As an additional offering for our clients, Life Fitness Academy is now allowing an open gym Monday-Friday from 10:00am – 3:00pm for $50.00 EFT monthly or $5.00 per visit.
To be eligible for open gym times, you must attend at least one fitness class per week or be a personal training client. To schedule a class or to subscribe to open gym service just contact us!
For a limited time you can get 50% off personal training with Ashley Dance!
Stipulations apply, and they are:
1) You must train between the hours of 10:00am – 2:00pm.
2) You get the rate for as long as you train with Ashley but you must continue to pay consecutively, any breaks and you lose the discounted rate.
3) This offer expires August 1, 2011.
To view Ashley’s normal rates, view the pricing page.
Contact Us to schedule!
Email: LifeFitnessAcademy@gmail.com
Phone: 615-562-2633
I love to tell people that my job is to maximize their whole health, with weight loss being one of the primary benefits. I know that sounds kind of cheesy, but I assure you, if you can follow some basic guidelines and do your research, then you will have success. For some it comes faster than it does for others, but either way you are doing more for your body than over half the population.
We do things raw, organic, and living, because our bodies are made for that–not the sterile, white, and lifeless food we have come to know. These raw, organic, whole foods are loaded with health benefits. A few of the key ones that I have experienced are these: way more energy, less sickness (once or less a year), no joint pain, faster healing time, and the ability to mold and shape my body the way I want to. Other benefits I see in my clients are: medication reduction or discontinuation, significant weight loss, less joint pain, increased strength and flexibility, not to mention–happiness. But the last one could be because they get to see me everyday… 
Teaching someone how to do health and fitness is our goal and my passion, as a matter of fact, I have a hard time turning “it” off. I love talking about how good kombucha is for you, or how you can beat a cold when it isn’t even here yet. I get a kick out of showing people that have spent a lifetime doing things the conventional way in the sports nutrition field and totally change their bodies with raw foods. Watching them beat their perceptions is amazing, especially after they have been told no, or that they can’t.
A lot of what we teach is common sense when it comes to food–not the hype like TV, Jillian Michaels, or People Magazine throw at you that doesn’t stack up or is too much work. Is learning this work? You betcha! As you become more acclimated to it the process becomes far less time consuming and way more fun.
Everything worth doing takes work, if it is easy, stay away from it.
We do this because we love people, we love our clients and want them to feel as good as we do and share it with their friends and family. Change your family tree, do something that will give you and your family abundant life. Ask us and we will help you, no matter what the budget or the location. I offer email, phone, and personal support through any means possible.
Exercise isn’t just for the young, exercise isn’t just for those trying to lose weight, and exercise certainly isn’t just for those who compete in athletics. Exercise is important for everyone as it provides synergistic benefits to the body.
Exercise helps you think. It has been shown to help mental sharpness and acuity, as well as memory recall. Exercise improves circulation, moving and forcing blood so that life is spread throughout the body.
Exercise improves strength which thereby makes the things you do even more doable. It makes the everday functions that you take on more efficient and easier to accomplish. Exercise helps to make strong bones and to keep more marrow from turning into fat.
Now I must go, it is time to go exercise.
We all know that aging is inevitable and even a good thing. We don’t want to keep people from aging, but we definitely want to help people age well and avoid some of the physical problems associated with aging. Enter: exercise.
Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky, professor of pediatrics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, was surprised to find that exercise kept a strain of mice from becoming gray prematurely. New research published showed that exercise reduced or removed almost every detrimental effect of aging in mice that had been genetically programmed to grow old at an accelerated pace.
The finding with regard to mice gives hope to the body of evidence that suggests exercise combined with excellent food choices can overcome genetic tendencies.
For the experiment, Dr. Tarnopolsky and his colleagues used lab rodents that carried a genetic mutation which affected how well their bodies repair malfunctioning mitochondria. Mitochondria combine oxygen and nutrients to create fuel for the cells, they are the power generators.
As we age, mitochondria can accumulate small mutations, and over time our system cannot repair them and mitochondria start malfunctioning and dying. Many consider this dying off of mitochondria to be an underlying cause of aging in mammals. As mitochondria falter, the fuel they supply dwindles and cells respond such that muscles shrink, brain volume drops, hair falls out or loses its pigmentation, and soon enough we are, in appearance and beneath, growing old.
So what happened to the mice?
All of the mice lacked the necessary repair mechanism for their mitochondria, so they developed malfunctioning mitochondria as early as 3 months (human 20 years). Half were allowed to exercise and half were not. At eight months, the half that did not exercise were frail, weak, and crippled, with spindly muscles, shrunken brains, enlarged hearts, shriveled gonads, and patchy, graying fur–all died before reaching a year of age.
The other half–the mice which were allowed to exercise–ran on a wheel for 45 minutes three times a week beginning at three months. At eight months they remained youthful with full pelts of dark fur, no salt-and-pepper shadings, and they maintained muscle mass and brain function with normal gonads and heart size. They still had the genetic mutation, but mitochondria had proliferated so much that they had enough with far fewer mutations than the sedentary mice. At 1 year, none of the exercising mice had died of natural causes.
The benefit of regular exercise has been known, and yet it continues to surprise in how beneficial it actually is and how much it affects the systems of the body.
Source: New York Times, “Can Exercise Keep You Young”
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We currently have Dr. Mercola’s Miracle Whey Protein Powder on sale for $29.95. The flavor is vanilla and the quality is premium.
Check it out in the webstore.
Why is this a good choice when it comes to protein powders?
Finishing up our series from Checkley’s Natural Method of Training, we have some more highlights for you today.
Checkley’s Natural Method of Training
By: Edwin Checkley
Second edition, published 1922, excerpts from pages 135 and 137.
“Of course the best kind of exercise is the exercise the body receives
in performing some useful service. If a person feels that he is
getting some good out a certain kind if work he has more enjoyment in
that work than if he considered it either harmful labor or labor that
was merely obligatory. It is notorious that men will enter with
enoyment on active sport that makes a considerable demand upon their
strength, when a hod of coal hurts their back, and a little spading in
the garden fills them with aches for a week. As a matter of fact, too,
word done without interest actually strains the body more than work
enthusiastically performed.”
“The tendency of hard exercise is hard muscles, and hard muscles are
bad. The body should remain firm, but pliant and in most parts soft.
It is in the conservation of energy, and not in the prodigal
dissipation of energy, that the greatest strength and endurance of the
body will always lie.“
Continuing our series from Checkley’s Natural Method of Training, we have some more highlights for you today where Checkley discusses issues for women.
Checkley’s Natural Method of Training
By: Edwin Checkley
Second edition, published 1922, excerpts from page 104 and 111.
On Training For Women
“In the case of the bust it is of importance to remember that there is here, as in all other parts of the body, a muscular system. The muscles of this region are, of course, almost invariably unlocated by their owner, and most supports soon leave them unused also. Now, by persistent effort a control over these muscles may be established until it will be possible to voluntarily contract and relax them, with the result that a sunken and flabby bust may be made full and firm. Thus, unless she is absolutely deformed, there is no reason why a woman should not develop and mold her entire form by simply acquiring muscular control of the parts deficient in contour. The gaining of control requires a distinct effort of will, but the results surely justify the effort.”
“Women should, in fact, cultivate all the exercises that might give suppleness to their bodies. There can be no grace without suppleness. That complete flexibility in all the muscles of the body which the exercises enumerated have been calculated to secure is absolutely necessary to the charm of carriage which distinguishes one woman above another. Unused muscles, resulting from an absurd idea of the essential restrictions of a woman’s position, are worse than no muscles, because they are irritated under tension and retard the movement begun by the muscles that are fit to use.”
Continuing our series from Checkley’s Natural Method of Training, we have some more highlights for you today.
Checkley’s Natural Method of Training
By: Edwin Checkley
Second edition, published 1922, excerpts from page 18 and 29.
“It is of the utmost importance, then, at the very outset that a person should do those things properly which occupy so large a percentage of the habits of his life. If there is a reflex action from the correct habits of sitting, standing and breathing, to say nothing of other actions, it is quite clear that the formation of a correct habit will bring a certain percentage of added strength and health with no conscious exertion. It is like having money out at interest. The income does not seem to be worked for.”
from page 18
“The point of what I have urged is this: The muscles must be in the support of the body–and all of the muscles that rightfully should. This does not imply greater labor, but less. What begins by a conscious effort will soon end in a habit–will become an exhilaration. What often passes for fatigue of the muscles is simply irritation arising from impeded circulation of the blood brought about not by the use but the cramping or non-use of muscles.”
from page 29
In honor of Life Fitness Academy’s Birthday this month we are offering our best deal ever on personal training!
50% off personal training for as long as you continue your training. That’s right: $37.50 per session. This is not an introductory deal that will go up. You can lock in this price for as long as you continue your training. It is a limited time offer that will expire on February 25, 2011. You must pay and schedule by then. After the 25th our regular rates will be in full effect.
Special Terms and Conditions for this deal are:
Phone: 615-562-2633
Email: LifeFitnessAcademy@gmail.com
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