Posts Tagged ‘vampire’

Vampire Workouts Debunked

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Hey everybody hope all is well, got a quick one for ya.

I got asked an interesting question the other day that really stood out to me. Ive actually been asked this question about 48 times. I wanted to share it with all of you.

Here it is.

What’s  the difference if I workout at night (midnight-3am) vs working out during the day? The person read on a magazine that one of their favorite bodybuilders would do his workouts and cardio at 2 am.

Well there is a difference and it depends on your lifestyle. If you work night shifts and sleep all day than it would be perfect to workout at night. But unless your a vampire, i’d say sleep at night instead.

There’s no extra fat burned or extra muscle growth if you workout at 2am. If you’re up all day and wanna workout at night you’re doing more harm then good. When you’re asleep is when you recover from rough workouts and when your body starts repairing itself. Why interupt that cause you saw it on a magazine? There’s no study showing that there is some magic thing that happens and makes you burn more fat when you do your cardio at 1am.

I say this myth is busted! (always wanted to say that)

P.S. Trade turkeys for workouts. Donate a turkey for a free week of bootcamp. Bring us a turkey which we give to a charity and well give you a free week to bootcamp ($97 value).I’ll give you more details in a bit.

So You Wanna Be A Vampire?

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

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Vampires are cool right. They’re all like Twilight and are extremely good looking and can run fast and are super strong. The good looking part is the coolest right. I mean you gotta be really good looking to be running away from a flock of girls and get hit by a car because of it.

Yea it’d be cool to be one of those vampires, but i’m not talking about those today. I’m talking about the ones that nobody likes to talk about or admit they know one.

Im talking about energy vampires! Do you know what the scary thing is about these? They come out day or night and they don’t suck your blood but they suck out your energy and leave you lifeless. Ok well it’s not that bad where you’ll die or something but it’s really exhausting. They are bored, NEGATIVE, and gloomy.

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As a trainer there’s nothing worse than having an energy vampire for a client. I’m a ball of energy so im always exited and pumped and ready to motivate but i’ll be honest, you can’t motivate everyone. Then you leave the session feeling down, gloomy, and negative too.

Take a look around, i’m sure you know someone that’s a vampire. And if you find people avoid you sometimes and stay away from you when their having a great day then there’s a 99% chance that its you. You’re the vampire. But nah, that’s not the case here you are all awesome for reading this blog. Psshh you can’t be one ;) .  You are who you hang around with. A harvard study showed that if you hang around with lazy people, then your gonna be lazy. So for this one, hang around with positive and people who have either reached the goal you want to reach or are working on reaching it also. A good place to find people like this are my bootcamps ;) .

So what have we learned? If you see an energy vampire, turn and run the other way while making a cross symbol with your fingers. Well maybe not the symbol but haul ass the other way!

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