as one of the number one reasons why you don’t lose weight, training for quality, not quantity is a massive step closer to success.  And for those of you who say, while I have time, but not the motivation to train to 100%, which is easier to get motivated a psyched up for; a one hour plus workout or a 30 minute workout?

So who gets the best results? As far as calories burned and muscles built goes it’s probably comparable. Half the time and double the intensity is pretty much the same as double the time and half the intensity. It’s kind of like saying which burns the most petrol? Driving from Gold Coast to Brisbane at 50km/hr or 100km/hr? It’s about the same and any difference is so small it’s irrelevant, so you will do whichever gets you there fastest because why waste time going slow. It’s the same for losing weight.

Compare this to the following man or woman who goes to the Gym with only 30 minutes to workout (plus 5 minutes warm up and cool down time). Every set of weights he does is to 100% (bearing in mind safety) and a full body compound exercises, so no time is wasted doing one thing at a time. Within seconds of completing the set he jumps to the next machine and repeats the process and so on. On the treadmill he runs so hard he can’t talk and only slow it down when he can’t physically keep up. He leaves completely fatigued about 30minutes after starting while the other procrastinating bloke will spend almost another hour there.