Fitness Expert

We have seen it happen on all of the tours and now it is a part of many weekend golf warriors' routines. Golf fitness is playing a larger and larger role in everyone's game. With the development of new technology, many fitness professionals can now develop golf-specific training programs for their clients that will improve their performance on the links. This does come with the caveat "Buyer Beware" as some trainers are attempting to pass themselves off as having training in how to create a golf specific workout when in fact it is just a marketing concept for themselves. So now the question becomes: How do I find a golf fitness expert? Here are some tips.

1. Ask yourself if you will be more comfortable with a man or woman. Seems simple enough. You want to find someone who will listen to you but yet still push you and drive you to find new personal bests.

2. Before you begin looking around, know exactly what you want for your golf fitness. Have a set of golf fitness goals in mind, and find the trainer that will most likely fulfill those goals. Depending on your goals and your budget, you may be able to accomplish this in a class or group setting.

3. Make sure to find a personal trainer with a certification from at least one of the major national organizations, such as the American College of Sports Medicine, American Council on Exercise, the National Strength and Conditioning Association, or the National Academy of Sports Medicine. In addition, a personal trainer that has been certified by the Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) is very well trained on how to use golf specific exercises to improve your overall fitness and golf game.

4. Narrow your search. After you have a clear idea, and have checked with the national organizations, find interview the trainers near you. Ask them for references and talk to their past clients. Talk to the trainer themselves prior to training. Understand how you are going to achieve your goals and what it will entail from a time standpoint. Your personal trainer should set up a series of achievable goals (a certain amount of weight lost, a certain amount of repetitions, etc.) or else the workouts will start to feel meaningless, which will lead to a loss of motivation.

5. The trainer selected should have experience with golf-specific training. A golf-specific workout program emphasizes strength, flexibility, and balance and should include each of these aspects in your golf workouts. Each of these categories will not only improve your game, but also help prevent injury.

The price of a personal trainer can vary drastically depending on the area of the country you reside in. The National Strength and Conditioning Association's survey of trainer prices found an average of $50 per hour, with a range of $15 to $100 per hour.

As the golf fitness craze hits the masses, golfers of all levels are getting their golf games into shape as well as they are getting themselves into better overall shape. A qualified personal trainer who has been trained in golf specific training can go a long way to helping them achieve their golf fitness goals.

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If you want to loose weight, you might be one of those people who can’t seem to find the time and energy involved in a diet. You have too many other important things you need to do such as your job, housework, school or being with family. When you get home from work after a long day, you are too tired. Or maybe you planned to exercise and diet, but once you got started, you went right back to your old habits after a few days. You may have gotten discouraged because you didn’t see any instant improvements.

Well, you are not alone. You are just like most people who want to loose weight.
The answer to success is to obtain these three rules.

The number 1 rule is "DESIRE". No matter what you want to be or do in your life, you first have to “want” it. Desire is doing whatever it takes to achieve a goal.

The main reason people fail to obtain success in diet and exercise is because they are lacking a strong desire. If desire isn’t present, there is no way you can be successful. Unfortunately it is typical for people to take on a sudden desire only after a serious health issue arises. But sometimes, it's just too late. Some people have been known to have a heart attack and then get the will power and desire to start working out or change their lifestyle.

The second rule to success is "DISCIPLINE". It is needed to have successful in everything you do. Discipline means that you have to do something everyday without fail. You can’t just stop in the middle. You need the discipline to keep yourself going without backing out.

Discipline is greatly needed when it comes to diet and exercise. You have to look at it as a permanent lifestyle change. You won’t get anywhere if you diet and exercise for a few days, weeks or months then stop. This is why diets don’t work for many people. People think that diets are temporary change. Even if they do loose some weight, once they have reached their goal, they will stop the diet sometimes resulting in gaining the lost weight back and sometimes more.

The third rule to success is "DETERMINATION". You must have the mind set that tells you to never give up. If you have determination, you will be successful in getting what you strive for. We all realize that life is full of events all having their up and downs. When you are having a good moment, appreciate it and enjoy it. The bad moments are what it takes for determination to kick in. You must have that determination to get back up.

Last but not least is ATTITUDE. The proper attitude is needed to support the 3 rules of DESIRE, DISCIPLINE and DETERMINATION. Believing in yourself is key here. There are many people who want to be successful. Come to think of it, everyone wants to be successful in one way or another. But what most of those people lack is positive attitude. Not having this will make it extremely difficult to have the needed DESIRE, DISCIPLINE and DETERMINATION.

So stop and ask yourself if you have what it takes to be successful.

If you don’t have what it takes, you will have to change your attitude. Make diet and exercise a main priority in your life. Put it above your job, money, and your material possessions. However, realize that you will have to permanently change your lifestyle to achieve this. Follow these 3 rules and I guarantee you will achieve success!

Arnel Ricafranca is a six pack abs expert, fitness boot camp coach, author, and a motivational speaker. He has authored and co-authored several books including The Ultimate Weight Loss Success Strategies For Busy Men and Women Over 40 available online at www.elitefitnessexperts.com. Mr. Ricafranca has been featured as the fitness expert on numerous media such as Jersey 101.5 FM, and Morris Health and Life Magazine, and numerous websites such as NBC WALB 10 News, NBC KPLC 7 News, and KTRE ABC 9 news. Mr. Ricafranca can be reached via email at fitnessvip@gmail.com

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Arnel Ricafranca is a six pack abs expert, fitness boot camp coach, author, and a motivational speaker। He has been featured as the fitness expert on numerous media such as Jersey 101।5 FM, and Morris Health and Life Magazine, and numerous sites.

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Many people that have been successful in the weight loss world will tell you about the importance of portion control. Here are 10 ways to control your portions whether eating at home or dining out.

1. Bigger isn’t Always Better

We all have seen the commercials and ads for the fast food places that are making their portions bigger and bigger for just a few more cents. Restaurants are serving giant portions sometimes large enough for four people. This is not right. Keep in mind that this is a bad thing. When eating at a fast food place, order a kids meal. You will get a small proper sized portion and you will not be able to over eat. When dining in a restaurant, ask to have your meal brought to you half on the plate and half in a take-home box. That will take away some of the temptation of eating the entire meal and regretting it later.

2. Divvy up Your Snacks

Instead of buying greasy potato chips, try buying mini rice cakes or low fat popcorn. Buy them in small single serve packages and limit yourself to just one bag. If individual bags aren’t available in the snack you like, buy the regular sized bag but right when you get home, separate the bag into about 12 mini bags, limiting yourself to one bag per serving.

3. Separate Your Leftovers

Just like the number 2 tip, the same goes for leftovers. Directly after a meal, separate your leftovers into a few small containers so you are not tempted to eat the entire leftover container full of food.

4. Say “No” To Seconds

Even is you still feel hungry, don’t let yourself go for a second serving. Know that you have already had the proper amount of food, and anything more would be adding more calories which is what you want to avoid. To make it easier on yourself, when dining at home, don’t let the pots or pans holding the extra food be in your view while you eat. This will have you constantly thinking about wanting more food. Instead, after eating one portion, be proud of yourself for not letting yourself go for seconds.

5. Mini Meals

I’m sure you have heard this one before, but it’s a fact. Eating smaller multiple healthy meals throughout the day will leave you more satisfied than eating three large meals everyday. By keeping these meals small, healthy and frequent, you will actually consume less calories than you do with three larger meals.

6. Eat Your Salad

Eating salad before a meal will make you partially satisfied making you not eat as much when the meal comes to the table. To make the salad more satisfying, add some raw vegetables to it making it extra healthy. Or add some chunks of meat like lean turkey cubes. Eating all of this together can be considered a full meal, so you may not even want to eat the meal that was supposed to follow.

7. Recognize Size

This one is important, because when dining out, you can’t really know how much you’re eating without knowing proper portion sizes. You can learn this by simply comparing ounces of meat to an object such as, 1oz of meat is about the size of a matchbook. One cup of potatoes or pasta is equal to the size of a tennis ball. Keep this portion sizes in mind the next time you have a big meal in front of you.

8. It’s Okay To Indulge

Everyone should be entitled to treat themselves to a “forbidden” food once in a while. This is fine as long as you pay attention to the four words, “once in a while.” Telling yourself that you can never enjoy a forbidden food ever again will leave you feeing deprived. Deprivation leads to overeating. So allow yourself to have a small treat once a week. You will always have something to look forward to. Just be sure to limit your consumption.

9. Stay Away From Buffets

As tempting and appetizing as a buffet might seem to you, they are a big no no for someone trying to loose some pounds. They cause over eating in just about everyone. With all that tasty high fat food nearby, it’s super easy to fill up your plate more than 3 or 4 times! This makes it impossible to control your portions. Instead of thinking of portion control you are thinking about what food you can try next. People tend to over eat so much at these “all you can eat” joints that they leave feeling sick. If you have experienced this feeling, remember this the next time you find yourself at a buffet. Personally though if you are dieting and or watching what you eat, then steer clear of all you can eat restaurants altogether.

10. Stick to Serving Sizes

Before eating anything that should be eaten in moderation, check the back of the package for the label indicating how much a serving size is. Most likely you will be very surprised and realize that you have been overeating without knowing it. Serving sizes are actually pretty small. When scooping ice cream into a bowl do you know that an ice cream serving size is only ½ a cup? Think back when was the last time you had just a ½ cup of ice cream? Without knowing this information, people are eating anywhere from 2-5 servings at a time. So get reading!

Arnel Ricafranca is a six pack abs expert, fitness boot camp coach, author, and a motivational speaker. He has authored and co-authored several books including The Ultimate Weight Loss Success Strategies For Busy Men and Women Over 40 available online at www.elitefitnessexperts.com. Mr. Ricafranca has been featured as the fitness expert on numerous media such as Jersey 101.5 FM, and Morris Health and Life Magazine, and numerous websites such as NBC WALB 10 News, NBC KPLC 7 News, and KTRE ABC 9 news. Mr. Ricafranca can be reached via email at fitnessvip@gmail.कॉम

arnel ricafranca - About the Author:

Arnel Ricafranca is a six pack abs expert, fitness boot camp coach, author, and a motivational speaker. He has been featured as the fitness expert on numerous media such as Jersey 101.5 FM, and Morris Health and Life Magazine, and numerous sites.

Read more: http://www.articlesbase.com/fitness-articles/nj-fitness-expert-reveals-10-secrets-to-portion-control-165647.html

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Can your relationships be enhanced by a relationship expert?

What can a relationship expert teach you that you do not already know?

Believe it or not, there are some discreet skills that a relationship expert can teach you that will make your connections to other human beings more effective, whether those are professional or romantic relationships.

For example, Robert Epstein, Ph.D., Helen Fisher,Ph.D., and John Gottman,Ph.D. are researchers whose research I believe offers tremendous benefits to those willing to read their work and try it out.

Professor Epstein has been writing recently and really challenging our Western concept of courtship, for example.

Epstein wonders why 95% of arranged marriages in India are long lasting and grow in happiness when our divorce rate, even with the intervention of the Fairy Godmother, is 50% in our first, second, and even third marriages.

Epstein says that maybe we should do some intimacy building exercises as couples in order to share the benefits of a long lasting union.

Helen Fisher,Ph.D., has been studying the phenomenon of romantic love, and she says that we have the best chance of a successful union if we start the romantic love process with a compatible personality type.

Want to discover what your type is? Well, you have to take her personality quiz at Chemistry. The idea of engineering romantic love sure appeals to me.

John Gottman,Ph.D., and Julie Schwartze-Gottman, LCSW, have been observing couples for 30 years at the 'love lab', and they have some real insights about how to make relationship longer lasting and much more fun.

For example, they can observe a couple and tell you within a few minutes whether the relationship will last, based on the number of times they see expressions of contempt, stonewalling, criticism, and defensiveness.

The Gottman's observations of couples are video taped over the course of a weekend at least, and broken down by a team of experts for non-verbal communication patterns, they look at your urine and blood for stress hormones, ect. so this is a serious observation.

The Gottman's have teased out a number of skills that the folks who are successful in relationship, who they call the Master's of Marriage, appear to have, and they have put those together in a workshop called The Art and Science of Love.

I have taken segments of that workshop and used it with my domestic violence counseling clients, who are often amazed that relationship has discreet skills that they can learn.

Back to relationship expert Robert Epstein,Ph.D., who says that we in the West can have long lasting relationships with all the benefits that result for our children and our health if we put aside our Disney Prince Charming meets Cinderella at the ball and they live happily ever after with the help of the Fairy Godmother relationship model and make some effort to practice intimacy, like a relationship workout, if you will.

Epstein has students in his university classes practice some of the exercises he prescribes for couples, like soul gazing, where couples take a couple of minutes to look into each other's eyes, not stare, but gaze, and the students who do this report a stunning increase of feelings of closeness for the other participant.

Another of the Epstein exercises involves synchronizing breathing, which I find interesting, because I have used a heart rate variability biofeedback program with couples to teach them how to take a look at the heart beat of the relationship.

The the heart rate variability biofeedback program offers a wonderful way for couples to learn how to bring their individual heart beat into coherence and then bring the heart beat of their relationship into coherence.

Couples learn from this practice that the relationship is dynamic, and it changes from coherent to incoherent and perhaps back to coherence based on their thoughts, breathing, and attention.

Relationship needs to be attended to heart beat by heart beat rather than crises by crises.

The best news for the new experts in relationship? When they learn to attend to their relationship in brief intervals like heart beats, tuning relationship coherence is much easier.

I think reading about the ideas of the above researchers will go a long way towards making one much more expert in relationships.

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Looks does matter in todays competitive world. Everyone wants to look attractive and beautiful. But how many of us put that effort to become beautiful? Obesity is one of the greatest problems that mar of our beauty. It becomes really difficult to lose weight without following some effective strategies. Many people want to know how to lose weight.

But due to lack of proper knowledge they hardly achieve their goals. Balanced diet and exercise

are two of the crucial strategies of losing weight. But many of us do not know what type of diet is suitable for us. Doctors and researchers are trying to find innovative and useful ways to tackle this issue. They have already invented many useful and innovative strategies and techniques. With the help of effective diet plan and supplements you can lose weight and become strong.

By applying some effective tips and advices, it can become easy for you to cut off extra flab from your body. You can lose weight by burning more calories than you consume. But it is not that simple. We require putting much effort to see the change in ourselves. Many people stick on to diet plan that they choose or take pills to reduce weight. Some also rely on the fitness gadgets that promise instant success. Following one or other strategy will not help you. You need to combine exercise, proper diet and supplements in your fitness program to get the result. To get the best result, you need to be patient. You need to make little changes each and every day.

Taking supplements can prove to be advantageous for you. But you need to take the right supplement to get the desired result. There are various types of fitness supplements in the market. Before taking one, it is better to consult with your doctor and fitness expert.

Body Building and Fitness Supplements

Most of us want to get a fit and strong body. Supplements, especially the fitness supplements can help you a lot in achieving fabulous body. Supplements are actually addition to a great training, good nutrition and weight loss program. Training and nutrition are the most essential components of a fitness, bodybuilding and weight loss program.

There are various kinds of fitness supplements. But you need to choose the right one o get the desired result. It is better to peak with your fitness expert and doctor about this issue. They will help you in selecting the right fitness supplements.

Many people live under the misconception that fitness supplements alone can give them the desired body shape and strength. This is not true in many cases. To get the result, you need to do proper exercise, take proper diet and add supplements to your diet. By combining all these; you can get the desired result.

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Aerobics classes are fantastic ways to lose weight while having fun. There aren't many exercise methods that can claim the same thing. Becoming an aerobics instructor isn't as difficult as you may think. Many aerobics instructors are just former aerobics students. They have so much experience in aerobics that they are able to lead others. The main thing an aerobics instructor must have is motivation. They must not only have motivation to motivate themselves but they must be able to motivate others. Motivation is the key ingredient to any good aerobics instructor.

Music, Many Times, Makes The Class

Another aspect of a good aerobics instructor is the ability to choose good music to work out to. The music should have a fun beat that really gets the heart going and provides the extra motivation that people need when working out. A good soundtrack can make people forget they're working out, to an extent, and can make the time fly by. Combined with good instruction from the aerobics instructor, many times, the music makes the aerobics class.

When deciding to become an aerobics instructor, you should decide what type of aerobics class you want to teach. You should teach only those aerobics classes that you are familiar with. That is, you should only teach the aerobics classes that you, yourself, have participated in. You wouldn't want to teach an aerobics class where you're not familiar with all the moves. The class, who may be familiar with that particular class, will clearly see that you're not qualified to teach that class and you may soon find yourself with an empty room as people won't want to finish the work out.

To get started, visit your local fitness centers and ask them if they are in need of any aerobics instructors. Many times, there are several aerobics instructors at any one facility since they hold so many classes throughout the day. Once you secure a position, come up with a good work out plan that you can take the class through. Work on your motivation, your voice, so you can be heard even at the back of the class, and pick a good workout soundtrack. Once you have all of these aspects down pat, you'll soon become the aerobics instructor you've always wanted to be. You'll look great but, most importantly, you'll help others look great, too. For a teacher, trainer or instructor, there's no better feeling than that.

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A complete workout in just 4 minutes a day? That’s what the makers of the ROM cross trainer claim is possible with their piece of exercise equipment, while admitting that it sounds too incredible to believe. On their website it reads: The biggest problem is that 4 minutes sounds too good to be true for a complete non-impact cardio, resistance- and flexibility workout. The common maxim goes: "If such a machine really existed, then obviously everybody in the world would know about it." The website also mentions the difficulty they have in getting endorsements from fitness experts: The third problem are so called “experts” (personal trainers, doctors, etc.) when asked for their opinion about our 4 minute ROM machine, they will not even bother to inform themselves, read anything about it or try it out before giving their negative opinion or even ridiculing our ROM. Most of these "experts" are so closed minded that they cannot even be educated as to the logical insights that are embodied in the very intelligent ROM design and function.

Is it true that fitness experts are too close minded to even consider the claims of the ROM cross trainer, or is this a case of “attack is the best form of defense” on the side of the ROM machine distributor?

On the web, one can find quite a few blog entries and other articles written by people giving their opinion on the ROM machine. They claim varying degrees of expertise in health and fitness related topics. One blog called “Exercise Equipment Expert” writes a review of the machine after reading information at the website, however not trying out the machine in person, and concludes: “You can get a better workout on a rowing machine, doing squats and dumbbell bench presses.” Jim Fiore, a science professor and a blogger at ScienceBlogs.com, writes of the ROM machine makers: “[…] one of their basic claims is that if you workout harder, you don't have to workout as long to achieve the same benefits. Apparently, their lack of knowledge of the body's energy systems makes them eminently qualified to assess the value of this "new excellent idea". That doesn’t exactly sound like a ringing endorsement either. When the ROM cross trainer’s makers posted a link to his article and criticized that he had never tried the machine, he rebutted: “[…] I really DON'T have to try it to find out that it cannot possibly do what they claim it does BECAUSE my education does indeed tell me that it would be a total waste of time.” Todd Bublitz is a health and fitness writer at allexperts.com and was asked what his opinion of the ROM machine was. His answer was short but sweet: “The only thing more ridiculous than the suggestion that you can get a good workout in 4 minutes is the price tag. I did a thorough investigation of this machine a month ago and I could find no legitimacy.”

So the question begs…is there any fitness expert out there who thinks that the ROM machine can provide the high intensity, short duration full body workout that it promises? The ROM cross trainer’s website has a page called Studies with various studies regarding the benefits of high-intensity interval training. Three of the studies were done with the ROM machine. One study dates back to 1995, but two more recent studies were published in May 2007 in the Official Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine. Both those studies claim to have found results that study participants exhibited significant results and positive improvements in whole body strength and body composition after training on the ROM machine. Thus, those fitness experts concluded that the ROM cross trainer does give a user a workout in 4 minutes.

Although the ROM machine manufacturer’s negative smearing of experts does seem like a sour grapes reaction to negative reviews of the ROM cross trainer, it does become quite clear that there is a lot of expert opinion about the ROM machine which doesn’t come from first hand experience. One thing becomes quite clear when reading the different testimonials, blog entries and studies on the ROM machine: you should probably try the machine out yourself, to see if it’s all it’s cracked up to be.

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