Yuma Gyms & Your Online Personal Trainer

Our new fitness on Demand room with 24/7 group fitness classes including, Kickboxing, Zumba, pilates, yoga, and many more! In the Snap Fitness Yuma Foothills come check it out!

Yuma Gym Tour with Manager Crystal Moody showing you the benefits and features of being a member at Snap Fitness in Yuma, AZ

Yuma Gyms personal training tutorial #10. Here is the tenth exercise tutorial in a series of many ranging from basic exercise form and technique to more advanced exercises for the client looking to really expand their workout routines. This tutorial will be on the proper form of the chest press. In this example we are using an incline bench and dumbells. Check out the video to see if you got the form right.

Extreme Blendz in the Snap Fitness Yuma Foothills. A great place to get your meal on the go and not feel guilty afterwards. Your healthy alternative that tastes great!
Come check out the Extreme Blendz Juice Bar to get a healthy great tasting fruit smoothie, after workout protein shake with over 50 different menu options with all your favorite flavors to choose from.

Yuma Gyms Exercise Tutorial #7. Here is the seventh installment of the exercise tutorials in a series of many ranging from basic exercise form and technique to more advanced exercises for the client looking to really expand their workout routines. This tutorial will be a more advanced combo exercise featuring use of the weight assisted pull-up/dip and bodyweight exercises that can be done to add to a more intense fitness experience helping you achieve your fitness goals in the gym. This Tutorial features a unique piece of exercise equipment from the Yuma Gym, the weight assisted pull-up/dip. Many of us have trouble with bodyweight pull-ups and dips so we just dont do them, unfortunately they are one of the best exercises you can do. This piece of equipment at the Yuma Gym gives you the extra help you need to do more reps and still make it challenging enough that you get stronger and eventually you will be able to do regular pull-ups with your bodyweight!

Yuma Gyms Exercise Tutorial #6. Here is the sixth Exercise tutorial from Yuma gyms in a series of many ranging from basic exercise form and technique to more advanced exercises for the client looking to really expand their workout routines. This Yuma Gyms tutorial will be on the proper form of the Lat Pulldown. This happens to be one of the most commonly misunderstood exercises. Rule that is taught to clients is that if your posture is off then you are doing the exercise wrong. Check out the video to see if you got it right.

Yuma Gyms Exercise Tutorial #5. Here is the fifth Exercise tutorial from Yuma Gyms in a series of many ranging from basic exercise form and technique to more advanced exercises for the client looking to really expand their workout routines. This tutorial will be a more advanced combo exercise featuring use of the E-Z curl bar and bodyweight exercises that can be done to add to a more intense fitness experience helping you achieve your fitness goals in the Yuma gym. Don’t forget to comment with your questions and a certified personal trainer will be glad to help you with your workouts.

Let’s get fit Yuma. In 1991, no state in America had an obesity rate anywhere close to 20% but within recent years not only has this percentage been reached but it has been vastly exceeded. According to new research on fitness and health, Arizona has the 29th highest rate of obesity in America with an astounding 25.8% of Arizona residents obese, roughly 1 in 4. Even more troubling is the data that states that Arizona youth have the 15th highest rate of obesity in America with obesity rates increasing from 12% in 2003 to over 20% in 2010. Although these statistics may come as a shock, simply looking around at your peers will quickly and visually verify these statements as our current society is dangerously obese, an issue no previous generation has ever had to face. If that is not close enough to home for you, maybe you remember the recent CDC study that found Yuma as the #2 fattest city in the US! Click here to read more…

Improving your VO2 max in your Yuma Fitness center.

Many people think they don’t have time to join their local Fitness Center, their excuse: I don’t have time, I don’t have the energy.
Well, many have not had a helpful guide from a personal trainer or a fitness instructor to show them how fun it could be. These professionals are trained to build up your exercise tolerance slowly to cater exercises for your own pace. Once you are in full routine of an exercise pattern, you will acquire the energy to work out and you could reduce the work out time to fit your busy schedule.

As a matter of fact a more intense and high rate oxygen consuming exercise or exhaustive workouts, could improve your health much more than a simple relaxing work out in the gym.

So you are ready for your short and intense workout?
I stumbled across a very interesting paper that might interest you, by Gary O’Donovan,” Changes in cardiorespiratory fitness and coronary heart disease risk factors following 24 weeks of moderate- or high-intensity exercise of equal energy cost”

This study showed how a high-intensity workout is more effective than a moderate-intensity workout of equal energy costs, in order to improve cardiorespiratory fitness. The data also suggested that changes in coronary heart disease risk factors are influenced by exercise intensity.

This study was performed on 64 men that had not exercised over the last two years, and they were randomly placed in two exercise groups. One was of high intensity and the other of moderate-intensity work out. This was measure using VO2 Max levels. Your VO2 max is a measure of the maximum amount of oxygen your body can use to produce energy.

The high-intensity workout group went through three 400-kcal workout sessions per week at a rate 80% of VO2 max and the other of moderate-intensity three 400-kcal workout sessions per week at 60% of VO2 max.
They were instructed to maintain their diets, and their heart rate was measured one month later. The results indicated that the VO2 max responded differently in the moderate- and high-intensity exercise groups. It was seen that the total cholesterol and fibrinogen concentrations changed favorably in both groups.
However in the high-intensity groups, a significant drop in these levels was seen in the high-intensity group. Speed workouts also improve your neuromuscular conditioning.

Here is a table of VO2max for various groups

So being busy does pay off.

A Yuma personal trainer at your local Yuma Fitness Center can help you create a workout plan that can improve your VO2 max levels.
Increasing your VO2 levels is obtained through interval training. The proper intensity of your intervals should be between 95-99% of your maximum heart rate
Below are 2 types of running workouts to help increase your VO2 max levels. All you need is to add one of the two workouts to your fitness session, possibly building it up to two sessions per week at the peak of your training plan.
These workouts are based on running exercises done on the treadmills in your Yuma gym.
The key to these running workouts is that you get sufficient rest in between.
Running Intervals: To maximize the benefit for these threshold intervals, try running longer intervals and run them at a brisk pace but not all out. Recovery is done by a walk or jog in between intervals of 2-3 minutes, and build up the number of repetitions through your training program.

Tempo runs: Tempo runs are a good way to get into increased VO2 levels. Start off by running a 1-2 mile warm-up and then increase your pace to your lactate threshold pace. Try to sustain this for at least 20 minutes. Conclude with a 1-2 mile cool-down jog.
These workouts can be very effective over the course of the speed-phase of your training but be careful not to do too much too soon, as this added stress can lead to injury if you decide to add this element to your routine in your Yuma Fitness Center, gradually increase the volume and intensity of your runs.

So visit your local Yuma Fitness Center. It is never too late to improve your VO2 levels. At Snap Fitness you can ask a certified personal trainer to create an intense workout.
Here are locations the locations of your Yuma Snap Fitness clubs that would be happy to sit down and work out a fitness plan:

Snap Fitness Yuma

Snap Fitness Yuma Foothills

Snap Fitness Yuma Valley

So good luck improving your VO2 max in your Yuma Fitness center and happy VO2 maximizing!

Yuma Gym Exercise Tutorial #4. Here is the fourth installment in our Exercise tutorials in a series of many ranging from basic exercise form and technique to more advanced exercises for the client looking to really expand their workout routines. From the Yuma Gym this will be the second tutorial on dumbells and exercises that can be done with them to help you achieve your fitness goals in the Yuma Gym.