Atlanta Personal Trainer and Fitness Training

Jeff Michaud is a Atlanta personal trainer who can improve your fitness level. I'm also a USPTA tennis instructor. This site is dedicated to personal fitness and health in Alanta GA.

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Atlanta Boot Camp training session (out door) cancelled for Sunday afternoon

Hello Atlanta Fitness group and friends, the Sunday session for today at 5pm in Ansley park will be cancelled because of the cold weather and the chance for rain. Where coming down to the last weeks of this session and hopign to put together another session, Just looking for 5 people to commit, right now for the weekend i do have 5 people none of whom can do it at the same time or day so looking for a few more people to join in. The Boot camp sessions meet at various parks and neighborhoods for basic exercise, and cardio activity, please contact fitness with Jeff if you would like more information. http://www.fitnesswithjeff.com

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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Review of Appartment gyms, Gables 820

Hello Atlanta Training and Fitness Group, as part of my series of Residential Gyms, I found not only a Great Gym and Common Areas, but a great old world feeling at 820 Gables West Appartments Home. 820 West in addition to a great gym with the latest in state of the Art exercise equipment, a very cool pool and club house is has received the Energy Star designation. Getting back to the Gym: there is a great selection of Cardio equimpent, Free wieght dumbells, exercise equipment, amble space to stretch and limber up. This as a personal trainer is the type of gym that I love to train my residential clients. 820 is located in directly accross from the King Plow Arts center in one of the Coolest neighborhood, The Westside, AKA West Midtown. Let William Holland give you the grand tour. There address is 820 West Marietta Street Atlanta 30318, phone- 404.898.8720

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Saturday, March 22, 2008

Group training for fitness in Atlanta Ga

Hello Atlanta Fitness and exercise group, the schedule for this week is Sunday at 9;30am, Mon-thursday 6pm, still looking for another girl to join our friday at 5:30pm before we can begin that one. All sessions are done in the Buckhead, Midtown area, please contact me if you want to join one of the Fitness groups

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Ten Tips for Smart Stretching, why stretch and stategys's

Hello Atlanta Personal Training Group,a client of mine who Told me about Dr. Craig Senft, a Atlanta Chiropractor located on North Druid hills Atl 30329, While going out to Dr Craigs site I found this article that I thought you guys might like, Ten Tips for Smart Stretching, I put the top Four in this blog, if you would like to check out the rest of the article and other topics please checkout:
http://www.chiroatlanta.com/articles/315.html
­ Stretch Before or After Exercise?
There's been a lot of discussion lately about the best time to stretch. Ultimately, there's no right or wrong here. What works for you works for you.

The main point is to be sure to stretch.

Recent exercise physiology studies do show that static stretching (slow, easy stretching) actually reduces muscular power and strength in the short-term. So, for competitive, high-level athletes, static stretching is best done AFTER exercise.

For people in their thirties and beyond, many of whom have had back issues at some time, it may still be a very good idea to do static stretching before exercise. The primary value here is to prepare the muscles, ligaments, and joints of the lower back for work. Static stretching of the big muscles of the legs - the hamstrings, calves, and quads - reflexively loosens and elongates lower back muscles and supporting structures.

So, for many of us, doing our regular stretching routine first, followed by five or ten minutes of a dynamic warm-up, is still the best preparation for a safe, enjoyable, fulfilling workout.
1. Why stretch? Stretching lengthens muscles and improves flexibility.1,2 Also, stretching the big leg muscles - the hamstrings, calves, and quads - simultaneously loosens and lengthens the muscles of your lower back. So, when you stretch, you're helping your back!

2. When to stretch? Recent exercise physiology studies show that static stretching is best done after exercise.3 Pre-exercise "dynamic warm-ups", such as torso twists, arm circles, and light jogging, prepare the body for work. Importantly, for those of us with back issues, it's still a good idea to do the familiar static stretches even before the dynamic warm-up!

3. Don't rush! Stretching is as important as what you're going to do after you stretch. And, if you rush, you might pull a muscle or worse. Be sure to include 10 to 15 minutes of stretching as part of your exercise time.

4. Stretch gently and slowly. You're not trying to accomplish anything while stretching. In other words, you're not trying to stretch "this much" or "this far". Nice and easy does it. Stretching is a Zen activity.

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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Atlanta bootcamp style work,

Hello Atlanta Personal training, group and Friends and neighbors. As most of you who havee worked out and trained with me know how much I enjoy teaching and working in a boot camp style. I'm not a beliver in a machine based workout. In my opinion the boot camp style promotes the best results in the quickest period of time. Exercises like jump rope and pushups and work with dumbells build muscle in the quickest period of time. For work machines I like the Lat pull machine, Leg extension and the leg curl machine are among my favorites. I do these workouts both for my private and group sessions as much as possible.

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Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Workout program, boot camp style program

Hello Atlanta Fitness group, this is a sample workout that I did for one of my clients to do in between the regular workouts.
5 minutes stretching and warmup, wall stretch
Arm circles 20 forward, 20 backward
20-40 minutes cardio: treadmill, elliptical etc.
40 crunches
30 side crunches right side, left side
wall pushups close grip 20
Calf Raiese 30 reps
wall pushups wide grip 20
20 half squats 3-5 pounds
Minute or 2 of post workout stretching

That should be about 45 minutes

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