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 ATTN: Youth Sport Coaches working with 8-15 year olds!

Would YOU like to have:

YOUTH ATHLETES that are strong, fast, quick & agile?
YOUTH ATHLETES that play better and have more fun?
YOUTH ATHLETES are less likely to get injured?
YOUTH ATHLETES that continually get better every year?

A SIMPLE to use program that can deliver all the above?

Find out HOW at my…

FREE Special Coaches Clinic: Youth Fitness & Sports Training 101 

This special workshop is specifically designed with the youth between the ages of 8-15 years and young adult athlete in mind.  You will learn the basics on how to fully strengthen and prepare your athletes for the unique needs and physical demands of fitness & sports training for their developing bodies.

At this FREE workshop you will learn WHY:

• Traditional training alone is not enough for maximum results.
• Movement and Core training is critical for youth athletes.
• Youths have to develop ‘smart’ muscle, not just strong muscles to win.
• Using scaled-down versions of adult training programs for youth athletes is the biggest mistake you can ever make – they will play worse and get injured faster!
• You need to take time to develop ‘teamwork’ within the body for maximum performance and continued progress for the youth athlete.

Presenter:         Fernando Paredes, CPT, NASM, NSCA, YFS1
Where:              Fusion Fitness Studio, RT 313 & Ferry Road
Day:                Tuesday August 10^th, 2010 
Time:                From 6pm-7:30 PM
Cost:                 NO COST – 100% FREE Community Outreach Service

CALL 215-345-8385 or email info@fusionfitnessstudio.net to register TODAY.

 
Fernando Paredes, CPT, NASM, NSCA, YFS1 who has been called “Bucks County PA’s #1 Fitness & Performance Coach”has more than 15 years experience and is a sought after expert in the areas of functional fitness, core training, fat loss, lower-back reconditioning and sports performance training in the greater Bucks/Phila region.  He is a contributing fitness columnist for PhillyFIT magazine, the Fitness Director at Boomer-Living.com, has appeared on Comcast Network’s “Your Morning” show, “It’s Your Call with Lynn Doyle”, WFMZ Channel 69 News and The Philadelphia Inquirer because of his innovative exercise approach that combines the original physical culture method of exercise with today’s modern functional & core training techniques.   Fernando, a member of ‘America’s PremierExperts’ is the expert othertrainers turn to for advice and has gained the reputation as the ‘go-to’ source for anyone interested in attaining lasting results and achieving their true potential.  In 2003, Paredes opened Fusion Fitness Studio, a private training facility in Doylestown, PA, which offers cutting-edge programs and individualized instruction to people of all levels ranging from struggling beginners to serious athletes looking to attain higher levels of performance.   

I am on a mission to bring back the methods and mindset of the old-school Physical Culture back to where it belongs.  

Here’s why: 

Performance-enhancing drugs has set Exercise Science BACK 40-50 years because they have influenced MOST programs that people follow today.  Is it any wonder that most people are not happy with their results?  They are following programs that really only work if you are on steroids.

How did people train BEFORE steroids existed? 

THAT is what you need to learn - if you ever hope to attain the type of health, fitness and performance you desire.

Especially since THOSE methods still work so much better than anything else out there today.

And that is what I began to teach with my NEW group – The Bucks County Physical Culture and Barbell Club.  Anyone can join and it’s FREE.

Here are some pictures of our FIRST meeting:

We’re getting started and I’m handing out the agendas..

Introducing myself and getting the discussion started. I am very excited and raring to go!

I stared by stating this SIMPLE Reality:

1. The Problem: Every year health & fitness indicators get worse…
2. The Solution: Every year we have more and more fitness & diet “solutions”…
3. The Result?: See #1…

Hmmm…does anyone see a problem here? We live in an age where there are MORE fitness books, diet books, DVD’s, videos, audio programs than ever existed before….WHY aren’t they helping?

I know why….and I shared it with the group.

So far everyone’s listening…good!

If you’d like to register for our next meeting visit my official Meetup Page at => The Bucks County Physical Culture and Barbell Club to sign up – and it’s FREE too.  How can you beat that?

Week Two:

I closed out my stint at the PhillyFIT Youth Football Camp yesterday. 

What a great time!

As I said last week, one of the BEST ways I could contribute would be to EDUCATE the kids on proper Core training for their growing bodies AND doing a basic structural body diagnostic screening.

This kind of screen can detect any muscle imbalances that may be brewing within thier developing bodies that could not only be preventing them from attaining peak performance but more importantly, increase their risk for injury….and we don’t want that!

Detecting these ”weak” spots at an early age is KEY in PREVENTING any major issues from developing when they get older.

It’s a shame that SO many – TOO many  –  trainers and coaches in my field do NOT take the time to learn these valuable ways to ‘screen’ the human body.

At least I was able to help THESE kids by giving them an INDIVIDUALIZED exercise routine based on the results of their screening and hopefully prevent THEM form developing any problems…which made me feel VERY GOOD about the whole thing.  The fact that the kids were very receptive made it even better.

Here are some picturesof my time at the PhillyFIT Youth Football Camp:

Here I am speaking to the kids about developing good habits…

Here’s an example of me screening one of the Camp kids.  I started with a basic analysis of their overall body structure and body-type screening… 

Then moved on to a simple Push-up HOLD screening to check core stability…

Then moved into more specific tests based on EACH individual kid…for THIS Camper I did an Overhead Squat exercise…

Now based on this OTHER Camper’s body, I needed to do more upper body testing, so I had him do a simple Standing Arm Pull-back.. 

The result of performing these screens was designing a simple personal exercise routine that I wrote out for EACH Camper based on THEIR personal developing body that would literally take ONLY minutes a day.

Minutes that could PREVENT serious LIFE LONG orthopoedic issues for these kids in the future…

And people wonder why I LOVE what I do!
  
Being part of the Camp was a great experience and I Thank Jami, Lloyd and the entire PhillyFIT Team for choosing me to be a part of it all.

Looking forward to NEXT year guys!

Week One:

Had a great time yesterday presenting at the PhillyFIT Youth Football Camp that is being led by past Temple University Footbal star and Dallas Cowboy – Lloyd Yancey.

I was very excited to help in anyway that I could.  And one of the the BEST ways to EDUCATE the kids on proper Core training for their growing bodies AND doing a basic structural body diagnostic screening.

This kind of screen can detect any muscle imbalances that may be brewing within thier developing bodies that could not only be preventing them from attaining peak performance but more importantly, increase their risk for injury….and we don’t want that!

Detecting these ”weak” spots at an early age is KEY in PREVENTING any major issues from developing when they get older.

I wish someone would have done that for ME when I was growing up. 

Maybe I wouldn’t have destoryed MY lower-back at age 17!

Oh well…at least I was able to help THESE kids and hopefully prevent THEM form developing any problems…which made me feel VERY GOOD about the whole thing.

AND the fact that the kids were very receptive made it even better.

Looking forward to NEXT week’s Camp!  And l hope to post some pictures and video too.

Stay tuned…

I am very excited to have been chosen as the sports performance trainer assisting in PhillyFIT Magazine’s first ever “Youth Football Camp” during the last 2 weeks in July 2009.

The Camp will be for youth athletes between the ages of 9-13 years and is headed up by past Temple University football star, NFL player and Dallas Cowboy – Lloyd Yancey.

Being hand-picked by Lloyd to be on the team he’s putting together to teach kids how to train the RIGHT WAY, meant a great deal to me and I am really looking forward to being a part of it.

Thanks Lloyd!

Had a great time speaking at a special Health & Fitness Day at Council Rock High School South last month.

Myself along with Nita Keesler and Sue Macnerny were those invited.   

Being that I used to be a fat, out-of-shape kid growing up with major lower-back issues, I was very excited to not just give a lecture….OR speak on a certain subject….but to really TALK to them.

I wanted to get the message across to the high school youth at Council Rock the benefits of being proactive with their health & fitness.

On the importance and vital need for them to get a head start on developing sound eating and exercise habits NOW….before the bad habits get too ingrained making them VERY difficult to break.

I challenged them to think….

I told them ”Did you know that experts in the health & medical field say that this generation of kids – that means EVERY ONE of you sitting here today, will be the FIRST generation in history to have worse health and may not out live it’s parents?”

“How does that make you feel?”

Then I reassured them “I am here to tell you, that it DOES NOT have to be that way!  I am proof of it.  You CAN change for the better, IF you want to.”

“So my question to each and every one of you is…Do YOU want to?”

It was a great experience and I Thank Jami Appenzeller-Yancey of PhillyFIT Magazine, Trap Mcormack and the staff at Council Rock HS for arranging the event.

Here are some pictures of that day:

Here I am stating my case and getting the youthful crowd all worked up… 

Here I am with Nita, Sue and the some of the Physical Education Staff at Council Rock South.

We had great time and got great feedback from the kids and the Staff.

What more could you want?

Thanks again guys!

That’s exactly what I thought to myself after reading yet ANOTHER article about the declining health & fitness indicators of today’s youth.

This is a SERIOUS problem folks.

And it’s a shame on top of that.

While there are MANY factors that contribute to this, (social issues, big business, etc..)  the bottom line is that kids today have MORE FOOD around than EVER before AND are a lot LESS ACTIVE than just a couple of generations ago.

Being that I WAS a fat kid that loved to eat when I was growing up, I can relate. 

And if I was growing up in TODAY’S environment….there’s no doubt in my mind that I would’ve been obese.

I wouldn’t have stayed that way though.

You see, I WANTED to change, I just didn’t know HOW.  And no one at the time taught me the RIGHT way of doing things.

Which is why today, I always try to encourage and educate kids as much as I can.  I teach them to THINK healthy.  Then sooner or later, the ACTIONS follow.

Then I remembered something…

I remembered a GREAT opportunity that was presented to me not too long ago. 

An opportunity to make a BIG impact in this area that is so very PERSONAL to me. 

And it happened back in April of this year…. 

“Ex-fat kid that hated ‘gym’ class, now turned Trainer, teaches the ‘gym’ Teachers about exercise!”  

Yep.  That’s what the headline would’ve been if the newspapers would have covered the workshop I did for the Centennial School District back in April.  (or maybe not, it’s a but wordy…)

When the Centennial School District invited me to give a workshop on ‘Functional & Core Training for Youths’ , for their entire Physical Education Staff, I jumped on it.

What a way to help kids, right at the SOURCE! 

Here are some pictures of that workshop: 

 Here I am introducing myself to Physical Education Staff… 

Here are a couple of pictures of me demonstrating the proper ‘functional progressions’ for what has to be the best, yet most abused and misunderstood exercises of all time, – the Push-Up.

And that’s me observing the technique of the P.E. Teacher performing some exercises using the powerfully effective, yet under-used exercise tool….resistance tubing.

I had blast that day!

I had such a great feeling that day because I KNEW that, in my own small way, I was going to make an IMPACT on more kids than I could EVER reach on my own. 

Maybe even some kids that were just like ME.

Talk about coming around ’full-circle’, huh?

Calling all Parents of young athletes!

Do you want your son or daughter to become a better athlete and reduce the likelihood of injury?

Today’s conditioning programs for young athletes lack many components and are therefore not complete.

The result?  An INCOMPLETE athlete.  

How do we fix it?  You need to assess and “fill in the gaps” that traditional programs leave out. 

Here are 4 pitfalls that Brian Grasso, top youth conditioning expert with the IYCA, says that happen to young athletes who fail to address the complete picture: 

a. They are used to pounding weight in the gym so don’t have much in the way of solid form with respect to lift mechanics.

b. Due to growth and other extraneous factors, they are tight through the hip complex and weak in the posterior chain.

c. They don’t typically work on mobility, active flexibility or concentrated torso strength.

d. Their movement mechanics have probably never even been addressed.

It’s a shame that with  ALL the good training information out there today, these things are STILL happening to our young athletes. 

No fear.  ALL these WILL be addressed at my 6 Week Sports Training Camp this summer! 

Here are the details:

To register for my Camp call 215-345-8385 and reserve your spot today!