Tag / Gina Jackson Personal Fitness

I love it when people, paths and training crosses over. I just received an inquiry on my Pilates4Fitness website about a tool being used in one of my videos that has found its way to the Fitness Anywhere site about a tool that one of my students just happened to be using.

Maintenance is a never ending, on-going process of continual activity and work.  To maintain a healthy smile and pleasant conversation with people, we brush and floss our teeth daily.  To maintain the life of our automobiles, we regularly get the oil changed and make sure the plugs are lubricated and tires rotated.  Nails are filed and polished weekly, lawns are cut and manicured weekly, so why is it such a difficult thing to understand and actualize the maintenance of the body with a daily regimen?   I know, its a rhetorical question.  The body maintenance work is hard, requires...

This is why I teach and love what I am doing. Sometimes I get frustrated, tongue tied and may not always deliver the best for everyone at the moment that they need it. Sometimes I am exhausted and may screw up a cue or an equipment change or touch with a little "too much emphasis" and for those times, I ususally kick myself. Yet, to get a number of unsolicited joyful comments, hugs and love from studio participants - all in the same crazy week -  is the reminder that my path is correctly set.   The details of the persons involved are universal; hip replacement, herniated discs, upcoming...

Yes, I can throw heavy weights around quite easily.  I have, on occasion, loaded the leg press with 2X my body weight  and comfortably worked my legs.  But now, in my new personal training space, Pilates4Fitness Movement Space, there will be no need for weights anymore. It's not that I have ended my love affair or desire to use them, its just that over the years my use of functional training equipment, such as BOSU Balance Trainer, resistance bands, stability balls, Pilates equipment/apparatus and now the TRX Suspension system, has grown so much more that many of my clients actually prefer...

I guess you can tell from my blog entries of late, that I have been playing around with another tool for core training in the past few months, using the TRX Suspension Trainer with both my personal workouts, my private strength/resistance clients and now my Pilates Mat students.   Defying gravity with a new challenge is making all of us stronger, sleeker and determined to continue using the tool.   The tool permits a full and complete range of motion throughout a workout, which in turn creates a more functional, safer and more successful method of training. While I am never giving...