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I was outdoors today and did a progressive training with strength bands – just with 2-3 strength bands you can train with a resistance up to 20-30 kg and place an effective impulse on your muscles. Make sure you take strength bands with you when you go running next time!
Question:
Can a personal trainer take on a two-on-one session with an overweight and average weight person? Can they juggle it and have both people working hard at their different levels?
Answer:
In general yes, but the sense of “Personal” Training is to train one-on-one. This is far more individual and effective, because two different persons have two different needs.
The overweight person, for example, maybe is not able to go running to avoid the joints and back beeing overstressed, whereas the average weight person will be not trained well enough if you adopt the training to the overweight person.
I would only recommend booking a training session for two persons when they have a similar fitness and health level to guarantee effective coaching and best results.
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with courtesy of Elounda Beach Resort
Adress:
Elounda Beach Hotel & Villas
72053 Elounda, Crete, Greece
http://www.eloundabeach.gr
Lodging:
173 deluxe rooms, suites and villas
35 villas with private pool
8 Yachting villas with private pool
2 Royal suites with private pool
1 Palace suite with two private pools
Dining:
Dionyssos with à la carte cuisine
Argonaut seaside restaurant for casual lunch and Italian dinner
Blue Lagoon with Polynesian kitchen and sushi bar
Kafenion with local specialties
Artemis poolside restaurant with international cuisine
Veghera seaside bar
Neraida pool bar
Lito piano and harp bar
Thalassa seaside fish restaurant
Ariadne with mediterrenean cuisine
Leisure:
Marina
Water sports (water skiing, sailing, windsurfing, jet ski)
PADIScuba diving center
Heatable outdoor seawater pool
5 floodlight tennis courts
Fitness center
Personal training
Volleyball
Badminton
Basketball
Table tennis
Football pitch (grass)
Mini golf
Specials:
2 Secluded white sandy beaches, with umbrellas & sun beds
Themed Nights (e.g. Greek Night, Lobster Night, Cuban Night)
Open-air amphitheatre (movies/shows)
Children’s supervised animation programs
Shopping arcade
Private jet
Helipad within the resort
Limousine
Yacht
Helicopter service
Conference center
Business facilities
Private chapel
Private parking
For more pictures and information, please visit the website of Elounda Beach Hotel & Villas http://www.eloundabeach.gr
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with courtesy of Sonnenalp Resort of Vail
Address:
Sonnenalp Resort of Vail
20 Vail Road
Vail, CO 81657 USA
Lodging:
115 suites
12 rooms
Dining:
Ludwig`s restaurant with contempory American cuisine
Bully Ranch with local dishes
Swiss Chalet Restaurant with Swiss traditional dishes like fondue, raclette
King`s Club with lounge and bar
Balata at the Golf Club with typical American dishes
Leisure:
Sonnenalp Spa with a variety of treatments (please find an interview about the philosophy of Sonnenalp Spa below)
Indoor and outdoor pool and whirlpools
Fitness Center
Yoga
Personal Training
Golf (18 hole championship golf course)
Tennis
Country Club at Sonnenalp Golf Club
Guided hiking
Biking
Crosscountry and downhill skiing
Snowshoeing
Specials:
Supervised activities for kids
Spa Pointer interview about spa philosophy of Sonnenalp Spa:
Philosophy of the spa
SP How would you describe the philosphy of your spa?
SR We are a warm and relaxing service centric, experience driven Spa environment that prides ourselves in ensuring our guests Walk in and Float Out.
SP Which influences melt together in your spa philosophy?
SR We offer a variety of modalities, each designed to appeal to the diverse needs of our guests. Offering everything from relaxing services to sports and rehabilitative modalities, our menu is a balanced collection of experiences.SP How do you manage to implement the philosphy in every day work life?
SR Our strong operational philosophy is implemented consistantly and effiecienty with each guest interaction. We achieve this type of consistant delivery by 1. selecting the right service minded professionals, 2. continually training and re-training on evey aspect of our concept and 3. holding ourselves accountable for our weaknesses and 4. striving to always find ways to improve our product and service delivery.
Architecture and interior design of the spa
SP In which way does the philosophy of your spa influence the architecture or interior design of your facility?
SR Our Spa is designed with the guest’s overall experience in mind. It is a open and inviting space, filled with natural sunlight, a warm fire center piece and is surrounded by water. This combination of nature and man-made amenties provides an environment of both relaxation and stimulation. The perfect balance for any spa enthusisat.
Atmos of the spa
SP How would you describe the atmosphere of your spa in own words?
SR Warm, relaxing, inviting and invigorating. A place where everyone can relax and rejevenuate.
SP How do you create an atmosphere which is conform to your spa philosophy?
SR By ensuring the space is maintained at the highest levels of cleanliness at all times and that the staff is focused on the anticiaption, compliance and exceeding of guest expecations.
Services and team of the spa
SP Please describe the services of your spa in few words and how the services are influenced by your philosophy.
SR The Spa services are developed to be appealing to a diverse demographic and psychographic. Each service is designed to maximize the experience of the guest.
SP How would you describe the choice and composition of personalities and professions in your spa team?
SR We only choose the best in customer service professionals. Our group of Ladies and Gentlemen have an average of 8 years in their profession and they collectively represent a team that is dedicated to the experience of the guest with every interaction.
SP How do you / your resort / your spa make a difference to your guests?
SR By always thinking of the collective experience of the guest and not just the interaction. We take our job of providing the ideal environment very seriously. Are goal is to create loyal guests by creating a warm and memorable experience with every opportunity.
SP Thank you for this interview.
For more pictures and information, please visit the website of Sonnenalp Resort of Vail http://www.sonnenalp.com/
This leg workout serves different purposes: it will strengthen and tone your legs, hip and glutes as well as train core, balance and coordination.
Include this exercises in your weekly routine to get more agile, fit, slender and sportive.
Today a great training machine attracted my attention: Water Workx Multigym.
Water Workx Multigym
It is phenomenal that finally a strength training machine with water resistance has been realized, until now as is known the “Water Rower” was the only machine with water resistance. The Water Rower has been invented by an american rower named John Duke. This principle has been applied to built a strength training station, and I think it is a bummer – idea and design. Additionally, with 65 kg weight without water, it is a leightweight compared to other training stations. If you ever needed to reorganize a fitness center as a trainer, you may have sweared because of the weight of machines with usual weight stacks 
The production of this machine is more eco friendly as the production of its steely collegues – this means it is recommendable for holistic training at home (or in Spas). The training resistance appears according to the training speed of movement and this is, regarding funcionality aspects, useful because you have to activate the body core (or just “Core”) for a lot of exercises. The training with water resistance offers a natural and stageless resistance regulation and allows, so to speak, “fluent” movements. For fans of “Core” training respectively functional training this also is a elegant training alternative.
The website of the producer of “Water Workx” and “Water Rower”
A “Spa Menu” gives an overview about the services of a spa. Depending on the thematic approach of a spa, you will have the choice between service variations from the following areas:
The term “Medical Wellness” describes methods and treatments which focus on human health prevention or improvement. Plannings and implementation of methods and treatments are based on scientifically or alternative medical diagnosis.
If a doctor diagnoses his client with any critical health condition, e.g. high blood pressure, a program to improve this condition will be implemented, such as change of nutritional habits and a regular training pattern. If you want to prevent a burnout syndrome, you may include sport, relaxation techniques and massages in your weekly schedule.
Today, spas and hotels of high standad offer several medical wellness services under one roof. This allows medical diagnosis and suitable treatments by specialists in one place and makes the workflow easier.
The category groups, which are frequently connected to „Medical Wellness“, are the following
• Medicine (traditional / alternative medicine)
• Health science (health prevention, consulting)
• Sport and nutrition (with/without trainer or consultant)
• Wellness methods and treatments (massages, treatments, relaxation arrangements)
• Cosmetics (dermatologic treatments, individual treatments)
• Hotel comfort (suitable atmosphere, high competency, high service quality)
• Therapy arrangements (physio- / psychotherapy)
Jens Baltrusch
http://wellnesspointer.com
Today I visited a wellness showroom and have seen amazing bath and spa ideas for home wellness use. Find some of the best pics below.
Jens Baltrusch, the "wellness showroom reporter" 
nice - welcome to your fun pool!
the design of the whirlpool is beautiful, isn`t it?
famous, and also suitable for home use: Power Plate in decent white colour
One of my favourite machines for personal training: Technogym Kinesis, great as allround training machine at home
why not having a treadmill or a spinning bike at home? right in front of the sauna!
this is what a chillout lounge should look like!
New from Klafs company: Taosensa for foot reflex massage - great design and idea, isn`t it?
small sauna for home use which requires less space for set up
infra red sauna : does not produce UV-streams, which means high temperature with fewer use of electricity
relaxing poolside
great choice for a outdoor whirlpool, no?
one of the best home sauna designs i have ever seen!