The Pelvic Floor Muscles... The pelvic floor muscles are frequently overlooked, even though they are one of the most important muscle groups in the body, contributing significantly to the role of sexual response, child birth and support of the bladder, womb and bowel.  Weakness in the pelvic floor muscles can lead to stress incontinence, a particularly devastating condition that occurs in more than one in three women between the ages of thirty...

Functional Fitness Training... LaVanda Elite holds Functional Fitness Strength Training courses most nights of the week. Functional strength training should be thought of in terms of a movement continuum. As humans, we perform a wide range of movement activities, such as walking, jogging, running, sprinting, jumping, lifting, pushing, pulling, bending, twisting, turning, standing, starting, stopping, climbing and lunging. All of these activities involve...

Functional Fitness Training Gallery... See below for some great pictures from one of our Functional Fitness events. Functional strength training is the ultimate all round power workout designed to hit the core by training the lower body while working the upper body. The primary goal of functional training is to transfer the improvements in strength achieved in one movement to enhancing the performance of another movement by affecting the entire neuromuscular...

What to Expect…... Do you feel like you are not fulfilling your true potential when working out? You will find it hard to keep fit, work out and gain strength if you’ve got poor posture and/or spinal misalignments. It causes physical trauma to your body which can slow down your progress. Don’t despair! We recommend you get your spine checked out at a Chiropractors. The results may be drastic… it can speed up your results in your...

Common Errors in Running... Pain – Pain comes from only one reason – you are doing something wrong. It is a warning that something is happening or about to happen, while you are interacting with support and through it with gravity. Errors: Landing with the heel first. Heel striking with a straight leg Landing ahead of the body – over striding Using the quad muscles instead of the hamstrings – push off Landing on the toes with the body behind Landing...

Muscle Elasticity... What is muscle elasticity? Well, if you were to cut out a muscle, put it on the table and stretch it, you would see it shrink back a bit. In plain physics, it’s a natural ability of some things to recover the original form upon the removal of the force initially applied. However, a human and his body is not all physics, it’s physics, chemistry, biology, psychology and all that good stuff, and last time you...

Girevoy... Girevoy Sport is the art of high repetition kettlebell lifting. It combines elements of Olympic weightlifting with power endurance sports such as rowing. The training is tremendously enriching as the methods satisfy requirements for an holistic fitness modality. The emphasis is on perfecting performance of a few key lifts – the Snatch, Jerk, and Long Cycle. Improvements require attention to correction of postural and...

What is periodization?... In basic English, periodization is simply the organization and planning of training. In sport, this planning is usually based upon achieving maximum physical abilities (strength, speed, power, etc..) for a given competition or period of competitions. In bodybuilding, the training might be organized around a specific bodybuilding contest. Most bodybuilders actually plan or instinctively “periodize” their training...

Training and rest... It is a well-known fact that most people need about 7-9 hours of sleep every night to recuperate from stress of daily activities. And it is a similar situation in sports - people participating must always remember to get adequate amount of rest between training sessions. There are those of us that couldn’t handle more than a couple of days of exercising or running a week. Then there are those few that have the...

How to become a successful trainer?... How to Assist Trainers in Becoming Self Generating Some specific methods that trainers can use in order to become self generating include: Referral systems – All trainers should have a referral system in place that works best for that individual Follow-up calls – All leads need to be continually tracked. Remember the 2, 2, 2 principal Group exercise – Become an instructor, or get to know some...