Friday, March 18, 2011

GREAT RESTING HEART RATE?!

Your resting heart rate often reflects improvements in cardiovascular fitness. It's a good idea to monitor your resting heart rate periodically. A decrease in RHR will typically represent an improvement in your fitness level. To determine your RHR, take your pulse right after you wake-up (before you get out of bed and ideally not after being awoken by an alarm clock). Count your pulse for one full minute to get the RHR. Take your pulse on three separate mornings and calculate the average.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

UNIQUE HEALTH & WELLNESS FITNESS CLASS SCHEDULES

1-ON-1 PERSONAL TRAINING

SPECIAL FOR START OF THE YEAR (COULD END AT ANYTIME)

$58 PER SESSION (SILVER SPRING MD)
$68 PER SESSION (WASH. DC)


BRIDAL BOOT CAMP (NO SCHEDULE AS OF YET)
*If you're someone or know of someone that is interested in getting in shape for a wedding event contact us at anytime.
Emmanuel
301-586-7116
at HYDE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ( NE Washington DC)

Days: Mon. Tues. Fri.

Times: 6AM-7AM

8 week program (to be paid in full by participants)

$7 per class ($168 FOR ENTIRE FROGRAM)

1hr per session/ 24 SESSIONS


FREE NUTRITION COUNSELING

FREE MEAL PLAN


-ON-GOING BOOT CAMP CLASSES-

AT HYDE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (NE Washington DC)

DAYS/ TIMES: Mon. Wed. 6:30pm-7:30pm & Sat. 8:30am-9:30pm


$8 PER CLASS

1HR SESSION

$75 FOR MEAL PLANS

(PARTICIPANTS MUST PAY AT LEAST 2 WEEKS OR 1 MONTH IN ADVANCE OR MORE).


-1-ON-1 PERSONAL TRAINING

*SPECIAL FOR THE FIRST 3 MONTHS OF THE YEAR*

$58 PER SESSION (AVAILABLE ONLY FOR THOSE WHO COMES TO ME in DC, NORTHERN MD & SILVER SPRING MD AREA).

$68 PER SESSION (FOR EVERYONE WHO I TRAVEL TO in DC).

$85 FOR MEAL PLANS

*SPECIALTY CLASS*


PLACE: HYDE LEADERSHIP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL

ADDRESS:1800 Perry Street, NE

Washington, DC 20018

-YOGA FITNESS (NOT ON SCHEDULE YET)

5 WEEK PROGRAM ($48 NEED TO BE PAID IN FULL AT START OF CLASS).

FREE DEMO!!! AVAILABLE FOR AGES 17 & UP THURSDAY 01-05-11 AT 6:30PM.

CLASSES START DATE: NONE
ALL CLASSES WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAYS AT 6:30PM

PLACE: HYDE LEADERSHIP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
ADDRESS:1800 Perry Street, NE
Washington, DC 20018


-UP & COMING CLASS
-SATURDAY ZUMBA CLASS COMING SOON!

5 WEEK PROGRAM FOR JUST $35!!!

CLASS WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAYS ONLY 9:30AM-10:30AM

PLACE: HYDE LEADERSHIP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL

ADDRESS: 1800 Perry Street, NE

Washington, DC 20018


-SATURDAY $2 BOOT CAMP HAS STARTED!

5 WEEK PROGRAM FOR JUST $10

*ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST PAY FOR ENTIRE 5 WEEK PROGRAM

CLASS WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAYS ONLY 10:30AM-11:30AM

PLACE: HYDE LEADERSHIP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL

ADDRESS: 1800 Perry Street, NE

Washington, DC 20018

ALL CLASSES & EVENTS CAN BE PURCHASED VIA OUR SECURE WEBSITE: WWW.WELLNESSENGINE.COM/UHWFIT JUST CLICK SIGN UP NOW & NAVIGATE THROUGH THE AVAILABLE OPTIONS.

CHECK OUT  FOOTAGE OF OUR BOOT CAMP FITNESS CLASSES FROM SOME OF OUR LOCAL WASHINGTON DC AREAS.



Tuesday, March 1, 2011

OMEGA 3 TREATMENT

  Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy may be able to avoid the accompanying muscle loss and malnutrition by taking fish oil supplements that contain omega-3 fatty acids, new research suggests.
The finding is based on a small study involving just 40 lung cancer patients. Nevertheless, it raises hope that a simple, noninvasive intervention might go a long way towards countering the fatigue, poorer prognosis and impaired quality of life that can result from chemo-induced muscle mass loss.
"Fish oil may prevent loss of weight and muscle by interfering with some of the pathways that are altered in advanced cancer," study author Dr. Vera Mazurak, of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, said in a news release. "This holds great promise, because currently there is no effective treatment for cancer-related malnutrition."
Mazurak and her colleagues report their observations in the Feb. 28 online edition of Cancer.
To explore the therapeutic potential of fish oil supplements, the authors offered 16 cancer patients undergoing an initial 10-week chemotherapy regimen a daily dose of 2.2 grams of a particular omega-3 fatty acid called eicosapentaenoic (EPA).
While these patients took fish oil supplements throughout their chemotherapy treatment, a second group of 24 patients underwent the same regimen minus the fish oil.
The results: continual muscle and fat measurements revealed that the group that took no fish oil supplementation lost an average of just over 5 pounds; the supplement group lost no weight.
What's more, blood analyses revealed that those in the fish oil group who had the biggest bump in bloodstream EPA concentrations also had the greatest muscle mass gains.

Specifically, nearly 70 percent of those in the fish oil group either kept their pre-chemo muscle mass or gained muscle. By comparison, less than 30 percent in the non-supplement group kept their original muscle mass.
Total fat tissue measurements were unaffected by fish oil supplementation, the team noted, and no side effects were observed.
The authors concluded that fish oil supplementation appears to be a safe and effective way to prevent malnutrition among cancer patients, and may ultimately prove to be of benefit for other groups of people, such as elderly patients who also face a significant ongoing risk for muscle loss.

Lona Sandon, a registered dietitian and assistant professor of clinical nutrition at the University of Texas Southwestern Dallas, reacted with cautious optimism to the findings.

"Malnutrition is a big concern with cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiation," she noted. "Because first of all they do have wasting from the cancer itself, which is very metabolically active and eats up your energy stores. And then with chemotherapy, there is some inflammation that's detrimental to the heart and muscle, as it can cause muscle breakdown. And preservation of lean muscle tissue, we know, leads to better outcomes."

"So certainly this does seem to be promising," Sandon said. "And other similar studies have looked at omega-3 and muscle preservation and have also suggested that fish oil can act to prevent inflammation caused by both disease and hardcore medications, like chemotherapy agents."

"But I would caution that the amount of pure concentrated fish oil supplement the people in this study were given is a lot," she added. "Much much more than any recommended dietary allowance, along the lines of two to three servings of fish per week."

But, she said, "I would say this is certainly worthy of continuing research and exploration. But meanwhile, people should definitely not go out and start consuming huge amounts of fish oil."