Team Fitness America Focuses On Weight Loss Through New TFA Interactive Addition

Team Fitness America announced the launch of their new weight loss division, TFA Interactive. Already providing the nation with qualified, certified and background checked personal trainers, Team Fitness America sought to further assist their clients with facilitated weight loss by launching an all encompassing weight loss program.

TFA Interactive provides the missing link to what a “weight loss seeker” would find within fitness programs that are offered today. Many people will hire a personal trainer and want to lose weight but miss the concept and importance of healthy eating coupled with accountability. TFA Interactive fully encompasses your entire lifestyle from attitude, motivation, and food choices to exercise and building your goals on multiple levels.

With TFA Interactive a client can access their information 24/7 from any internet connection and have a weight loss tracking chart available immediately. Imagine sitting at a restaurant and being able to tap into the resource that can assist you with calorie counting, food choices on the menu and motivate you to avoid that dessert. You can write into your journal, track your weight and even add pictures on the spot. Accountability for weight loss is a huge hurdle and TFA Interactive overcomes that hurdle by brining you graphed results and measurable outcomes to track your progress, on the spot.

TFA Interactive goes beyond the basics by offering different levels of integration within your weight loss goals. One of those levels consists of a live “Thin and Healthy” representative who will coach you throughout your goals, via phone or video conferencing. No group meetings to attend, no embarrassing “weigh-ins” in front of your peers. Programs such as Team Fitness America’s home personal training combined with TFA Interactive provide the ability to have an affordable personal trainer work with you in your home and a live knowledgeable weight loss coach to motivate you on your time.

In addition to an online journal to track your moods, water intake, food intake, and plot your weight loss success you can add before and after photos to watch yourself transform as you meet your goals. Weekly lessons for weight loss, goal setting, motivation and behavior modification are available as well. Articles like “How to eat your favorite 20 foods and still lose weight” are available on the site along with discounts on supplements, books and other materials with healthy delicious recipes.

“I wanted to offer more than just in home personal training to facilitate weight loss,” said Margret Pajak, Team Fitness America’s president and founder.

“A comprehensive program that encompasses exercise, healthy nutrition and accountability is the key to a successful weight loss program and I am proud to launch the addition of TFA Interactive to complete that missing link for our clients,” added Pajak.

Team Fitness America has a wide mixture of affordable, certified personal fitness trainers that meet clients at their home, office, park, or anyplace that exercise can be performed. The main objective of Team Fitness America is to assist clients to meet their fitness goals, lean down, tone up, and get into shape at an amazingly affordable price.

For more information about Team Fitness America, just visit www.teamfitnessamerica.com.

Team Fitness America Personal Trainer Of 2009 Presented

Team Fitness America announced their first official Personal Trainer Of The Year Award for the best fitness trainer of 2009. Julie Luria, one of Team Fitness America’s top personal trainers, has demonstrated a remarkable level of service and was provided the award in a small ceremony at Team Fitness America’s headquarters.

Representing New Jersey’s in home personal trainer division, Luria went above and beyond what Team Fitness America strives to achieve for all of their clients. Nominated from both her local fitness director and base of clients, Luria stood out a step above some of Team Fitness America’s best personal trainers.

Team Fitness America provides clients the opportunity to experience individual and group personal training at rates that are affordable without compromising the quality and integrity of the fitness services performed. With personal trainers throughout 17 states, virtually everyone can experience their own fitness specialist.

Luria, with a Bachelor’s Degree from OSU and two personal training certifications, was a natural choice to join the Team Fitness America family. Her emphasis on weight loss, sports performance and coaching has made her one of the most requested trainers in all of New Jersey. Luria goes out of her way to devise amazing workout routines that clients can do on their own even when she is not training them.

“I really felt that I wanted to make a difference in people’s lives so I got into personal training which has led to my love of working with my clients and seeing them succeed to meet their goals,” said Luria.

Her client testimonials and client longevity in Team Fitness America’s programs prove that Luria has the skills necessary to be a top ranking trainer. Her clients have shown remarkable weight loss and reached their goals quickly and effectively. Her personal and professional fitness ideas are in line with Team Fitness America’s vision of providing the best service and offering the same quality of service to each and every client. With over 600 eligible trainers to choose from, the winning trainer must go further than the normal levels of company expectation.

“Julie was nominated by her local fitness director but ultimately we have a vote that it is based heavily on client satisfaction and retention,” said Margaret Pajak, president and founder of Team Fitness America.

“We encourage every personal trainer to provide the upmost in client satisfaction and communicate with each client so their individual unique needs are met with personal attention,” added Pajak.

Some Team Fitness America clients, who are located in the New Jersey area, shared their thoughts and opinions about working with Luria.

“I think she is just amazing and I already dropped a pants size,” said Zaheda, who is a Team Fitness America New Jersey client working with Luria.

“I think that she is doing a wonderful job and she is helping me out in many different ways,” said Kevin, who is also working with Luria.

“She understands my goals and has formulated a workout in training according to the goals and I am seeing results after just a few sessions,” added Kevin.

For more information about Team Fitness America, just visit http://www.teamfitnessamerica.com/.

Team Fitness America Spotlights The March Personal Trainer Of The Month

Team Fitness America announced their March Personal Trainer Of The Month. Placing Phoenix on the map, Michael Hines exemplifies what Team Fitness America strives to achieve for all of their clients and has earned the prestigious Team Fitness America Personal Trainer Of The Month Award.

Continously, Team Fitness America offers clients the possibility to experience fitness training with one of their stellar personal trainers throughout 17 states. Team Fitness America showcases one personal trainer each month that has awesome motivational skills, the ability to provide a satisfying workout with measurable results, and also great customer service. Each month they have announced top personal trainers from places such as Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Baltimore, New Jersey, and Miami, but this month the city of Phoenix takes the first place prize from housing the top personal trainer.

Deciding which personal trainer to honor is a very difficult task for the Team. The honored personal trainer must have been voted upon by superior client testimonials, an established record of client success and provide continued stellar customer service that is in line with Team Fitness America’s vision. With over 600 eligible fitness trainers to choose from, the winning fitness trainer must go above and beyond the normal levels of expectation of the company.

Hines has mastered every requirement of Team Fitness America. He combines his passion for helping others achieve their goals with his knowledge of both fitness and nutrition to create an amazing program for his clients. He specializes in women’s fitness and can devise a weight loss program for his clients to continue on the days that he is not available. Hines has also handled male clients that are looking to add lean muscle and become more fit and healthy.

Certified through the International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA), and working on his Pilates and Yoga Certifications, Hines is very well rounded and knowledgeable. He has received celebrated client reviews and continues to show accomplishment with helping clients with their fitness goals, thus making him Team Fitness America March Personal Trainer Of The Month.

“I ultimately decided to join Team Fitness America because I want to train people properly at rates that they can afford,” Hines said. “I found Team Fitness America to be a wonderful place to work because they actually cared if their clients were reaching their goals. I finally was able to train my clients the way they should be trained and I have had nothing but progress and happy clients since.”

“I have trained many people and I know that I can give you what you want. I have helped many of my clients lose weight or gain muscle mass through proper diet, aerobics, weight training, cardio, core exercises, Kettlebell training, Yoga, and foam rolling.

Some Team Fitness America clients, who are located in the Phoenix metro, shared their thoughts and opinions about working with Hines.

“We had six sessions with him and I have learned more in alternative methods of working out with Mike Hines in six sessions than I have in 20 years of working out at the gym,” client Shane said. “He is doing a great job.”

“I lost 6 lbs just this week,” said Stephanie, a client of Team Fitness America said about Mike Hine’s workouts. “I am trying to follow the plan Mike gave me every day and my Mom even bought me a scale to check my progress.”

Stephanie was also the winner of a personal trainer for one year through Team Fitness America’s spotlight on some of this year’s The Price Is Right episodes.

Team Fitness America has a wide mixture of affordable, certified personal fitness trainers that get the job done time and time again, but only one per month will be selected their top personal trainer.

For more information about Team Fitness America, just visit http://www.teamfitnessamerica.com/.

Team Fitness America Pros Share How Pilates Can Melt Pounds

We all know that cardio and weight training will help you lose weight and get into shape quickly. Pilates is often overlooked as weight loss exercises because it is usually advertized as only targeting the abdominal muscles.

Here are six Pilates exercises provided by Team Fitness America fitness professionals that will make you sweat, boost your metabolic rate like cardio, and strengthen your core similar to weight training. All you need is a mat and fifteen minutes.

Exercise 1: Lie on your back and extend your legs long, place your hands under the small of your back. Lift your neck, head and shoulders up off the mat. Make sure that you have a space the size of a lemon between your chin and chest. Lift your legs to the ceiling and lower. Count to four each time you lift and lower your legs. Repeat this exercise ten times then rest.

The key to a great Pilates routine is to move as though your belly button was permanently glued to your spine and you are reaching long through your finger tips and shoulders.

Exercise 2: Lie on your back, knees bent and feet flat on the floor. Lift your head, neck and shoulders off the mat and reach your arms long towards your toes. Extend your legs in the air at a 45 degree angle and hold them there, toes pointed. Keep that lemon sized spaced between your chest and chin and pump your arms as if you are slapping water. Complete 100 pumps in under a minute. Not only are you working your abdominal muscles, you are working your leg and arms muscles as well while the abdominals hold your core in place. Do for 1 minute, then rest.

Pilates includes all the muscles in the body and most Pilates exercises use the abs to stabilize while the body moves around the core. This type of motion that uses the abs as stabilizers is unique to Pilates specifically and will increase your metabolic rate, heart rate and in turn burn calories.

Exercise 3: Sit on your mat with knees bent, feet flat on the floor. Extend your left leg to the ceiling. Slowly roll your body down to the mat, keeping the left leg lifted and right foot glued to the mat. Think of Velcro on your spine and mat and slowly roll one vertebrae at a time to the mat. Inhale, extend your arms above your head, drop your left foot and lift your right foot. Roll up one vertebra at a time and reach for that extended right foot. Repeat ten times then rest.

An intermediate Pilates workout burns 390 calories and an advanced workout burns 480, according to Kevin Rail, author at eHow.com, “How To Do Everything”. Pilates compliments traditional cardio and weight training routines or can be used as an alternative to both forms of exercise while obtaining similar health benefits.

Exercise 4: Sit up on the mat with your knees up and feet flat on the mat. Inhale, and then lift your feet off the mat. Keeping your knees bent, move your arms to the right of your legs and exhale. Pause one second. Swing your arms to the left and your legs right on the next inhale and reverse on the exhale. Be sure to inhale and exhale each time you swing the arms across. Remember to use your abs not your momentum to move the body and to breathe for each motion. Repeat ten times then rest.

Pilates is breathing and exercise combined. A lot of times, people will not pay attention to their muscles when they are working out or talk on the phone while they are supposed to be jogging on the treadmill. Pilates forces you to focus on your core connection, your breath and each movement you do and thus you burn more calories just ‘being in the moment’.

Exercise 5: Lie on the mat with knees up and feet placed on the mat. Lift your head, neck and shoulders off the mat and place your hands under your sit bones for support. Inhale as you lift your knees to your chest, then exhale as you extend legs long to the ceiling and all the way to the mat, almost but not quite touching the floor. Inhale again, knees to chest, lift to ceiling and extend long to the mat. Each move should take a full four seconds to complete. Repeat ten times then rest.

Pilates uses core muscles to provide the exercise component while using smaller muscles to provide the control of the rest of the body. The exercises will feel difficult because you are using your small muscles that you do not normally use when doing cardio or weight training. Once your body learns to rely on these “stabilizers” you will notice that you can handle more cardio time on the treadmill and actually lift more weights. Your yoga balance will improve and so will your everyday activities. Not to mention you will see the fat pounds melt right off!

Exercise 6: Sit with your feet on the mat and knees lifted into your chest. Place your arms long on the sides of your legs and pretend that someone has grabbed your waist and is pulling you back from the space just above your hips. Roll your back to the mat, keeping your feet flat and imagining that Velcro strip from your spine to the mat. Inhale on the way down. Exhale and begin by lifting your head, neck and shoulders off the mat and rolling up, each vertebrae one at a time until you peel up and reach over your knees. Once you hit the top, extend your right arm behind you and your left arm long in front of you. Inhale and lower to mat. Exhale again as you lift head, neck and shoulders off the mat and this time reach the right arm in front of you and the left arm long behind you. Repeat ten times then rest.

Pilates, even if done for only 15 minutes each day, will strengthen the core, burn calories, engage the small muscle groups and provide overall weight loss. If you combine cardio and weight training with a daily regimen of Pilates you will see quick and powerful results with only a minimal of 15 minutes of effort daily.

For more information about Team Fitness America, please visit www.teamfitnessamerica.com.