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[Fitness Training Downloads Newsletter] Beat The Tax Man, crush competition and food combining for Fat Loss? Sent Friday, January 13, 2012

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Issue #29- Friday, January 13th, 2012

Hello!!! Welcome to this weeks newsletter. This is for all you group exercise instructors and personal trainers.  I will continue to strive to provide great content and resources you.  This newsletter will be led by you, so if you want something featured then please let me know.

Thanks for the positive feedback from last weeks newsletter :-)  I am going to continue to provide for you what I think are valuable articles and tips that will help you, the group exercise instructor and personal training

Last weekend I was delivering the first Metabolic Group Exercise Course in Tring, Herfordshire. It was an awesome session with some great and eager instructors.  The Metabolic Effect Family is growing and I am happy about that.  In fact Dr Jade Teta is coming over to the UK in April to launch the ME outdoor group exercise course and also his nutrition course.  I will let you know more details when I have it.
 
In this issue . . .

I reveal some killer tips that you can use to cope with competition, that may threaten your classes, and ultimately your business

Fitness tax guru Chris Tuck offers some timely advice on how you can stay one step ahead of the tax man, and save yourself lots of money :-)

Master trainer Zita Alves introduces us to the world of suspension training and in particular the Z Trainer, together with a take away routine that you can use :-)

Finally Dr Jade Teta  reveals the concept of nutrient combining for fat loss.  Very interesting indeed
 
I hope you enjoy this issue of Fitness Training Downloads Newsletter.

 
Linx
 
"Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting "

Brian Tracey 

 
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So How Do You Cope With Competition??


 
During the Metabolic Effect Course last week, an instructor came up to me and asked me how to market herself when another instructor with similar services was doing more or less the same thing.  As someone who has had someone that was supposed to be working for me set up a class 10 minutes away from me (yes really!), I have decided to give some insights into how I am dealing with the situation;

1. Avoid a Competitor's Strength and Exploit His Weakness

When a competitor is known for one thing, you have to be known for something else. Quite often, a competitor's built-in weakness is the something else that you can exploit.
For example although this person is well known in the area, luckily for me due to my experience, I have a lot of connections that I can draw on to create joint venture partners locally, this has led me to get other people to promote my classes, instead of just me.  Maybe you can identify the main players in your town and get them to promote your sessions and services for you.

Also my knowledge and is another strength, especially having completed the Metabolic Effect Nutrition program.  This has led me to provide a more rounded service to my clients in terms of being a fat loss coach and not just someone that teaches class.  See how you can raise your game and add value to the service that you offer

 

2. Always Be a Little Bit Paranoid About Competition

We're living in a world where everyone is after everyone's business. I have realised this from a local business perspective and also during my presenting years.  This is natural and unfortunately to be expected. You must be constantly gathering information on what your competitors are planning. You must know their businesses, service, price points, in fact everything, to then work out what you can do better.  For example I know from the people that do my class, how many classes my "competitor"  is teaching, his price point, and what he is offering for that.  This has made me raise my game and increase the value of my service so that it kicks butt

Never underestimate your competitors. In fact, you're safer if you overestimate them.

3. Avoid competition

It might sound unusual advice but if possible try to avoid competitive situations. I am always amazed how many people in business simply follow the crowd. The point is if you follow the crowd, that is where you will remain (one of the crowd!).  

4. Do your own thing

 

Create your own niche, your own brand. It's a massive mistake to copy someone who is already successful in your field - you risk being an inferior copy. Don't assume for example because their style of website or way of working appears to have worked for them, it will work for you. For all you know it might not even be working for them any more (your competitors are hardly likely to blog how work's dried up lately.) Instead of trying to be better by doing the same, concentrate on developing your own style, unique identity and personality.

 

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The Tax Man Is Coming To Get You....... Be Prepared! By Chris Tuck!



‎***WARNING*** Tax Amnesty Launched For Instructors

Are you a PT/Fitness Instructor/Zumba Instructor or all 3?

You have until the 31/3/2012 to declare any extra income you have earned up to April 2010!

HMRC have launched a 'Tax Catch Up Plan' which allows Iyou to declare any income that you have not already declared. Undeclared income means that you have not paid tax on it.

Have you trained as a Zumba Instructor as a secondary job? Have you been earning money that you have not declared? 

Well you now have until the end of March to declare any outstanding tax liabilities up to 5/4/2010 and pay what you owe.

HMRC have said that those who come forward ahead of the deadline would receive the "best possible" terms, which is "unlikely" to amount to more than a fifth of any outstanding tax debts.

If you do not come forward by 31/3/2012 then you will incur much higher penalties and criminal proceedings could be pursued.

So if you offer private tuition and or coaching this is a window of opportunity to put your tax affairs in order by making a full disclosure and benefit from the best possible terms. 

For further details contact www.hmrc.gov.uk

Need help with keeping your records on the straight and narrow? Want to keep out of trouble with HMRC? 


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The Z Trainer - Your conditioning Secret Weapon


By Zita Alves

I love to do bodyweight exercises but there comes a time when you know that something is missing - the pulls.

 

There are not many people, especially women, who can just hop up onto a bar and bang out a set of pull ups, particularly if they are overweight.

 

It can be really hard to achieve muscle balance without using any gym equipment/dumbells etc as pulling movements using the lats, rhomboids, trapezius and biceps cannot  always be overloaded enough by gravity alone - they need an external force. How many people do you see who have internally rotated shoulders and an overdeveloped chest. Not only from a postural point of view but also from a sports specific standpoint should we be looking at working the back musculature in equal measure. Given where the lats insert, isolated lat exercises or overtrained lat muscles can exacerbate this internal rotation which is why "rowing" movements are so beneficial in order to hit the rhomboids,mid/lower traps, serratus and posterior deltoids.

 

By using a suspension trainer you are able to do both horizontal and vertical pulling movements to target different muscles and the great thing is that by tiny adjustments in hand, elbow or body position you are able to hit the whole back from every angle.

 

Be sure to set the scapula, shoulders down away from ears, neck long for every movement.  Some great exercises to try include:

 

REVERSE FLYES

Start
  •    Arms out in "T" Position in line with shoulders

  •    Hands facing forward

  •    Standing almost upright

    Movement
  •  Lean back as arms come forward in front of chest, hands facing each other

  •  Lift arms back to start position keeping arms slightly bent, leading with top of hand

    •
  •  Wrists strong, core braced, keep chest up, squeeze shoulder blades down

     

    HIGH/WIDE ROW

    • Start
  •    Arms out in-line with shoulder

  •    Bent elbows , hands face down in-line with elbows

  •    Lean back slightly

    Movement
    •
  •   Lean back more as arms straighten in-front of body, hands facing down chest up, core braced, back straight, wrists strong

     


    ROTATIONAL SINGLE ARM ROW & SQUAT

    • Start
  •  Hold 1 handle only

  •  Feet hip width apart, slightly in-front of hands 

  •  Bend knees to sit back, bottom towards floor

  •  Arm straight and rotate body to let other hand touch floor  Hands facing forward

    Movement
  •  Push into legs at same time as pulling handle to bend arm and row body up to standing position, other hand can cross over strap

  •  Straighten the arm and bend the legs to return to start position

  • Y OVERHEAD RAISE


    Start

  •  
    •   Arms in "Y" position

  •  
    •   Hands facing forward

  •  
    •   Standing almost upright

    Movement

  •  
    • Lean back as arms come forward in front of chest, hands facing each other

  •  
    • Lift arms back to start position keeping arms slightly bent, leading with top of hand

    • Wrists strong, core braced, keep chest up, squeeze shoulder blades down

  •  

    Once the exerciser has mastered  the basic movements with good form they can work on some great combinations such as the following:

     

  •  Low and high row combi

  •  Low row, reverse flye combi

    •
  •  High row to Y raise combi

     

    One of my favourite combinations is :-Y raise, high row, low row to bicep curl. Perform 1 rep of each after the other in a continuous movement aiming for approx 5 reps in total, or more reps depending on the foot positioning. The advantage of suspension training is that during a set if form deteriorates the feet can be very slightly moved to make the exercise easier and maintain the time under tension.

     

     

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    Zita Alves has been a Personal Trainer for 13 years after a career change in 1998. As a non-exercising, overweight asthmatic she has found her true passion in helping others. In 2009 Zita set up Zest Bootcamp in Somerset, UK which currently runs 15 classes a week. In 2010 she launched the Ztrainer Suspension Fitness Training System which already has customers around the world and is being used by some of the UK's leading Fitness Professionals.

     

    For more information go to www.ztrainer.co.uk


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     Ask Dr Jade
     
    This question is related to nutrient combing for effective fat loss;

    Hello. What are your food combing principles? Why do they work? Ive started having fruit smoothies for breakfast and putting coconut oil with it, are fats and carbs a bad combo?

    ps do you suggest inc hemp seeds into your diet?

    Thanks!

    Jades Answer

    We would not give up on your fat....and you are not wrong about fat lowering the glycemic index of a meal.........what people dont quite remember is that you still have to deal with the end result of the meal..........there is an argument to be made that adding fat to carbs....especially simple carbs is better than having them by themselves...........We would say the following a) Stay away from simple carbs to begin with B) always chose fat over carbs when you have a choice C) Adding fat to carbs may slow things down, and may be a little better than the carb itself especially if you are insulin resitant or diabetic........ but is not ideal and is going to assure that meal is stored as fat D) Adding fat to high fiber or protein foods is different.........celery with peanut butter on it or a steak with avocado are not really what we are referring to here
     

     

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