COMING SOON! Left Hook Boxing and MMA Training Facility. For one low price you can hit the weights and the bags (or each other) for one low price! We are going to have a heavy bag training area, speed bags, double end bags, and more. We will soon be offering instruction in boxing, and several styles of martial arts. I will eventually have a full size boxing ring and cadged area for MMA Training.

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The 2 new bikes are in and have been a big hit so far. I tried one and they will definately give you a workout. Also the TV with satellite is up in the cardio area.

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COMING SOON BOXING FITNESS. I will soon be teaching boxing fitness. So if you want to get in the best mental and physical shape of your life,learn the conditioning secrets of boxers, who are among the best-conditioned athletes anywhere, strengthen your "core," to cross-train for golf, tennis, football, or other sports (where core strength is so critical), learn self-defense, improve self-esteem and self-confidence, and have fun and get away from generic training programs join us for our boxing fitness class.

Putting on size( Muscle Mass) is the topic of the day. Most people use the standard pyramid type workout when doing sets. Meaning they start at a low weight and add weight as the sets progress. I've had good success with not only adding size but upping my strength by doing the opposite. Pyramiding down with supersets. First do a light warm up set, which you should always do to prevent injury. Then start with a weight that you can get at least 6 reps out of. Rest 30 seconds then go down about 5 pounds and do the next set. I do this for about 9 sets. You'll have to figure out the number of sets that works for you. I've been at this awhile and I know it takes about that many to stimulate any new muscle growth. Trust me after trying this for the first time you'll be sore.

You may find today's post confusing coming from someone who owns a gym. Today I'm going to discuss getting a good workout from home. Don't get me wrong, I want everyone to continue coming to the gym, but sometimes you may not be able to make it for whatever reason. While there is no substitute for the workout you'll get in a real gym. There are ways to get a workout at home. You'll need some basic, inexpensive gear. I suggest a stability ball, a quality set of changeable dumbbells, or set of resistance bands, and a quality jump rope. With these few items you can get a good home workout. In fact in the very near future I'm going to be doing some group fitness classes using these very items. Using dumbbells or bands you can do squats, curls, shoulder press, lunges, and lots of other exercises. Using the stability ball works great for crunches, or by placing you feet on the ball and doing push ups for chest or place your hands on the ball and do the push ups. You can do ball squats. Place the ball between your back and the wall and slowly squat rolling the ball along with you. The thing about a stability ball is that like it's name you have to stabilize yourself on the ball. So while you're doing these exercises you are constantly working your core muscles. Now to my favorite, the jump rope. Boxers have long used jump ropes as a way to build aerobic ability and balance. Try doing one of the above exercises, then 60 seconds on the rope. Rest 30 seconds then repeat using a different exercise. Do several sets of these until you've done one exercise for each body part.

You may have noticed a new headline on our website that reads "a real gym with real weights". in yesterday's post I mentioned that the exercises for getting big and "toning up" are basically the same. With that being said, most people do way too many unnecessary exercises. What I mean by this is, when people go to most of the big franchise type gyms with all the fancy machines they tend to do too many isolation exercises and not enough basic lifting. While bodybuilders need to do these types of isolation movements, people who are just trying to get into shape are better of using basic movements. These include the bench press, shoulder press, leg press (or squats), calf raises, barbell curls, and triceps extensions. Take the leg press as an example. If done correctly this one exercise works your entire upper leg, both the quadriceps and hamstrings. Not only will using basic lifts help you gain muscle, they take a lot of effort which in turn will help you burn calories and fat. Which brings me to another point on the new headline. Machines can make you lazy. Free weights take greater control to use proper form. Most people get on a machine, and half heartedly knock out several reps then move to the next machine. This is why most people don't see the results they want from their workouts, and give up all together. Maybe it's all the gimmicks being sold on TV nowadays. People expect the machines to do the work for them. Unfortunately that's not how it works. To get into shape you have to get in there and do the work yourself.