FITNESS PLANNING™

Fitness planning™ is a systematized approach to total physical transformation. Fitness Planning™ utilizes every aspect of physical fitness science to achieve a desired result. It can be applied to everybody but it is especially successful for individuals who have a strong commitment to permanent change.

  Fitness Planning™ uses four building blocks of basic fitness: nutrition, strength, cardio and flexibility. The 4 building blocks together constitute one unique and total "fitness plan" that is designed to modify a persons behavior and fitness habits permanently.

As certified trainers already know, the biggest hurdles to an individual's success will always be self-imposed psychological barriers. A trainer's greatest challenge is always the question of motivation and showing clients that success is possible. Fitness Planning™ addresses this concern in several ways.

Utilizing consultations and counseling sessions, Fitness Planning™ addresses the psychology of a client's needs by systematically and accurately assessing their goals and abilities. Fitness Planning™ utilizes life coaching, Fitness Planning™ consultations, physical assessments, the health and history questionnaire, and nutritional counseling to get people past their mental stumbling blocks and into goal achievement and habit change.

Using our gym is a great way to get and or stay in shape!!

 

FITNESS PLANNING™ AND THE PURCHASE OF PERSONAL TRAINING

 SEE IT,BELIEVE IT,ACHIEVE IT - Visualization is the key to belief in the ability to achieve success, and this it is the key to success itself. The Fitness Planning™ model puts a very powerful tool in the hands of the client even before the client begins training: a visualization of their path to fitness, with each step and goal marked along the way. The client is already on their way from the very first consultation. 

 COLLECTIVE TRAINING VS FITNESS PLANNING™

At the Fitness Collective we no longer use traditional personal training. Instead, we use the Collective Method to help a client achieve their goals. With Fitness Planning™ we take personal training a few steps further.

Fitness Planning™ gives the clients monitored access to classes, seminars and facility use in addition to their one-on-one sessions. Clients receive nutritional counseling and, as arranged through the Fitness Planning™ Consultant, they will have access to all of the Collective's facilities and offerings.

Fitness Planning™ also takes into account a client's off days. The Consultant plans for off days with the client and choreographs client activities on days that they will not be meeting with a Collective trainer. This aspect of Fitness Planning™ allows Consultants to authorize client attendance in classes, and allows clients the use of facilities as they would in a traditional gym in order to keep client workouts progressing.

Fitness Planning™ thus eliminates the hurdle faced in traditional personal training: off days leading to loss of trainer control of the client's regiment, and affecting client progress negatively, Fitness Planning™ thus allows the trainer to come to as close as possible the monitoring and helping of the client on an every day basis.

GROUP CLASSES

 

Group classes are a great way to get fit, lose fat, and have fun. They're incredibly popular because they focus on full body fitness and address all areas of fitness including cardio and muscular endurance, fat loss and weight loss, full body strength, agility, balance, flexibility, per iodization, and most importantly they get results.

Another reason group workouts are so awesome is they make getting fit fun and having fun with your workout is just as important as burning fat and getting stronger.

The weight loss bootcamp workout blasts fat with intense cardio intervals, core and body weight exercises and stretches.

This is the weight loss boot camp workout that my second time bootcamp clients actually do for weight loss and fitness.

Perform exercises 1-11 for reps/sets indicated going from one to the next without resting in between.

This includes your warm-up, core exercises, body weight exercises, and fat burning cardio intervals.

Group class workouts are efficient because you work your entire body-- heart and muscles--by going from one exercise to another with no rest. The workouts involve calisthenics like pushups, jumping jacks, crunches and other body weight exercises...the difference lies in the intensity. In boot camp, your challenge is to take your body to its limit. You work, you sweat and, best of all, you burn calories like crazy.

Group class workouts are:

    * A great way to burn lots of calories.

    * Efficient - you work your whole body in a short period of time.

    * Fun - each exercise is different so you don't get bored.

    * Easy to fit in to a busy schedule -   

    * As challenging as you want them to be.

 

 

Cardio- Endurance  

Cardiovascular endurance is the most important aspect of fitness. It is basically how strong your heart is, which can potentially add years to your life. The heart is the most important muscle in the human body and if it is kept healthy then you can avoid numerous health problems. Another reason that cardio vascular endurance is important is because your heart controls the oxygen flow to all your muscles - meaning cardiovascular health has a direct impact on your performance, both endurance and strength wise.

Cardio – Pump –

A fitness class with step intervals mixed with toning intervals in a

circuit training set up which increases your heart rate.

Flexibility Training -

flexibility is important because having flexible muscles allows your joints to move through a full range of motion. You need a certain amount of flexibility to move smoothly, avoid muscle tension and to keep your body protected from injury.

Isometric -

Isometric exercise, a form of resistance exercise in which one's muscles are used in opposition with other muscle groups, to increase strength, for bodybuilding, physical fitness, or strength training.

Pilates -

Pilates called his method Contrology (from control and Greek -λογ?α, -logia), because he believed his method uses the mind to control the muscles. The program focuses on the core postural muscles which help keep the body balanced and which are essential to providing support for the spine. In particular, Pilates exercises teach awareness of breath and alignment of the spine, and aim to strengthen the deep torso muscles. Pilates is a body conditioning routine that seeks to build flexibility, strength, endurance, and coordination without adding muscle bulk. In addition, pilates increases circulation and helps to sculpt the body and strengthen the body's "core" or "powerhouse" (torso). People who do pilates regularly feel they have better posture, are less prone to injury, and experience better overall health.

Mat Pilates -

Today, most people focus on the mat exercises, which require only a floor mat and training. These exercises are designed so that your body uses its own weight as resistance. The other method of pilates uses a variety of machines to tone and strengthen the body, again using the principle of resistance. The pilates mat program follows a set sequence, with exercises following on from one another in a natural progression, just as Joseph Pilates designed them. Beginners start with basic exercises and build up to include additional exercises and more advanced positioning. Our classes are not crowded, but focused.

Plyometric -

Plyometrics is a type of exercise training designed to produce fast, powerful movements, and improve the functions of the nervous system, generally for the purpose of improving performance in sports. Plyometric movements, in which a muscle is loaded and then contracted in rapid sequence, use the strength, elasticity and innervation of muscle and surrounding tissues to jump higher, run faster, throw farther, or hit harder, depending on the desired training goal. Plyometrics is used to increase the speed or force of muscular contractions, providing explosiveness for a variety of sport-specific activities.

Small Group Personal Training

This a unique way for people to benefit from the quality of service of Personal Training but in a small group situation.

Small group personal training is becoming more and more popular. It's affordable, personalized with attention to each individual while maintaining the enthusiasm from a group environment.

Each workout is based on scientific exercise progression and sound physiological principles. Within weeks, you’ll notice a difference in your strength, your energy, and your overall fitness level.

Strength Training 

-Strength training is the use of resistance to muscular contraction to build the strength, anaerobic endurance and size of skeletal muscles. There are many different methods of strength training, the most common being the use of gravity or elastic/hydraulic forces to oppose muscle contraction.

Strength training is a vital part of a balanced exercise routine that includes aerobic activity and flexibility exercises.

Regular aerobic exercise, such as running or using a stationary bike, makes your muscles use oxygen more efficiently and strengthens your heart and lungs. When you strength train with weights, you're using your muscles to work against the extra pounds (this concept is called resistance). This strengthens and increases the amount of muscle mass in your body by making your muscles work harder than they're used to.

The Collective Method of fitness –

Understanding how it all fits together involves a thorough grasp of the fitness collective method. The FCM ensures that our classes, nutritional counseling and training all come together in an organized, unified program. Employees are expected to be familiar with the Collective Method of training.

Urban Rebounding -

Fitness jumping has been used in rehabilitative settings for over 30 years. The GYM URBAN REBOUNDING Program is accomplished by jumping only a few inches off the surface of the URBAN REBOUNDING fitness equipment and reduces the jarring impact associated with other types of aerobic exercise. The URBAN REBOUNDING Program is a fun workout for all ages, shapes, and sizes.

 The GYM URBAN REBOUNDING Program is a safe, effective style of aerobics that provides a surprisingly challenging cardiovascular workout without excess stress on the heart, muscles and joints. Taught entirely on a unique spring-enhanced device, this type of exercise allows the body to work harder, for a longer period of time, because the body is not absorbing the shock and stress of hard-surface workouts.

Yoga -

It seems like a hot new trend, but yoga actually began more than 3,000 years ago in India. The word yoga is Sanskrit (one of the ancient languages of the East). It means to "yoke," or unite, the mind, body, and spirit.

Although yoga includes physical exercise, it is also a lifestyle practice for which exercise is just one component. Training your mind, body, and breath, as well as connecting with your spirituality, are the main goals of the yoga lifestyle. 

The physical part of the yoga lifestyle is called hatha yoga. Hatha yoga focuses on asanas, or poses. A person who practices yoga goes through a series of specific poses while controlling his or her breathing. Some types of yoga also involve meditation and chanting.

Our Yoga teacher has over a decade of experience and is one of the best.

YOGA SERIES AT THE FIT:

-Beginner's Series: Introduce students to yoga focusing on standing postures and building Surya Namaskar A and Surya Namaskar B so they can practice Vinyasa style yoga comfortably.

-Developing a Home Practice Series: Give intermediate and advanced students the knowledge and confidence to practice at home. Possibly cater to individual requests students have with regard to specific postures they are interested in working on by themselves.

-Dynamic Series:

These series of classes would focus on deepening intermediate and advanced students' practices by working towards one type of posture in each class, starting with standing postures and inversions and ending with twisting and back bending. Each class could work towards one challenging posture within the specific category that is that week's/class' focus.

Themed Classes:

-Yoga for weight loss:

This class would be to upbeat music with an emphasis linking standing postures with Vinyasa movement and would end with twisting to release toxins in the internal organs.

-Yoga for runners/athletes:

This class would be more alignment based, with an emphasis on proper knee-ankle alignment, and end with deep stretching of the hips, hamstrings and quadriceps. We would focus each week on a different type of sport and learn about the types of stresses and injuries associated there in and tailor each class accordingly.

-Yoga to balance office life:

This class would focus on opening up the shoulders and chest, stretching the hamstrings and strengthening the back muscles. I think focusing on deep breathing at the beginning and end of each class would also benefit students who have stressful office jobs. It would involve simple poses that could be done while sitting at a desk and/or easily done while working. When I worked in a law firm, I actually did this a lot on my own as I had my own office and could take time to stretch out my back, etc... without being stared at by others. I think a lot of people would really enjoy this type of thing too. You could also use exercise balls in this type of class and teach back bending and proper spinal alignment while sitting with the added hope that students would choose to sit on an exercise ball at their desks - which is what I do!

Night-time restorative yoga:

This class would focus on holding supported restorative poses for long periods of time (5 - 10 minutes) with soothing music. Ideally this would be at night to relax the body for a good sleep. It is very therapeutic and encourages the body.