By PJ Glassey, CSCSHave you heard of Hudor? Its effects overshadow even the most potent ancient Chinese herbs. Its healing capabilities outperform wonder drugs from deep in the Amazon rain forest. It holds the key to countless health benefits and wellness miracles.Hudor can make your nails stronger, hair healthier, and teeth whiter. … [Read more...]
Find Success in Muscle Failure
By PJ Glassey, CSCSMuscles won’t change it they don’t have to. The human body was designed to be as efficient as possible. It only maintains a minimum amount of active tissue. If you sit all day, your body doesn’t need as much of this tissue, so it gets rid of it by atrophying the muscle. If your calories exceed your sedentary burn … [Read more...]
Deb lost 22 lbs, untold inches and traded fat for muscle!
How did she do it?Exercised with X Gym protocols. Drank plenty of water each day. Ate a nutritious, well balanced diet prescribed by the X Gym .Deb is an X Gym graduate who continued to enjoy improvement and progress after she left through the skills and methods she learned from us. All our clients are trained as students so they … [Read more...]
Taz lost 40 pounds of fat in just 12 weeks!
Individual results vary, but everyone experiences success at the X Gym . If you are through "spinning your wheels" at conventional gyms with outdated protocols and trainers, now is the time to give the X Gym a try! … [Read more...]
PJ went from 13.1% bodyfat to 7.4%
How did PJ do it?Exercised at the X Gym for 20 minutes, twice a week. Drank 10-12 glasses of water a day. Matched fat grams to fiber grams. At the end of each day his fiber gram total had to be as much or more than his fat gram total. Kept protein up around 100 grams per day. (.75 grams per pound of lean weight.)Individual … [Read more...]
Here’s Sue, at 70 years young!
“I was totally blown away by this workout. I have done everything Pilate’s, yoga, Aquarobics (for 20 years), Jillian Michael’s 30 day shred, etc. etc. but the staff at this place really know their business. You get a fantastic workout where your muscles are burning and you walk away feeling like you have had one of the best workouts you … [Read more...]
Susan lost 23 lbs in 12 weeks!
How did Susan do it?Exercised at the X Gym for 20 minutes, twice a week. Drank 9-11 glasses of water a day. Ate low-fat, whole foods, and kept protein up.Individual results vary, but everyone experiences success at the X Gym so if you are through “spinning your wheels” at conventional gyms with outdated protocols and trainers, … [Read more...]
SWAPS AND SUBSTITUTIONS
You don’t have to give up some of your favorite foods to get lean and fit! Here at the X Gym , we have found substitutions for you so your lifestyle can continue with minimal changes.___Yogurt: Trader Joe’s Plain Greek yogurt (or Chobani, Fage or Oikos) with a dozen organic blueberries and a few drops or liquid Stevia or Xylitol … [Read more...]
Emergency Snack List
And here is a list of foods I found breezing through my local Safeway that would be acceptable for an emergency situation if you forgot to make your lunch or you are traveling without a kitchen handy:*Pre-chopped veggies*Pre-made garden salad with meat, cheese and balsamic vinaigrette*Kraft “Live Active” cheese snacks and light … [Read more...]
Jasenko Cordalija
Hometown- Bellevue, WAPersonal Training Certification- American Council on Exercise Additional Training, Certifications, and Education- CPR/First AidHow long have you worked with X Gym? Since 2011Why do you love training clients? I love training clients to see their improvements both physically and mentally. Large and … [Read more...]
Christina Burshek
Hometown- Leavenworth, WAPersonal Training Certification- World Instructor Teaching School Additional Training, Certifications, and Education- CPR/First Aid, Associates of Arts and Sciences, BS with Human Anatomy Emphasis (2015)How long have you worked at X Gym? Since 2014Why do you love training clients? I love helping and … [Read more...]
Forget Everything You Thought You Knew About Lactic Acid…
Research review by Alki X Gym trainer Aaron Wagar “Lactate—a signal coordinating cell and systemic function” Andrew Philip, Adam L. Macdonald, & Peter W. Watt For many years, the scientific, medical, athletic communities and the general population have accepted the fact that lactate is a just a by-product created by exercising muscle … [Read more...]
Is Fatigue All in Your Head?
Inspired by a recent review done by Timothy Noakes, an exercise physiologist out of South Africa, I will be discussing what is to me at least, a relatively new model of fatigue.In school, I was taught that "exercise induced fatigue" was purely failure of the muscular system to maintain a given intensity of work. This idea was based on … [Read more...]