Can’t Stay Fit While Travelling? Now You Can!

July 14th, 2010

Many of my personal clients work in corporate jobs that require extensive travel, often the better part of their week. This presents a huge problem when it comes to getting their workouts in while on the road.

As one of my clients, a CEO of an insurance company once told me, “Scott, when I travel my schedule is crazy. I don’t have time to put on my gym clothes and go down to the hotel’s fitness center, let alone drive all over town to find a gym if the hotel doesn’t provide one. I need something I can roll out of bed in my underwear and do in less than thirty minutes before breakfast, because after that I am usually busy until 10 or 11 o’clock at night.”

How many of you face a similar situation?

Ok, maybe you don’t travel extensively for work. How about when you’re on vacation? Or what if you’re stuck at home and you can’t get to the gym-you stay-at-home moms can identify with this-wouldn’t you like a low-cost alternative that is easy to do and requires nothing larger than a shoulder bag to store it in?

Because of these scenarios, my cousin-who travels extensively for work and vacation-came to me with the idea for a great travel fitness product and program. We figured since just about everything is “mobile” (phones, internet, etc.) nowadays, why not fitness? You see, in doing our research we found decent programs with bad products and decent products with bad programs, but nothing we deemed to be extremely valuable to the road-warrior who needs fitness-on-the-go.

Enter KronoFit-fitness you can use anytime, anywhere. We found the absolute best in easily portable fitness equipment (weighs less than two pounds and is portable enough it will fit in a carry-on bag) and I developed a program utilizing the equipment that can be performed in the free space in your hotel room.

The program leaves no stone unturned and KronoFit book includes warm-up exercises, joint-health exercises, strength training, cardiovascular training and flexibility exercises. It also addresses nutrition strategies, as a concern for travelers is eating healthy while on the road. The program offers a 20 minute workout, 40 minute workout and 60 minute workout.

The equipment includes a suspension gym that can be mounted over the top of a door that allows you to do bodyweight exercises such as pull-ups, body rows and push-ups; a set of heavy resistance bands with a door anchor that allow you to replicate any traditional weight-training exercises with between 30 – 200 pounds of peak resistance; a speed-rope jump rope to enhance the cardiovascular program; and the corner stone of our program, the GYMBOSS interval timer-hence KronoFit-that keeps track of your sets and reps so you don’t have to.

We tested this workout on a wide variety of fitness enthusiasts-from a martial artist, a stay at home mom, a CEO and everyone in between-and everyone agreed that KronoFit was the perfect solution for those looking to stay fit while travelling or simply dealing with today’s hectic lifestyle.

How effective was the program? One of our test subjects monitored the workout with his heart-rate monitor and during the 40 minute workout variation hit a max heart-rate of 164 beats per minute and burned over 500 calories!

If you are interested in learning more about the KronoFit program please visit the website at www.kronofit.com and find out how to stay fit on the road and remember-No gym? No problem!

Scott Shetler Fitness, Uncategorized, Wellness

Live Video: BP Gulf Oil Spill

June 4th, 2010

GreenScene: Farmers Solve Oil Spill Crisis. Will Gov’t Listen?

May 7th, 2010

This video is truly amazing in its simplicity to solve the clean up problem with the Gulf oil spill. Some times the best answers are the simplest ones.

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Why Can’t I Have a Midlife Crisis? (All the other guys are having one.)

January 30th, 2010

I’m at that age when I should be having a midlife crisis. It’s not a specific age, like the one you reach to be eligible for Social Security. It’s a span of years somewhere between “my jeans seem a little tight” and “does this adult diaper make my ass look big?”

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Your New Year’s Resolutions

December 31st, 2009

I’m not sure if this is the last post of this year, or the first post of next year. I do know that for the next three months I’ll still be writing 2009 on all my checks. Thank God for online bill paying.

Everyone makes New Year’s resolutions. This year I decided to make up a list of resolutions other people should follow, since I can’t seem to keep any of my own. Maybe I should set my sights lower, though I still have hopes I can become king of a small island nation populated with young, beautiful female swimsuit models. Here are a few I’d like to see. Only one each, and fulfilling them would certainly make the world a better place in my book:

Charlie Sheen – Realize that “Beyond the Law” was just the title of a movie you were in.

Sarah Palin – Stop writing books and try reading one for a change.

Joe Lieberman – Find a party you like and stick with it.

Barak Obama – Give up on those cancerous, white, death merchants. You know: Republicans.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – Look for a job in which the last thing you see won’t be a mob of 10 million Iranians calling for your head.

Angelina Jolie – Adopt an American kid, for Christ’s sake.

Madonna – Ditto.

Rush Limbaugh – Ask yourself whether the money you make is worth ruining everything America stands for.

Dick Cheney – More shooting lawyers, less shooting your mouth off.

Tiger Woods – No matter how difficult it may be, try to find happiness and satisfaction with only fame, a billion dollars, and your Swedish model wife.

Hugh Hefner – Lose the pajamas. Unless you have Alzheimer’s, you shouldn’t show up for interviews looking like grandpa trying to find his teeth in the morning.

Did I miss anyone? Suggestions are welcome.


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A HalfSquare’s Thoughts on Christmas

December 3rd, 2009

• Things you heard at Christmas when you were a kid sound perverted when you’re an adult. Santa sees you when you’re sleeping. He’ll be coming down your chimney. Don we now our gay apparel. O come all ye faithful. Were you a naughty little girl? Sit on my lap and tell me what you want for Christmas. Ho. Ho. Ho.

• Now that both my kids are over 21, they ask for fewer presents. Unfortunately the gifts they ask for are usually much more expensive. Like a down payment on a house.

• My wife and I no longer have to worry about getting woken at 5:30 Christmas morning by the happy squealing of kids who want to open presents. We’re old enough now that when we go to bed we worry we won’t wake up. Ever.

• We think we’re so smart because we don’t believe in Santa Claus. Then we put our faith for retirement in Social Security.

• The only reason Black Friday is the biggest and busiest shopping day of the year is because we’re all too stupid to think, “Maybe I should avoid the crowds and go shopping on Saturday or Sunday.”

• More and more, people walking around the malls at Christmastime remind me of the zombies walking Monroeville Mall in Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead.”

• Every new Christmas music CD that comes out has the same dozen or so songs. Can’t we write some new ones? Anyone? Put your hand down, McCartney.

• If Louis Farrakhan did a Christmas CD, I doubt he’d include “White Christmas.”

• I’ve been married more than 30 years. Twice I got presents for my wife she actually liked. This year I’ll get her a gift card and that big, flat screen TV I’ve always wanted. I mean she’s always wanted. Yeah. That’s it. She.

• I don’t want to offend anyone by saying Merry Christmas. So if you pass me on the street, and I shout, “Fuck you, asshole!” you’ll know why.

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GREENSCENE – Stat of the Day: Cosmetics

October 16th, 2009

A study by the Environmental Working Group showed that the average adolescent girl uses 17 personal care products each day. Compared to average adult woman, who uses 12.

Many of the chemicals used is cosmetics and other personal care products have been linked to hormone disruption, and cancer.

Eric Hancsak GreenScene , ,

Vacation Recommendation from a beer nut: Take a trip to Seattle! (Pt. 2)

October 15th, 2009

Part II: The City

Saturday 2/21/09

We woke early, to return the rental car and took a leisurely stroll downtown. At the advice of a concierge in the mall, we headed to Red Fin - yes, a sushi restaurant – for what he called their “amazing brunch.” http://www.redfinsushi.com/ The only bad part of this experience was that we didn’t get to try their sushi. The eggs benedict and croissant with homemade blackberry jam was totally worth forgoing true Japanese fare. We finished up our breakfast and headed back to the hotel to pack supplies for the afternoon.

Onward to Wai-Ching in Pioneer Square. http://wai-ching.com/ Pioneer Square is an eclectic little area of older warehouse type buildings which, I’m told, is the oldest part of the city. The buildings themselves were interesting and beautiful, but the best part was the businesses they house: art galleries, coffee houses, strange spaces with “exhibits” of unknown intent on display, clothing designers… We buzzed Chrissy from Wai-Ching and she let us in to her loft inspired office building. As we arrived on her floor – “The Floor of the Cats,” with the signage and mewing vagabonds to prove it – we were greeted by a friendly tabby. Read more…

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MUSIC: New Releases for October 12, 2009

October 15th, 2009

Bob Dylan
Christmas In The Heart

The Flaming Lips
Embryonic

Joan Baez
How Sweet The Sound

Los Lonely Boys
1969

Grant Lee Phillips
Little Moon

Brian Setzer
Songs From Lonely Avenue

Check out the video for The Flaming Lips – “I Can Be A Frog”

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Vacation Recommendation from a beer nut: Take a trip to Seattle! (Pt. 1)

September 14th, 2009

I’m the first to admit it, I’m a crazy planner, especially when it comes to vacations. I love researching plans and locations, pouring over maps, finding amazing hole-in-the-wall establishments and making trips in general more fun by creating itineraries that I can feverishly look forward to. I do this because I love it. I love imagining where I will be, and what it will be like. It’s kinda like your birthday as a child. You KNOW your parents got you some awesome gifts – some of which you asked for and others that may be complete surprises – and either way, waiting to find out what’s inside those perfectly wrapped boxes is almost as fun as it is to actually open them and enjoy the contents. My pre-planned itineraries are a lot like a stack of wrapped presents. Read more…

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