Get Fit Boston

The Get Fit Boston Method

The most comprehensive approach for you to Get Fit

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Get Fit Boston's personal training philosophy is what truly differentiates us. At the core of our philosophy, we know that no two people are exactly alike. What works for one person, may not work for someone else. Because of this, every one of our clients gets a completely customized program that is created only after a thorough assessment and evaluation is performed. We take the extra steps to learn our clients' movement patterns, lifestyle choices and hurdles, nutritional patterns, as well as strengths that we can exploit and weaknesses that we can overcome.

Over the last 11 years, we've tracked the things that seem to help our clients get extraordinary results, and the things that don't seem to produce the results that we're looking for. The outline below is a compilation of our findings that we call the Get Fit Boston Method:

Fitness

Weakest Links – Every GFB client goes through a 7-point Functional Movement Screen before we ever do an exercise. This screen has been a great tool for us to find our clients' imbalances and weakest links. Once the weak links are recognized, we utilize corrective exercises to improve them. This allows our clients to minimize the risk of injury, to decrease musculoskeletal pain, and to achieve faster results. The human body is only as strong as its weakest link!

Core Training – We've found that if a muscle or joint has an influence on how your pelvis stabilizes/moves, or how your spine stabilizes/flexes/extends, we better emphasize it in our program. A strong core enables long term, injury-free exercise that is essential for building a really fit body!

Consistency – The #1 fitness variable is definitely consistency. We, at Get Fit Boston, view it as our responsibility to motivate you to exercise often enough to be able to see the results that you seek. At the root of our motivational strategies, we know that we have to create fun and enjoyable workouts that leave you feeling invigorated when you're finished. If we're successful, we know you'll stick with exercise long enough to accomplish anything that you seek.

Education – Unfortunately we know that we will not be personally training you forever, so it's our responsibility to teach you how to “fish for yourself.” Our priority is to clearly explain why we are recommending certain exercises, and why we are suggesting certain lifestyle and nutritional choices so when you are continueing the momentum that we've created, you'll have all of the knowledge to do so. Our greatest success stories are when we receive calls from clients that we've worked with in the past and they say that they've continued our progressions and have followed our advice and really feel great!

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Nutrition

Disclaimer: We are not nutritionists or dieticians so we do not create meal plans for our clients nor do we speculate on things that are outside of our scope of knowledge.

Caloric Balance, Surplus, or Deficit – Base Metabolic Rate (BMR) + Caloric expenditure = Calories In, when you're in balance. To gain weight, Calories In needs to be higher than BMR + Caloric Expenditure. To lose weight, Calories In needs to be less than what you metabolize at rest (BMR) + what you burn through activity (caloric expenditure).

Keep It Simple – This one piece of advice seems to be the most helpful. When you go to the grocery store, spend more time looking at the ingredients and less time looking at the macronutrient counts. If something that you're going to put in your body has an ingredient that you can't pronounce, or that you don't recognize, then don't eat it. Chemicals are not nutrients!

Hydration – We've found that most people live their daily lives in some state of dehydration. Being properly hydrated can increase energy levels, combat cravings, reduce headaches, and allow your body to regulate its temperature through sweating so that it functions at an optimal level. Note: Diuretics such as coffee, alcohol, and soda count against our water intake, while fruits and vegetables count for our water intake. Also, 64 oz is not enough; active people need more!

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Lifestyle

Stress Management - Stress is the single biggest hurdle that stands in the way of our clients' health/fitness goals. It negatively affects hormonal balance, energy availability, and caloric cravings. Stress needs to be managed like a budget. Twenty stressors (deadlines, conference calls, meetings, no time to eat or sleep, etc) can't be scheduled into your week without anything to counteract them. Your “budget” would be out of balance and your health will suffer.

Sleep – Enough high-quality sleep is the most overlooked aspect of optimal health. Its also the first area that we address when our new clients come to us with the goal of feeling their absolute best. We believe that we should make the corrections in sleep habit before your body tells you that you're out of gas. Making sleep a priority will enable you to attack each day with the same vitality and enthusiasm as the previous one. As with being thirsty and hungry, by the time you feel tired, it's too late and you're left playing catch up.

Reconnect – This is a fun one for us. We'll ask: “What did you love to do before you didn't have enough time to do it?” Then we'll ask you to book that one thing into your week before work and social obligations take over your schedule. We've found that reconnecting with the things that we truly enjoy plays a huge role in obtaining optimal health through optimal happiness.