Things to do while you're lossing weight

So many of us work hard to stay in shape, but sometimes we put on a few pounds just because we do. We get older, we lose muscle tissue, kids, jobs, travel you name it get in the way and we gain some unwanted weight.

Here are a couple things to try to help get your weight back where it should be.

• Brush your teeth after every meal. Your dentist will like this idea, but think about putting food in your mouth after it's minty fresh.
• Change that bad habit. Think about the place you do your mindless eating and drinking. For some it's late while you watch TV or in the kitchen while you prepare dinner. Be honest, you know when your doing it (include that wine while you cook).
• Stop having seconds! Wait, drink some water while you finish your dinner conversation, but stay away from seconds.
• Reduce your screen time. It used to be just TV but now it's the TV, computer, gameboy, even your phone. Try a book at least you'll turn a page after a while.
• Fire the gardener, OK, maybe not fire him but do something active around the house. I'll bet your dog would love to go for a walk (again).
• Eat breakfast. You name it but a lot of bad stuff has been linked to not eating breakfast, including weight gain.

Nuff said, good luck and God bless.

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The winner is

OK, what is the most important area an athlete needs to train to be successful. Consider balance, flexibility, strength, power, speed, sport skill, endurance, well pick one. Well in reality they are all important. But perhaps it's none of them, maybe it's movement pattern that's the most important.

The brain doesn't recognize individual muscles. It does recognize movement patterns and then sends electrical stimulus to fire the muscles through the movement. Think back to when you first learned how to ride a bike. Wow, talk about overload. Balance, steering and peddling all at the same time, you fell, got up, fell again and before you knew it you were riding without any thought process. You had developed the movement pattern.

The best way to develop proper movement patterns is to balance your activities. That means you must identify both your strengths and weaknesses. If you have great strength and no flexibility eventually your lack of flexibility cause an athlete to adjust his movement pattern. This adjustment may lead to a loss of efficiency or even injury.

So why do so many athletes continue to focus on areas that they can measure. Because it's measurable, it contains something tangible. But what if flexibility is the athletes weakness. Without spending greater time on flexibility, that inflexible athlete will eventually become ineffective.

Eventually every athlete will, at some time, compete vs. a better athlete than he or she. What can you do to reduce the chances of this happening. Simple focus on both an athletes strengths and weaknesses. Then develop a program that focuses on movement patterns that the athlete will need to compete successfully in his or her sport. Train balance, flexibility, strength, power, etc, through those patterns and develop the complete athlete.

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The Word Agape and Agape Fitness

Agape is a Greek word meaning "committed love." It is the love we share with a spouse, child or parent and is also often referred to as love for Jesus.

It is the commitment that we want people to recognize as they watch us as we work with our clients.

The people who will represent Agape will be committed to the clients needs and goals. We will not believe that one size fits all.

We will always commit to continuing our education to benefit our clients. We encourage our trainers to use their time to continue their education.

We will commit to the well being and safety of our clients always aware of what we are asking them to do. We will not be influenced by fad or trend if it puts our clients at risk of injury.

We commit to testing and evaluating our clients before we begin a program. We will set ourselves apart from many trainers who see everyone as the same without knowing.

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Ever spent hours in the gym lifting weights or running on the treadmill only to find yourself right where you started? Ever wonder why this happens to so many people? The reason may simply be that we are all different. So that magazine article you read, the advise you got from someone at the gym or what worked for your friend may be correct. It just may not be right for you. Agape offers you a solution. We offer personal training that is professional, dynamic and effective for you. So contact us to set up an evaluation, we can work on it together.


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Feels like the begining

My first ride in a long time was today. My stats look a lot like when I began riding not that long ago. About 12 mph with a max rpm of 81. I rode for about 50 minutes and completed about 10 miles on the Santa Ana River trail. I did what I was told; not to hard on flat land, in fact only one incline the whole ride and my rmp's stayed in the 60-70 range. Just happy to be back on the bike again.

Back on the bike

Finally after months off the bike I'll be riding again. Weather permitting. I don't think the rain could keep we from it after being off for a while. Newly fit on my bike and new parts make me feel like I have a new bike (I had to do something during the rehab). The only change is the first 500-600 miles need to be flat land, so you won't see me on Baldy or climbing other hills in the area. Anyone know about some good flat rides, please share in the comments section.

Injury is no fun.

In November of '07 I was injured on my bike. After a number of doctor appointments (with different doctors) I am finally getting back to feeling good. Still not ready to begin training but at least I believe I will train again. I'm looking forward to starting to train others so if you are ready for a change send me an email at dd.cscs@yahoo.com or visit www.agapefitness.com. Here's to staying pain free.