The Fit U Personal Training

03/13/2023

12/15/2020

Keep your kids active over the holidays!!! Special Promo Below

It’s easier to learn something correctly at first then it is to change bad habits later. This is especially true with kids. They might not be able to do it perfectly to start but showing them the difference between correct and not ideal is critical.

The push up is often done with bad spinal alignment and a limited range of motion. The head lowering before the rest of the body is a typical mistake.

When that happens it causes shoulders to rotate upward and the elbow will flair out. This is not how you will ever develop pressing power or strength!

Many different tools along with verbal and visual cue can help them understand the difference of good and poor technique along with how it relates to improving in the sport of their liking.

The Fit U Personal Training is offering 10% of any package of more than 10 workouts over the holiday season for young athletes and children.

Contact The Fit U for questions or to schedule an assessment.

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06/09/2020

Do you need a new complex that tests your shoulder strength, mobility and stability while improving your hip hinge? Of course you do! Pretty much everyone could use improvement in these areas. Less pain, bigger lifts, improved posture, and so many more positives come from gaining more strength, stability and mobility.

This complex variation is combing the hip swing, the dumbbell clean, the over head press into a windmill. If you haven’t done these exercises individually than start there first before trying the complex. Here’s learning the movements and attempting to not curse or laugh. She was successful in the first goal and that’s what matters.

The dumbbell is the easiest piece of equipment to use for this complex. Kettlebells, barbells and sandbags create other challenges. The kettlebell can give you some nice blister in your palm. The barbell and sandbag will create more difficulties in stability in the shoulder and wrist. Like all exercises there should be a level of progression here. You might be able to do a lot more weight in the swing or clean portion compared to the press and especially the windmill part.

Always define why you are doing an exercise and how it’s is working towards your goals.

If you need help with that contact The Fit U and improve U !

06/07/2020

Have you been experiencing IT Band discomfort? Here’s something to try if you have. This is a two ball release working the outside quad muscle, the Vastus Lateralis. Your IT Band is not a muscle, it’s connective tissue. A lot of research has shown that working on the IT Band itself is not very effective. If we treat the Vastus Lateralis this can help with knee and hip pain. If you constantly notice your legs is rotated outward then your Vastus Lateralis is most likely overworked and needs release.

To set up this up, place the first ball about a few inches above the knee and the second ball a few inches below the hip on the outside of the thigh. Once you get the balls in position you will flex and extend at the knee. Do around 8-12 reps and then move the balls closer together. Continue to repeat this process until the balls are touching each other.

To understand and to test if this is an issue you are experiencing contact The Fit U Personal training for an assessment.

05/21/2020

Starting May 29th We will be back up and training clients. If you are in need of personal training please contact and we would be glad to help

03/21/2020

We will be closed until April 7th to follow with the quarantine. If you need suggestions or workout plans please feel free to contact me. Also if you are interested with, in your home personal training sessions I’ll be offering that as well. I have some weights, bands, kettlebells, boxing equipment and more to help with your workouts. I’ll contact all clients near the 7th to see if your normal workout times still work. Stay safe and healthy.

03/19/2020

If you are worried about coming in to the studio contact me about home visits.

03/16/2020

We are still open. We are constantly cleaning and disinfecting. Before and after you touch the equipment, we will clean it. Since we are a personal training gym we don’t have large groups. We will continue to stay open until we are told otherwise

02/25/2020

Dragon flies with anti lateral flexion.

I'm always researching and experimenting with fitness and different exercises. The basics like squats, deadlift, push, pull, carries, and other common exercises need to be a staple of any program. People and myself included like to challenge ourselves with variations or what some have called circus exercises. They are exercises that have a higher risk than the basics. They may not even be more or equal to the basics in terms of producing results. Yet they are fun and different.

With all that being said, I love dragon flies and I'll have my clients do them depending on their fitness level. The majority of my clients don't do these. If they have back issues, hip alignment, weak abs or anything I feel that would make these a risk to their health, we avoid them. Again there are other and maybe even better ways to train the abdominals.

If you can only do the negative (the lower phase) wait till you can do 10 dragon flies up and down before trying these.

When you reach that level and they feel slightly easy the band will. change that! I've tried with the band around my waist, knees, and ankles. The waist didn't challenge me. Around the knees was a bit harder but I didn't really pull me laterally like it did when the game was around my ankles.

I'm not sure if this is something completely new or if someone has tried this before. If I did come up this they shall be called the bearded dragon flies

For more info or to see what your current fitness levels are, contact The Fit U today

02/18/2020

Isometric Hip Rotation.
Do your hips feel off? Do you notice that you stand with one leg rotated externally ( having one leg pointed toward 1200 clock and the other facing towards 300 clock)? Do you have groin pain when squatting? The issue may be with your hip alignment and or weak adductors? Sometimes the adductors are not weak but constantly over stretched. That is an alignment issues which is causing the adductor muscle group to be in an over lengthened state aka over stretched. If the adductors are weak the ability to have stability will be compromised.

The eccentric isometric internal hip rotation can help either of those issues. Holding the foam roller between the legs creates the isometric contraction of the adductor group. The band helps to create resistance and also feedback for the person performing these so they can feel the difference between how their hips can rotate.

To find out if you have instability or you are out of alignment you will need to go through an assessment.
The Fit U can help with that. Contact us today for more info