WEIGHT LOSS  There are three ways to lose weight:  Dieting, cardio exercise, and resistance training.  Dieting and cardio workouts are short-term weight-loss solutions. Resistance training is the long-term weight loss solution because it RAISES your metabolism buy adding back the muscle mass you have lost!

FACT: The average person loses up to one pound of muscle per year from age 20 to age 40, resulting in a loss of demand for calories.  If you eat at age 40 like you did at age 20, you will be 30-50 lbs overweight UNLESS you do resistance training and re-build those muscles to the level they were at age 20.

FACT: Cardio exercise burns up to 300 calories for each day you do it it.  It's a great long-term heart exercise, but those doing it usually are actually over-eating by 300 calories a day, and keeping it in balance by doing cardio exercise.  When you tire of the cardio workout, and stop doing it for a month or so, you will add pounds quickly unless you immediately drop 300 calories from you diet!

FACT: When you increase your muscle mass to the point where your body demands calories like it did when you were younger, taking a month or two off will not result in rapid weight gain, because you only lose about a pound a muscle per year, therefore, you will still burn calories even when you aren't working out regularly.

FACT: Dieting alone often causes your muscles to diminish even faster, resulting in a lower demand for calories.  After 90 days on a diet, many people stop losing weight, since their bodies have adjusted its demand downward to the point where it is equal to the diet intake.

BULKING: Women are often concerned about bulking up when doing resistance training.  The physiology of women is such that they do not tend to bulk up unless they take certain supplements or steroid.  Our U. S. Olympic team has a female member who weighs 105 pounds and can put 227 lbs over her head.  She is strong but not bulky.

Men have a hormone called testosterone that has a strong relationship to muscle size.  For those men wishing to bulk up, we have specific programs designed to accomplish that goal.

STRENGTH GAIN  Most people come to a fitness center to gain strength.  Whether the purpose is to re-gain lost strength due to age, add new strength for younger people, or just feel better, more strength can make a large change in your life.  Traditional gyms are seeing people gain as much as 50% in strength gains over a 12 month period.  Private Workout's Speed-Training methods are producing strength gains of as high as 100% per month.  Please see the Results? tabs on this page.

MUSCLE-GAIN CENTER  Unlike weight LOSS centers like Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, or LA Diet Center, all fitness centers are actually MUSCLE-GAIN centers.  The object of a fitness center is to increase your strength, which in turn "tones" the muscles and increases muscle mass.  If you add 20 lbs of muscle to a thin person, they gain 20 lbs of total weight.  If you add 20 lbs of muscle to a person who is not overweight, but is high in body fat, they will lose 20 lbs of fat, and become "toned."  If you add 20 lbs of muscle to an overweight person, they will lose 20+ lbs of fat, with a result of losing total weight. 

If your goal is to:                 You must:

    Bulk up                    Gain strength

    Tone up                   Gain strength

    Lose weight              Gain strength

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