Fitness photo shoot

We just came from the photo shoot for the fitness magazine.
Here are few photos from the set.
Have a nice and relaxing memorial day weekend.




The story is coming up about NYC most successful personal trainers. Last year we won 8 trophies in bodybuilding and fitness.

Video: Before the bodybuilding show

Bodybuilding champions and personal trainers Alejandro and Claudine in hotel room before the bodybuilding show. Couple of fitness magazines took few photos behind the scenes.

Myths About Dieting and Weightlifting. Weightlifting for Women

Many people will try to scam you with new cool diets.
All they want is your money.
Do not fall for bogus claims! Time Magazine is listing all diet myths.
You can read in Newsweek magazine my article about Weightlifting myths.


And I always get a question from the girls I train: Am I going to get bulky if I lift weights?
I do not want big muscles ...

Ok here is the answer: I train many girls who compete in fitness figure and look the photo above and see how they look like. Do they look bulky? Do they have a huge muscles?

And I have to say that they workout with weight all the time.

So go figure it out!

Power Up your mind and your body will follow

When you change your mind, your body will follow. I am giving you tips how to get in sync with your mind and body.

1. Be true to yourself. Just be you. You do not need to please other people or look good because other people want it from you. Only be you for few seconds and relax. For an example I like to be lean and swimmer built. Many people expect from me to be a bodybuilder or a huge muscle guy. I do not like that look. That is not me. Why do I need to be somebody that I am not? I am just me.
2. Do not worry. All is going to be good. Many things you can not control anyway. But you can control your mind. So stop worrying. Start living.
3. Eat healthy and think. Find time to enjoy your food and think three times about the food before you put it in your body. Ask yourself how this food that I eat will affect my health and my body.
4. Relax. Find time everyday to relax for at least 30 min. Do whatever it makes you happy. (read books, sports, cooking...)
Every time you do something that is not in alignment with your desire it will stress you out. For an example: If your desire is to go to the gym but you are skipping it, you will feel bad. It is just how your mind works. If you do not follow your desires, you will always feel miserable.

5. Follow your passion. Go ahead and follow your passion. Whatever that is. If you do not follow it, you will be feeling depressed. There is no depression. Just your passion is not expressed and you feel bad. There is no pill for that my friend. The therapist ("THE RAPIST) can not help with that either. But you can help yourself if you follow your passion in life.
6. Stop complaining. If you are complaining you are on the road to failure. Do not set yourself up for failure. You control your destiny. Nobody else.
7.Stop wasting energy on other people’s business. Every time you care about someone else, that means that you do not care about yourself. Start living your life and do not mind the life of other people.
It is a time to start spending your energy on yourself.
8.Forgive people. If somebody did hurt you in past, go over it. It did happen but it was in past. People make mistakes. If you can not accept that you can not take a hold of your future.
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.
9. Listen to your body. Ask your body if its thirty, hungry, needs an exercise or walk or maybe some sleep. Even machines break after awhile, so your body will do the same if you do not take care about yourself.
10. Lose your nasty attitude and ego. People always wanna lose weight but they do not want to lose their nasty attitude. Slow down and ask yourself daily if you got an attitude. Try to understand why do you act the way you act. Is that really you or you are acting it? Are you trying to be cool? Insecurity? Fears?
Do not try to be cool acting like a fool.
11. Slow yourself down.
You think I am crazy because I am telling you to slow down in New York City? Well New York City has been around and it will be around for many many years. But you wont. So slow down and learn how to enjoy the life.

I hope I made you think.
Love you,
Joe

Celebrity Diet secrets

We see it in TV and magazines. All best tips and diets, so I will list couple tips how to look your best based on those commercials.

1. To get a perfect body, you can eat pizza, pasta and burgers. All low glycemix foods. Why not? Eat ice cream too. You will be fine so long you count those weight watchers points. Enjoy the life. Why diet? Diets are not working anyway.
2. Why do you need to go to the gym when you can get in great shape in 2 minutes per day at home watching The Jerry Springer Show.
3. To look like a dancer, you just need to dance. Please no weights heavier than 3 lbs. God forbids you can strain your muscles and weights will make you bulky.
4. If any foods have not been endorsed by celebrity or has no photo of the star on the label, than it is not good for you! If it is not good enough for celebrities than it is not good for you too!
5.Why exercise anyway? Muscle will turn to Fat once you stop Exercising. So do not bother going to the gym.
6. Only do few exercises with High Repetitions. High repetitions Burn More Fat. Supermodels do so, so you just follow them and you will be ok. Supersculpt Your Body
with Hollywood's Sexy-Body Secret. Sounds familiar?
7.Women should not exercise. Weight training will make them look like Russian bulky weightlifters. Please no bulk.
8. It is scientifically proven that Celebrity Infomercials are the most effective for your weight loss. In order to burn fat you have to watch those infomercials at least 1x per week for 10 min. It makes you tight, it has to do something with your mindset. Watching those commercials will make you thin in sleep. It is a proven method. Have you not see doctors on those shows saying so?
9. We don't have enough Time to Exercise. So why bother? The best way to lose weight is to order those home delivery diet meals and watch the biggest loser on TV. Let them exercise. They are losers anyway.
The coolest things that they did put Omega-3s in the burgers. So it is good for your heart health!
10. French fries are the best vegetable for the weight loss. Have you not see on TV fitness experts recommend Idaho potatoes? French fries are fried in the vegetable oil. So you get double benefits of veggies. Awesome. Your doctor will be happy when he sees your next time.
11. Why would you listen to nutritionists and serious personal trainers anyway? Celebrity magazines and supermarket tabloids have all the best tips from the stars to get your sexy body plus all the steamy sexy tips how to make your partner freak out in the bed. A perfect combo for a sexy sophisticated successful and smart women.