Welcome to Show Time, Go Time!  We hope you enjoy our informative site and find it useful in achieving total physical and emotional fitness!  Years of fitness and bodybuilding experience has left us with a knowledge and understanding of how to achieve maximum total fitness that would be selfish to keep to ourselves.  So we are working on accumulating everything you would need to know to maintain a healthy lifestyle and putting it in one place.  Call us your one stop shop, for everything fitness!  
    We believe there are four basic principles to achieving the physical and emotional status that you want to be, ATTITUDE, DIET, EXERCISE AND REST.  Your attitude must be in the right state of mind, or nothing else that you do, will be of any value.  The old saying, "you are what you eat", couldn't be more true.  Your diet has more to do with how your body looks and feels than anything else.  With the proper exercise program, you can mold and chisel your body into an aesthetically pleasing, fat burning machine.  Then there is rest.  Without giving your body the time it needs to recover, you will just keep beating yourself up, day after day.  Your body grows while you rest, never forget that.  
    A good workout routine is necessary for anyone wanting to alter the way they look and feel.  However, before you just go out, join a gym and start throwing some weights around, you need to take the time lay out how you are going about your workout. 

• First- You need to clarify your workout goals.  Bodybuilders, athletes and your average Joe, trying to drop a few pounds, all have different goals.  These goals aren't reached by doing the same workout for each individual person.  Figure out why your doing this, so that you can figure out the best plan of action to achieve your goals.                                              
• Second- Find a workout that works for you.  Not all resistance training workouts give the same results.  Some are designed to build mass, some are made for strength and power, there are ones built towards building lean muscle and others are more geared towards building up endurance.  This is not the limit of what you can do with weights, but it gives you an idea of its versatility.  There are many different types of cardiovascular exercise, but not everyone wants to run their legs off.  If you like riding your bicycle, then try riding your bike for distances or maybe take a spin class.  Some gyms even have virtual reality screens on their recumbent bikes, so it seems like your riding through the mountains, woods or what ever other places are available.  If you like swimming, find a gym that has an olympic sized pool.  There are many ways to burn maximum calories and have fun doing it.
• Third- Consider how you feel.  Everyone has bad days at the gym.  You work hard all day, or you didn't get a good nights sleep and the last thing you want to do is step into the gym and power out a grueling workout.  Instead of struggling through whats suppose to be a hard day in the gym, give yourself a break and back off the intensity.  Save that energy for the next workout, when you feel like a hundred bucks.  This will help keep gym burnout at bay.  It's ok to skip a day from time to time, just try not to make it a habit.  It's easy to turn one skipped day into a skipped week.
• Fourth- Keep your body guessing.  Altering exercise selection, exercise order, rest periods and tempo, can keep your body from hitting a plateau or become stagnant.  Changing things up in the gym will also keep your trips to the iron house more exciting. 
• Fifth and Final- Know when to call it quits! This is the one rule everyone seems to forget.  To be able  to know when a workout is done, or a program has run its course, is arguably the hardest thing for any lifter to do.  The law of diminishing returns states that if the total demands created by a workout or several workouts exceed as individuals tolerance or recovery ability, results will not transpire and, overtime, mental and physical regression will ensue.  Basically, this is saying that if you don't give your body the sufficient time it needs to recover, your results will stagnate.  If you continue this trend, you could lose size and strength, slow your metabolism and possibly lose your motivation and focus.  If you are no longer noticing even small gains in size or strength, or in even worse cases, you're feeling burned out or having trouble staying motivated during your workouts, you may not be getting the required rest.  We would suggest taking a week or two off from training, and then slowly come back to the gym.  Negative progress is not why you're training, so make sure you're treating your body kindly and your body will reward you!

 

 

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