What Is a Personal Trainer and LifeStyle Coach?
A professional personal trainer and LifeStyle Coach is someone who has the knowledge, educational background, and diagnostic know-how to design an individualized health program. Once your coach/trainer has determined what your goals are, he or she can tailor a program to help you achieve them. With guidance, you can maximize your results in a minimal amount of time.

You can do it!

What's a Session Like?
At the beginning of your first private exercise and health consultation, your trainer/coach will discuss your wellness goals. Your goals will be as individual as you are. By taking into account what you most want to achieve, your trainer/coach can design a program that is just right for you. Together you will set long- and short-term wellness goals.

Your first session will include questions and assessment tests to give your coach an idea of your "starting point" in the areas of cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength and endurance, joint flexibility, and body fat composition. Also, during your first session your coach/trainer will discuss your wellness and lifetime goals. Once you know where you're starting from and where you want to go, you can chart your route and measure your progress along the way.

What are the benefits?
Why do you need a trainer/coach? Can't you get results just by going into the fitness center and working out on your own?

Motivation. It takes more than state-of-the-art equipment to reach your wellness goals. A trainer/coach will help you develop the incentive to stick to your personalized plan.

Guidance. A trainer/coach is able to customize an exercise program, making it specific to your goals. One size does not fit all! Plus, your trainer/coach will teach you correct form which will maximize efficiency and effectiveness, and minimize the chance of injury. Finally, as your fitness improves, your trainer/coach will fine-tune your program to meet your changing needs and make sure you continue to achieve results in building balanced health.

Convenience. Don't have the time for you? You and your trainer/coach can figure out a program that will work for you. Together, you can also brainstorm ways to overcome the other obstacles that stand between you and your goals.

You are worth it!

BENEFITS OF PRIVATE STRETCHING/RELAXATION LESSONS:

While there are many benefits to be gained from attending a group stretching, yoga, or Pilates class, an ideal way for many people to learn stretching, yoga, pilates. meditation, and develop a personal practice is through a private consultation.
In a private session with your trainer/coach, your individual needs will be discussed and assessed. From this an individual practice of postures and breathing will be developed and taught. Individual needs to be considered might include general health, specific injuries or conditions, age, strength, flexibility, and life circumstances.

Additional reasons to consider private training are privacy, personal attention, development of your individual needs, and specific therapeutic benefits for injury, illness, stress, and emotional difficulties.

TOP TEN REASONS TO TRY!

1. Boost flexibility and reduce injury
2. Control breathing and meditation
3. The mind-body connection
4. Strength and energy
5. Fewer muscle imbalances
6. Better balance
7. Perfect posture
8. Increase body awareness
9. Stress relief
10. Cross-training

Please contact Keely Marie if you have interest in these types of sessions, or have any questions!

TOP 10 FITNESS MYTHS - AMERICAN COUNCIL OF EXERCISE

1. Women who lift weights get bulky.
   Women do not have enough testosterone to develop large, bulky muscles. Strength training will not cause women to build muscles, although steroids might.
2. Spot reducing is possible.
   It's not possible to burn fat off in one area. Only regular exercise, cardio and weight training can melt fat.
3. No pain, No gain.
   You do not need to feel pain to know it's working. Feeling your breath working is fine, feeling an injury coming on is not!
4. If you exercise, you can eat anything.
   A healthy diet goes hand in hand with fitness in order for you to see physical results. If you're looking to lose weight, eat more lean meat, fruit and veggies and avoid sugars and fried food. (simple answer)
5. There's a pill or magic bullet out there.
   There's no quick fix, says ACE. Those nutritional supplements often use deceptive, misleading, or fraudulent advertising.

WHY YOU NEED TO MAKE TIME FOR WEIGHTS!

Nearly 20 percent of women now strength train twice per week, slightly more than the 17.5 percent who pumped iron in 2004, according to research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's great, but it also means 80 percent of you still are not lifting regularly.

Here are a few HEALTH incentives to give you the nudge you need to start your strength regime twice per week!

• You will stave off osteoporosis. Resistance training increases bone density, which can prevent age-related loss.
• You will keep your metabolism revved. Muscle trumps fat for calorie burning - add more, burn more.
• You will look fitter, trimmer, slimmer. Pound for pound, muscle takes up less space than fat. Boost muscle and you will appear thinner.
• You will gain confidence from the inside out!
• Besides just the physical effects, mentally knowing you are building strength will help you feel confident about your body.

WEIGHTY TRUTHS
Lifting weights is a good for you.  It can lower blood pressure and improve cholesterol levels, according to the American Council of Exercise. So why aren't more of us doing it? Probably because there are many misconceptions about it. To set things straight, read below:

Myth: Strength training will make me big and bulky.
Truth: Lifting Weights should make you look smaller. Muscle is highly metabolic so the more you have, the more calories you will burn. You would have to train like a professional body builder and use performance-enhancing supplements to even begin to notice muscle bulk. Plus, most women don't produce enough testosterone to get really big.

Myth: Only athletes benefit from strength training.
Truth: Lifting weights can benefit anyone. Most importantly it increases bone density, reducing the risk of osteoporosis.

Myth: If you do Pilates and yoga, you don't need to lift weights.
Truth: Although Pilates builds core strength and yoga increases flexibility, neither overloads the muscles enough to give you the same benefits as strength training.

IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO START, TO LEARN, TO GET STRONGER, TO CHANGE, TO TAKE YOUR LIFE BACK!!