You are not alone in the never ending quest to maximize your potential to be healthy and fit.  And of course you want to receive the full payoff for your hard work invested in your training, whether it’s sport specific, in the gym, or focusing on your overall well being.  The roadblock most people inevitably run into is their diet.  With so many variables such as lifestyle and genetics, everyone has different requirements.  Life would be much easier if there was one perfect, generic diet that told you what to eat and when to eat it, and this would be the standard eating plan that everyone could follow.  Unfortunately this is not possible, and furthermore you cannot rely solely on supplements for all your nutritional needs.  However, the one aspect of a proper nutritional diet does remain the same for everybody is the benefits received when you implement the right food choices and timing of your meals.

Some main benefits for proper meal timing and nutrition include:

• It ensures that your muscles strengthen and repair between each bout of physical exertion.  Adequate nutrition after exercise speeds your recovery time, leaving your body ready for the next workout. Faster recovery from your training allows your next training session to be much more efficient.
• Sufficient nutrients maintain your immune system allowing you to fight off infection more efficiently. 
• It optimizes fuel use so that you remain energized through your current workout.

Hopefully looking at these benefits is an incentive to start asking your trainer more questions about what foods are right for your body type and how to successfully manipulate the timing of your nutritional intake.

Fitness Focus Health & Athletic Centre

There is no substitue for a professionally desgned program for the gym.  But if you consider yourself experienced in the gym and insist on planning your own training routine, make sure to keep your program well rounded but specific towards whatever goals you might have laid out for yourself. Here are some of the main components to designing your program and deciding how to spend your time in the gym:

One: Cardiovascular training should be well balanced with some high intensity and some low-moderate intensity.  Just like your resistance training, your body will adapt to stress if the same stress is applied consistently so it is important to diversify your cardio.  Use incline and speed intervals to keep your body guessing. 

Two: Muscle conditioning needs to focus on exercises for upper body, lower body, core: including abdominals, sides and lower back, as well as full body workouts including circuits.  When choosing your specific exercises you must understand the fundamentals; understand what the function of each muscle does to choose proper exercises.

More tips to come:

Fitness Focus is your no contract gym in Saskatoon

The 2011 Annual Outdoor Spring Bootcamp is filling up!  Outdoor Bootcamp will be running twice a week from June 7/11 through July 14/11.  There are still a few spots available!  To reserve yours or for more information; please contact us by phone 244.6413, email us at info@fitnessfocus.ca, or come down to the club

Outdoor Bootcamp Will be starting soon!  Outdoor Bootcamp will be running twice a week from June 7/11 through July 14/11.  Spots are limited!  For information on times and price or to secure your spot; please phone 244.6413, email us at info@fitnessfocus.ca, or come down to the club.

Outdoor Bootcamp is not included in any Kijiji Deals or Groupon Offers

SABBA Novice Bodybuilding Classic competitors; if you need help with your final contest preparations, contact a Team Wawryk Trainer to help you bring it all together in these last weeks before the show.  They specialize in full to pre-contest prep.  If you're having trouble fine tuning your physique, remember The Novice Classic is approaching quickly on April 30th.  

Wawryk Trainers on Facebook

2011 has proven great for Team Wawryk Pro Trainers and Fitness Focus Health & Athletic Centre.  So far it has been an exciting and unique endeavor for the gym's personal training department; as Team Wawryk's professional level of experience has never before been offered at a fitness centre in Saskatchewan.  What sets Wawryk Trainers apart from traditional styles of Personal Training is their first hand knowledge of health and fitness; not only through study, but also through years of experience and application, that they pass on to their clients which range from beginner to advanced lifters seeking contest preparation....

Founder IFBB Pro Vince Wawryk (pictured below) has an extensive background spanning over 20 years in exercise & fitness, diet, nutrtion, and weight management; combined with the Wawryk Trainers they possess over 50 years experience.

To talk about your individual fitness goals and learn new solutions to reach them, a Team Wawryk Trainer can be contacted at the gym through the front desk, directly at teamwawryk.com, or visit them on Facebook

Vince Wawrk IFBB Pro  -  Head Trainer at Fitness Focus Health & Athletic Centre