I trained my 6th grader today…I love that 1:1 time with him! The key with youth training is keeping it fun and challenging all at the same time. The load is all relative to each person’s strength abilities, focusing on range of motion and proper form as the main goals. Teach and model it […]
Cardio HIIT Bursts and Interval Training….for the Win!
I made it thru the holidays…all the crazy busy! My gym app tells me that I’ve visited 21 times as of the 26th day of this month and now all of the fun fare is behind me. I have eaten in variety and volume to prime my metabolism and with an intentional caloric deficit, […]
Muscle Priming Before Training: This is the New Warm-Up!
Priming: In my early days I would walk into the gym and get under heavy load way, way too soon. My muscles were not awake and ready to train, so the likelihood of injury was high OR I would just be going thru the motions recruiting other muscles to assist the load and […]
12 Ways to Know When You Are Ready to Consider Competing
-Written September 2015, by Mindy Irish BS Education | NASM CPT | NPC Bikini Bodybuilder —– I know that I got interested in competing in 2012 because I started seeing it become more prominent on social media. That brings up a good topic: When is someone really ready to compete? It varies with each person, […]
Let’s Talk Cellulite and How to Train Hamstrings!
This is a concept I have studied for myself and problem solved with many clients. From a training and competing perspective, I look to see if the back of the legs are what I call “clean”. This is an area that many bodies tend to hold body fat and not just body fat, cellulite. Can […]
Lasting Changes do NOT happen in 12 Weeks!
Are you upset because you didn’t hit your goals in 12 weeks? Well I didn’t either! •2010: I was down from 225 to about 175 here and was to the point where my body wanted to be comfortably. My old lifestyle would have kept producing that result. But I was not ok with staying […]
Cut back to make progress? Yes! Less is More!
I see this ALL the time in my MyFitnessPal app. People track their workouts and equate a calorie burn to what they think is going to be a body fat burn. Here are the details on that: -We can get an “estimate” on a machine or a watch for the presumed calories expended to […]
Mindy Irish Fitness Exercise Video Library
This is a video library for my clients and anyone in need of seeing weight training exercises in action. Most of these link to my Instagram page, @fitgalmindy, where I’ve collected them in the gym over time. Please use them at your own discretion. I ask two things of you if you use my videos […]
Chasing the Calorie Burn!
We need to quit chasing a high-cardio calorie burn and focus on being active instead. Here’s why: —– Cardio time! I truly enjoy being active and my body loves to move, but I only use cardio strategically about eight to ten weeks before a show. Otherwise I weight train consistently year round and stay really […]
Cardio: How much is enough or too much?
Good question! Here is a post I made this week on social media. It describes where I am personally with cardio as of early September 2016, why I don’t do much year round, and how to use it to work FOR you and not against you. Then read below for a few more tips about […]
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