Strength-Building Tips for Golfers Without Gym Access
Hello, golfers! We understand that not everyone has access to a fully equipped gym. However, that shouldn't deter you from improving your golf game through strength training. In this blog post, we'll share some effective strength-building tips for golfers who don't have access to a gym…
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.
How can nutrition help golfers recover after a strenuous round of golf?
After a challenging round of golf, proper recovery is essential to ensure you're ready for your next game or practice session. Nutrition plays a crucial role in this process. In this blog post, we'll explore how nutrition can help golfers recover effectively after a strenuous round. Golfers may experience muscle fatigue and mental exhaustion after a round, and inadequate recovery can hinder their long-term progress.
Gaining Muscle and Getting Shredded: The Power of Nutrition
Balancing muscle gain and fat loss can be a complex task. Many individuals struggle to understand how their nutrition habits can support their efforts in the gym. Our targeted member avatar seeks guidance on optimizing their diet for maximum results.
Lifting Up Young Athletes: Power, Precision, and Performance
Weightlifting, when introduced correctly, can be a valuable component of a well-rounded training program for youth athletes aged 12-17. Emphasizing movement proficiency over heavy weights is paramount in this age group, as it ensures safety and maximizes strength development. In this blog post, we will discuss the importance of introducing weightlifting to young athletes with a focus on proper techniques, injury prevention, and how weightlifting contributes to functional strength and improved athletic performance.
Can you get six-pack abs from running versus walking?
The journey to achieving 6-pack abs often involves cardio training to shed that stubborn belly fat. Walking and running are two popular options, each with its own set of advantages and disadvantages. In this blog post, we'll present two 6-week cardio training programs, one for walking and one for running, to help you decide which path is right for you in your quest for 6-pack abs.
Building Strength Safely for Teen Athletes
Strength training is a cornerstone of athletic development, and it holds particular significance for adolescent athletes. During this critical phase of physical growth and development, proper strength training can have a profound impact on athletic performance, injury prevention, and overall well-being. In this blog post, we will delve into the importance of strength training for teen athletes, explore safe and effective training methods, and emphasize the crucial role of supervision and technique correction.
Six-Pack Abs in 6 Weeks: Nourish Your Way to Success
It's time to turn that dream into reality. In this blog post, we'll provide you with a complete nutrition and exercise program that focuses on developing and maintaining those coveted six-pack abs. This program includes a 7-day nutrition plan, meal ideas for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, a grocery list, recommendations on alcohol consumption, and an 8-week strength and cardio exercise training program.
Navigating Weight Loss: Medication vs. Nutrition & Exercise
Today, we're shedding light on two pathways to shed body fat: the innovation of the weight loss medications Wegovy and Ozempic compared to harnessing the power of nutrition and exercise for long-term well-being.
Wegovy and Ozempic: A revolutionary approach to weight loss, the cutting-edge injectable medicine by Novo Nordisk, is tailored for adults with obesity (BMI 27+) aiming to embark on their weight loss journey. Building on the success of Ozempic, Wegovy offers a targeted solution backed by clinical evidence.
How to Maintain Wellness and Self-Care Goals
8 step to help you create a plan of action to manage you Goals
With the hustle and bustles of our busy days, it's not always easy to take care of ourselves. But now, there are tons of wellness goals you can achieve with just 10 minutes per day, like eating healthier or getting more exercise throughout your weekdays……
Get Strong to Hit’em Long
Strength training can help improve your golf swing in 2 major ways, but first lets look at the terminology and how most avid amateur golfers approach their health and performance training. In most cases non-professional golfers approach their physical fitness/strength and conditioning with a attitude that it is optional, or they don’t think it is important at all, until they are forced to take it more seriously due to a lower back issue or injury that is preventing them from play the game at level that they find fun and somewhat competitive. They key is to take the bull by the horns and be proactive in your health and performance so that you can enjoy the game and play without any physical limitations.
Rebuilding Your Body
It is important to consult with a physical therapist or certified fitness professional coach with the knowledge of how to work with and train individuals with joint and mobility limitations. These professionals have the experience to develop a personalized exercise plan that focuses on strengthening the muscles (for example the Quadriceps and Hamstrings in regards to the knee ) and opposing joints surrounding the joint that will be replaced (hip and ankle in regards to the knee). This also will help improve joint stability and range of motion, as well as prepare the body for the demands of surgery and rehabilitation, which is very important to help speed up your recovery and help prevent additional complications…
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.
Specific Health and Performance Training For Athletic Development
All great gains and achievements on the field and or court of play are made possible when athletes chose to dedicate themselves to the process of developing the work ethic needed to achieve their goals in the offseason, and between seasons if they are multi-sport athletes to compete and win in the regular and post-season. The four areas of focus mentioned above should be the foundation of any comprehensive training program. There may be other elements that could be included but for the sake of time, I chose to focus on these 4 elements that have shown results for my clients over the years. Let’s also keep in mind that this process is for the long-term growth and development of the athlete and there is no such thing as a quick and easy path to improving the physical and mental development of a youth athlete. Any youth training program should have the long-term development of the athlete in mind, and address all areas that will improve their physical and mental performance…..
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….
Joint pain Series: Blog Post #1 Knee Joint Pain
In this post, we are going to look at 5 exercises that can help manage, reduce, and or eliminate knee pain. There are several issues that may be the cause of knee joint pain, but the most common issue is caused by strength imbalances within muscles the leg, namely the quads the muscles in the front of the upper leg or thigh leg and the hamstrings, the muscles in the back of the upper leg or thigh. Mobility issues in the two joints that are on the top (the hip) and the bottom of the leg (the ankle) also could be the cause of pain in the knee joint, or a combination of both.
Every Push deserves a PULL: Posterior Chain Development
Posterior chain development is extremely important for athletic development and for the prevention of injuries. One of the main objectives for posterior development is to make sure there are no strength imbalances between the front which is the anterior the back which is the posterior during physical activity….
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….