Can your body recover from a workout during the workout in between sets and do cells use proteins for recovery during that time?It is a great question that needs to be addressed!
December 20, 2020
Drink plenty of water! How many times have you heard that? It probably makes you think of your mom or a school teacher telling you how important it is to drink water when you were a kid. It’s important to drink water, for sure, and it is especially important to hydrate when you train. But, the act of hydrating your body can be even more effective when you supplement the water with a nutritional additive.
December 14, 2020
HIIT, especially infrared sauna HIIT, is a calorie scorcher and a fat oxidizer! A great body of research exists to back this up. It has been proven that HIIT for 15 minutes can burn more calories than an hour of treadmill jogging.
December 7, 2020
Franchising has always been a team sport. From my perspective, as a former competitive athlete, all business is a game, and therefore, a sport. And, when it comes to sports, I prefer playing on a team.
November 30, 2020
Sometimes people place their fitness program on the back burner to free up more time for holiday preparations. Instead of sacrificing your workouts this year, why not incorporate a more efficient workout program into your schedule?
November 22, 2020
In this year of the pandemic it’s easy to allow yourself to be dragged into a downward spiral of negativity. Don’t let it happen! It’s not the correct response to adversity. There is a way to keep moving in a positive direction, and even catapult yourself to a much higher level amidst this seemingly awful situation we find ourselves in.
November 15, 2020
As a fitness blogger who began writing weekly articles for almost five years now, I suppose it was natural that I would write a book at some point. It was always in the back of my mind, even before the HOTWORX blog, but the book topic did not reveal itself to me until a little while after we introduced our, now patented, infrared workout sauna to the marketplace in the summer of 2015.
November 8, 2020
I have written article after article on the topic of workout consistency and its importance for training measurability and ultimately for best fitness results. For fitness beginners and for many who are past the beginner level, they have not yet arrived to the place where they understand this. They need to break the limiting mental pattern of thinking that they should do something different during every workout with respect to postures or exercises within any given workout type. This thought pattern is shortsighted and stems from lack of training experience mostly.
November 2, 2020
According to Zig Ziglar, the legendary motivator and sales master, you are always the most productive the day before your vacation. I would certainly agree with that, and note that you always spend that day tying up all of your loose ends for work as well as all of the packing and planning for your departure the very next day.
October 26, 2020
The health club industry as we used to know it is likely to have been changed forever by COVID-19. Post-lockdown fitness customers are still looking for gyms and studios, but, they want a health club that can provide a sense of safety through social distancing and cleanliness. They want to join a gym, in fact, most are to the point of going stir crazy, but they need a really good reason to leave home during these times.
October 18, 2020
Fitness professionals hear a lot about fasted training these days. How does it apply to infrared workouts?
October 12, 2020
There are those who train and there are those who train harder. This blog post is for those who train harder…those who want even more. Always remember that you get out what you put in! If you put more into your workouts, you will get more results from them.
October 4, 2020
In last week’s blog article I touched on the importance of consistent training to achieve a mind/body connection for a higher level of fitness results. This week let’s delve into the world of mental focus for body results.
September 28, 2020
There is some confusion in fitness these days with respect to the importance of workout consistency and how it should be applied. Some trainers are promoting a “change your workout every time you come in the gym” mentality which creates an unacceptable vulnerability for risk of injury to the client.
September 21, 2020
Infrared is electromagnetic energy and a form of radiation found in the invisible area of the light spectrum. We know that infrared energy penetrates the human body up to 1.5 inches experienced as a subtle warmth of radiant heat to the body. The wavelength of infrared is longer than visible light and more easily absorbed by human skin.
September 14, 2020
The HOTWORX 24 Hour Infrared Fitness Studio franchise chain has become uniquely positioned to benefit from its concept in response to customer needs during the pandemic. The ability for the brand to adapt its workout appointment technology for social distancing has been a real fitness advantage for studio members.
September 7, 2020
It is safe to say that you probably have never seen or read about a workout that is described as a “recovery workout”. Rather, it is more likely that you have heard those words used individually such as “recovery” from a “workout”. The conventional wisdom would say that you need to recover from a tough workout by going to the sauna after training. But conventional wisdom never factors in quality of life advancements based on innovation.
August 31, 2020
Fitness and discipline go hand in hand. You can’t experience a successful training program without discipline. If you are not willing to commit to discipline, then you will fail in your attempt to transform yourself into a person who lives with an active and fit lifestyle.
August 24, 2020
Most people launch a calorie-burn mission to lose fat and drop weight. As a general rule, it takes a 3,500-calorie burn to lose a pound of body weight—which sounds like a lot, doesn’t it?
August 16, 2020
In my research for the blog this week I came across a very interesting article published in June of 2016 in the medical journal Frontiers in Microbiology. The article summarizes the findings of a study conducted with the use of mice exposed to a deadly strain of influenza, the Avian Virus H5N1.
August 10, 2020
I’ve been working on a book based on the topic of hot exercise that will be released soon and the introduction section talks about the value of time. In the opening sentences my remarks are as follows:“Time is perhaps the most valuable commodity we have in life. We might even go as far as to say all human advancement is the result of an effort to improve the quality of time.”
August 3, 2020
Did you know that infrared energy is absorbed through your skin up to 1.5 inches into your body while you are training in the sauna? It’s true, and have you thought about what the benefits are to your organs resulting from the infrared stimulation? Let’s briefly explore that question, and why the delivery of oxygen to organs is so important.
July 28, 2020
As I was thinking of a topic for this week’s blog post, I found myself looking back at my convention speech (held virtually this year) slide deck to get an idea. I immediately thought to look back to my slide of customer “one liners” explaining why they love the HOTWORX workout from their online 5 star ratings. By far, the “workouts” themselves were the main reason for member satisfaction.
July 20, 2020
The HOTWORX franchise originally designed its patented infrared workout sauna for small groups to train together. It was never anticipated that the sauna would one day provide exercise in a way that would allow for very precise social distancing during a pandemic. Under normal, pre-COVID, circumstances, up to three people can workout inside of the sauna for fast, fun and effective group training.
July 11, 2020
In the late ’80’s and early ’90’s I was a licensee of three Gold’s Gym locations. At that time, Gold’s was “licensing” out their brand name rather than full on franchising of a system of operations. I really enjoyed being an owner of Gold’s Gym locations, and still love to take trips out to the original Gold’s known as the Mecca of Bodybuilding in Venice, CA. I always say that if you can’t get motivated in that gym, then you just can’t be motivated.
July 5, 2020
Books have the power to change people for the better. For those who read more than others, there is a chance that at some point they will experience a fundamental change in their life because of a book that they read. My business partner, Nancy Price, back in 2011 gave me a book for Christmas that changed my career.