Tracking your activity and diet are both essential in reaching your fitness goals. When starting a new fitness program at Cutting Edge Fitness, we take on a large portion of tracking your fitness and strength improvements off your plate, but you should also set up a few key tracking systems for yourself!
Below are some great fitness and nutrition tools we have found to help you track your fitness progress.
Along with one of the CEF trainers, a food journal should be your new best friend:
Starting a food and diet journal is one of the most affective ways to loose weight! With FitDay, a free online diet and weight-loss journal, you can easily start tracking your diet trends and how much protein, carbohydrates, fats, and vitamins you are consuming a day. The FitDay journal allows you to track your diet and with a little additional from us, you can calculate what you may need to consume less or more of to reach your fitness goals!
What did I do this week? Track all workouts and exercise at mapmyfitness.com to remember:
MapMyFitness.com provides you with the simple tools, calendars and community to track what you did outside the gym! With their mapping system, you no longer have to guess how long your walk, run, bike ride, swim, etc was, just map it and find out! Also, the calendar is super easy to use, and you can insert your gym time in it as well! This way, you are able to look in the calendar and ensure yourself proper rest between workouts, or call up to make an additional session for some free time you have coming up!
Always on the go? Call your workouts in using Jott and Gmail:
Honestly, we feel that tracking your fitness progress and goals with paper and a pen or on a calendar are more than adequate ways of doing so, but for those who are always on the go, a new tool has hit the market! Using Jott and Gmail lets you log your exercise and diet accomplishments by making a call from anywhere. Using the Jott software in conjunction to a Gmail account you can call, text, or email your exercise or eating activities into a specialized inbox. It comes with a monthly fee, but it's a pretty neat new way to track progress and see where you have gone in both your diet and exercise habits!
Seeing is believing! Make a photo progress calendar with Flickr:
One last tracking device that tends to keep you motivated while logging your diet, is a photo calendar! There is nothing better than actually seeing the results of your hard work! Flikr is a great online photo community that allows you to upload, tag, title and date photos. The privacy settings that Flikr has allows you to create private photo time lines, that make the perfect setting for a progress calendar! Trust us, once you start feeling and seeing results, all this tracking will be worth it! Once you hit your goal, you may even want to share some of these photos with people you know who may be looking for some inspiration in reaching their fitness goals.
Try one or try all and see the difference!
-Kerri
Monday, August 2, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Tomorrow Morning
I hope everyone is ready for another great workout tomorrow! I've got some new tricks up my sleeve. As I said last session, we have yet to hit the stadium stairs, so you can almost guarantee those will be involved. I won't fill you in on what else I have planned, but I can assure you it will be grueling. The key to toning a body is to burn fat and build muscle at the same time. Building muscle actually helps you burn fat at a faster rate. So during the bootcamp you will notice that I incorporate alot of exercises that force you to hold yourself up with your shoulders, chest, and triceps. These exercises are great for building muscle and burning fat in the upper body. All the squats, lunges, wallsits, and hillruns will take care of the lower body. We'll it's time for me to get some rest as I have to be up in about 6 hours. See you in the am! Russ
Running "The Hill"- What a way to start a Monday!
by Kerri J
Boot camp started out with a bang yesterday morning when we jogged to a small trail near Canton High School and ran "The Hill!" Russ and I led the pack of campers up and down over eight times! Everyone felt intense burning in their legs while running up the steep hill and at times some wanted to stop, but we kept everyone going until the end! Do you know how amazingly beneficial it was to finish this particular run?
I'll tell you!
- When running where the slope of the traveled terrain increases by 20% or more, we burn at least DOUBLE the amount of calories!!
- When running downhill, well… You are still expending calories, but really just enjoy the short "break" while you can!
The findings above are from a study documented in the Journal of Applied Physiology. The total findings are much more complex than what I just mentioned, but the statements above are great cliff notes to remember the next time we run “The Hill!”
To our current campers: Post your feelings towards the great calorie burning session you took place in yesterday!
To want-to-be campers: Contact us to learn more about the Cutting Edge Fitness studio, our top-notch summer boot camps, and how you can join us today! Email info@cuttingedgefitnessinc.com
Boot camp started out with a bang yesterday morning when we jogged to a small trail near Canton High School and ran "The Hill!" Russ and I led the pack of campers up and down over eight times! Everyone felt intense burning in their legs while running up the steep hill and at times some wanted to stop, but we kept everyone going until the end! Do you know how amazingly beneficial it was to finish this particular run?
I'll tell you!
- When running where the slope of the traveled terrain increases by 20% or more, we burn at least DOUBLE the amount of calories!!
- When running downhill, well… You are still expending calories, but really just enjoy the short "break" while you can!
The findings above are from a study documented in the Journal of Applied Physiology. The total findings are much more complex than what I just mentioned, but the statements above are great cliff notes to remember the next time we run “The Hill!”
To our current campers: Post your feelings towards the great calorie burning session you took place in yesterday!
To want-to-be campers: Contact us to learn more about the Cutting Edge Fitness studio, our top-notch summer boot camps, and how you can join us today! Email info@cuttingedgefitnessinc.com
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Motivation: Pick it up and use it!
Small blog on my weekend experience:
Whether it's finding the drive to wake up early to exercise, pushing myself to complete that last rep in the studio or reaching for perfection in my swimming technique, motivation is a key factor needed to achieve all of these actions!
This weekend, I volunteered at the Massachusetts Special Olympic Summer Games. I picked up a large amount of athletic motivation from the incredible athletes who participated! The participating athletes ranged from ages 10 to 60 years of age, and all of them had such a positive outlook and an exponential amount of drive to overcome challenges and succeed in the events they took part of. Where we as volunteers were at the event to cheer and motivate the athletes, I found myself being more inspired and motivated by them! The everyday challenges I face, like the ones I mentioned at the beginning, seem less like challenges and more like an achievable check list! Motivation comes from many places including within, just so happens I had a few great examples to get a "pick me up" from this weekend!
Whether it's finding the drive to wake up early to exercise, pushing myself to complete that last rep in the studio or reaching for perfection in my swimming technique, motivation is a key factor needed to achieve all of these actions!
This weekend, I volunteered at the Massachusetts Special Olympic Summer Games. I picked up a large amount of athletic motivation from the incredible athletes who participated! The participating athletes ranged from ages 10 to 60 years of age, and all of them had such a positive outlook and an exponential amount of drive to overcome challenges and succeed in the events they took part of. Where we as volunteers were at the event to cheer and motivate the athletes, I found myself being more inspired and motivated by them! The everyday challenges I face, like the ones I mentioned at the beginning, seem less like challenges and more like an achievable check list! Motivation comes from many places including within, just so happens I had a few great examples to get a "pick me up" from this weekend!
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