Peak Performance Fitness

Philosophy

Philosophy of Peak Performance Fitness

Thank you for taking time to read about the training philosophy of Peak Performance Fitness. Obviously, there are many styles of fitness training that range in effectiveness and purpose. My promise to you is that I will not be using any fad diets or workouts in my training regimen for you. Throughout my years of college education, which included studying nutrition, physiology, anatomy, biomechanics, and exercise physiology, earning my training certification, and my years of training clients, I believe in my workouts and have witnessed their effectiveness.

It all comes down to: What is your goal? If it is to lose "x" amount of pounds, then there is a specific training program I need to implement. If your goal is to maintain general fitness/health, or if you have a sports related goal, then once again I will need to use a different strategy to help you reach your goal. Your individual goals will determine the individual training plan I create for you.

Weight loss Path

If your goal is to lose a certain amount of weight or fat, you need to be burning calories. To lose 1 pound of fat, you need to burn an excess of 3,500 calories. In order to lose one pound of fat a week, you must have a caloric deficit in excess of 500 calories per day. Thus, your workout should include a significant amount of cardiovascular work to reach that deficit.

For a proper weight loss workout, I will have you moving a lot during the workouts, with very short rest periods, to help you burn as many extra calories as possible. Concurrently, we will try to maintain as much lean muscle as possible. You don’t want to burn muscle, as this will slow your metabolism. We will do an assortment of exercises, using a variety of free weights, machines, sand bags, battling ropes, etc... If your goal is to lose weight, I promise not to stretch, foam roll, and have you practice your balance for 90% of your workout time. While these skills have a purpose, they will not help you reach your initial weight loss goal. I will focus on YOUR goals, and if your goal is weight loss, I will give you your money’s worth!

Increase or maintain General Fitness/Health

If you are coming to me with this goal, you probably have been working out and are looking for a new challenge. A simple way to explain my style of training for this aspect is a combination of weight loss and sports performance training. Many people become bored with doing the same 6 machines and 3 sets of 10. I prefer to combine a few different workouts that I have created for my weight loss clients and athletes; I put them together to create an innovative, exciting, and challenging workout for you.

Sports Performance

For athletes coming to me to increase their strength, speed, and/or endurance, we first will sit down and prioritize what is most important to achieve success in their specific sport. Throughout my years of competing in football, track, and bobsledding, I’ve learned a lot about how to properly train for sports and have extensive knowledge and experience to help you get bigger, stronger, and faster! We will use a combination of Olympic lifting, plyometrics, and power lifting in the training program.

I have workouts that can be implemented over 3 or 4 days per week. It consists of periodization, which is a simple week–by-week of progressive overload of the muscles. With this program, you have days that have lighter resistance exercises and days with heavier resistance exercises. The 5th week of each periodization cycle consists of cross training, which is referred to as an unloading or recovery week.

We start out by testing your strength levels in the power clean, squat, and bench. I plug those numbers into my 4 week workout program I created so your training schedule is all planned out and prepared for you. Each day you will know exactly how much weight you will lift, how many sets and reps, etc. From day 1 to 30 you can see what you need to do. Additionally, this system has the ability to concretely track your progress and gives you the motivation you need to hit those numbers every workout!

Body Building

If you are looking for a trainer to help you compete in a body building show, please go to your local “globogym” and find the guy that looks like he is shooting steroids, wearing MC hammer pants, spaghetti strap tank top, wrist wraps, weight belt, and carrying a gallon of distilled water, doing bicep curls or calf raises for an hour and talk to him about “competing” in a show. That is not my idea of health and fitness, to starve and dehydrate yourself for a “fitness” competition. Sorry, but I will not provide training for something I do not believe is healthy for your body and will have long-term negative effects.

Other goals

If you have some other goal I did not mention above, please contact me and we can discuss if I would be the right trainer for you. Once again, thank you for taking time to read about my philosophy of training.