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Recovery While Working Out

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!

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February 5, 2018

Simple Burn Off App Upgrade

A quick Google search for fitness apps will reveal pages of sites that discuss the features of fitness app after fitness app after fitness app. There is an incredible world of fitness apps out there. There are so many options, almost to the point of causing stress. All of these apps were designed to help people get in shape, but the features sometimes lose sight of the fact that you have to actually do the workout.

January 29, 2018

The First Ever, and First Annual Virtual Instructor Competition

I am super excited to announce that HOTWORX will be hosting the first ever, and first annual international Virtual Instructor Competition in conjunction with our annual company convention this July in Lake Tahoe! We are looking for five outstanding fitness instructors who will be filmed throughout the next year as virtual instructors for the franchise.

January 21, 2018

Workout Type Consistency is Vital

As a fitness professional and as an owner of many fitness facilities throughout my career, I am amused sometimes to listen to overzealous trainers and fitness center owners who destroy good workouts because they think that a workout type should be different every time. For example, some will listen to people who think they need a different yoga posture sequence for every workout and these trainers

January 14, 2018

Infrared Hot Resolution

You’ve already heard them. No doubt, I’ve heard them too already this new year. I am referring to the jokes about well intended New Years resolutions that are destined for failure once again.

January 8, 2018

Small Group Training is Better

Train with a small group this year. Your focus, motivation, accountability and fun levels will go up if you do. Check out the research below:“Group Training is Better: Fortunately, working out with others is also more fun, as researchers found by studying elite male rowers at Oxford University. The rowers first exercised on a rowing machine in the company of their teammates; the next day, they performed the same workout at the same intensity, but by themselves.

January 1, 2018

Infrared Workouts = More Work Productivity

Americans value hard work. It pays (literally) to get more done while you are working! You can greatly enhance your work quality and quantity within a specific amount of time if you practice a regular fitness routine, and an infrared fitness program can get you even more workout in less time!

December 27, 2017

Tryptophan Truth and How to Counter Its Effect

Let’s talk turkey. We have all spent time on the couch sleeping off a good holiday turkey and dressing meal. Then, when we woke up, someone in the family said something like this, “I see that tryptophan just got the best of you this year, hahaha!” True, something did make you sleepy, but it likely was not just the Christmas turkey.

December 18, 2017

Gift to Self This Christmas

Tis the season for helping others and giving. We all make giving to others and helping those in need a priority during the Christmas season. With that in mind, why should I be writing a blog article about giving to yourself? Because taking care of yourself throughout this time of year, rather than letting yourself go could quite possibly be the greatest gift that you could give to your loved ones.

December 11, 2017

Try a Virtual Fitness Instructor

As an owner of many gyms and fitness facilities throughout my career, I can tell you that one of the most frustrating aspects of gym management is dealing with trainer staffs and group fitness instructors. As a certified trainer myself, I have a great deal of respect for the fitness trainer and group instructor professions, but I am a realist.

December 4, 2017

Lasting Benefits of Hot Infrared Training

Add heat and infrared energy to your fitness training regimen and you get what we call 3-Dimensional Training. Altering the atmosphere of your workout environment can yield compounded benefits that stay with you even if you are forced to take a break from training for some reason.

November 27, 2017

Boutique Fitness This Christmas

We generally understand a boutique is a small exclusive business that offers a very specialized form of services or products. What began as a way to describe a small clothing store now gives definition to other business types such as hotels, advertising agencies and health clubs.

November 20, 2017

Elevate Your Mood with an Infrared Workout

Infrared light promotes the production of serotonin. Higher levels of serotonin helps to improve your mood. Serotonin is a chemical found in the human body, a neurotransmitter that carries signals alongside the nerves.

November 12, 2017

EMF and Infrared Sauna Exposure

There is a lot of confusion today with respect to EMF, which stands for electromagnetic field, and how it relates to infrared saunas and the health effects of these charged particles on the human body. EMF’s are electric and magnetic fields of energy that are created by electronic devices including cell phones, microwave ovens, vacuum cleaners, etc. We are concerned with infrared sauna heaters, which is also an electrical device that emits low level electromagnetic radiation.

November 6, 2017

Hot Supplement to Athletic Training

Champion athletes always cross train. They never allow themselves to plateau due to a stale, monotonous training routine. As defined in a recent Runner’s World Magazine article, “cross-training is when a runner trains by doing another kind of fitness workout such as cycling, swimming, a fitness class or strength training, to supplement their running. It builds strength and flexibility in muscles that running doesn't utilize. It prevents injury by correcting muscular imbalances. And the variety prevents boredom and burnout.”

October 30, 2017

It’s Getting HOT in Mexico!!!

HOTWORX has officially launched in Mexico. This past week I had the opportunity to work with our distributor, Art Garcia and his team at Pro Fitness MX in Mexico City for the IHRSA Conference and Expo. The Pro Fitness booth was buzzing with prospects during the two days that I was there. Fitness professionals from many different cities throughout Mexico showed great interest in our 24 hour infrared fitness concept.

October 23, 2017

Toxic Planet

As I was returning from my son’s football practice today, I noticed a news feed across my phone that declared, “1 in 6 Deaths on the Planet are Linked to Pollution”. I thought to myself, how shocking, and my second thought was how sad. We are destroying our environment and the result is that we are killing ourselves in the process.

October 16, 2017

Multiple Membership Trend

There is a trend that has been developing in the fitness industry. People are willing to maintain more than one fitness club membership these days. Everywhere I go in my travels to visit new HOTWORX Studio locations, I hear from customers and from franchisees that everyone has multiple memberships to different gyms and fitness studios. Fitness customers are looking for specialty workouts now more than ever!

October 9, 2017

Brain Power

A 2013 Huffington Post article asserts that 20 minutes of yoga is good for the brain. The article published on huffingtonpost.com cites from a study published in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health which included 30 female college students who performed 20 minutes of yoga and then 20 minutes of exercise on a treadmill. Participants in the study took cognitive tests after the yoga session and again after the treadmill session. Results showed higher scores for tests following the yoga sessions (1).

October 1, 2017

Get Your Roll On!

Around the turn of the last century foam rollers began to populate the corners of gym floors all across the globe. A foam roller is simply a tool to allow a user to deliver a self administered deep tissue massage. This form of massage is also known as self myofascial release. Foam rollers come in many sizes, colors, textures and density, but generally they look like the one below.

September 25, 2017

Far Infrared Training is Good for the Skin

Let’s face it. Our skin takes a beating everywhere we go. Every day, due to environmental factors including such things as exposure to UV and air pollution, or skin is under assault. To counter this, why not treat your skin each time that you workout, while you are working out? As the old saying goes, kill two birds with one stone, or a more modern way to say it…let’s multi-task. Give your skin rejuvenation while you derive all of the mental and physical benefits of a great workout!

September 18, 2017

Team Bonfire

Last week my lunchtime HOTWORX® team decided to do a BONFIRE™ workout on Monday to kick off the week. The Bonfire workout consists of back-to-back hot isometrics and hot HIIT. It is a total of 45 minutes of actual workout with 30 minutes of isometrics followed by or preceded by 15 minutes of HIIT, all done in the infrared sauna at 125º F. Here are my results as recorded with my Apple Watch (note: I always use the “Other” workout setting for HOTWORX):

September 11, 2017

EPOC After-Burn

Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption, or EPOC is the increased amount of oxygen that your body uses to return to its normal rate of metabolism, or homeostasis, following a workout. This process is also known informally as the after-burn. Most fitness enthusiasts measure the after-burn in terms of calories burned within a certain amount of time immediately following the workout.

September 1, 2017

Infrared for Lunch Anyone?

Are you looking for a better workout schedule? Try 30 minutes of infrared isometrics three to four times per week with friends for lunch. I can tell you that for myself and my two friends/colleagues, April and Shawna, we all swear by the lunchtime HOTWORX workouts. There are some great advantages to this workout routine including:

August 28, 2017

Temperature Matters!

Heat has been used as a method of therapy for centuries. Ancient cultures used sweat lodges and primitive sauna structures as a way to cleanse the body from the inside out. Today we use high-tech infrared saunas for the same reason and for more precise purposes with much greater efficiency.

August 21, 2017

Competition Ready!

As a former NPC National Collegiate Bodybuilding Champion, I can tell you that paying attention to every training routine detail makes the difference between winning and losing the title.