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Gwen and Blake Beckcom | Fitness

Blake and Gwen Beckcom

As the mid-point of the year quickly approaches, are you becoming bored and unmotivated by the same workout? Are you looking to add variety in your fitness routine, but not sure where to start? Signing up for? fitness training with your spouse, a co-worker or fitness buddy could be the answer to jump start your summer physique, train for a summer endurance event or spice up your daily workout routine.

Whether you prefer working out in the morning, during a lunch break or after work, having a professional trainer can be a powerful approach for men and women to squeeze in a high-impact workout session that yields top-performing results in less time. With a focus on compound, total-body exercises, you use different muscle groups to burn a ton of calories and get more done at once.

Tandem Training is an excellent option for busy people who can only carve out an hour in their day to focus on health and fitness goals, and it provides an outlet to get back in the gym this summer. It also provides a great way for couples to workout together, reach health and fitness goals together and support each other.

Get in, get fit and get on with the rest of your day

Contrary to popular belief, you don?t have to log hundreds of hours in the gym to accomplish your goals. In fact, studies show that a quick and short ? yet powerful and intense ?? workout session of 45 to 60 minutes can yield greater results.

Recent findings state that men consume 81 calories per minute at lunch while women consume 52 calories per minute. By switching out high-caloric power lunches with blood-pumping workouts, you can achieve two goals for getting fit at once: lower your calorie intake and increase your workouts.

Trading in your office attire with workout gear over your lunch hour will also yield an increase in productivity when you return to the office. A 2011 Swedish study found positive productivity results from employees, after the employee used time during a workday for exercise or other health-promoting measures.

The key to getting the most out of your workout is to have a structured, total-body approach that includes a dynamic warm up, intense strength and conditioning training, and a relaxing cool down.

Start your calorie-burning engines in your warm up. A dynamic warm up of body weight squats, jumping jacks or jump rope, moving lunges with stretches and high-knee jogging will get your blood and heart pumping, while kick starting your metabolism.

Then, by focusing on super-set exercises done back to back, you get a quick, intense workout that targets your total body. You will not waste time isolating single muscles, but will instead focus on achieving a total package of looking, feeling and performing better.

After you push your body to the max, it is essential to properly cool down with stretching and deep breathing. Lengthening your muscles is important for restoring and preparing your body for future workouts. This also helps your body to continue burning calories as you return to your daily duties, whether it?s going back to work after a lunch session or heading home after a long day.

Get Fit Together

As we reach the middle of the year, it is time for both men and women to join forces to work together toward accomplishing their health and fitness goals. Fitness Together?s Tandem Training provides a high-impact workout environment that allows duos to begin together, work together and finish together in pursuit of a common purpose, and to achieve individual fitness goals. We combine energy and fun with strength training, cardio conditioning and nutritional guidance to help everyone feel better, look better and perform better than they ever thought possible.

?Blake and Gwen Beckcom are owners of Fitness Together in Mission Hills, which offers one-on-one sessions with experienced personal trainers. To find out more visit FitnessTogether.com/MissionHills or call 619-794-0014.

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