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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!

Fitness, Uncategorized, Wellness

No time for the gym? No problem!

August 4th, 2009

Hello Halfsquare readers!  First let me apologize for my absence and lack of fitness information.  This past year has been quite busy for me both personally and professionally, but as a result many good things have transpired.

That being said, one of the biggest questions I receive from people is regarding exercise and their busy schedule.  First of all, if you know me and if you’ve seen my training center, you know I don’t believe in 99% of the training methods and equipment seen in the average commercial gym.  I also don’t believe we are so busy that we can’t find 30-45 minutes a day to exercise.  I work 6-7 days a week and sometimes 14+ hours a day and still manage to train for 1-1 1/2 hours a day 5-6 days a week.

Let’s consider a worst-case scenario.  You are stuck at home, you have no exercise equipment and only 15-20 minutes.  Can you get an effective exercise program in?  I’m willing to bet you can!

Scott’s minimalist, quick-fix workout:

warm up for a couple of minutes with some stretches, joint mobility exercises like shoulder circles, hip circles and leg swings; then perform the following series:

-bodyweight squats x 50 reps

-push ups x 50 reps

-crunches x 50 reps

-jumping jacks x 50 reps

-rest 30-60 seconds

-bodyweight squats x 40 reps

-push ups x 40 reps

-crunches x 40 reps

-jumping jacks x 40 reps

-rest 30-60 seconds

-bodyweight squats x 30 reps

-push ups x 30 reps

-crunches x 30 reps

-jumping jacks x 30 reps

-rest 30-60 seconds

-bodyweight squats x 20 reps

-push ups x 20 reps

-crunches x 20 reps

-jumping jacks x 20 reps

-rest 30-60 seconds

-bodyweight squats x 10 reps

-push ups x 10 reps

-crunches x 10 reps

-jumping jacks x 10 reps

-Congrats!  You’re finished!

I realize that your current level of fitness may not allow you to perform many repetitions per exercise, that’s ok!  Do the best you can.  Simply decrease the number of repetitions per exercise for each series, the key is – work continuously with very little rest for the 15-20 minute time frame you have.

There you have it, no more “no time” excuses!

-Scott

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FITNESS: Listen to Scott Shetler's Live Webcast Tonight @ 9:00 EST

March 25th, 2009

Scott Shetler, HalfSquare.net contributor, President of Extreme Conditioning & Fitness, World Kettlebell Club Master Trainer, and member of the Udo’s Oil/Robert Universe Strength Athlete Study Panel of Experts will be appearing on a live webcast tonight at 9:00 eastern time. He and Steven Mosley will be interviewed Lt. Jim Sayih for the “911 Challenge.”

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