Upcoming Summer Group Session

Don't forget to sign-up for my summer group classes starting soon!!! Fill out the registration form located right here on my blog (right hand side tool bar). I have a classes for both ADULTS and YOUTH! It is never too late to get into shape for the summer!

Summer Youth Workouts at Sports Center

Round up the kids and get over to the Sports Center! Doug Duran has opened his family hours at the Sports Center. While you go get your workout on, I will lead the kids through their own workouts.

Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:30-11:30AM

$100/ month

Boys and girls ages 8-11

Group/ class workout setting with the focus being to develop: balance, coordination, flexibility, strength and speed. This is an introductory setting in encouraging body awareness, self-confidence, fitness as a lifestyle mindset, healthy eating habits. Shoot! You might even learn something from your kid(s) throughout the summer. The exercises are age appropriate for the kids' ever changing bodies, a great supplemental activity for sports participants and those who have never participated in any activities outside of gym class.

In accordance with general teacher to student ratios, if there are more than 10 kids participating I will bring in another instructor to help out. Limit class size is 20 participants with two instructors leading the kids through their workouts.

On nice mornings we will also be going outside to get some fresh air and workout. Be sure your young one has a water bottle, sunblock if desired and wearing proper attire to workout.

Hanging L-Raise

So you think you have abs?
I mean you can do 50 sit-up crunches right? Yeah that's pretty awesome. Congrats!
Now get real.
Mikael gets bored doing full hanging leg raises- where her feet touch the bar she is holding onto with her legs straight the whole time. So we upped it a notch. Stop half way back down and go back up. Is it cheating or easier? Phhht! Hardly! The strength it take to reverse the downward motion and lift back up from an "L-shaped" or 90 degree angle is phenomenal. You won't see many people be able to do this. Probably 5% of your gym's population or less. The other 90% are still doing their killer 50 crunches on the floor. Oh and the remainder 5% can do hanging leg raises and are working on L-raises.

Ball to Box Jumps

Want vertical?
The ball to box jump is a classic way to incorporate vertical jump training into your workout. The idea is to stimulate the muscles to fire quickly from a rest position and explode up sending your body soaring through the air. Granted this is only one aspect of jump training and doesn't elicit the plyometric or stretch-contract effect on the tendons for optimal use of kinetic energy (more videos displaying that in the future).


Lacey is one of my clients who likes to push herself in the aspect of being good at everything and her workout regime backs it up. In six months she has lost 17 pounds, gained strength by 200% pretty much across the board. Started by doing three days of strength training and three days of advanced dance classes. Now Lacey has evolved into a fitness diva and runs 2-3 miles two days a week, sprints on the treadmills another two days a week, advanced dance classes two days a week, strength trains three days a week and recently added boxing training one day a week, in addition she tries get up early and do some form of cardio (treadmill or elliptical) two days a week, and does my boot camp every other weekend. Add 'em up and that 10-13 workouts per week.

My experience is 2-3 workouts a week doesn't cut it in getting results but it's a starting point. The progression to numerous workouts per week is a lifestyle change. And the results can become addictively rewarding. And yes she does have an 8-5 job and just started her own marketing business and scrapbooks and knits. We all have time. It's what we do with it and prioritize things that matters.

Thank you Lacey for being a good sport and allowing me to show the "didn't quite make 35" video."

Announcement: Cormax Equipment is now at the Sports Center

Great news!
Doug Duran, Manager of the Sports Center, has recently purchased all three pieces of the Cormax line of ballistic training exercise machines.

Contact me for more information!