Mark Rebok Weight loss & Athletics
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Personal Trainer Certifications
Level 1, Junior Personal Trainer
- ACE Certified Personal Trainer
- ACE Nutrition Specialist
- Certified CPR/AED (American Red Cross)
Search Results for: Weight Loss
10 Healthy Water Alternatives for Proper Hydration to Promote Performance and Weight Loss
Reading Time: 4 minutes A comprehensive fact sheet on water and hydration for performance and weight loss. Podcast with Paul on all the healthy alternatives to plain water
2 Secret Tips to Rapid Weight Loss
Reading Time: 2 minutes Rapid Weight Loss Tips. When my clients need to lose weight quickly, I have them implement two eating rules: the 10AM Rule and 52 Hour Weekend Fast. Here’s how they work.
Before and After Weight Loss Transformation Photos
Reading Time: 9 minutes Welcome to our post about body transformation! I am going to outline the 7 most important aspects to efficiently complete a weight loss transformation. You’ll find training tips, programming tips, nutrition tips, and a complete list of all the supplements and foods I recommend. – Paul Roberts | Strength, Weight Loss and Mobility Coach
Multivitamins and Weight Loss
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Tip #1: Multivitamins For Weight Loss
Multivitamins Help Improve Weight Loss
Your metabolism will slow down if you are missing essential vitamins or minerals from your diet. In addition, Vitamin and Mineral deficiencies can increase inflammation levels, and decrease the body’s ability to repair tissue. Taking a multi-vitamin is easy, and it adds some insurance against missing an essential vitamin or mineral. Please keep in mind that taking a multivitamin is no substitute for getting your nutrition from whole food sources. Absorption from multivitamins can vary significantly.
Paul generally recommends the following 3 multivitamins for clients interested in weight loss or hypertrophy…
🍰 Weight Loss Tips and Strategies for Diet and Nutrition Alexandria VA
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Sand & Steel’s latest nutrition tips and strategies. This blog post is dynamically updated as we discuss new nutrition tips and strategies based on the nutrition consultations our clients have at Sand & Steel (so bookmark it with CTRL D). We cover topics like how much soy is too much? Is artificial sugar really that bad? Does the kind of tea I drink affect weight loss? How to balance macros for improving body composition, etc. With over 8 years of nutrition and weight loss in Alexandria VA, you’ll this is a very long post.
Nutrition, Diet & Weight Loss Plan
BluePrint: customizable diet and weight loss programs for looking good, feeling good, and losing weight. Improve performance through our sustainable diet program. We include a complimentary InBody Scan with your nutrition session to track body fat loss and muscle mass gains. We use the results from the InBody Body Composition Scan to adjust your diet and dial in the weight loss programming.
Weight Loss Meal Plan Healthy Eating
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Achieve Weight Loss in Alexandria, VA with Our Specialized Plan
Many people set weight loss goals but only a …
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10 Reasons Why More Vegetables Will Increase Weight Loss
Reading Time: 4 minutes 10 Scientific Reasons Why Adding More Vegetables Will Accelerate Your Weight Loss
Paul Roberts Mobility, Strength, and Weight Loss
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CrossFit, Yoga, Mobility, and Personal Training • Alexandria VA
Certifications and Credentials
- Biomedical Engineer: Johns Hopkins University
- Yoga Inversions and Arm Balances Workshop
- Yoga SCW Level II Certified: Hatha Yoga, Yoga for Seniors, Chakra balancing, Inversions, Pranayamas
- RKC Russian Kettlebell Club: Strength & Conditioning
- FMS Level II: Functional Movement Screen
- 3DMAPS: 3 Dimensional Movements Analysis and Performance System
- Muscle Energy Techniques: Rehabilitation and Mobility
- Mobility|WOD Movement and Mobility Specialist: Movement and Mechanics
- RockTape FMT Blades Basic & Advanced: Gua Sha, Graston, and Scraping to Alleviate Pain and Improve Mobility
- RockTape FMT Performance and Basic: Functional Movement Techniques & Advanced Kinetic Taping
- Y-Balance: Examination of Movement Patterns and Imbalances
- TRX Suspension Training: Core and Bodyweight
- CrossFit Level 2: Weight loss and Metabolic Training
- CrossFit Powerlifting: Strength Training
- CrossFit Gymnastics: Bodyweight and Mobility
- CrossFit Scaling Course: Progressions and Regressions for Weight Lifting
- CrossFit Lesson Planning: Effective Techniques for Structuring Workouts
- CrossFit Pose Running: How to Spot Faults in Running Technique
- CrossFit Spot the Flaw: How to Spot Faults in Gymnastics and Weight Lifting Technique
- Precision Nutrition: Nutrition Coaching
- Starting Strength Seminar: Powerlifting Certification by Mark Riptoe
- Road Runner Certified Coach: RRCA Certified Coach
- Certified in First Aid and CPR/AED National Foundation
Rachel Garmon
Weightlifting and Mobility
Reading Time: 2 minutes My Certifications: NASM Certified Personal Trainer, NASM Weight-Loss Specialist, USA Weightlifting Sport Performance Coach, ISSA Kettlebell Certified
“The greatest feeling is watching a client achieve that which they thought impossible. Challenge yourself and challenge your body.”
The Get Healthy Stay Healthy Guide
Reading Time: 7 minutes A Curated List of Effective Workouts, Weight Loss Tips, and Lifehacks to help you Get Healthy and Stay Healthy. The Get Healthy Stay Healthy Guide covers every personal training, yoga, nutrition, lifestyle, and health topic for all people. It contains every secret, life-hack, and shortcut. After two hours of Googling, you finally found it. The Roadmap, Landmark Guide to Get Healthy Stay Healthy.
Trifecta Nutrition Meal Delivery Service
Reading Time: 1 minute Trifecta Nutrition Meal Delivery Service has a well-balanced meal delivery service for people interested in weight loss. Read our review and save 20% with our coupon code.
Sandbell Sandbag Workout Program
Sandbell | Sandbag Workout
The Fast and the Fit. Advanced Level. High-Intensity Interval Training for Weight Loss. 10 unique, sweat drenching workouts that you can do anywhere. Excellent for travel and hotels.
Personalized Workout Plan
Personalized Workout Plan
Designed for you, built by Sand & Steel. We build workout plans of all types for all level athletes. Strength, Weight Loss, Mobility, Flexibility, Yoga, etc. We build programs for people of all fitness levels, with injuries, for competitions, etc. No Monthly fees. One 30 Minute Phone Programming Consult is included with your purchase.
Personal Trainer Job – Build Your Personal Trainer Career
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We are passionate about helping people lose weight and move better. We help clients improve strength through focused programs in power lifting and hypertrophy. We improve clients balance and range of motion with our mobility programming. And we have state of the art programming in weight loss and transformation style workouts.
What we need is you … Sand & Steel is helping more clients than ever, and we need more people on our team.
Low Carb? Good Carbs vs Bad Carbs Explained
Reading Time: 6 minutes Paul explains how to analyze whether a carb is good, careful, or evil with 7 simple rules. Some carbs are good, some are bad, some are just plain evil when it comes to weight loss. America’s food companies take advantage of people’s lack of knowledge with products like: diet soda, bean pasta, and “low carb” bread. Are these reengineered carbs goods for weight loss?
Detox FAQ Removing Toxins From Your Diet
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Tip #2: What Are Toxins and How Should We Remove Them?
Have you ever wondered whether detox diets work for weight loss? Do they even work at all? This FAQ covers some of the seminal aspects behind these so called detox diets and helps you make smarter decisions about removing toxins from your body.
Omega 3 and Omega 6
Reading Time: 6 minutes A Comprehensive Guide to Omega 3 and Weight loss. Includes a complete chart and infographics.
Private Personal Training Sessions
Your Private Personal Training Program in Alexandria will be designed according to your goals and fitness level. We will customize your program to help you move better, lose weight, build strength, etc. We build our programs to improve your health first. Looking better is a byproduct a healthy, good-moving body. We work with a wide variety of clients from Women in the 70s, Active Military, and people that need to lose 100+ pounds. Weight loss programs, powerlifting, strength training for runners, we do it all.
Personal Trainer Certifications and Books
Want to know what the best books on fitness and nutrition are? Here are 25 of Paul’s favorite books plus another 25 on his “to read” list.
Strength Training, Olympic Lifting, Yoga, Physical Therapy, Nutrition, Weight Loss, Gymnastics, Mobility, Programming, Scaling and cueing, Anatomy
Origin Nutrition Webinar
Reading Time: 1 minute Origin Nutrition Webinar and eBook. The 8 Rules and Habits you need to know for successful weight loss
How to build a healthy plate
Dairy? When to include it.
How to balance macros.
How net carbs work?
And Lots More.
October 17th, registration is free.
Dawn Anderson Womens Strength Training
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CrossFit, Mobility, and Personal Training • Alexandria VA
Certifications and Credentials
- Muscle Activation Techniques: Corrective Exercise and Therapy
- National Council on Strength and Fitness: Certified Personal Trainer
- Yoga SCW Level II Certified: Hatha Yoga, Yoga for Seniors, Chakra balancing, Inversions, Pranayamas
- RKC Russian Kettlebell Club: Strength & Conditioning
- TRX Suspension Training: Core and Bodyweight
- CrossFit Level 2: Weight loss and Metabolic Training
- CrossFit Powerlifting: Strength Training
- CrossFit Flexibility: Range of Motion and Flexibility
- CrossFit Scaling Course: Progressions and Regressions for Weight Lifting
- CrossFit Lesson Planning: Effective Techniques for Structuring Workouts
- CrossFit Pose Running: How to Spot Faults in Running Technique
- CrossFit Spot the Flaw: How to Spot Faults in Gymnastics and Weight Lifting Technique
- RockTape FMT Performance and Basic: Functional Movement Techniques & Advanced Kinetic Taping
What is the Goal of Doing Yoga?
Reading Time: 2 minutes One of our readers asks “Is the Goal of Yoga to Lose Weight, Get Toned, or to Become More Flexible?” Paul settles the score on this frequently asked question, once and for all.
Diet Traps. 3 Common Health Foods. Healthy or Harmful?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Three common health foods that aren’t quite as healthy as you might think. Diet Traps issues surrounding Guacamole, Sushi, and Orange Juice.
Designing Beginner Workout Plans
Reading Time: 8 minutes This article is designed for personal trainers looking to get better at writing and designing beginner workout plans. More specifically, this video post discusses how to design functional strength training workouts for beginners.
Job Application Practical
Reading Time: 1 minute Interested in applying to work as a personal trainer or yoga teacher at Sand & Steel? Here are instructions on how to prepare your demo workouts and yoga flows.
Workout Plans
Reading Time: 10 minutes 50 Unique Personal Training Workout Programs. Over 3,000 workouts tested, documented, and perfected. Suffice it to say, we have a workout program that will work for you.
Books on Yoga Personal Training Mobility Strength CrossFit
Reading Time: 11 minutes I’ve been reading books on Yoga, CrossFit, and Movement for 10 years. Here is my review of the top 200 books on books on CrossFit, Mobility, Yoga, Physical Therapy, Mobility and Personal Training. Study your craft. Treat personal training as a profession, and your clients will treat you like a professional. There is always more to learn.
Sand & Steel Certified Personal Trainers Alexandria VA 22314
Personal Training, Nutrition, Yoga & Mobility Alexandria VA 22314 …
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Top TEN List of Essential Exercise Techniques
Reading Time: 12 minutes The Sand & Steel TEN. A complete Top 10 List of Essential Exercise Techniques that every personal trainer and yoga teacher should know.
Ketogenic Diet vs the Zone Diet – 2 Authors Clash Opinions
Reading Time: 12 minutes The authors of this post (David and Paul Roberts) discuss varying viewpoints on whether the ketogenic diet should be implemented. Here’s what you need to know about going Keto.
Fitness Tracker Comparison
Reading Time: 5 minutes Fitness Tracker Comparison. Fitness Trackers can track how much …
Healthy Meetings for Hotels and Workplaces
For Your Old Town Alexandria Meetings Meeting Location and …
Client Transformation Story – Tom L.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Tom L. wins our Client Transformation of the Month. In just 30 days, Tom L. lost 11 pounds and put on 2 pounds of muscle. Here’s how he did it.
Personal Trainer Pride Month LGBT
Reading Time: 7 minutes If you are a member of the LGBT community, you can save 15% percent with your personal trainer. 15% off with coupon code: LGBT PRIDE You can use the coupon on personal training, the Starter Pack, and/or our Pride Powerlifting Seminar. Sand & Steel is celebrating Pride Month for our Gay and Lesbian clients. Having a gym and a personal trainer that accepts you for who you are is important to making improvements. This article highlights some of our gay and lesbian clients plus some of our coaches who are part of our LGBT community
Personal Trainer & Yoga Teacher Manual
Reading Time: 44 minutes Sand & Steel specializes in forging elite personal trainers. The Personal Trainer Manual is your guide for how to train clients, how to scale workouts, how to mobilize muscles and help clients recover from injuries.
Client Transformation Story – Dan R
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dan R. wins our Client Transformation of the Month. In just 60 days, Dan lost 3 pounds of body fat and gained 2 pounds of muscle. Here’s how he did it.
Yoga Adjustment to Improve your Health
Reading Time: 6 minutes Practicing yoga is a deeply intimate, personal experience, which is why many people choose to start a home practice. This is where you get to be one with your body. It’s a place to move into the breath and release tension in the muscles that so easily gather throughout your days. To really let go, though, you need a little help from someone else; you need a yoga adjustment.
Personal Trainer for Seniors
Reading Time: 7 minutes Personal Training for Seniors and Older Adults Program. Everyday we work hard for the seniors in Alexandria VA to help them move better and live their life without limitations. Whether your goals are combating arthritis through joint distraction to preventing bone loss through functional strength training, we are going to build an age-appropriate program for you. We help clients improve aerobic capacity, increase engagement with neuromuscular activation, and build strength through compound movement patterns.
This articles highlights some of our older adult clients and includes their comments on what they had to say about their custom, one-on-one personal training programs.
Dance Video Workout
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8 Dance Video Workouts
Don’t have a kettlebell or dumbbell to do a workout? Here are 8 great dance video workouts to help you get your sweat on and burn some extra calories.
Mobility Training vs Personal Training vs Physical Therapy vs Massage vs Chiropractic Care
Reading Time: 6 minutes Considering seeing a mobility specialist, physical therapist, or a personal trainer? Learn about the differences in these biomechanical specialties here.
Newsletter on Mobility, Nutrition, & Strength
Reading Time: 1 minute The Sand & Steel Newsletter is written by Personal Trainers for Personal Trainers. Our articles feature in-depth curated content on Mobility, Nutrition, and Strength. Our Mission is simple: provide the best written, research based articles on personal training and fitness available. Newsletter subscriptions are open to current clients, personal trainers, and those aspiring to improve their health and fitness.
Macro Calculator for Macronutrients
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our Free 🆓 Macronutrient Calculator determines the basal metabolic rate and total daily expenditure using the Harris-Benedict formula. From there, the calculator determines your macros (total calories, carbs, protein, and fat.) To use the calculator, you just need to need to know your height, age, height, and exercise frequency.
Personalized Workout Program
Reading Time: 10 minutes 25 Strategies for developing a personalized workout program. You asked, we answered… everything you want to know about our personalized workout plans.
Functional Strength Training Alexandria VA 22314
Reading Time: 3 minutes What is Functional Strength Training?
Functional Strength Training involves exercise techniques that mimic movements performed in everyday life, outdoor activities, or in a sport. This training technique involves the use of numerous tools to build the movement patterns such as: Kettle Bells, Viprs, TRX, Barbell, Dumbbell, Sandbags, Sleds, Ropes, Medicine Balls.
