Be Challenged Be Changed

Are you ready to take your Fitness to the next level? Tired of the same old routine? Not getting the results your looking for? We all train with different goals but we all have one thing in common, we are looking for CHANGE! Are you looking to get faster, stronger, more flexible, increased endurance or weight loss well it is all CHANGE!

Now its time to step out of your comfort zone and start creating CHANGE with improvements to your strength, endurance and flexibility.

Personal Training and/or Outdoor classes are the answers your looking for. The workouts are always changing. Some times we use Body Weight exercises, other times using Kettle Bells, Battle Ropes, Steel Mace, Medicine Balls, Bands, Suspension Training and many other variables.

Whether your training for a particular sport or weight loss or that upcoming 5K or maybe an Obstacle Course Race. I will help you be at your very best!

Personal Training can be one on one or team up with a friend for added accountability. Get a group of your friends together and train for that special upcoming event!

Call me now or send me a text to set up your free initial consultation at 623-302-4944. Or fill out the contact me information on the right side of this page.

BE CHALLENGED! BE CHANGED!!!

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Additional Classes

I am very pleased to announce that starting this week I am teaching additional classes as follows:

Mondays -
   1:30pm - FIT Camp - Pebble Creek
   2:30pm - Spin - Pebble Creek
   6:35pm - Spin - Golds - Avondale

Wednesday -
   1:30pm - FIT Camp - Pebble Creek
   2:30pm - Spin - Pebble Creek
   6:15pm - Spin - Sun City Grand

Friday-
   5:30pm - Spin - Golds - Avondale

Saturday-
   8:00am - Bootcamp - Peoria

Please feel free to contact me about these classes or any other questions that you might have, I am here to help.

In Fitness,

Arden

The Easiest Way to Live a Longer Life

The choices you make now can make a lasting difference. People who stick to a healthy lifestyle in middle age are far more likely to see old age, suggests a new Norwegian study.
Researchers analyzed the fitness habits of men in their 50s, then followed up several decades later and found 37 percent of guys who didn’t smoke at baseline survived to age 85, versus 23 percent of smokers. For non-smokers who regularly broke a sweat, 49 percent reached 85, compared to only 28 percent of men who refrained from puffing but were generally sedentary—even after adjusting for other factors like cholesterol and blood pressure.
What’s more, 46 percent of normal-weight participants made it to 85, while only 29 percent of overweight men reached the mark.
Besides sticking to an exercise regimen and avoiding cigarettes, remember to log adequate sleep: Clocking 5 hours or less per night is associated with a 12 percent greater risk of death, found a recent Italian study.

So how's your schedule looking?



You know the old saying "You can pay me now or you can pay me later".

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

How Sad and True is this?




As they always say, you are what you eat!  Working out it the easy part, eating the correct food is the hard part.

Monday, September 23, 2013

Last week of September 5:45am FIT Camp

Here we go already the last week of September, so let work out hard!

Tuesday - 24 - Heavy Chest/Triceps - Steps, risers, mat and dumbbells
Wednesday - 25- Heavy Legs and Core - Steps, risers, mats and dumbbells
Thursday - 26 - Heavy Back/Biceps - Same as above
Friday - Heavy Legs and Core - Same as above

Lets work it!

Monday, September 16, 2013

Week of Sept 16th

Here we go another week to get fitter!

Don't forget to sign up for the evening spin class that starts Oct 2nd at 6:15pm - 7pm and goes for six weeks. The cost is only $18 for all 6 weeks. Must be pre-paid my September 30.

Here is the schedule for the 5:45am FIT Camp-

Tuesday - 17th - Legs - Steps, risers, Stability Ball, DB, jump rope
Wednesday - 18th - Chest - Steps, risers, mats and DB
Thursday - 19th - Back - Steps, risers, mats and DB
Friday - 20th - Biceps, Triceps, Shoulders - Steps, risers, mats and DB

Friday, September 13, 2013

PLEASE READ, LEARN AND DO!

I told my classes about this facebook post this morning and that I would repost it here.  I have been telling everyone for years how bad this "diet" crap is and here is just some more proof. Please, I beg you no drink or food is worth putting your life in danger.  So STOP using anything with the chemical listed below! Hint its Aspartame, and its all bad news! Please read the entire article don't skip over a single word.


A KILLER IN YOUR FRIDGE

SWEET POISON..A MUST READ !!!

In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain.

By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick she just knew she was dying.

She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter's name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of.

She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd.

On March 19, I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she said they didn't find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS.

I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked my sister if she drank diet soda? She told me that she did. As a matter of fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment.

I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda! I e-mailed her an article my friend, a lawyer, had sent. My sister called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk! The muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel 100% but, she sure felt a lot better.

She told me she was going to her doctor with this article and would call me when she got home.

Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed! He is going to call all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweeteners of any kind. In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet soda.. and literally dying a slow and miserable death

When she got to Florida March 22, all she had to take was one pill, and that was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on her way to a complete recovery. And she is walking! No wheelchair! This article saved her life.If it says 'SUGAR FREE' on the label; DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on 'ASPARTAME,' marketed as'Nutra Sweet,' 'Equal,' and 'Spoonful.'In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United States in 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this to be rampant. I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.

I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus.

Many people were being diagnosed in error. Although multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity is!

Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers.The victim usually does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its use; irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become a life-threatening condition. We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas.

In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases where vision loss returned and hearing loss improved markedly.

This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia. During a lecture, I said, 'If you are using ASPARTAME (Nutra Sweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting, pains, numbness in your legs,
Cramps,
Vertigo,
Dizziness,
Headaches,
Tinnitus,
Joint pain,
Unexplainable depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss you probably have ASPARTAME poisoning!' People were jumping up during the lecture saying,'I have some of these symptoms. Is it reversible?'

Yes!
Yes!
Yes!
STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on food labels! Many products are fortified with it! This is a serious problem. Dr. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice; a nurse stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence!

Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you crave carbohydrates.

It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight!

These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin and is used primarily to preserve 'tissue specimens.'

Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body!

Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the 'diet products' and with no significant increase in exercise; his patients lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period.Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that some physicians, who believed that they had a patient with retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms caused by Aspartame. The Aspartame drives the blood sugar out of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance.

Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE.. Especially with diabetics, the Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates the neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, Seizures, Depression, Manic depression, Panic attacks, Uncontrollable anger and rage.Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics as well. Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had complete turnarounds in their behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet.

So called 'behavior modification prescription drugs' (Ritalin and others) are no longer needed.Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first place!Most of these children were being 'poisoned' on a daily basis with the very foods that were 'better for them than sugar.'It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.

Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e. mental retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early pregnancy. Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should NEVER be given artificial sweeteners.

There are many different case histories to relate of children suffering grand mal seizures and other neurological disturbances talking about a plague of neurological diseases directly caused by the use of this deadly poison.'

Herein lies the problem: There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included in 100 different products and strong objection was made concerning its use. Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, and still nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets.

Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED! There are now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly chemical and there will be thousands more introduced. Everybody wants a 'piece of the Aspartame pie.'I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is.

And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the Conference of the American College of Physicians?

This has been recently exposed in the New York Times. These [organizations] cannot criticize any additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are required to endorse their products.Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children and infants.

The bill would also institute independent studies on the known dangers and the problems existing in the general population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry, neurological changes and behavioural symptoms.
The bill was killed.It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting and uninformed public. Well, you're informed now!


I sure hope this helps at least one person to stop drinking this poison, if you need any further information or if I can be of any assistance please let me know.


In Health,

Arden Straw
ardensfitness@ymail.com

Monday, September 9, 2013

5:45am Fitness Camp

Here is the workout schedule for this week-
Tuesday- 10th- Back/Biceps - Steps, risers, mats, DB, jump rope
Wednesday - 11th - Core/Shoulders - Stability Ball, Mat, DB
Thursday -12th - Chest/Triceps - Stability Ball, Mat, DB, jump rope
Friday - 13th - Legs - Steps, risers, mats, DB

Go Heavy - Get Stronger!

Monday, September 2, 2013

5:45am Fitness Camp Workouts

Time to start another month, so get ready to work hard!

Tuesday-3rd- Chest, Triceps- Steps, risers, db and mats
Wednesday-4th- Legs, Core - Steps, risers, db and mats
Thursday-5th-Back, Biceps- Steps, risers,db and mats
Friday- 6th- Full body cardio - YOU

Lets work it hard