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What to look for when joining a health club or training facility.

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1. How long have they been in business? (G&M Fitness has been in business for 35 years)

2. Are the owners accessible and on site, run the business or are they absentee owners? (G&M are accessible and on site)

3. Do they offer short term memberships or one year only? (G&M offers short term)

4. Do they offer monthly payment plans or all up front only? (G&M offers payment plans)

5. Do the owners and staff have exercise/fitness experience? (G&M themselves have collectively over 50 years experience)

6. Is the facility clean, updated and looked after properly? (G&M looks after the facility properly)

7. Are the members treated fairly and with respect at all times? (G&M treats all members fairly and with respect)

8. Does the business own or rent the building? (G&M owns the building)

9. Does the business offer a “buyout” should an unfortunate and / or unavoidable situation occur that does not allow them to continue their membership? (G&M – yes)

10. Does the business “give back”? (G&M gives back)

11. Is the facility available to you 24 hours a day 365 days a year? (G&M – yes)

12. Does the business offer a trial period? (G&M – yes)

13. Does the business give initial orientations? (G&M – yes). Is it extra? (G&M – included)

14. Is the working staff accessible on the exercise floor to answer questions or are they in a remote location? (G&M staff is on the exercise floor and always available to answer questions)

15. Do you feel pressured into signing up? (G&M does not do pressure sales)

16. Do they have a good reputation in the fitness industry? (G&M – yes)

17. Do they offer a 100% money back satisfaction guarantee? (G&M – yes)

18. Are they in a convenient location? (G&M is located in the heart of downtown)

19. Is the facility climate controlled all year? (G&M – yes)

20. Is the facility safe and secure? (G&M – yes)

Gino

8 Biggest Strength Training Mistakes

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I wanna help!

A while ago, I presented a free seminar for our members titled “The Eight Biggest Mistakes in Strength Training, Body Building and Power Lifting”.

I put this presentation together simply because pretty much every time I walk through the gym, I see training mistakes being made. Whether it be the lack of focus, overtraining, bad form, whatever, it kills me to see it and I want to do something about it. So I put together and presented the free seminar.

Unfortunately, the ones I see making most of the mistakes are the ones that didn’t show up! Typically, it’s the younger crowd making these mistakes. What’s more unfortunate is that the younger crowd has the enthusiasm and the discipline, but lack the expertise and experience. So, in hopes that some of them actually read our newsletters, here is the list of the eight most common mistakes that are made.

There simply isn’t enough room here to elaborate on them, so in the case that you would like a more detailed explanation of one or more of these mistakes and how to remedy them, reach out to us. Actually, I would love to offer this seminar again in the future if there is enough interest. I will count down the eight starting with the least important to what I believe is the most important and the most common mistake. Here they are:


 No. 8: Lack of Focus (turn off the phone, put the magazine away and stop socializing)

No. 7: Partners (can be good, can be bad)

No. 6: Poor Programme Design (order of exercises is very important)

No. 5: Redundant Exercises (stop wasting time and energy, learn how to choose exercises)

No. 4: Useless Exercises (stop doing exercises that won’t help get you to your goal)

No. 3: Improper Form (learn proper form or pay the consequences…..lack of gains)

No. 2: Overtraining (gains are actually made when resting)

No. 1: Not Doing the Negative Contraction (if you don’t know what a negative contraction is, and what it will do for you, I would highly suggest you find out!)
So there you have it in a nutshell. Avoid these mistakes and you are on your way to more, better and quicker results than you ever thought possible.

Good luck,
Gino