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Mission Statement
To provide a healthy, nurturing environment for mature adults, who have a serious desire to achieve their maximum strength level or to rehabilitate weakened muscles due to injury or illness. Certified professionals will perform all services, including safe and effective weight resistance training, massage, yoga and nutritional counseling. Payment for these services will be by donation commensurate with the client's financial position. No serious applicant will be turned away due to lack of funds.
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I am very excited to announce the creation of the "Strength For Life Foundation".
This is a non-profit endeavor that I have put in place to try to solve some of the some of the most important issues that face all of us, as we grow older.
Over the past few years I have concentrated on helping people get stronger through a personal training business involving a very specialized type of weight training that features “quality over quantity”. This has produced incredible results, not only for myself but many clients of all ages.
I have particularly focused on women over the age of 50, not by choice, but this particular group is very vulnerable to their natural loss of muscle mass thereby creating a multitude of health problems as they move into their senior years. It seems that men in their formative years, in general, have been more physically active due to sports participation, types of jobs and the nature of just being boys as they grow up. They are probably just as vulnerable but are slower to realize it and usually want to try to solve their weakening muscle and strength problems in addition to fat accumulation by joining some gym and taking a stab at working out on their own. Women however, if they can afford it, seem to seek out professional help in the form of a personal trainer to guide them through the strengthening process.
The bottom line is we all lose muscle mass at an alarming rate. There are some estimates up to 1% every year over the age of 25. Unfortunately, someone forgot to tell us! The scary part of this is that people really don’t know how to solve this problem and many times choose the wrong path or ignore it completely and find themselves in an even more weakened position than if they did nothing at all.
Contrary to many beliefs, cardiovascular exercises do very little to build muscle mass in the body or lose fat. It is imperative that we need a high quality program of serious supervised incremental weight resistance training to actually replace or build lean muscle mass throughout our structural core. In my opinion based on many years experience as a former competitive distance runner, weight training is the only way! No more excessive running or excessive anything else for me!
The problem with choosing a certified personal trainer is 1; a great many of them are coming from an old school mentality that professes more is better which is an invitation to over-training and guaranteed injuries or "burn-out" and 2; most people consider hiring a personal trainer a luxury. My contention is a personal trainer is an absolute necessity. I also have a fine trainer, Pamela, that keeps me motivated, technically perfect and charts my incremental progress. I do muscle training once a week for 30 minutes (yes I’m not kidding), run moderately once or twice a week with a friend for fun (no racing) and…I don't over eat! (counting calories does work folks!) If you have trouble keeping track, go to fitday.com to help you. It has helped me get real over the years and it is FREE! I am now a maturing man (70) in the body of a 30 year old. Yes!!!