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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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August 30, 2016

Sweat and Detox: Is There a Connection?

The answer is yes, there is a connection. Don’t let anyone tell you that there is NO detox through sweating. The real debate is over how much detoxification occurs through sweating.

August 24, 2016

Heat Acclimation

Why do champions train in extreme conditions? I would submit to you the old adage: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger! Ok, that sounds extreme for sure, but I am tired of reading and listening to the weak speak of some of the so called fitness gurus out there. For crying out loud, CHALLENGE YOURSELF!I am not advocating recklessness when it comes to working out.

August 16, 2016

Three’s Company!

It takes a special person to achieve the highest level of motivation for a workout practicing solo with no other people around. Even when training by yourself, you always achieve a higher level of performance if you have a trainer to push you or if you are simply in a workout environment such as a gym or a park where there are others around.

August 9, 2016

Compression for Detox…

It is easy for anyone to equate sweating with detoxification. What is not so easily understood is detoxification based on muscle compression. When you flex your biceps doing curls, you are compressing your muscles and constricting blood flow. When you relax the flexion you can feel the flush of the constricted blood flow release. When this happens toxins are flushed out of the body!

August 2, 2016

BTW... You're Doing Cardio

Ever feel like a mouse on a wheel when you're on a treadmill? I can’t think of anything more boring for a cardio workout than that! The cool thing about HOTWORX workouts is that while you are focused on the isometric posture sequence as you follow the lead from the virtual instructor, you are actually getting a great cardio workout.Very quickly...

July 30, 2016

HOTWORX Has That Likeability Factor

Fletcher Jernigan is the spa director at the Uptown New Orleans Planet Beach spray & spa. The spa has been in the health and wellness industry for over 20 years. In July of 2015 the owner decided to install a HOTWORX unit.

July 26, 2016

The Vortex Workout!

If you missed the first ever HOTWORX Conference, you missed a unique workout. It was likely the first large group isometric workout ever in the mid-summer heat on the top of a hotel on the Strip in Las Vegas.

July 12, 2016

The Inner Warrior Fascination

The inner warrior is real. We all have one. To paraphrase a Buddha quote, one who conquers self is greater than one who conquers a thousand soldiers in battle! We all have an inner warrior fascination.As fitness club owners, we should acknowledge that our members want to satisfy their inner warrior. When we market to potential new members we should find ways to appeal to the inner warrior fascination.

July 6, 2016

SWEAT IT OUT!!!

Saunas are great for sweating. We all know the more you sweat, the more you rid your body of toxins. It just makes sense. Sweat it out! We soak up toxins through food, water and the air that we breathe.

June 28, 2016

Go AT YOUR OWN Best Pace!

Personal trainers, yoga instructors, group X teachers all offer a vast array of styles, methods, motivations and philosophies with their workouts. Variety is the spice of life, as they say.

June 21, 2016

Workout Time: The Perfect 30 Minutes

As a fitness entrepreneur I am always looking for ways to give my clients the very most out of each visit to the gym or spa. Let’s face it, time is the most valuable commodity in life. On average, we all have a little more than 80 years worth of time on this planet. What we do with our time is important, to say the least!How we use our gym time can greatly enhance our longevity (and quality) of life so that we can beat the 80+ year average.

June 14, 2016

No Wasted Time

Last week’s blog was all about no wasted space. This week it is about no wasted time. Time is just as important as space to a bricks and mortar business owner, especially a fitness business owner. Make every effort to maximize space and time with your business. Space + Exercise + Intensity + Time = Results in this business.

June 7, 2016

No Wasted Space

We created the HOTWORX hot exercise system for business owners to improve their bottom line by improving the waistline of their customers. HOTWORX (formerly Hot Box Detox) is a workout system based on “hot exercise,” a term that we coined right here on this blog. We use a patent pending infrared sauna system to service three clients at a time for their isometric workout needs.

June 2, 2016

EVERYTHING IS IN A NAME...

Everything is in a name. The name of anything should reflect its true essence. Product naming is a problem solving exercise meant to discover a “title” through meaning with the highest level of creativity and originality. And, of course, the name should have a coolness factor.Therefore, we have made the decision to change the name of Hot Box Detox to HOTWORX.

May 25, 2016

THE RIGHT HEAT FOR WORKOUTS

Most hot yoga and hot pilates studios use traditional heating methods that simply heat up the air in the room. The original hot workout idea was to recreate the climate in India at around 104 degrees and 40% humidity. While this may be closer to the climate in India, it is not the best environment for working out. Infrared heat is the same as the heat that radiates from the sun and it provides for a much drier studio and, therefore, much more comfortable for workouts.The same is true for saunas. In a traditional sauna.

May 15, 2016

HYPERTHERMIC CONDITIONING

Hyperthermic conditioning is a fancy way to describe the positive thing that happens to your body when you acclimate it to heat while working out in the Hot Box Detox sauna. Working out has its obvious benefits, but when combined with heat acclimation.

May 10, 2016

MAKE YOUR WEIGHT!

One of the many benefits that can be obtained from hot exercise is massive calorie burn. How to lose weight is no secret. You lose weight when you burn off more calories than you consume.

April 29, 2016

Hot Isometrics For Athletes

Isometric postures performed with a proper sequence in an infrared heated environment makes for a great supplemental workout for athletes. And hands down, the best workout recovery comes from techniques used inside of an infrared sauna.

April 23, 2016

Global Fitness Climate Change

With the presidential election process in full swing, it makes me think about the burning issues of the day, like climate change, for instance. No matter what you think about it politically, for good or for bad, the planet is getting hotter. That being the case, we should all think about adapting to a new climate.It can’t hurt to start with evolving your workout environment and incorporating hot exercise into your weekly routine.

April 14, 2016

Introducing Hot Buns And Hot Roll!

I am happy to announce that we are now releasing two new HBX videos! These two are not just revisions of our original “Hot Iso” 14 posture full-body isometric workout. These videos open up two new workout categories for Hot Box Detox, one for laser focused glute work and one for self-myofacial release/deep tissue massage. Ideally, for clients, the two new videos will serve as a supplement to the original Hot Iso workout.

April 8, 2016

Confusion About Muscle Confusion

The Hot Box Detox isometric/infrared fusion workout was inspired by Bikram Yoga. I used to practice Bikram and it is an awesome program if you have 90 minutes for it. Now I practice the 30 minute Hot Box Detox twice per week as a supplement to my weight training program.One of the reasons that I liked Bikram was its discipline to 26 set postures. With the set postures, you are able to easily know how you are progressing from session to session.

April 1, 2016

Radiant Hot Workouts In Vegas!

Hot Box Detox is now HOTWORX

March 25, 2016

After-Burn!

The Hot Box Detox team just concluded its first IHRSA (North America’s Largest Fitness Industry Trade Show) yesterday with an incredible response from the industry that will require a great follow up effort to ensure that all of the club, gym and spa owners receive their new HBX units very soon.

January 18, 2016

Hot Exercise…the HBX-Factor for Your Fitness Business

Let’s give credit where credit is due. Exercise combined with heat has been popularized by the hot yoga movement for sure. Most hot yoga studios, such as Bikram practice at a temperature of 104 or 105 degrees Fahrenheit (convection heat, or in other words heated air in the room) and with a humidity level of 40% so as to re-create the climate of India where yoga originated.