Monday, July 9, 2012

Full Circle Fitness Home Workout #6

The rain continues to fall here in South Yarra so here's the Full Circle Fitness Home Workout for July.

This month we have 4 exercises and this is how we'll do them:

Overhead Reverse Lunge x 8 per leg / Push Up Hold with Side Arm Raise x 8 per arm / On Spot Sprint x 20 per leg / Overhead Reverse Lunge x 8 per leg / Push Up Hold with Side Arm Raise x 8 per arm / Burpees x 20 x 2 cycles



So it's the same 2 exercises with a different "finisher" every 2nd circuit.

Do 2 cycles of the above without resting at all and time the full workout. Each successive time you d the workout, try and beat your previous time.

As always here's a video of the exercises:


Don't forget Rob is now doing massages in the studio so get those knots out and get that relaxing feeling, call Rob on 0432 671 981 to book your massage.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Full Circle Fitness Home Workout #5

It's cold outside so thank god for the FREE FCF workout that you can do in the confines of your own home!!

Last month we moved to a "ladder" template and this month we'll do the same but with an increase in volume.

We have 3 exercises, Step Ups, Stability Hold Push Ups and Burpees and we'll set the program up in a descending / ascending ladder type sequence.

Within a circuit (so do 1 after the other with no rest at all), do 6 reps step ups each leg, 6 reps of of stability hold push ups each arm and then 10 reps of burpees.

Subtract 1 rep from the step ups and stability hold push ups but keep the burpees at 10 reps with the full workout looking like this:

Circuit 1 - 6 x step ups each leg, 6 x stability hold push ups each arm, 10 x burpees
Circuit 2 - 5 x step ups each leg, 5 x stability hold push ups each arm, 10 x burpees
Circuit 3 - 4 x step ups each leg, 4 x stability hold push ups each arm, 10 x burpees
Circuit 4 - 3 x step ups each leg, 3 x stability hold push ups each arm, 10 x burpees
Circuit 5 - 2 x step ups each leg, 2 x stability hold push ups each arm, 10 x burpees

All performed without rest.

At the completion of the 5 circuits rest 90secs then repeat the workout in reverse so you'll start at 2 step ups, 2 stability hold push ups and 10 burpees.

Time the entire workout (including the rest period) and beat it each time you repeat the workout.

Here are the exercises:




Let us know how you go!!

Friday, May 11, 2012

Full Circle Fitness Home Workout #4

Apologies for the lateness of this one but we'll use a new set up, albeit exercises we've already done.

So our exercises are shown in this video:


Now this is how we want to set the workout up.

We have 3 exercises, Push Ups, Split Squats and On Spot High Knee Sprint and we'll set the up in a descending / ascending ladder type sequence.

So within a circuit (so do 1 after the other with no rest at all), do 5 reps of push ups, 5 reps of split squats each leg and then 10 reps each leg of the on spot high knee sprints.

Subtract 1 rep from the push ups and split squats and add 10 reps to the on spot high knee sprints with the full workout looking like this:

Circuit 1 - 5 x push ups, 5 x split squats each leg, 10 x on spot high knee sprint
Circuit 2 - 4 x push ups, 4 x split squats each leg, 20 x on spot high knee sprint
Circuit 3 - 3 x push ups, 3 x split squats each leg, 30 x on spot high knee sprint
Circuit 4 - 2 x push ups, 2 x split squats each leg, 40 x on spot high knee sprint
Circuit 5 - 1 x push ups, 1 x split squats each leg, 50 x on spot high knee sprint

All performed without rest.

At the completion of the 5 circuits rest 90secs then repeat the workout in reverse so you'll start at 1 push up, 1 split squats and 50 on spot high knee sprints.

Time the entire workout (including the rest period) and beat it each time you repeat the workout.

Let us know how you go!!

Monday, April 23, 2012

This Is Your Starting Point

It's official, the rainy season is here and not only will that make footy training less than ideal for me tonight but its also another reason that many people give health and fitness the boot because it's more comfortable in doors with the heater on.

Here's some news for you, there are places you can go where you can actually train indoors!! No joke!!

At Full Circle Fitness we also know that getting started is the hardest part of the process, so we've got something for you! But first...

I have a good mate named Matt who wasn't very happy with where his body was at. Over the years running his own business and running around after his 2 kids had limited his "me" time, and weight gain was the result. This is a bloke who's played most sports this world has to offer at one time or another so he has been in pretty good knick before.

At the start of this year he threw caution to the wind. He did some quick research, found a 90 day training program on the internet that had a diet component to it and followed it 110%.

He also laid off the grog completely for the entire 90 days which included all the public holidays we have at the start of the year as well as 2 of his best mates engagement parties. 

This is what happened:


What an effort. 

Now we understand that not everyone has the "go getter" approach that Matty, has but you've just got to find your starting point and here it is:

" 14 Objectives in 28 Days and a New You"

This is a FREE online program. Once you sign up for it, via email we send you a new objective to complete every 2nd day for 28 days.

They are simple yet critical points that you need to cover in order to get you on the track to your ideal body and/or fitness level.

Don't be suprised if you make great body composition strides simply in the 28 days.

The subjects covered are related to exercise, nutrition, goal setting and lifestyle so we have left nothing out here.

And it's all FREE!!!

Do not wait until the start of the month to begin this program, start it TODAY!

Head to the contact page on our website and fill out the opt in form with "14/28" put yourself in the best position to look your best come summer 2012/13.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Full Circle Fitness Home Workout #3

We hope that you are enjoying as well as reaping the benefits of the free workouts that we have provided you with over the last couple of months.

What You Need: Stop watch or Clock

How To Do It: Do each exercise one after the other in a circuit and do 3 total circuits. You may need to start at 1 or 2 circuits but over the month increase the total to 3.

However many circuits you do, time how long it takes then beat that time each successive time you repeat the workout. Keep your drink breaks to as little time as you can and do every exercise in the same place to keep transition time to a minimum.
Perform a 2 minute warm up of just basic running on the spot and star jumps.

Split Squat x 8 each leg
Push Ups with Shoulder Touch x 3 – 6 each arm
Hip Hinge with Side Arm Raise x 10
Stability Hold with Leg Raise x 8 each leg

You can view the exercises for this workout below:

Monday, March 19, 2012

Here It Is!!


Last week we talked up Tuesday March 20th, 2012 and for good reason.

Introducing...

Our Inaugural Deal of the Day Offer!!!

Available only for the next 24 hours is this beyond CRAZAZY offer which includes for the month of April:

  • unlimited small group personal training
  • full access to our goal setting program
  • a full fitness assessment
  • full access to our nutritional analysis program
  • a booked spot in our weekly Yoga class


You could easily milk this for more than $500 worth of training and Yoga all for just

$160


We will do more of these deals as the year goes on but be assured that they will not provise as much value as this deal will, not even close!

Please feel free to forward this offer to your friends and family and get in on the deal with each other.
  
Simply purchase the offer through our shopping cart at the link below and make payable to lange_troy@hotmail.com with a contact number and once notification of the payment comes through, we'll call you to book in your personal training sessions.
  

We'll see you soon!!

Saturday, March 10, 2012

March 20th, 2012

A pivotal day in history:
  • Einstein releases his general theory of relativity in 1916
  • Birth dates of Spike Lee in 1957
  • Birth date of Sting in 1959
  • US invades Iraq in 2003
  • Our Wedding Day 2010!!


None of these events, maybe besides our wedding day, come close to what we have in store for you at Full Circle Fitness.

We will be releasing our inaugural Deal of the Day Offer!!

Simply 'LIKE" our Facebook page and make sure to check it as early as you can on March 20th. This is strictly a 1 day deal so you must purchase the deal on the day it is released.

You can LIKE our Facebook page at this link:

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The Numerous Ways Full Circle Fitness wants to help you in 2012!!

We hope everyone has had a cracking start to 2012 and it’s all happening down here in Toorak Road.
This is a just a quick update to let you know that we have brought 2 new personal trainers on board in Maddy and Rob.
Maddy has her Cert ¾ In Fitness (Personal Trainer) as well as a Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science/Sports Management degree from Deakin University. She also has the distinction of training Victoria’s fire fighters!
Rob has just come off a 7 month stint on the Royal Caribbean Cruise ship where he was in charge of all things fitness ranging from yoga to Pilates to personal training to spin classes and general gym instruction. The man simply does it all!
Getting back to the studio we have plenty in store for 2012 with plans being in the works for:
  • ·         Online training and programming
  • ·         In studio Yoga classes (currently running on Thursdays at 8am)
  • ·         In studio massage starting in May
  • ·         A 12 week transformation program to get into shape for the spring carnival and the sunnier months
  • ·         A massive Olympics promotion in July!
  • ·         Facebook exclusive specials (join our page here)
  • ·         Special reports at our blog site here
  • ·         Circuit Classes
And heaps more!!
So join us to make 2012 the most successful year to date and let us know if there is anything we can help you with.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Here It Is!! FREE Home Workout #2

February had it all didn't it. Plenty of heat and plenty of rain. But that doesn't stop us from giving the pain!

Well pain might be a touch dramatic but here's the FREE March Workout for you all to complete at home. Remember you want to to try and do this at least 10 times during the month and if you're feeling a little saucy, you can alternate this with last month's program.

Again all you'll need is a stop watch and the set up is the same. Do each circuit 2 - 4 rounds (hopefully you're fitter this month then last of which you can add 1 circuit to each workout. Like last month you need to time the workout and beat it each session. Keep transition time to a minimum.

We will keep our warm up the same with star jumps and a light jog on the spot or around the backyard for 2mins then hit it hard!

Reverse Lunge x 8 each leg
Stability Hold Push Ups x 3 - 6 each arm (perform from an elevated surface if you need to)
Stationary Sprint x 20 strides each leg
Stability Hold with a Side Arm Raise x 8 each arm

You can view this workout here:


Please let us know your results from the workouts and join us on Facebook here.

Monday, February 6, 2012

How To Do Your Feb Fast Properly


We're a little bit laid back in Oz than other countries sand getting back into health and fitness is no exception. From Christmas parties and actual Christmas through December then New Years in January and Australia Day at the end of January, all of sudden it's February and you started back yet!!

And so Feb Fast begins for many of us in the hope that it can get us back on track to where we left off last year (hopefully the damage was minimal in the meantime).

So whether your doing Feb Fast officially, in the office or just for your own personal satisfaction, here are some tips to make it work for you.

Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail

We love this saying around here. Plan out your food. What you'll eat, how much and when. What will you do if you go out for dinner? How will you resist temptations? When and what type of training will you do?

Don't fail yourself by thinking you can do it on the fly. Plan everything out.

Go Boring

Be selfish. Dedicate this month to you and you only. Spurn those mates that want some Friday night drinks. Let your partner know that there will be no red wine kept in the house this month. Stay in and make sure this month stays on track. It's only a month really.

What Else Can You Improve?

While tour on 1 path of self improvement what else can you do to make yourself a better version of you? Get a yourself a personal trainer (i k ow a few great one's!), find a dietitian, find a partner to run the tan with. Make this the month you finally do all the things you say you're gonna do every year at this time.

Just Do It, And Do It NOW!!

Don't play that silly game in your head where you'll start after the weekend as I have that party on. Start now. Start yesterday even. Stop procrastinating because the only thing counts is "done". You get paid for done. You get benefits from done. You don't get anything from sort of or maybe.

Let us know any other tips you have for Feb Fasting or go to our facebook page and leave a comment there.

Monday, January 30, 2012

FREE Home Workout

2012 is the year of giving at Full Circle Fitness!!

Each month we will provide for you a workout that you can perform at home or in a park in your own time so here's the February workout a little bit early to get you into action right now!!

The holidays are all done and dusted and it's time to get back on the fitness wagon (you've already wasted a month!)

What You Need: Stop watch or Clock

How To Do It: Do each exercise one after the other in a circuit and do 3 total circuits. You may need to start at 1 or 2 circuits but over the month increase the total to 3.

However many circuits you do, time how long it takes you to complete them then beat that time each successive time you repeat the workout. Keep your drink breaks to as little time as you can and do every exercise in the same area to keep transition time to a minimum.

Perform a 2 minute warm up of just basic running on the spot and star jumps alternating each for 30 seconds.

Split Squats x 8 each leg
Push Ups x 5 – 10
Bent Over Aeroplane Hold x 30secs
Prone Stability Hold x 30secs

Here is a video of the exercises:

Take some basic measurements before starting this training program, doing your "trouble" spots at a minimum. Aim to do this workout at least 10 times for the month of February..

If you can reach a personal best each time you repeat this workout then you can guarantee there will be a decrease in those measurements.

Monday, January 23, 2012

How Personal Training Is Supposed To Be


There are now 100's of personal trainers in Melbourne. They train out of chain gyms, home garages, parks or they come to your home or workplace. Some of these same personal trainers are good, some of them are even great but sadly, a lot of them barely make the grade.

At Full Circle Fitness we aim to be not just good and not even great at what we do. Our aim is to be the absolute best and with being the best comes the pressure to perform, which in our case is to get you the results that you crave.

Here are 6 things that you will get at Full Circle Fitness that you won't get with other personal trainers.

1 - Problem Finding Postural Assessments, Not Symptom Finding

Though the use of the Joint by Joint Approach to Training popularised by US Strength and Conditioning Coach Mile Boyle, we can bypass all the symptoms of pain that you have and locate the site of your problem/s.

By following the mobility – stability continuum, we don't just treat the site of pain (which is more often then not referred), we can locate what the actual problem is meaning you get pain relief almost immediately.

Joint Requiring Mobility
Joint Requiring Stability
Ankle
Knee
Hip
Lumbar Spine (core)
Thoracic Spine
Scapula
Gleno-humeral  Joint


2 - Resistance Training Programs That Actually Burn Fat

Metabolism plays such a huge role in body composition, that it actually burns 90% of your calories. What this means is that if you’re embarking on a journey of losing body fat, then metabolism is the key to it all. The one thing that has the greatest impact on metabolism is the amount of muscle mass that you have as it’s this very muscle mass that requires constant calories to feed and sustain it.

So instead of those crash diets that make you miserable and those high rep training routines that can actually decrease your muscle mass, we implement resistance training programs that actually build and sustain muscle mass, making your fat loss efforts so much easier, and quicker!

3 - The Ability to Build Core Stability Without Slow Boring Classes

Pilates is very popular but it is also very limited. It uses very low level and isolating pelvic floor and deep core muscle activation, but it does very little for actual core strength and force transfer. As well as being built to stabilise (or hold still) the lumbar spine (lower back), the core muscles  also serves to transfer force through the body to the extremities (arms and legs).

This means that once you can perform low level lying or reformer exercises, you need to progress them to actual real life movements. I’m not sure how many of us only move when we’re lying down or spend the day on a reformer. The classes also burn very little calories so they won't really fit into your fat loss program.

As we know time is of a premium these days, so we can speed this process up by implementing our unique core stability exercises into your resistance training program.

4 - Lose Body Fat Without Pounding the Pavement (and your joints)

As stated in point 2, resistance training is the key to fat loss, not long, boring and joint stressing cardio workouts. Look at sprinters vs long distance runners and tell me who looks better.

To spare your precious joints which have probably already taken a pounding and are aching already, we don't use traditional cardio methods in our training programs, opting for continuous resistance training exercises mixed with body weight exercises to build and maintain muscle as well as actually breaking adipose tissue away from your fat cells.

5 - We Train Clients, Not Exercise Them

Why do you perform exercise? To lose fat? To increase muscle? To increase energy levels? Whatever the answer is, it’s because you want to improve something, you want to become better at something.

A lot of trainers exercise their clients, but they don’t actually train them. They don’t actually improve on what they initially started training for.

For you to get the results that you’re after, you need to TRAIN to get better. You don’t go to football or netball training just to run around and get a sweat up, you go to practice skills of the game you need to improve on. This is what we do at Full Circle Fitness.

To lose body fat you need to become better at recruiting the muscles of the body, you need to learn to train to oxygen debt and you need to learn how to follow a nutritional plan that fits your lifestyle and gets results at the same time.

To gain muscle you need to become better at managing stress, you need to learn how to progressively overload the body to force it to get bigger and again, you need to follow the specific nutritional guidelines to increase muscle mass.

At Full Circle Fitness we are constantly researching and implementing new strategies to become better at what we do, thus passing them on to our clients to assist them on improving themselves and making their training goals a reality.

6 - Unsurpassed Customer Service

At Full Circle Fitness we pride ourselves on getting know you, your partners, your family and your friends.

We pride ourselves on delivering not only a personal training environment that is unpretentious and fun, but also one that can deliver consistent results regardless of the goal of your training.

Most importantly we are a local business and that means that we value each and every client that we have. Each of our trainers knows every client by name. You’re not just a membership number on a account to us, you’re an extremely valuable and appreciated client of our studio and we aim to interact with you on a more personal level then those big gym chains.

Here's what our clients have to say about us.

Friday, January 20, 2012

Shoulder Pain


The upper body crippler, shoulder pain is usually referred from dysfunction elsewhere in the body.
Can't lift your arms above your head? Check your thoracic spine.

                                                                

Can't perform a proper push up? Check your scapula stability.

                                               

Pain in one shoulder? Check your opposite hip and ankle.

Yep, even totally unrelated area's of the body can contribute to shoulder pain.

At Full Circle Fitness we test your shoulder through various ranges of motion and find correlations between them and your static and dynamic postural findings.

We're not like all the physio's in town who will simply give you the same two outdated exercises for rehab that ensures you keep paying them money, we'll actually address the problem (which those 2 exercises don't even do!!)

As you can see, where other personal trainers fail miserably, we thrive.

Your pain is our pleasure.