Insanity Training on the Rise at Sweat Cardio and Yoga

Insanity Training is now at Sweat Cardio. If you aren't familiar with one of the hottest infomercials out there, it's Insanity Training. It is now at your local studio so you can train with friends and like minded people instead of in the privacy of your own home. Taking it to the gym gives you more motivation from others and the drive to push harder.
Insanity is a high intensity cardio workout using plyometrics, power, quick steps, body weight functional movements and abdominal exercises. The format is a combination of 4 minute high intensity bursts and 30 second short breaks till the next set. Repeat this format 3 times and you have an INSANE Insanity workout.  It is hard work but shows quick results.
Sweat Cardio combines 30 minutes of Insanity Training with 30 minutes of sculpting to get a full hour of total body training. We offer it Mondays at 10a and soon to be adding more classes.
For a full class schedule go to www.sweatcardio.com
Sweat Cardio and Yoga
951-302-0088

Strong is the New Skinny

Strong is the new skinny. We want to be strong and fit and healthy. There is something called "skinny fat". Skinny fat is  a term used for people that are thin but have no muscle tone or lean muscle tissue to support their bodies. This is more unhealthy than a person that has a little more body mass and more muscle because your body could have that same fat content surrounding your organs as well.
Strong or fit is a term used for a leaner, more muscular body type. You don't have to be big and bulky to be strong. A strong heart, strong lungs and a strong muscular structure will support your metabolism and your organs for much longer.
A good goal is to be a healthy strong lean body instead of just "skinny". 
Michelle Rotell
Sweat Cardio and Yoga
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Calories-Your best Friend or your worst enemy

Calories can be your best friend or your worst enemy. It is all in how you use them.
I'll first start off by telling you that 3500 calories =one pound of fat gained or lost depending on whether it is consumed or burned.  So if you burn 3500 calories, either by exercise or cutting calories and burning calories you will lose 1 pound. If you were to cut 200 calories from your diet and burn 300 calories a day exercising you will lose about 1 pound per week.  On the other side, if you were to eat an extra 500 calories a day, you would gain a pound a week.
This should make sense. But it also matters how, when and what calories you are eating.
All so confusing??
Your body is a machine. It runs off calories like a car runs off gasoline. What you feed it and when matters too.
Feed it healthy nutritious energizing fuel and it will perform better. Feed it empty waistful non-nutritious calories and it will run slow and sluggish and other reprocussions may occur to your body, like putting the wrong fuel into your car.
Don't be afraid of calories. If you eat the right foods, such as fruits, vegetables, low glycemic carbohydrates, meats, nuts and legumes you will probably be eating the proper amount of calories. These foods eaten in moderation will be low calorie, fill you up properly and feed your brain so that you won't need the unnessasary calories that jack up your calorie count and make you feel unsatisfied and hungry.
Eat small meals throughout the day, preferably about 5-6x per day and your body will be a machine. Burning fat instead of muscle and you will have the energy to not just exercise more efficiently but you will be able to take on your daily tasks more efficiently. You will probably have more energy and get more done.
So in conclusion, your calories are important. Do NOT cut too many out, but Do NOT eat too many either. Get your calories from the right kind of foods and you will be a fat burning, energy driven machine. 
If you have further questions about this matter please feel free to comment or send me an email at michelle@sweatcardio.com
Stay fit, Be well
Michelle Rotell
www.sweatcardio.com

It's Not a Diet It's a Lifestyle Change Daily Motivation

When we say "diet", we do not mean diet as in cut a ton of calories so you can barely function, exercise till you faint, lose a bunch of weight, mess up your metabolism and then gain it all back!!
We mean change your eating habits to healthy clean foods that make you have energy, burn fat, give you the endorphins and confidence to work out hard, lose the weight, increase your metabolism so you can enjoy a few extra calories, so you can exercise to make you strong, healthy, body and mind confident and keep off your weight  for good lifestyle change!!!
It is definitely a way of life.
It doesn't have to start drastic. Start by being more conscious of your sugar intake, or your flour intake. Or start by having a treat after one meal twice a week instead of every night after dinner. Start with one glass of wine with dinner instead of one while making dinner, one during dinner and one after dinner. By cutting out only 300 calories a day from your diet you can lose up to 3/4 lb a week without barely trying. 300 calories is 1 glass of wine, or 1 1/2 slices of bread. Plus exercise for one hour a day and burn another 300 calories and you can lose 1 pound a week by barely changing your lifestyle.
3500 calories is a pound of fat. So if you can burn 3500 calories a week, that is burn plus take out calories from your weekly intake, you can lose 1 pound a week.
It may not be as simple as that to everyone, but it can save your life. You may not even need to lose "weight", but you may need to change your body composition. Meaning your body fat percentage may need to go down. Or you may be happy with your body, but eating healthier will not only give you physical changes, but give you mental and energy changes.
Everyone should treat their bodies like its the only one they have!
Make the lifestyle change.