Saturday, November 27, 2010

Expats - Personal training (functional fitness)

Rajan Taneja, NRI (Director - Palm holdings (http://www.palm-holdings.com) , based in Pune )
Testimonial :- Everyd ay Parags excercise is new challenge, I never imagined functional fitness can be such a fun, I not only lost few kgs but I got more functional.

Ashok Taneja (Founder - Palm Holdings, based in Canada)
Testimonial : After living my entire life at UK and Canada, having been fitness freak, Iam good to see that we have Parag in India, who can be called as functional fitness expert, abosolutely amazing results in short period of time.



Kamini Taneja (based in Canada) :
Testimonial: Iam glad that Parag trains us, functional fitness is new buzz word, common in US, now Parag gets that to India. 10/10 for his excercises.



Monday, November 1, 2010

Functional Fitness @ Mumbai

Group performing kicks and punches as a warm up session


Crunch to Press


Alternate collateral toe touch


MFT Standing chest press



MFT Standing chest press



Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Endorphin, makes a change in your life..!



Endorphins, what are they?
Endorphins are the body’s natural feel good chemicals, and when they are released through exercise, your mood is boosted naturally. Exercise also releases adrenaline, serotonin, and dopamine, these chemicals work together to make you feel good.

Most of the time you must have come across yourself taking a break while facing any exams (students especially) or you must have seen people taking off from exercise if they seem very busy. What surprises me is people don’t find 25-30 mins of time for workout in 24hrs for themselves and later keep complaining of obesity and joint problems.

I would like to emphasis on exercise more when you require it most, well you are required to do exercise everyday but it helps more during your exams or any particular stress period. Endorphin is the hormone which gets released when you do exercise and helps you to concentrate more in your studies, so 30 mins of fitness during exams or during any festival where you require more energy is must with no option to think on it.

Cortisol hormone is stress hormone or which causes major damage to internal systems, Endorphins counteract it.

Physical exercise helps to counteract the withdrawal, inactivity and feelings of hopelessness that characterize depression. Studies show that both aerobic and anaerobic exercise (exercise which does not require oxygen, such as weightlifting, sprinting) has anti-depressive effects.
So students, IT professionals (who think they are busy:-)) make yourself aware of the facts about some reality and get engaged for 30 mins with fitness program to perform much better (academics or professional work) than you could ever perform.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Chief Guest - Prize Distribution (Woodland Club house Sports day)

Was honoured as a Chief Guest along with Mrs Talawlikar (Chatrapati award winner) who also is representing India for common wealth games in Delhi.


Speach on Sports and Fitness, how important is fitness for Sports.


Prize distribution giving medals for all games including Badmintion, TT, Swiming, Cricket, basket ball etc at Woodlands Sports Club







Friday, September 3, 2010

Six Packs are made in Kitchen..!!



The old age is true; your quest to present a chiseled, fine tuned physique all begins with your diet and supplementation – easily the backbone of flat stomach.
First, assess your current diet, start removing all junk food, essentially all empty calories that you gorge on simply to gratify your taste buds. Stick to fundamentals, which are lean protein, low-glycemic carbs and healthy fats. Covering of our muscle cell is made up of proteins and healthy fats so don’t miss protein and essential fats in every meal, which gives your cellular nutrition.


You will want to structure your diet around high quality protein that have all amino acids you need to build muscle, such as chicken, fish, egg whites and whey. Veggies have limited option but they have no choice but to depend on milk and milk products, cottage cheese and whey for first class proteins.

The essential Six for SIX:


Eating six meals a day is critical and crucial. Meals which are equally spaced also helps to increase metabolism, which eventually helps to reduce body fat. Splitting your usual carbs intake among six meals or more a day results in greater muscle glycogen, which leads to more muscle growth and less body fat.


For instance, if you are eating 360gms of carbs a day, spaced evenly between 3 meals, this equates 120gms of carbs per meal and some will be stored as fat.
Now if you are eating six or more meals, your carbs increment are lowered to 60 gms per meal, which reduces chance of fat storage and leaves more carbohydrate for muscle glycogen.


Essential training for SIX:

After having understood about diet, training can be key for SIX, training which includes all compound movements like dead lifts, squats etc just can’t be ignored for SIX.
To shred of body fat legs can’t be ignored, if worked on big muscle groups like quadriceps, hamstrings, glutes, back, chest, body burns more calories at rest, means your BMR revs up. Increase in BMR leads to FAT loss, so eventually six packs are visible which everyone have (mostly covered by Body FAT).
Remember crunches are not a secret for six packs, they only strengthen rectus abdominals, doesn’t help to reduce FAT on stomach.

At last after following above instruction and taking deep sleep of 7-8 hrs, SIX can be achieved in less than six months.

So guys stop curling arms, girls stop doing crunches and cardio and get to compound and functional movements, moreover pay attention to what you eat, to change the way you look...!!

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Swine flu and YOU !! , a thought...


Everyday in newspaper we see deaths by swine flu, which is alarming and certainly we need to be cautious about the VIRUS.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the most common way for the illness to be transmitted is to be in close proximity to an infected person, usually from their coughing or sneezing. If a surface with flu virus on it is touched, then one's nose or mouth, it's possible to become infected as well. The virus can live up to several hours on surfaces in warm, humid temperature.

Now the concern,
A person with week immune system in particular gets infected with virus first then the healthy person. Looking at the statistics mostly women and also middle age men are infected with disesase, childerens also are more prone to virus.

Well, nowadays we can see vaccinations to avoid swine flu. Vaccinations are for children who have poor immune system or are prone to infections, but imagine grown up taking vaccinations??

The solution to avoid swine flu is making a stronger immune system. How?
Exercise which contains resistance training, proper diet and super seven..

Super seven ->
1. Muiltivitamin / Mineral
2. Antioxidant
3. Vitamin C
4. Protein
5. Essential fatty acids
6. Glutamine
7. Zinc and Magnesium formulation

There is no much considerable use of super seven if effective weight training is not done, calcium is not absorbed in bones until and unless bones are given resistance to absorb it.
Doctors who have advised women to take calcium tablet might be waste of money if they are not enrolled with resistance training.

At last sleep is important factor, if you are not sleeping long enough or deep enough then your training and your health can suffer.

Iam sure if you exercise properly and follow super seven, you wont need mask neither a vaccine, after all its all about to built a stronger immune system.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Functional Fitness certificate distribution by Kaizzad Capadia at Mumbai


Awarded Functional fitness Certificate by Kaizzad Capadia


With Madhuri Ruia (Director - InteGYM) and Kaizzad (Director - K11 Fitness)


Entire Team at InteGYM Mumbai with Madhuri Ruia


With Madhuri Ruia (Director - InteGYM)


Lecture on Functional fitness by Kaizzad Capadia

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Women Power, seeing is believing !!

Friends,

Seen video is one of the members of Gmaxx Fitness, one of the clubs which we undertake management for training and sales.

Her age is 51 and she is squating 135lbs with 10 reps, absolutely amazing, she is capable of 160lbs plus, but did not have good prework out meal, which is very important especially if you are training legs.

Working with EDS as a senior project manager, says that I feel like Iam 30, all my knee problems are vanished and have lost 6 kgs FAT in 2.5 months at this age.

Friends, this is the beauty of weight training which is always misunderstood by women.

Great going...!

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

PNF Stretching, the only Club in Pune to introduce..

PNF (Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation) Stretching : -
It is the most effective way known to increase static-passive flexibility. It is a technique of combining passive and isometric stretching in order to achieve maximum static flexibility.
PNF usually employs use of partner to provide resistance against the isometric contraction and then later to passively take the joint through increased range of motion.

Benefits :-
1. Increased range of motion around joint.
2. Physical pain can be decreased and the risk for certain injuries can be reduced.
3. Greater improvement in flexibility









Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Sports and Fitness - Must read blog !!


"Sania Practicing Kickboxing"

Many times it is misunderstood by common man for sports as fitness.

Playing badminton, TT, cricket, tennis etc is being taken granted for fitness and expecting a miracle result, like weight loss or may be fat loss.
I would certainly say that any one involved in any kind of sports will never get the desired results until and unless they are associated with fitness.
How??

Over a period of 10 years of mentoring in fitness have seen that people who play badminton or tennis for instance just to maintain fitness, surprisingly come with a complaint of severe knee pain or hip joint pain?? If a sporting activity is used for fitness why such complaints then ?
Well, sports is not used for fitness, its other way round, fitness is necessary for sports.
People who are associated with tennis or any ground sports should workout with weights to avoid knee injury. Infact I know people who have been playing ground sports over years and have replaced knee joint.
Any sporting activities were start and stop action is there won’t allow you for best fitness levels, you need to take consideration of max heart rate (MHR) to increase your stamina or your fitness levels.

Weight training and stretching is very important and to have good conditioning does help a lot in playing tennis says Rafeal Nadal (Worlds no 1 tennis player)

All professional players spend different time for sport specific training (exercise) to get best and avoid injuries.

At last, I also insist that diet is key, if you still eat traditional Indian breakfast and typical Indian diet after any sporting event, Iam sorry to say you will never achieve best fitness levels. Sports nutrition is must.

So guys, who are associated with sports, pull up your socks and be ready to lift weights to show your best in the field of sports.

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Lonavla - Outdoor activity no 2, 11th July

Energy24x7 organised second outdoor activity to Lonavla for members, we got fair response for one day trip, traffic caos at lonavla was only biggest trouble making part in the entire trip as most of the time was spend in car :-)



















Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Members enjoying CardioKickboxing - Age no bar..!

Members with Jabs and Gloves performing Cardiokickboxing, the best tool for Cardiovascular excercises...

Benefits: -
1. Excellent calorie buring
2. Improves cognitive skills
3. Improves functional strength
4. Makes you feel alive for next 24 hours :-)








Video of Kickboxing and Duck walk.....



Saturday, July 3, 2010

Saturday, June 19, 2010

ARAI - Tekdi, 1st Out door activity - 19th June 10

Energy24x7 Fitness Club conducted 1st out door activity at ARAI Tekdi.
We got fair response to start with, glad to see more number of women.

Iam impressed to see all women crowd doing pushups and workingout on double bar. I must say this is the beauty of functional training, ability to do difficult task at ease.
Glad to see Mrs Atayle, and Prof Dr Patkar both age 68 working on double bar , excellent improvement in terms of core strength at their age, long way to go....



Mrs Atayle on double bar



The Part group..




Mr Ubhe on chin ups


Mr Ravi


Prof Dr Patkar, age 68


Sai


Jotsna



Sai


Jotsna


Ravi