Fitness

Starting my process..

Posted by Claudia on April 20, 2013
Posted in: Body Revision By Claudia, Competition Training, Diet, Excerise, Fitness, Freddie's Nutrition, Las Vegas Personal Trainer, Lifestyle, Personal Training.

Finally I feel like I am ready to lean out and get my butt into competition shape!!!
It took awhile as I have excuses like everyone else …
Working from 6am until 7pm…
Growing business and trying to focus on everyone else…
Everyday stress factors in business as well as personal…
Jadejadejade…
I will have to lose about 20 pounds to feel ready 😉
Also I need this process to be as slow as possible to maintain my muscle as I lose fat!
I have purposely put on a good amount of muscle mass in my gluteus, quads and hamstrings as well as my delts 🙂
Starting my supplement regime religiously !!!
This is a big part how the end result will look like!
Over the last year my gluten intolerance has gotten worse.
My new diet plan will not include any gluten, grains, wheat, or heavy starches for most of the time!
I will keep my carb intake in check trough fruits and mostly vegetables!
Around 100-120 grams per day!
Also my fat intake will be much higher than before!!!
My energy will come from my fat intake rather than my carbohydrate intake 🙂
I started eating full organic eggs, avocado, nuts and seeds.
My protein does not include shakes, but fish, chicken and turkey.
By cutting out starchy foods and gluten I have noticed a change in my skin elasticity (also from my higher fat intake)!
The combination of my supplements and my new diet has helped me develop rounder muscle bellies!
I am always religious about my BCAA’s, L- Glutamine , and my Animal Pak!
I also included a new women’s muscle building supplement which is called wicked rose.
It includes Tribules and other testosterone boosting ingredient!
Available at Freddie’s Nutrition 🙂
It is a bit expensive, but well worth the money!
As with everything else, you need to circle it to prevent your body from getting used to as with all herbal supplements!!!
I have been keeping my cardio at 30min 6 times per week in my building face, but now upping in to 40min sometimes twice per day!
I don’t have a specific Competition date yet!
Whenever I feel to be ready and good enough to do well, I will sign up….
However, I will keep you posted on my progress 😉
Soon to be posting pictures 😮
If you have never participated in a competition, please do!!!
It is very powerful not just in boosting your self confidence , but also in teaching you about your body!
Your incredible powerful machinery!!!
As in you are what you eat!!!

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You can enter their website right from here 🙂
Thank you!

The importance of functional Training!

Posted by Claudia on March 27, 2013
Posted in: Anatomy and Physiology, Excerise, Fitness, Health, Injury, Personal Trainer Las Vegas, Personal Training.

There are many old fashion traditional trainers that think functional training is of unimportance, or yet call it dangerous and causing injuries…
Well, obvious they are “old fashion and traditional” trainers!
Most of all they are uneducated!!!
Here is my thought:
This is my blog ….and I can say whatever I want ( is freedom of speech still one of our amendments ?)
Functional training is preventing injury, not causing it!!!
Our muscle fibers are supposed to work in all 3 planes of motion, not just sagittal!!!
We need to work with stability, balance, core strength and reaction time with everything we do!
If you think this is of no importance, maybe you want to seek a different profession!!!
We are not ment to sit on a machine and be guided by it!
We are supposed to use our functional strength in everything we do….
Picking up groceries …. Getting out of a car….
Taking that purse from that back seat….getting of the floor….
If you don’t understand how our nervous system works, get a desk job ( please)!
Our body is amazing!!!
It’s the most amazing thing you have ever owned!
Treat it the way it’s suppose to be treated!
Value it!
Respect it!
Keep it functional for the rest of your life….
Otherwise….end up on a walker!
Accept your way!
And be done with it!!!
Love, life, happiness!!!

For all your supplemental needs please visit Freddie’s Nutrition in Las Vegas, or simply click on the lik on this page!

Thank you 🙂

The importance of stretching, adjustment and DMS!

Posted by Claudia on February 24, 2013
Posted in: Anatomy and Physiology, Body Revision By Claudia, Competition Training, Diet, Excerise, Fitness, Flexibility, Freddie's Nutrition, Health, Injury, Las Vegas Personal Trainer, Personal Training.

I have blogged about this subject many times before.
However recently I feel more and more the urge to motivate you guys to improve your body through working with your connective tissue!
Not to long ago it has been recognized that our connective tissue (fascia) surrounding our muscles and connecting to joints is very articulate in deed!
Tightness, imbalance, pain and loss in flexibility has very much to do with Fascia and our nervous system in how they communicate with each other!
This blog will be in my primitive verbiage and put the way it’s in my mind (lol)!!!
We are all slaves of repetitive movements…
Whether it is sitting on a desk all day, running a marathon, using the same exercise or cardio machine, or bring lazy and lying in bed all day!
Sleeping the wrong way….
Standing all day…
Everything is repetitive and causes inflammation in your tissue!
Our muscles never completely shut of!!!
While you are sitting in your office, your hip flexors stay activated while your gluteus got the memo to turn of…
After several hours of work getting out of your chair becomes a struggle…
Your gluteus have gotten lazy and won’t respond, your hip flexors are pulling the from of your body giving you a hinged over posture, your hamstrings and lower back are the back up for your body to get you out of that darn chair!!!
Lower back pain?
Quad tightness and knots?
Neck tightness?
Shoulder pain?
Sounds familiar?
Stretching is of most importance!!!
Yes, it doesn’t burn tons of calories…
It’s not a lot of fun…
But it is extremely important to keep your body balanced!
Sometimes stretching alone is not enough…
This is when Myofascial release comes in!
Using a Foam roller (they come with a manual), roll on a regular basis (every other day) over all problem areas, but include attaching muscles as well!
Which means your whole body 😉
Finish by a 15-20 minute stretching routine!
Remember it takes about 20 sec per stretch to command your receptors “it’s time to let go”, so do not go to fast!!!
Next step up would be DMS!!!
In my opinion DMS is send to us from heaven!!!
Deep Muscle Stimulation!
To me DMS is not painful, rather a feel good service like Deep
Tissue massage…
But depending on your sensitivity and pain tolerance you may experience it differently!
DMS sends hundreds of vibrations into the deepest muscle tissue, changing the way of your nervous system, losening fascia tightness, taking care of trigger points and inflammation of all kind!!!
Yes, you might have a lower pain tolerance and experience it different from me..
Yes, you might get bruising depending of sensitivity and elasticity of your tissue…
But in every case it helps!!!
Gain back your range of motion!
Be pain free!
Get your strength back!
Who really cares about bruises that go away!
If you would like to know more about DMS please contact me!
Years of imbalance might have thrown your kinetic chain completely of!!!
Now you are carrying 40 pounds on your cervical spine, your lordosis is going out of control, your posture is making you look old and tired!
Aliante Chiropractic would be a next step to work with your imbalance and create synergy to your muscles.
Dr Jason Jaeger has developed a special Traction Application that will help over several session to bring your body back into alignment!!!
“Cracking” your spine and joints will only work momentarily until your tight muscles are pulling back into out of place!
It is one of the most advanced and least invasive procedures on the market!!!
How can you stay in balance without having to go through extreme measures?
Stretching every day!!!
Join a Yoga Class…
Lvac is offering amazing classes all included in your membership!!!!
If your body is beyond simple as is mine, start making time to see Eric Sparks with Functionality Maximized, and Dr Jason Jaeger with Aliante Chiropractic!

For all your Supplemental needs please visit Freddie’s Nutrition or simply click on the Freddie’s link on this page!
Thank you 🙂

Artificial Sweeteners and other Sugar Exchanges

Posted by Claudia on February 9, 2013
Posted in: Body Revision By Claudia, Body Revision Team Vegas Figure & Bikini, Body Revision Team Vegas Physique, Competition Training, Diet, Excerise, Fitness, Flexibility, Freddie's Nutrition, Functional Training, Health, Las Vegas Personal Trainer, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Personal Trainer Las Vegas, Personal Training, Supplements and Vitamins.

With all the different artificial sweeteners on the market we are to believe that we can have the taste of sugar without consequences…
As we all know all artificial sweeteners are poison and cause reactions not just in our brain, but also our liver, and other internal organs!
Even Truvia causes reactions because it is very processed and not at it’s natural state like stevia….
Besides the point of causing damage in your body, sugar exchanges no matter how close to natural are still sweet!!!
That’s the point right?
Well, as soon as something “sweet” reaches your tong and censors, your pancreas will release insulin, increasing fat production in your liver and causing weight gain eventually!
Sucks right?
I have been using artificial sweeteners in the past to flavor my protein pancake, oatmeal muffins and other healthy treats I make!
Lately I have noticed that not much has happened in my fat loss process…
So last week I have been staying away completely from all sugar exchanges, just eating plain old oats…egg whites…a.s.o
My body was giving me a fast forward to weight loss!
There was a significant change in the appearance of my midsection!
This is my personal opinion:
While first time dieters may get away while using artificial sweeteners, repetitive dieters as myself can no longer achieve results!!!
While you can still use some sort of natural sweetener sporadically or as a treat, staying away from sweet tasting foods and exchanges might be the key to speed up or re activate your personal goal!

As always please visit Freddie’s Nutrition in Las Vegas for amazing prices in Supplements and Natural Products!
Freddie and his Staff will be happy to answer your questions!
You can also visit Freddie’s online store by clicking on the link on this page!
Thank you 🙂