America is always reinventing itself. Let me paint a picture for you. When I get old I will sit on my porch after mowing my lawn in the summer and shake my fist at the teenagers racing up into the air of my suburban neighborhood with those “damn flying cars! These kids have no respect [...]
Posts Tagged ‘america’
The American Fitness Evolution
Posted: 6th July 2011 by SGT Peterson in Diet and Nutrition, Health and Fitness, Tim's BlogTags: america, Boot Camp Minneapolis, Evolution, Fitness, Generation X, Generation Y, Media, Minneapolis Personal Trainer, Personal Training Minneapolis
History of Exercise “Calisthenics”
Posted: 13th June 2011 by SGT Peterson in Articles, Tim's BlogTags: america, Boot Camp Minneapolis, calisthenics, exercise, history, Minneapolis Personal Trainer, Personal Training Minneapolis, Workouts
What will it take for the fitness industry to change? Well if you believe in history repeating itself it already has. America has revolutionized the world with our version of democracy, military technology and with our fitness industry. Over the last 200 years or so the world has followed in America’s footsteps. America is about being the [...]
The Cookie Cutter Gym
Posted: 19th April 2011 by SGT Peterson in Articles, Tim's BlogTags: america, Boot Camp Minneapolis, calories, crossfit, doctors, Industry, lifestyle, Minneapolis Personal Trainer, nasm, personal trainers, Personal Training Minneapolis, therapists, workout
At my recent workout at Anytime Fitness (yes I worked out at Anytime, my buddy owns it) I saw numerous people sitting on machines for 2-3 minutes between sets of isolated arm curls that burned no more than 10 calories. I couldn’t stand it! It was making me angry that these people thought they were [...]
The Truth of the Health & Fitness Industry
Posted: 22nd February 2011 by SGT Peterson in Articles, Tim's BlogTags: america, Boot Camp Minneapolis, Fitness, health, Minneapolis Personal Trainer, Personal Training Minneapolis, wellness, Workouts
Similar to the clear cutting of the American forests in the early parts of the 20th century, there has been a degradation of America’s fitness industry over the last century. This isn’t a new thing; people in the “olden days” such as my grandmother would say the same thing. They would sell all kinds of [...]