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Lose Body Fat and Get Stronger is Why This Busy, Working Mom Comes To Innovative Results

June 3, 2016 by IR Staff Leave a Comment

Coco is an incredibly busy woman.

If there is such a thing as Super Woman, she is that person!

She is a single mother with two kids, and a very successful business woman in Orange County, California. English is her second language, and I am pretty sure she speaks more than just English and Chinese.

The Innovative Results fitness coaches are constantly amazed at her hard work, consistency, and commitment to her weekly workouts (two to four times per week).

We were so impressed with her physical and mental improvements that we interviewed her to understand more clearly how she is able to do it all.

Check out her interview below.

When did you start training at Innovative Results?

I started training around May 2013.

Why did you start training with Innovative Results?

My son started training at Innovative Results first.

After I watched him for couple months.

I was really impressed with everything he was doing with personal trainer, so I decided to give it a try.

What have you improved since you started training with Innovative Results?

I’m much stronger

I have gained lean muscles, and learned how to work out properly, without injuring my lower back.

What kept you coming back to Innovative Results?

It worked!

The Innovative Results coaches are professional trainers that will design different exercise and fitness routines every week for your benefit.

The personal trainers make sure you get full body workout.

Every week is different.

The training program is not boring like traditional gym.

I learned so much at Innovative Results.

I always feel energized and happy after the workouts.

How has Innovative Results improved the other areas of your life (i.e. work, relationships, finances, education)?

The coaches at Innovative Results teach me how to live a healthy lifestyle, both in and out of the gym.

The coaches emphasize positive energy.

They teach you to be the best of yourself, and never give up.

What advice do you have for someone who is just getting started with Innovative Results?

Just keep going, don’t quit.

If I can do it at age of 44, you can do it too.

How has your life changed since you started training at Innovative Results?

I’m healthier and stronger.

I lost body fat and gained lean muscle.

Who would you want to experience what you get to experience at Innovative Results?

I will bring my daughter to the Innovative Results gym this summer.

Why do you stay committed to your improvement in and out of the gym?

I want to stay in shape, and live an active, healthy life.

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Avoid Being the Victim of Holiday Weight Gain this Year

October 14, 2014 by ptpt Leave a Comment

By: Aaron Guyett

Let’s face it, the Holidays are scary for people trying to lose body fat, get stronger, feel better, and move better, and Innovative Results wants to help you continue to improve this Holiday season!

Let’s ambush the Holidays this year instead of having the Holidays ambush us!! Say “NO” to unwanted holiday weight gain 🙂

Let Innovative Results partner with you toward your next achievement, big or small.

Take two minutes to read this and five minutes to fill out the information below, and set-up your free trial with us, to be WAAAY MORE LIKELY to make it through this Holiday season without gaining body fat, AND Actually LOSE unwanted pounds, increase energy, gain strength, feel better, and move better!! (Source: Summary of Recent Goals Research(PDF here: Gail Matthews Written Goal Study Dominican University), by Gail Matthews, Ph.D., Dominican University, this is in reference to writing down goals and having accountability for your goals.)

Innovative Results is completely focused on improving the quality of life for our clients and our community. Let us help you improve your quality of life starting today!

We have been around since 2005, and our trainers have over 50 years of collective experience and education. We get better every day to help you improve.

Why is improving your quality of life important to you?

Once you come up with your why–the how and what is easy.

It is obvious from the first moment you train at Innovative Results that we believe in you, and we believe in your improved quality of life. Beyond our incredible in-house workouts, we want to help you on a deep level with all aspects of your fitness and health improvement:

• Nutrition Plan
• Hydration Plan
• Stress Reduction
• Sleep Plan and Circadian Rhythms
• Motivation
• Support
• Goal Setting
• SMR and Stretches
• Outside Workouts

The best way for me to help you is for you to take a moment and establish a SMART Goal to end this year on the best note you can.

Here is how the SMART Goal works:

S-Specific (who, what, when, where, how, and why)
M-Measurable (How will you know when you are done.)
A-Attainable (Is this goal realistic? I can help with that if you are not sure.)
R-Relevant (How does this fit into your life now?)
T-Time-bound (When will you achieve your goal? What’s your deadline?)
Fill out the form below, or send an email with your SMART Goal to info@innovative-results.com, and we are overjoyed to walk this out with you over the next few months!

Nutrition: How to Stop Storing Fat; Use it As A Fuel Source

July 8, 2014 by ptpt 3 Comments

By Aaron Guyett

Recently I have had a ton of clients ask me to help them with their nutrition. Which is AWESOME!!

Nutrition is literally THE MOST IMPORTANT part of losing or gaining weight. I am stoked to help you with one of these at a time: gaining lean body mass or losing body fat.

Trying to gain lean body mass AND lose body fat at the same time is unproductive at best.

Most of us are trying to lose the body fat, and reveal the sexy and strong muscles we’ve been hiding underneath that blubbery substance for too long! This blog will direct you to some of the best resources I have, in this battle against the bodies best fuel storage ever–fat

To use your fat as fuel instead of cushion here are the principles:

Psychological hunger (boredom usually) is not your friend…drink 12-20 ounces of water when you think your hungry and wait thirty minutes, if you are still hungry, go ahead and eat.
Plan what you consume (eat and drink), and record what you consume–yes, even cheating. If you plan your cheat meals, they will not overtake your life, by going from one meal to an entire weekend (starting Friday and rolling Monday, because-I-already-messed-up-so-I-might-as-well-eat-like-crap-again-today). It is hard to use fat as fuel, when you keep storing up the fuel for four days straight. Try MyFitnessPal as an app to plan and track.
Not every calorie is the same, but if you drastically reduce the consumption of alcohol, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, sodium, and saturated fats, counting calories will really help you understand what is going on with your body. Your lean body mass uses fuel, and your body fat can be used as fuel if you run out of food as its primary fuel source. Estimating calories spent and calories consumed will give you a much better idea of what you are doing to create this internal environment. It is just like using a budget and financial tracker, but for your physical health. S ome of the free websites and apps out there are incredible for keeping track, and make it easy.
If what you are doing right now is not getting you to where you want to be, stop doing it. I think it is unfair to tell someone to stop without giving them at least a couple solutions. Try the above first, and if you need some helpful plans for nutrition I have a link here that has three incredible downloads just for you! http://www.personaltrainerorangecounty.com/30daydownload2013-2/
Use the advice and experience of the experts you pay and visit on a weekly basis. The Innovative Results trainers have not only done all of the above for themselves, but they have literally helped thousands of people lose body fat, eat better, move better, feel better, and look better. They have heard every excuse, situation, and reason for not getting to goals multiple times. They want to help you improve your quality of life. Use them.
Once you get to your goals, please, please, please, pretty please do not go back to the nutrition and lifestyle choices you were making before. That was the reason you decided to get help in the first place, or read and follow this pathway to use fat as fuel. There is no reason in this whole wide world that you would want to go down that path again. So make new habits, and keep them for heaven’s sake!

Here is a quick synopsis of what is written above: hunger doesn’t necessarily mean eat; plan and record what you eat; understand that calories are important, but not everything; stop doing what is storing up fat, and start making changes that help you use fat as fuel; use actual experts in this field; and stay the course, even when you get to your goal weight or look. Going back to your old ways, will only turn you into your old self (the one that had more fuel or cushion than you wanted and needed).

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and I hope the app, link, and blog helped you this week, month, and year!

Email info@innovative-results.com, or fill out the form below to find out how Innovative Results can help you out more specifically.

Wanna Get in Shape, Lose Body Fat and Perform Like a Champion? It All Starts Between Your Ears…

May 7, 2012 by ptpt 1 Comment

I have met thousands of people over the past 14 years…people that want to get in shape, lose weight, drop body fat, gain muscle, improve their athletic performance and more.

Only a fraction of those people actually focused and attained their goals.

Why?

I believe its because they didnt have the right mindset.

Here is a great quote that I heard a few years back…

Be careful what you think…
Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions
Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your character
Your character is everything

Be careful what you think, for your thoughts become your words.
Be careful what you say, for your words become your actions.
Be careful what you do, for your actions become your habits.
Be careful what becomes habitual, for your habits become your destiny.

Be careful what you think, for your thoughts become your words.
Be careful what you say, for your words become your actions.
Be careful what you do, for your actions become your character.
And character is everything.

So, what does that have to do with your fitness goals?

Well, if everything starts from your thoughts, then getting the right mindset is crucial to your success in the gym.

Here’s a few articles to help you get your mind right:

Start here

Then you need to read this…

Thinking for a Change

Next you need to figure out What Drives You…read the full article here

What Drives You

and you should finish up by Watching THIS…

Stuff You Should Watch

Pretty awesome stuff, right?

Get your mind right and the rest seems pretty easy.

Got any other tips, videos or articles we should read? Leave Us a Comment…

Talk soon!

The 20 Minute Workout

August 19, 2009 by ptpt Leave a Comment

20 Minute Workout – No Time? No Problem

By Aaron Guyett

The 20 minute workout is assuming you have little time, little equipment and you need to lose body fat, increase lean body mass (muscle), and/or increase your cardiovascular efficiency. If you fall within these categories than check out this action packed workout that will take you no more than 20 minutes to complete. Included are facts, points of interest, and pictures to help you perform this workout at least three times per week.

Grab a chair and a space in a room and start with this dynamic warm-up: Windmills for 30 seconds, Jumping Jacks for 30 seconds, cherry-pickers for 30 seconds, plank for 30 seconds and then repeat this two more times. Six minutes down, only 12 to go! [Read more…]

20 minute Workout with The Naked Sailor

July 30, 2009 by ptpt 4 Comments

Now, commence the workout with a left leg reverse lunge, right leg reverse lunge, and deep squat. Perform this exercise for one minute. After the leg-work, it is time for Push-up, left plank rotation, and right plank rotation, performing this exercise continuously for one minute as well. Good job with the push-rotation, commence the inch-worm to superman, and then inch worm back to the original spot on the floor—for one minute. A minute of the last exercise deserves to be followed by sit-up reach and rotates for one minute. These four dynamic exercises will increase your heart rate, metabolism, caloric burn, and outlook on life. Be sure to start at the beginning and perform this two more times. Your 20 minute workout is now complete.

Feel the burn? That is lactic acid and your blood being pumped to your extremities to heal your soreness by bringing oxygen and nutrients to the deserving muscles. This is now the imperative time to support that healing process through recovery. At the very least drink water throughout the day and eat a healthy meal as soon as you can, and then continue this process as the day goes on. Water plays a key role in the transportation, digestion, and absorption of nutrients. Just consider your body a big, complex chemistry experiment, and without water the chemistry experiment cannot happen. This alone should help with the soreness.

If you are looking to reduce the soreness even more, there are a myriad of other activities and remedies for just that. To name a few: static stretching, foam roller, alternating hot to cold showers, epsom salt baths, tennis ball, ice, etc.

Note, the workout is just two paragraphs, whereas the recovery and intro is four. This is a great example of the importance of the 5 aspects of fitness. Even in these five aspects number four is action, or the workout. It is number four for a reason. While the workout is important, if are not eating correctly, drinking enough water, and utilizing recovery techniques you may as well write a paper without research. If you don’t have a reason, mental clarity, or guidance, you might as well turn that paper into your mailbox and expect the postman to grade it to pass your class. Please see the associated videos, pics, and presentation for a full explanation of this 20 minute workout. If you are looking for help, or you want more info on the 5 aspects of fitness visit us on our personal training website.

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Is ‘Cardio’ the Best Way to Lose Fat? Costa Mesa Personal Trainers Don’t Think So…

October 6, 2008 by ptpt 8 Comments

Reliance on endurance activities (cardio) to burn calories and fat is like using a shot glass to fill up a pool.

It is possibly the least efficient way to lose body fat! Cardio focuses only on increasing the amount of fat that you are burning during the time that you are active.

So, if you do 60 minutes on the elliptical machine, you have increased your metabolism only for that 60 minute session.

If you are doing cardio seven days a week (1 hour per session), then you are spending only approximately 4% of your week burning extra fat.

Another problem with this approach is that once you pass the 45-60 minute mark in your cardio session, you have depleted your body’s glycogen stores, and your body will now begin to use protein to fuel your energy needs.

Unfortunately, your body gets that protein from your muscle tissue, meaning that the extra time that you spend doing cardio is actually shrinking your fat burning furnace, muscle mass.

Keep this up for long enough and you will actually slow down your metabolism and burn less fat. This makes the other 96% of your week, when your burn the vast majority of your calories, much less effective.

The solution: Do resistance training circuits. Resistance training basically refers to higher intensity activities. For example, you could walk for 5-6 hours without too many problems, but you could not squat for 5-6 minutes. It takes far more energy to do one squat than to take one step. Squats, lunges, bends, twists, pushes and pulls against resistance would all classify as resistance activities.

Circuit training is when you sequence several activities one after another. It generally consists of up to 8 exercises in a row. For example, doing a lunge and twist, followed immediately by a squat, push ups, pull ups, and jumping rope would be a good circuit. The advantages of a circuit are that you get all the benefits of resistance training, along with all of the benefits of cardiovascular activity. You get the best of both worlds!

Resistance training benefits

*6-15 hour metabolic boost after workouts.

*24-48 hours of increased calorie/fat-burning activity.

*24 hours per day 365 days per year your metabolism will be faster and burn more fat!

**Ladies: 5 lbs. of muscle will fit in the space of 2.5 lbs. pounds of fat.

So, if you gain muscle and lose fat, you will be significantly smaller and firmer.

We are not saying that cardio is bad for you.

Far from it.

Any exercise is better than none.

We are saying that circuit training is a much more efficient way to lose fat.

Cardio offers the smallest return on the time invested.

Circuit training takes the relatively small amount of time that you have to exercise, and makes you burn more fat during the rest of your day and week.

Would you rather invest 7 hours a week, get seven hours of benefit or would you want to invest that same 7 hours and get 138 hours of fat burning benefit?

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