"The Best Plan to Restart Your Gym Journey: Shedding Fat Without Bulking Up
Achieving your goal of losing fat without bulking up requires a well-structured training schedule that combines resistance training and cardiovascular workouts, complemented by a balanced diet. In this 3-month training schedule, we'll outline a daily routine that alternates between resistance training and cardio to optimize your results. Additionally, we'll provide guidance on the best time for cardiovascular training, workout duration, nutrient-dense nutrition suggestions, and meal timing to support your fitness goals.
What are the top 5 most Underrated Health & fitness tips?
In the world of fitness, some valuable tips often go overlooked, hindering individuals on their health and performance journeys. Discover the top 5 most underrated fitness tips that can transform your training. Misconceptions and a lack of awareness about these tips can lead to suboptimal results and frustration in your fitness journey.
Is it Possible for the Average Person to Maintain a Ripped Muscular Physique Year Round Without Steroids?
Achieving a ripped and muscular physique is a goal many aspire to, but the notion of maintaining it year-round can be daunting. The question often arises: Is it possible for the average person to maintain a chiseled physique without resorting to steroids? In this post, we address this concern and provide a solution, outlining how Atlas Performance Training can help you maintain your ideal physique naturally.
What are the key nutritional considerations for golfers looking to improve their performance?
As a golfer, your performance on the course is influenced by various factors, including your swing mechanics, mental focus, and physical fitness. But have you ever considered how your nutrition can impact your game? In this blog post, we will explore the key nutritional considerations for golfers who are eager to enhance their performance. Many golfers underestimate the role of nutrition in their game. Poor dietary choices can lead to fatigue, reduced concentration, and subpar performance on the course.
How can a golfer's diet affect their energy levels during a round?
When you step onto the golf course, maintaining consistent energy levels throughout the round is crucial for peak performance. Your diet plays a significant role in determining whether you'll have the stamina to finish strong or fade on the back nine. In this blog post, we'll explore how a golfer's diet can impact their energy levels during a round and provide practical solutions. Golfers often experience energy fluctuations during a round, which can lead to decreased focus and performance.
Can you still Lift heavy weight if you’re overweight?
Being overweight often comes with concerns about joint health, mobility, and the effectiveness of workouts. Many individuals are hesitant to incorporate heavy resistance training into their routine, fearing that it may not be suitable or safe for them.
What workout routine is best for your core muscles on a daily basis?
A strong and defined core not only looks great but also plays a vital role in overall strength and stability. Atlas Performance Training is excited to present a 6-week core and abdominal training program designed to help you achieve a chiseled midsection while maintaining a balanced and nutritious diet.
Starting at 40: Your Journey to a Remarkable Physique
Is it too late to start working out at 40? Not at all! In fact, it's the perfect time to embark on your fitness journey. In this blog post, we'll provide you with a comprehensive 6-week plan of action that focuses on nutrition, complete strength training, and the top five exercises and meals to promote fat loss and lean muscle gain.
Lean Muscle Hacks: Fast-Track to Fitness Success
Building lean muscle requires a balanced approach that includes both nutrition and strength training. In this blog post, we'll provide you with a 6-8 week nutrition and strength training program designed to help you build lean muscle effectively…..
What’s the hardest part of getting fit?
Are you ready to embark on a 90-day journey that will transform your body, boost your fitness level, and elevate your overall health? Atlas Performance Training presents a comprehensive program designed to help you become the hero of your fitness story. This program combines strength/resistance training with cardio sessions for a balanced and effective approach.
Maintaining a 20-25 Pound Fat Loss: The Role of Consistent Strength Training"
Losing 20-25 pounds of body fat is an incredible accomplishment, but the real challenge lies in maintaining that hard-earned weight loss over the long term. Many individuals find it difficult to sustain their progress without making drastic changes to their diets, often leading to the frustrating cycle of yo-yo dieting. In this blog post, we will explore how a consistent strength training routine can be the key to maintaining significant fat loss without the need for drastic dietary alterations. Let's delve into the problem, its impact on health and performance, and the detailed solution we offer through our Atlas Performance Training (AP Excel) Personal Training Program.
The Problem:
Why You Don’t Have to Spend a Fortune on Getting Healthy and Fit
While it would be nice to have a personal trainer on standby for personalized fitness sessions, not everyone can afford this route. However, that's not to say it's your only option to lead a healthy, active lifestyle. There are, of course, other alternatives (many of them free) that you can make use of, too.
Maintaining Your Health at an Older Age
As you’ve grown older, you may have noticed that things don't feel the same as they used to. You might not have as much energy, and you might want to change things in your life that don’t benefit you anymore. Don't worry; there are several ways to reinvigorate your health and improve your mood….
The 3 Whey's to Get Stronger and Healthy
For one reason it’s relatively expensive, secondly what the body does not use it dumps what leading you to literally and figuratively flush money down the drain, and thirdly it is not sustainable in a realistic fashion, just think about how many different supplements you have tried for a few months over the past several years including the ones in your the kitchen cabinet that have gone unused. The use of supplements can be beneficial to and health and performance training program, whether your goal is to lose weight and improve your body composition, or if you are an athlete who is looking to gain weight, get stronger, faster, in the offseason supplements can give you the added edge you are looking for, but only if your nutrition plans’ foundation is based on consuming whole foods that have the three main macronutrients:….
The New and Old Smarter Cardio Training of the 21st Century....
The goal of any training program should be to develop these energy systems and “train” them to produce the energy in an efficient manner during practice and competition so that energy is readily available to the muscles during physical activity. All three energy systems are interdependent of each other, but in most situations, one energy system or a combination of two of the three is required to make things happen. This goes into the concept of performance-specific training and how to create training programs that are designed specifically to produce improvements in muscular endurance, cardiovascular fitness, and improvements in speed and power of the individual….
Goal Setting: Create your outcome
This is something that we all use to give our wants and dreams a destination. I first learned about goal setting was my sophomore year in high school during a black student union meeting. Todd Lyght from the University of Notre Dame was invited to speak to us about his experience and to give us some tips and advice on how to set yourself up for success. The steps that he used were simple and straight to the point. At the time Notre Dame was the top college football organization in the country. One of the first topics he covered was goal setting and his system for setting his goals. Being a guy who loves examining systems and processes this was right up my alley!
Sleep: The "Magical" 8, Quality or Quantity
The issue usually is not the amount of sleep as measured in time, but the quality of sleep that you have, and this goes back to your habits and rituals if you will that you have established over your lifetime. There is usually no preparation for sleep time, and if you are over the age of 10 years old you have not had a ritual for sleep time that has worked to help you sleep in over 20-30 plus years, but even with that said we still fought the idea of going to sleep “early” before 9 pm. I remember when I was around 8-9 years old and it was the beginning of the school year and the time had not changed and it was still light at my bedtime(6 pm) and I literally had a temper tantrum in the bed kicking and crying because I could hear the other neighborhood kids playing outside and here I was being put to bed like a baby….
Top 6 Health and Performance Nutrition Tips that can Improve your Recovery and Healing
These all help in the management of the inflammatory response that is triggered from heavy bouts of exercise and or competitive events. These foods also provide the vitamins and minerals needed to promote healing and repair
The Butt and Gut Connection: The Top 5 Core Exercises
What are the known and some not commonly known benefits of strong Core muscles?
When we see someone with a six-pack we automatically associate that with strength, and while improving the tone and the look of the muscles has its benefits, you can’t ignore that the function of the core muscles is to stabilize the center of the body during movement.
Some of the benefits of having strong core muscles are:…
3 Tips To Help you lose that last 20 lbs
This is a basic form of calorie restriction. Although there are several different versions of intermittent fasting, they all have the same fundamental rule; No Food or drink with a caloric value are to be consumed during the fast….
This is tried and true way to increase your energy expenditure to 525-625cal of energy per day. This could possibly help you hit that 1 lb- 1.5 lb fat loss per week. However, the 1# rule to remember is that you can not train yourself out of a bad or inconsistent nutrition/diet routine…
This is a more holistic way of planning out your weight loss program, and in my opinion, this should be the first method you should try to lose unwanted fat….