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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 20, 2017

Yoga Mat (and Towel) Mania!

Your yoga mat, and towel is a personal thing. These two items are as important to an isometric workout as a good pair of Nike’s are to a runner. When people experience yoga, pilates and other forms of isometrics with a really good mat and towel they will never go back to a lesser quality experience.

February 13, 2017

Hot Warrior

We have several new workout videos that are being introduced now and one of them is Hot Warrior. Hot Warrior is another great HOTWORX 30 minute isometric workout. We employed the services of Nichole Mellison, professional trainer and pro bikini competitor, for this workout. The idea was to take the Hot ISO, our original HOTWORX workout to a higher level. Mission accomplished!

February 3, 2017

BELIEVE, DO, ACHIEVE...REPEAT

The foundation of motivation is belief. There’s no argument against that. In fitness, to achieve your goals, then it certainly starts with a belief that you can. As a fitness professional, nothing is more upsetting than to listen to a person say they need to “think about it” before they begin a fitness program. What is there to think about? Choose to BELIEVE that you can, and begin that program today! Stop procrastinating.

January 29, 2017

Orange Lady

I posted this story on Facebook two years ago, but I thought it might serve as a good blog post to helps us all remain motivated as we move into spring 2017: A couple of years ago I was in Vegas attending an amazing marketing conference at the Aria. I decided to stay over the weekend and go skiing to free my mind… Turns out there is a cool little spot to ski about 40 miles into the mountains away from the strip to the north.

January 21, 2017

BURN Baby BURN It Off!

I am convinced that the HOTWORX Hot Iso 30 minute workout gives the best calorie after-burn in the business. Take a look at my most recent workout results:

January 20, 2017

Stay on Track This Year!

A driver should never drive without a speedometer. A pilot can’t fly without an altimeter, and a scuba diver should never dive without a dive watch.At the very least, any serious workout person should include the use of a reliable measuring tool for the two most important fitness metrics, heart rate and calorie burn. The challenge is for that person to find the right fitness tracker for them.

January 8, 2017

3D Training

As promised, here is the “Three Dimensional Training” post.So what is 3D Training? Most people workout in the traditional single dimension of exercise only without any environmental considerations. When you add dimensions to your workout, you will force your body to adapt to perform and you can expose your body to elements that will increase your physical effectiveness.

December 31, 2016

Core Temperature and Calories Burned

Next week stay tuned for “Three Dimensional Training,” the perfect blog topic for the new year. Leading up to that blog topic, let’s take a look at one of those training dimensions, heat.Elevating your body’s core temperature accelerates your metabolism.

December 24, 2016

HOT CYCLE

That’s right. Introducing another HOTWORX Original, “HOT CYCLE.” So, what if three people decided to move cycles into an infrared sauna and do a 15 minute HIIT session at 125 degrees? We did just that today!

December 17, 2016

How's Your Altitude?

Most athletes have experienced some form of training in higher altitudes than what might be normal for them. Each year I compare my level of conditioning to the previous year by how I perform on the ski slopes. I began skiing when I was 32. I’m 53 now and I can tell you that this year my level of cardio conditioning was by far the best that I have ever experienced on the slopes.

December 10, 2016

Ready, Set, GOAL!

After working non-stop, on the road across the Northwest part of the USA for the last 6 days, I went for some down time today. I happened to end my work trip in Salt Lake City, so I planned ahead to spend a few days on the ski slopes.I use snow skiing as a motivational tool when I work out. My ski trips are planned and then used as my physical GOAL!

December 4, 2016

tis the Calorie Season

Thanksgiving has passed and we have all consumed an inordinate amount of calories already. Black Friday is gone, Cyber Monday is over, and now it’s Christmas party after Christmas party and then here comes the office Holiday party and, of course, it’s on to New Year’s Eve. There’s bowl game after bowl game to watch and bowls and bowls of chips to eat while you watch…

November 27, 2016

The Gravity War

Let’s face it. Gravity wins in the end. That’s ok. Seems to me, though, that we should fight the good fight for as long as we possibly can. Collectively, we are actually doing pretty good in our physical war against gravity, and we should continue to do more.

November 20, 2016

Two Clients

A hot 30 minute isometric workout is definitely good for everybody, but generally there are two reasons that clients will use this type of session, and they are:1. General Fitness: 80% of clients who practice a form of hot exercise do it for their main or their only fitness routine.

November 12, 2016

The Air is Awesome!

There is a big difference in the environment of a typical hot exercise studio and the hot exercise environment in a HOTWORX sauna. The most important difference is the air!Traditional hot yoga studios will attempt to recreate the climate of parts of India with 104 degrees fahrenheit and 40% humidity.

November 5, 2016

Muscle Growth and Infrared

Since I began supplementing my weight training routine with weekly sessions in the HOTWORX, I have noticed that I am able to maintain a higher level of lean muscle with no change in my diet.

October 29, 2016

Fitness Trackers

No doubt fitness tracking technology is popular and very useful to measure workout performance. That being said, what type of tracker is best for you? Let’s take a brief dive into it.What’s important?

October 22, 2016

The Power of 3

It has been proven that training with others improves workout performance. Plenty of scientific evidence proves this, but let’s face it, common sense should tell us that effort increases when others are around. A workout group of three people makes for a good fitness team. Small group training has gained tremendous popularity in recent years and for good reason.

October 15, 2016

Recovery Revelation…The Nitric Oxide Effect!

I was inspired to learn more about the nitric oxide effect of infrared saunas while watching one of the physicians on the The Doctors episode that HOTWORX was recently featured on.

October 8, 2016

What is a Recovery Workout?

That sounds like an oxymoron, right? How can you recover from a workout while you are actually working out? Is that really possible? Yes it is possible.When you combine isometrics with infrared heat, then you will certainly experience recovery during the workout itself! This happens due to the penetration of the radiant infrared heat energy.

October 1, 2016

Speed Up the Warm Up!

It takes twice as long to warm up for a workout in an air-conditioned studio. Why waste that time? Your body likes heat and we all know that warming up prior to exercise is the right thing to do.

September 27, 2016

Evolve to HOTWORX!

How did heat get to here in fitness?Heat is an ancient form of therapy. Sweat lodges and saunas have been around for centuries. Thousands of years ago the Greeks and Egyptians used various forms of heat therapy, including the sun, thermal baths, hot mud and caverns with volcanic heated air.Exercise has been around since the ancient times as well.

September 21, 2016

HOTWORX AFTER-BURN!!!

I don’t mean to brag, but HOLY CRAP man…the calorie after-burn from a HOTWORX workout is tremendous. I’ll just use myself and my Apple Watch as proof. I am 5’ 10”, 185 lbs., fit and 53 years young. My results for the last two sessions in the HOTWORX here in New Orleans went like this:HOTWORX Hot Yoga 30 min. workout = 388 calories burnedAfter-burn for the next hour and 15 minutes...

September 14, 2016

Better Life Quality

As I have travelled coast to coast visiting gyms, clubs and spas that have installed HOTWORX infrared saunas, one thing that I hear from the customers at all of these locations is how the HOTWORX workouts have elevated their quality of life. I have heard this from yoga instructors, professional athletes, doctors, fitness competitors, police officers and mom/daughter teams.

September 8, 2016

Electrolyte Hydration!

The more you hydrate during a workout in the sauna, the more you sweat. The more you sweat, the more you detox. Make sure you hydrate properly. By that I mean keep your sports drink shaker next to you and drink plenty and whenever you need to.