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0:00 Warm-up: Walk at a moderate pace (about 6.0-6.5 kph).

5:00 Shuffle: Turn to left and walk sideways, like you’re shuffling, hands on hips (about 4.0-4.5 kph).

7:00 Walk briskly (normal form, about 5.5-6.0 kph)

9:00 Shuffle, facing right side.

11:00 Walk briskly.

13:00 Shuffle, facing left side.

15:00 Walk briskly.

17:00 Shuffle, facing right side.

19:00 Walk briskly.

21:00 Walk backward (reduce speed as much as necessary and slowly increase it as you acclimate).

23:00 Walk briskly.

25:00 Cool-down: Walk at a moderate pace (about 4.5-5.0 kph).

30:00 Finished.

I have worked at fitness first, all I have to say is negative things about it. I will try to be polite and professional as possible. I will tell you some of the things I have experience there, working for this corporate gym. The manager at my gym at the time, was such a douche bag. All he cared about was making sales, and letting all the trainers suffer with high rent costs, while being stuck on a 1 year contract with lack of clients.

The male receptionist at the time was a complete ignorant moron. Below are just a few out of thousands and thousands of comments made by people who have trained and have been members of fitness first. I have also left out the really nasty ones to.

Fitness First member #1:

I will make this report short and sweet.

The trainers at Fitness First are sorry excuses for trainers. My wife’s trainer explained to her how most of the trainers were certified by a truly crappy certification course that would never fly in a “real” training business. The male trainers are the worst! 20-something, horny, pestering, cocky, jerks!

In the end, I suggest NEVER SIGNING UP WITH ANY PERSONAL TRAINERS FROM FITNESS FIRST!!! Just don’t do it! If you want to get in shape, look elsewhere for training. These people are salesman first! The personal training is crappy, the contracts are binding for 6 months to 1 year. Please take my advice! I’m tired of people losing money so some corporate CEO so he can wipe his butt with $100 bill’s.

Fitness First ex-employee:

They charge way to much for personal training and the member gets no benefit from buying it from them. Its hard to sale something you don’t believe in and I am being honest to the consumer cause I truly care about being healthy. Personally ITS ALL ABOUT MONEY and NUMBERS to them. They can care less about you and the results you get. The system is a fraud and they will try to sale you anything so I would not recommend buying anything from them. I hope you take your health and fitness seriously and if you do stay away from Fitness First cause its not worth your time, money, and agony. You will become very frustrated and then its a hassle to get out of the contract you signed.

Fitness First member #2:

One of the worst gym i have ever been to. People stay away its a total rip off company. Whenever u will try to cancel the membership they will not let u do that easily. I called their head office in order to cancel my membership and i was told it will be done by the end of january 2010. But they still charged me for the month of Feb. I called again to get my money back and the lady said there is no record of my one month notice of cancelation. She says the membership can only be cancelled by the end of March.So i have to pay till the end of march in order to cancell the membership..WOW.. What an ethical company… customers have to pay for their mistakes…

Fitness First member #3:

I was a platinum member then black lable member for 6 years, this year I finally left. There standards have dropped and there is no such thing as customer services in this company. They are soooooooooooo unbelievable rude especially at there head office, its a problem to leave, they over charge you, the male personal trainers and staff perve over both men and women, borderline stalking, the a lot of the female staff eye ball you, if you even breath in the direction of any male staff for genuine exercise advice. they breach your data protection and give your number out… Well I suppose if you pay peanuts you get monkey business… Good riddens to bad rubbish… Whoooo hoooo freedom… Happy new year!

Fitness First member #4:

i hate fitness first, all there after is your money and if u stop going fitness first don’t care as long as there getting your money still, BUT if u stop paying them fitness first will put debt collectors on 2 u

so if u stop going 2 fitness first u still have 2 pay them, that just f##k up i think

stupid 12 month contract

Fitness First member #5:

They have gyms everywhere which would be great in an ethical organisation who treated you fairly, however with Fitness first, all they do it get you signed up and leave you for dead. They know you can’t cancel if you ever plan to use them again in the future because they keep raising their fees and charging join up and admin fees. I wanted to put my membership on hold for 6 months because they were too busy and I couldn’t find an available machine, so they charged me $22/month… For what? I’m not using anything. Fitness First St Leonards is run by amatures who couldn’t care less about you. They’ll never be around when you need to meet and will never reply to concerning emails. Try and cancel and it’ll take a couple of months. I’ve been with them for years but that counts for jack all!

Fitness First member #6:

I joined and cancelled within the 10 day money back period due to its blatant unprofessional half-wit reception staff. Never met anyohttp://www.brunosfitness.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=565ne like them. Did I get my money back? Did I hell. To add insult to injury, not only had they not refund the joining fee which they promised I’d get back but the also charged me for a month membership – I’d not been to the gym to work out once! Thoroughly dissatisfied with this”organisatioon”. The manager now wants to see my bank statement as proof of the transactions which I am gladly going to take to him tomorrow. STAY AWAY!! You’ve been warned.

Former Fitness First member and trainer

Someone need to really take these pr**ks to court. I worked as a trainer there, and I was on contract. I started out with 3 other trainers, by 2 months they had already added 6 more trainers into the gym. It was impossible making an income competing against 9 other trainers while paying them $250 a week for rent. Also I told the manager Daniel Brims that, what if you where renting your home and the landlord brought home a few more tenants, shouldn’t your weekly rent go down????? CON ARTIST FIRST!!!!!Daniel Brims got a promotion at Miranda Fitness First FOR MAKE THE CORPORATION MORE MONEY, WHILE MAKING ALL THE TRAINERS AT GRANVILLE FITNESS FIRST BROKE AND STUCK ON CONTRACTS. STAY AWAY FROM THAT C*CK EYED PR*CK!!!! I hope I never run into this c*ckhead ever again, i don’t know what i would do to that ugly liar f*g mofo.

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Some guys focus solely on pushing the weight in their sessions. This is because they think there is a strict correlation between the amount of weight lifted and an increase in muscular size… and for many guys, the size of muscles like the biceps and pectorals is the point of bodybuilding.

This is not always the case. The fact of the matter is that regardless of what you do in the gym, you can’t build more muscle tissue out of nothing. If you aren’t eating more than enough of the nutrients that your body needs to maintain itself and to build the new muscle tissue, you aren’t going to get bigger — no matter how heavy the weights you lift are. It’s that simple.

Now, contrary to the point above, others think that if size is their goal, then life should become a 24-hour buffet. They eat everything and anything in sight, in the hopes that it will help spark new muscle growth.

What these individuals need to realize is that, yes, they do require more calories, however, the body can only assimilate so many of those extra calories into lean muscle tissue. After that, the remainder will go toward fat mass. Your P-ratio is what determines the amount of surplus calories going to fat and the amount going toward lean muscle mass. Your P-ratio is partly influenced by genetic make-up — which is something you can’t change — but the changeable factors that affect are your workout program, your nutritional intake and the timing of your meals.

So if size is your goal, you need to make sure that you are eating enough to get growth in the first place, but not so much that with the additional muscle mass, you get a great deal of fat mass as well.

1. It beats aerobic training hands down for fat loss

Studies show, even when they were performed at the same intensity (ie, the same amount of oxygen was consumed), weight training had a greater effect on the metabolism, and burned more calories for hours after wards. This is because, when you lift weights, you are not only using a lot more of the muscle at a greater intensity, but also building new muscle. And, of course, the more muscle you have, the more fat you burn.

2. It will make you stronger and fitter

I am often amazed at people who can run for miles but can barely pick up a heavy bag. That’s because aerobic activity (like running and step classes) burns a lot of calories but doesn’t build muscle, so you’re actually getting weaker. Research shows, women who lifted weights performed best in tests of strength and power. The aerobically trained group did worst. So, for real fitness benefits, do both.

3. It strengthens bones

Intensity is everything. It’s better to do between three and weight reps with a heavier weight than 20 with a light one. Do it with enough weight and you can significantly increase your bone mass. The exercises best suited to this are those that make the body work harder, such as squats and lunges using weights. This provides valuable protection against osteoporosis, which affects one woman in three over the age of 50.

4. It improves your mood, confidence and well-being

Countless studies are showing that not only can weight training improve your body, but it can also make a real difference to your state of mind. Lifting weights develops confidence, and has been shown in some cases to be as effective as drug therapy in improving depression and anxiety. Interestingly, in research done by Professor Maria Fiatarone in Australia, this was particularly the case when subjects lifted heavier weights.

5. It helps prevent illness and aids recovery

One study found that women who had breast cancer surgery had greater strength and less fatigue after resistance training. It also helps with diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, MS, arthritis and many more conditions that can severely affect the quality of life. Just remember to get clearance from your doctor before starting any exercise.

Some guys are so intently focused on their training that they want to be sure that frequent sessions in the bedroom are not going to have a negative impact on their sessions in the gym.

Generally speaking, having frequent sex won’t impact your weight-lifting performance. If anything, it should increase your workout performance since, once again, sex causes a release of the hormone testosterone, and the more testosterone one has circulating throughout the body, the more muscle tissue can be built.