TRX Suspension Training

Sweat Cardio and Yoga is proud to present our new TRX Training Lab. We launched TRX officially as of January 10, 2017 and the classes are going great. Everyone loves it and is astounded by the amount of muscle groups engaged in each exercise.
So far our biggest challenge starting off, since there are very few at our studio that have tried TRX is getting them to try something new. Once they do it, they love it! The second challenge is making sure our form for all levels and students is perfect. Once they get that, they love it!! The third challenge is our classes are filling up super quick because everyone wants to come back for more (not a bad problem to have)!! 

TRX Training uses suspension straps that hang from an anchor with handles. Using your own body weight, balance, gravity and a variety of angles you are able to perform various exercises to work multiple muscle groups. Each exercise requires you to engage your core; abdominals, hips, glutes and thighs which make each exercise more challenging as well as keeps you more aware of your total body at all times. The intensity can vary depending on the exercise. The great thing about TRX is that you can do it at any fitness level. By changing the angle of your body you can intensify your training.
Another great thing about TRX is that it is very low risk for your knees. By using the straps and your alignment properly, you are able to lean back further into your glutes to squat or lunge and reduce pressure on your knees. Lori Traywick, one of our Sweat Cardio instructors has had bad knee issues for many years. She has limited her workouts and has modified her leg workouts for many years. She says "I can't believe I haven't found TRX sooner. I can finally do a lunge and a squat without any pain in my knees." Here are a few exercises:

Top Left: Overhead Squat, Top Right: Cossack Lunge, Bottom Left: Hamstring Adductions, Bottom Right: TRX Squat Row

We are offering quite a few classes to start. We are focusing each class as a total body workout. Starting with a warmup, mobility movements, then  upper, lower body and abdominal work. We end with a few stretches. Eventually we will add some All Core, Stretch/Yoga and Plyometric/Cardio training to our schedule. We welcome all levels. Drop in clients are welcome. We are limited to 9 spots per class so please sign up online www.sweatcardio.com or register on our Sweat Cardio and Yoga App to ensure you get a spot.

 

Picture above shows a TRX Chest Press 

      

Halloween Zumba Sweat Cardio with David Mailangi

Yoga Can Clear Your Mind

"Yoga is a way to clear your mind and soul" as many people may say. It is a way to release stress and tension from your daily lives. It is a way to stretch your muscles and your mind outside of its daily routine to help release toxins built up in your body and mind. This may all sound so unreal, that a few positions you put your body in can do so much for you, but it is a fact. Yoga is an age old remedy for healing your body and mind. 

A beginner or an advanced yoga person can feel the same or different affects of their experience. A beginner may feel the exterior affects of their movements. Meaning, they will feel the stretching, the relaxation or the invigoration of the practice.  As you become more advanced in your yoga practice, you may feel a more overwhelming power of healing as you become more in tune with your body. Your breath will become more heated as you learn to breath deeper and engage more internal organs and feelings. 

Yoga is a great way to clear your mind of all the daily hustle and bustle that is so saturated into our lives. Make your Yoga time, your time. Give that time to yourself and allow the experience of Yoga to heal you.

There are so many forms of yoga that one should be able to enjoy it. If you want a more relaxing, gentle yoga class try a Yin or Stretch Yoga. If you want a more invigorating and harder class, try a Power Yoga or Flow Yoga class. Hot Yoga or Bikram Yoga is another way to release more toxins and get deeper into the muscle. Hot Yoga comes in many forms as well. It is usually done in a room that is from 90 -105 degrees. Read the class descriptions before taking class. A good yoga instructor will teach at all levels so a beginner and an advanced Yogi could take the same class and still feel successful and come out feeling wonderful. 

Check out our website for all the Yoga classes offered at Sweat Cardio and Yoga.

www.sweatcardio.com

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

Daily Motivation

Whatever your motivation is...use it, remember it, write it down, post it all over your house, at your workplace, put a reminder on your wrist. Be creative and make it fun. You have the power to achieve greatness. You have the power to achieve your goals.
Make fitness fun by trying new things. There are so many options for people. If you love to dance, take Zumba, Hip Hop Hustle or Zumba Tone. Barre Sculpt is another way to feel a smooth rhythm while sculpting your buns to tightness.
If you like a more structured fitness routine, try Kettlebell, Sculpting classes or Bootcamp or RIPPED. If you like to do a more relaxed form of workout, yet want a great sculpting and stretching class, try Pilates, Bootie Camp Yoga or any form of Yoga.
There are so many to choose from. The hardest part is deciding which one to do. Try them all and see what works best for you.
Stay fit, Be well,
Sweat Cardio and Yoga
Michelle Rotell
www.sweatcardio.com for a full class schedule and more info...

Spongebob DREAMS- Daily Motivation

Think like Spongebob a little bit everyday and your dreams may come true!
Work hard everyday and your dreams will become reality!! Michelle Rotell
www.sweatcardio.com

You did It ! Daily Motivation Fitness

As long as you are doing something, it is much better than nothing. Get out and walk, garden, workout the best you can and you will reap benefits. The more you workout, or get moving, the more you will feel better and wish to do more activities that require movement. Your body craves movement and endorphins. Make endorphins. Burn calories, Burn fat, release some stress, create something, make your body Sweat!

At least YOU DID IT!!

Michelle Rotell

Sweat Cardio and Yoga

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.