Mark Rebok Weight loss & Athletics
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
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
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
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
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
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
Our customizable diet and weight loss programs for looking good, feeling good, and losing weight. Improve performance through our sustainable diet program focused on making smarter, healthier decision in restaurants and at home. 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
Weight Loss Meal Plan
Achieve Weight Loss in Alexandria, VA with Our Specialized Plan
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10 Reasons Why More Vegetables Will Increase Weight Loss
10 Scientific Reasons Why Adding More Vegetables Will Accelerate Your Weight Loss
Paul Roberts Mobility, Strength, and Weight Loss
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
- Functional Range Conditioning (FRC): Improve Flexibility and Strength at the End of Range of Motion
- 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 RockBlades Basic & Advanced: Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM), Graston, and Scraping to Alleviate Pain and Improve Mobility
- RockTape FMT Performance and Basic: Functional Movement Techniques & Advanced Kinetic Taping
- RockTape FMT RockPods Cupping: Cupping to Improve Tissue Regeneration and Release Entrapped Nerves
- RockTape FMT RockFloss: Voodoo Bands and Occlusion Band (RockFloss) Therapy to Loosen and Mobilize Tight Fascia
- Y-Balance Testing: Examination of Movement Patterns and Imbalances for Functional Assessment
- FMS Level II: Functional Movement Screen and Corrective Exercise Techniques
- Road Runner Certified Coach: RRCA Certified Coach
- Starting Strength Seminar: Powerlifting Certification by Mark Riptoe
- TRX Suspension Training: Core and Bodyweight Training Techniques
- RKC Russian Kettlebell Club: Strength & Conditioning Through Kettlebells
- 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
- Certified in First Aid and CPR/AED National Foundation
Rachel Garmon
Weightlifting and Mobility
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.”
12 Healthy Zero Calorie Drinks
Twelve healthy zero calorie drinks + 15 drinks you should avoid for weight loss. If you’ve been following Sand & Steel’s nutrition channel, you know that water is important for weight loss. But sometimes water gets a little boring. Here are 12 healthy zero calorie drinks to get your healthy and hydrated.
How Much Water Should I Drink a Day
A comprehensive fact sheet on water and hydration for performance and weight loss. Podcast with Paul on all the healthy alternatives to plain water
Nutrition Alexandria VA – 10 Rules that All Diets Follow
Nutrition Alexandria VA – 10 Rules that All Diets Follow. We surveyed the top 100 selling diets and compiled the top 10 rules that all diets follow. Featuring a slide deck, infographics, 10 videos, and over 2000 words, this comprehensive article will help jump start your weight loss or muscle gain journey.
The Get Healthy Stay Healthy Guide
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
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.
Home Workout Plans
Pre-Built (Template) Workout Plans & Built-to-Order Custom workout plans. Pre-Built workout plans are best for people on a tight budget that need a professionally written workout scaled to their level. Built-to-order programs are great for people who have limited equipment, busy schedules, and/or free frequent business travel. We build workout plans of all types for all level athletes. Strength, Weight Loss, Mobility, Flexibility, Yoga, etc.
Personal Trainer Job – Build Your Personal Trainer Career
Build Your Personal Trainer Career
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
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
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
A Comprehensive Guide to Omega 3 and Weight loss. Spreadsheet and infographics. Reduce inflammation and reduce chronic fatigue with Omege 3 / 6 Balance.A Comprehensive Guide to Omega 3 and Weight loss. Spreadsheet and infographics. Reduce inflammation and reduce chronic fatigue with Omege 3 / 6 Balance.
Personal Training Sessions
Personal Training sessions may be used to book any type of session: Personal Training, Boxing, Yoga, Nutrition, Mobility, etc. Your personal training program in Alexandria VA 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 seniors & older adults, Retired Military, and people that need to lose 100+ pounds. We specialize in helping people with mobility restrictions and previous injuries. 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
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
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
CrossFit Alexandria VA
The CrossFit Alexandria VA Beginner’s Guide. 5000 words covering nearly every topic a beginner CrossFitter needs to know.
75 Common Foods Analyzed – Nutritionist Near Me
75 Common Foods Analyzed. Get the facts straight without searching for a “nutritionist near me.” Straight-up facts on which foods you should eat, and which ones are better off avoided.
CrossFit Classes Alexandria
CrossFit is a culture of teamwork and community. CrossFit provides the standard of safe and effective movement worldwide. CrossFit’s specialty courses and certifications provide the Gold Standard for certifications in the fitness industry. CrossFit will kick your butt, and leave you asking for more
Powerlifting Classes Alexandria
The Powerlifting class is about building strength. You’ll master the Bench Press, Squat, Standing Press, Deadlift, and many other time proven techniques to make you stronger. It’s addictive, as you surpass your previous records. If you want to be Strong, this is the class to take.
Fit and 50 Pack for Seniors and Older Adults
The Fit and 50 Pack is a limited edition / discounted pack. Sand & Steel is committed to supporting our clients in the over 50 demographic. With Fit and 50 you get 4 personal training sessions per month for 6 months. Plus a free Sand & Steel Workout Journal to write down your workouts.
Nutritionist Alexandria VA
Nutritionist Alexandria VA – Diet & Nutrition Plans. Looking for a Nutritionist in Alexandria, VA? From Meal Plans to Lowering Inflammation, our nutrition coaches will help you lose weight successfully.
What is the Goal of Doing Yoga?
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?
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
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
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
60 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
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 and Steel: Personal Training, CrossFit, & Yoga Alexandria VA 22314
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Top TEN List of Essential Exercise Techniques
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
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.
Health, Fitness, and Yoga for Seminars, Festivals, and Meetings
For Your Old Town Alexandria VA Seminars and Meetings …
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Client Transformation Story – Tom L.
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
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
