Saturday, November 15, 2014

Nashville Personal Trainer | The Answer to Your Cellulite Problem

Most women have it, but none wants it.
 
It's plays a BIG role in whether you feel comfortable in your bathing suit and short shorts.

We all know by now that that dimply, cottage cheese is just fat, but what makes cellulite different from other fat in your body is that it's separated by collagen.

As you're losing fat it still can be one of those target areas that's hard to get right.

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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Nashville Personal Trainer | 5 Tips to Take Your Results to the Next Level

5 tips to take your results to the next level before you go crazy.

Let's forgo the preamble & four play and jump right into them.

  1. Raise Your Protein and Lower Carbs- specifically when you're not training.
    When you raise your protein intake, your appetite will be more tamed, therefore, you'll eat less calories; hormones will be more balanced; also, your metabolic rate (the rate at which you burn fat) while be greater while you're resting.


  2. Perform fasted HIIT.
    Counting calories and macros alone will put you at a disadvantage in the pursuit of leanness. What you want to do is combine that proper nutrition and training with someReal Deal, Holyfield cardio in order to use your fat as fuel first. Fasted HIIT can do that. However, it's not something to be abused. Start out at once a week: wake up, have some coffee or green tea, go to a hill or cardio apparatus and sprint as hard as you possibly can for 30 sec and rest for 60 sec. Repeat 7 times. Combine this with your resistance training and nutrition and you'll be looking like Superhero pretty darn soon.


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Friday, September 26, 2014

Nashville Personal Trainer | Move Towards the Resistance

Hey hey- did you miss me??

I want to start by giving thanks to the Summer. We had a good time together and was able to shine bright at many points.


If you didn't get all you wanted to get done this Summer, then you still have an opportunity during this Fall Equinox.


For some of you, coming off summer can be a bit of a shock to your system.


With leaves falling from the trees, cooler temperatures, eventually shorter days etc., a few tired faces will appear.


On the flip side, fall is the time when everything produces its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.


And that's potentially true for you as well.


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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Nashville Personal Trainer | The Key to Mental Toughness

I'm sure you've heard before that the biggest obstacle to getting success on a journey is simply getting started.

Once you overcome the anxiety of getting started, the rest of the road becomes easy.”


That's a deceiving mindset IMO because when things get hard, you'll be caught off-guard, unprepared, and ready to quit.


Training sessions become challenging or you realize that the self-discipline needed to stay on top of your nutrition might be higher than what you anticipated.


The last thing you want to be in is a perpetual state of starting and quitting things.


The antidote to this mental toughness.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Nashville Training | When you don't feel like it...

Those days when you soooo don't wanna go workout. You look for an excuse to do almost anything else.
 
When it's been a long day at work, you're tired and the last thing you want to do is cook. Drive-thru is much easier.
 
There will be those days when you don't feel like “showing up.”
 
And there will be “off days” when you do show up but your energy and morale are in the gutter. 
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Nashville Personal Training | 8 Tips to Feel Like A Champ

You walk into the gym.

After looking around the floor, you automatically become intimidated- there's a bunch of “fit people” training as if they can get even more ripped than they already are.

You have your workout in your hand but that social anxiety starts to kick in because you don't want to look like a fool doing everything wrong.

This egocentrism isn't anything strange.
The best way that I've found to combat it is to know what you're doing.

Confidence comes from trusting yourself. You'll trust yourself more when you don't have any unexpected (bad) surprises and can anticipate how everything will go.

To help you out with that, take these eight tips to your next training session to feel like a champ and anticipate success.
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Thursday, May 22, 2014

Nashville Personal Training | The Big A

It's time you stop having one night stands with nutrition plans and get to the altar and marry 'til death do you part with a plan.

You see, you can lose weight/fat with almost any plan if that involves lowering carbohydrate intake and calories.

The magic, though, is in the big A- adherence. Adherence is the most important thing known to man when it comes to getting guaranteed results.

Instead of asking what's the best diet you should be doing, a better question is, “Will I be able to adhere to it consistently?”

Can you stick with this plan? Are you in it for the long haul or is it a hit it and quit it kind of fling? Will you be miserable doing it?
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Monday, May 19, 2014

Nashville Personal Training | 4 Hang Ups That Kill Results

I found myself stuck in rut recently- frustrated, exhausted, and unfocused all at the same time.

When this happens, which can be often sometimes, I take it as a sign to step away and do something none-work related.

So I popped on Generation Iron to get refocused. It's a great documentary that inspires self-discipline.
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Monday, May 12, 2014

Nashville Personal Trainer | My Top 5 Favorite Exercises

Let's take a break from the mindset/motivational work get into some of the nitty gritty of getting results.

Namely, my top 5 favorite exercises right now.

I'm talking the the best movements that you can do RIGHT NOW for fat loss, rippness, sexiness, overrall strength, and more.

3....2....1... Go!
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Monday, April 14, 2014

Nashville Personal Trainer | How to beat 3 common failures

“If you could snap your fingers and change all the things that are keeping you from reaching your peak, what would you change?”

Finding the changes that would spark a domino effect of positive changes is the linchpin towards
accomplishing your fitness aspirations.

The devil isn't in the details or specifics- it's in the big picture.

To truly make a change for the better, to finally upgrade yourself and shine like a spotlight on center stage, address the following 3 problems as soon as possible.
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Nashville Personal Trainer | Summer Body Guide Pt. 2

Alright so in the last email we talked about developing a lower body that can cracked the sidewalk when stroll down the street and get you friend requests from Channing Tatum.

It's time to go up under shirt and do some construction on those ABS.


Ooohh you like the sound of that huh?

Something that many people don't like the sound of is me telling them to focus on fat loss more for a flatter midsection than doing a ton of crunches.

I'm all about getting fat loss from your diet and using exercise to mainly shape your body.

I'll go into more detail in the next installment, but the focus for your summer body should be 85% diet and 15% exercise. It's the best way.

Now does that me you're not to train abs? ABSolutely not.
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Monday, March 31, 2014

Nashville Personal Trainer- Summer Body Guide Pt. 1

Hey hey good people- it's Rickey here with XT.

April is upon thee and summer is approaching us.

In summer, people go to the beach. In Brazil, Brazilian girls go to the beach and they wear thongs and two pieces.

Americans should too.

Even though we don't have beaches here in Nashville and the weather has been bipolar for a while now, we still have outdoor concerts, festivals, bars, symphonies, and pool lounging where you just want to walk in and turn the room upside down.


So for this week, I'm gonna load you up with a with a 'summer body guide' to set you up nicely.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Nashville Personal Trainer Your Reason Why

Hey hey peeps.

It's been around two weeks since I sent a legitimate email so I wanted to check in and heat you with some heat.

I want to give you a powerful lesson that I had to learn recently because of circumstances.

It's something that transcends all the nuts and bolts of diet & exercise. It's the true key to success in physique development and practically every path you set out on.

You gotta know what you're fighting for.

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Sunday, February 16, 2014

Nashville Personal Trainer The Ultimate Mistake

Hey Rickey here- hope you're off to a killer start of the week, working your
hearts out.
 
Working out will get you lean, but is that enough?
 
There are a lot of people who've been training religiously for their spring/summer body.
 
They put in a ton of effort when they train and always keep one eye on their heart rate monitor to make sure that they're in the 'zone'.
 
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