Weight Loss
This program is designed to tone and tighten your entire body.
The program focuses on target problem areas such as hips and
thighs for women and abs for men. Your workout will include
strength, cardiovascular, and flexibility training. Paradigm
Fitness will analyze your current diet and recommendations will
be made on how to obtain and maintain a leaner body.
Boot Camps/Outdoor Workouts
Burn fat through aerobic exercise while building lean muscle
mass through calisthenics. Using your own body weight as resistance,
this back-to-basics fitness regimen can be done anywhere. This
workout targets upper body strength conditioning, field drills
for speed and agility, basic boxing drills, stretching, and
abs. These workouts can be modified for a variety of fitness
levels, from beginners to advanced workout warriors. Ask about
ongoing group sessions!
Flexibility
Whether you're a serious competitor or weekend warrior, you
know that proper stretching before and after your workout can
improve your performance, increase your flexibility, help prevent
injury, and make you feel better. But did you know that the
traditional way of stretching — lock your knees, bounce,
hold, hurt, hold longer — actually makes muscles tighter
and more prone to injury? We show you how to increase your flexibility
and strength safely!
Teen Fitness
A busy school schedule can eliminate physical activities and
can contribute to poor eating habits. These unhealthy practices
lead to obesity, low self-esteem, and even develop into severe
medical conditions such as Type 2 diabetes. Paradigm Fitness
workouts are designed to be fun, stimulating, and act as a springboard
to a healthier life.
Sport-Specific Fitness
This program will improve your athletic performance through
proper conditioning for your favorite sport. Sport-specific
training is not a type of training that teaches you how to play
your sport better, but rather is an instructional and interactive
type of training that teaches you how to condition your body
to perform at an optimal level to improve your sport performance.
Not only will you benefit from the use of strength and conditioning
techniques, but you will also learn how to prevent injury through
safe and effective training.
Your session will include such training methods as:
Strength
training
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Cardiovascular
training
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Plyometrics
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Interval
and circuit training
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| Balance
and stabilization |
Functional Fitness
Being functionally fit means being able to perform daily tasks
with ease. Getting out of a bed or chair, dressing, bathing,
cooking, and many other daily tasks are all things you can do
if you are functionally fit. Functional fitness is determined
by the body's core strength, which is what helps maintain your
balance and stand up straight. As an older adult, functional
fitness is the key to your quality of life.
Core exercises focus primarily on abdominal, lower back, and
spinal erector strength. The movements are typically compound
and involve the whole body. Core strength exercises can be done
in one exercise session per day or in three 10 to 15-minute
increments throughout the day.
Condition-Specific Fitness
These programs are for people that require a special approach
to fitness. Our fitness instructors have specialized training
for certain physical conditions and will work together with
your other healthcare providers to institute an appropriate
exercise prescription.
Pre-Natal Fitness
Exercise reduces the aches and pains associated with pregnancy
and boosts self-esteem. While there is no proof that exercise
shortens labor, it gives you the stamina to endure labor. Regular
moderate exercise may reduce the two most dangerous illnesses
associated with pregnancy, gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia.
Regardless of whether you exercised before becoming pregnant,
there's no reason why you can't begin a moderate program with
your physician's approval.
Paradigm Fitness' pre-natal program targets muscles that are
stressed during pregnancy—the upper and lower back along
with the abdominals and spine. The program also includes exercises
for strengthening the legs and hips. The goal is to maintain
a fitness level right for you so you can withstand labor and
recover from childbirth quicker.
Exercise also increases your sense of control about the entire
process. Our pre-natal exercise program follows guidelines from
the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and
is designed to incorporate the major components of exercise:
Cardiovascular
conditioning
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Muscular
strength and endurance
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Flexibility
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| Relaxation |
Extra attention
is paid to modifying exercise intensity, duration, mode, and
biomechanical changes as the pregnancy advances, while strength
training is targeted toward spinal stabilization.
Senior Fitness
A good senior fitness program is one that includes aerobics
and muscular conditioning, along with exercises to stretch your
body and promote good posture. Start with a light regime and
work your way up slowly. The best aerobics for seniors are non-jarring
ones like walking, swimming, cycling, and low-impact aerobic
dance.
If you haven't been doing muscular conditioning, begin with
calisthenics. As you get used to these exercises, add some gentle
resistance, such as light hand weights or low-tension rubber
exercise tubing. As your conditioning improves, incorporate
variable-resistance exercise machinery, under our qualified
supervision. Heavy-resistance routines are not recommended for
seniors. The key to safe and effective exercise for seniors
is moderation.
Don't ignore the other elements that contribute to good senior
health, including eating a well-balanced diet, not smoking,
and seeing your doctor whenever you need to. Look at your retirement
or senior years as an opportunity to do things you never did
before. Enjoy yourself!
Obesity Management
Obesity is
a condition where the body weight is more than the ideal weight
by 20 percent or more. The classification and respective causes of
obesity are as follows:
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In
childhood, the causes are hereditary tendency, social
causes, and lack of activity.
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| 2. |
In
adolescence, the causes are puberty, inactivity, and junk
food.
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In
adulthood, causes are disturbances in eating habits and
patterns by visual factors, olfactory factors, psychiatric
illnesses, boredom, and social causes. Marriage can also
be a factor in causing obesity. In women, obesity can
also occur during pregnancy, lactation, in infertility,
or menopause.
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| 4. |
Lack
of activity: Obesity develops when calorie input exceeds
calorie output.
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| 5. |
Disease
obesity is a chronic condition; therefore, before beginning
a weight-loss program you must receive clearance from
your physician. |
Please keep
in mind that your aim has be a reduction in the fat and not
the lean tissue of your body. You must realize that our program
will have to be continued lifelong; failing to do so will result
in regaining the lost weight. This is not a quick-fix weight-loss
scheme, rather it is a lifestyle change that includes proper
exercise and nutrition.
Post Physical Therapy
Returning to a fitness routine after completing physical therapy
is extremely challenging both mentally and physically. Paradigm
Fitness is here to bridge the gap between physical therapy and
the gym. Working together with your therapist, we will create
a routine to compliment your healing process and get you back
on the road to fitness.
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