Sticking to an Exercise Plan (Part One)

OK, so you’ve started your program but need a little extra help staying motivated?

Here are a few tips:

1. Get an exercise buddy. They will help keep you motivated…and so will the guilt of standing them up. Even better, get your kids or even grandkids to come to the gym with you. You will get to have some “family time” and by simply trying to keep up with someone younger you will push yourself a little more.

2. Make a bet with a friend (or enemy). Placing a money wager that you will hit your goal by a certain date makes every workout count. It also puts your honor on the line!

3. Tell everyone you know about your fitness goals. That way, you will have that many more people to answer to. It will be hard to live it down if every person in your community knows you failed.

4. Buy yourself new exercise clothes, sneakers or a workout bag. Not wanting new and/or expensive equipment to go to waste will make you more apt to get off the couch and use it.

5. Go to the Gold’s Gym in your community. By seeing the Gold’s Gym regularly when you drive by you will eventually be drawn (or guilted!) in there to train.  If you workout with your spouse it will be at least a little harder to have both of you come up with a valid excuse why not to go – especially when it is SO convenient.

Stay tuned for the rest of our tips!

Meet a Personal Trainer!

Suzanna Frank, an elite trainer at Gold’s Gym Prestige Dix30, describes her life as being extremely active. Her sporty lifestyle isn’t a recent phenomenon of course, for Suzanna exercise and movement were essential to her spirit from day one: “I was one of those kids that never stopped moving and got on everyone’s nerves!” In fact, in her youth Suzanna earned the impressive title of Junior Judo Champion in her homeland of Hungary.

Suzanna’s training style is to focus on her client’s goals and then work on achieving visible results. “I don’t go halfway,” says Suzanna, “if you train with me, we work to see results.” Suzanna works you hard but one of her mottos is: “You are inside your own body, not me, so you have to guide me through your process”. In other words, if you’re able to do more or feeling really sore…let her know!

Suzanna prefers to train her clients on two primary systems: the Power Plate and Kinesis. Kinesis, a system used by tennis players and golfers, tones your muscles without the strain of traditional weights through its multi-angle pulley system and the Power Plate stimulates your muscles so that you’re working exponentially harder and get faster results.

Suzanna doesn’t promise miracles, but she’s confident that with her help, you can lose weight, gain muscle mass, or reach any personal fitness goal that you have.

Come see Suzanna at Gold's Gym Dix30 today!