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Put Your Wellness First and See Your Business Rise to the Top

Written by Luis Echeverry on December 12, 2018. Posted in Lifestyle.

As a business owners we are often willing to sacrifice our own sanity and health for the success of our future. The internal drive, the climb, the grind can often leave us with the idea there’s just not enough time in the day to even take time for our own wellness. Check out the list below to see if you fall into any of these scenarios:

I often skip my breakfast, lunch, and sometimes dinner and rely on coffee and energy drinks
I often feel guilt for not getting exercise in weekly
When I do exercise I stick to just doing cardio machines and rush through workouts
I don’t block out times in calendar for exercise or family time
I feel guilt for not spending time with family so I skip exercise entirely
I tell myself each year it will be my resolution to get in shape and I end up quitting after three to four weeks
I give myself unrealistic deadlines on reaching peak fitness instead making a life long commitment
I allow my injuries to stop me from making time to exercise rather than working around the affected areas and rehabbing the existing problems
I often find myself having no will power to order healthy food when entertaining clients or work colleagues
I feel I don’t need a support system or a professional’s guidance yet I continue to not doing anything to positively affect my lifestyle.

No matter what self talk your having with yourself, the first step to making a lifestyle change is acknowledging where you have been falling short, and working towards finding comfort in sharing with someone you trust whether that’s a close friend, family, or a support system like our Tampa personal trainers can provide.

Our Tampa team of experts have been working with various business owners in the Tampa Bay Area for over ten years. Helping clients find balance between work, family, and wellness. We understand trying to balance work, life, fitness, and eating well can feel impossible with limited hours in the day. Despite being aware of the surmounting research that regular exercise and healthy eating habits can actually reduce stress, improve individual’s energy levels and work-life balance, it’s always the first thing to fall off for many. Let our DrivenFit team help you balance work, life, and a wellness routine.

If you are interested in getting in for a free first session with one of our expert Tampa personal trainers please feel free to book your evaluation below after completing this appointment you will also be entitled to a free demo session to see if we are a match – We look forward to meeting you soon

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Importance of Warm-Ups & Cardio at Driven + SWS

Written by Luis Echeverry on June 25, 2018. Posted in Transformation.

How to properly do the Jacobs Ladder!

(jk, please DO NOT try this.. we are not liable for shenanigans that may result in injuries lol)

How not to use a Jacobs Ladder Driven Fit

Now that we have your attention, I hope you all are having a good week! So, I have found that some are missing out on their warm-ups at Driven + SWS lately and thought I’d share some info on why warm-ups are so important.

If you haven’t been able to get in your workout this week, just message us at 813-440-3016 to get scheduled or sign up for Saturday classes here, and try to implement these warm-ups for your next training session

What are Warm-ups and why are they important?

Warm-ups are exercises that are done before a training session to help increase the body’s core temperature and allow for the muscles to be more elastic and less stiff when starting an exercise routine.

Warm-ups should be done before training and to specific muscles that will be worked that day. They are important in bringing blood flow to the working muscles, which would allow oxygen levels to be increased within the muscles. This, in turn, can help improve the endurance within those muscles. Warm-ups also help dilate the blood vessels which would allow for there to be less resistance against blood flow and stress on the heart.

Here are a few warmups that can be done before a training session:

-Ski ERG

-Resistance Band Y, I, T

-Frankenstein Walks

-High Knees

-Butt Kicks

What about cardio? Should cardio be done before or after training?

Based on the principles of specificity, I would recommend cardio post workout to elicit the best results in strength training and muscle building.

However, if your main goal is to run a marathon or train for an endurance sport/competition, then, cardio should be applied before and/or after a workout. Clearly there will always be a debate as to whether cardio should be done before or after a resistance training session, but, in my opinion, it all comes down to specificity and what your goals are and at what level of intensity you are doing the cardio. If you are interested in getting a free first workout and evaluation simply click here to register and book online

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Infrared Body Scanner for Trainers and Chiropractors

New “South Tampa” Personal Training & Wellness Studio

Written by Luis Echeverry on October 7, 2017. Posted in Driven Announcements, Lifestyle, Personal Training, Rejuvenation, Studio, Transformation.

THE #1 RATED PROFESSIONAL 3D BODY SCANNER IN THE WORLD

STYKU available at Driven + SWS

As Driven has mentioned a new personal training & wellness studio takes shape and opens in Hyde Park Tampa in November

The new wellness studio will offer the latest in technology to help keep not only clients accountable, but also trainers and practitioners accountable. Throw away that tape measure. We all know the cost of human error in hand measurements. Styku is 76% more precise than measurements from the most skilled hand-measuring experts.

Replaces the calipers
with an engaging experience.

Captures in 3D. Evaluates full body shape, body composition, and posture. Driven + SWS will track progress with your trainer, coach or physical therapist, and or chiropractor. So yes you can visit this wellness studio for just scanning purposes. The Testing is open to public and visitors training with independent personal trainers, chiropractors, physical therapists, plastic surgeons, and other medical professionals looking to keep their progress charted throughout their wellness journey. This team will visit your office for corporate wellness and for business needs.

SKIP THE DUNK TANK & DXA MACHINE.

Styku uses known circumference methods to measure body fat directly from your waist, hip, and other key anthropometric sites. The NIH just funded a 2.1 million study to prove the method has as much promise as DXA. No need to schedule hydrostatic weighing or a DXA scan; Styku Fat% is a precise and reliable way to calculate lean and fat mass.

Track baseline circumferences like hip, thigh, waist, bust, and more.

Replaces the discouraging in-home weight scale. Demonstrate where fat is being lost by digitally measuring their waist and other essential body data.

Evaluate risks

Communicate the possibilities of a clients transformation

Styku Fat% determines health risks compared to others within your clients’ gender and age group.

Personalized fitness goals to client’s needs with use of slider to determine how much fat your client would like to lose.

Set a burn rate/ activity level and target date. Using basic energy balance, Styku reveals a user’s needed caloric deficit to reach his or her goal.

RMR, BMR, and Caloric Intake. Provides clients with a turnkey experience. Styku automatically creates a model of the daily expenditure and then uses the daily deficit to estimate the maximum caloric intake the member can consume to reach their fat loss goal.

The list goes on and on not to mention it also takes less than 30 seconds and you receive a 13 page report that you can understand of all measurements and findings.

“The Styku really will be a game changer not only for our clients, but for our trainers, massage therapists and chiropractor as it also allows you to see posture – This ability to expedite client tracking and see the client in a 3D format showing the littlest changes has become the next step in our growth as fitness and health company in the Tampa Bay Area in today’s ever evolving world – The value to visually motivate in an expedited process is priceless.” – Luis Echeverry Owner and Personal Trainer at Driven in Hyde Park, Tampa.

It’s more than just a number for this personal training and wellness studio. Driven takes great pride in showing the whole picture of someone’s health (not just a selfie of six pack abs posted on social media) but a visual view of the risks and considerations that need to be intertwined in the building of a clients training program.

This is why Driven has partnered with Dr. Sarah Sponaugle owner of Sponaugle Wellness Studio – to not only offer chiropractic services at this location to add to their rejuvenation programs like massage therapy and infrared sauna, but to be the studio’s on site Doctor for all clients in a program. Dr. Sarah Sponaugle DC is a believer in exercise and good nutrition being our best medicine, which closed the deal on the partnership.

“We will be the first of it’s kind in this area – offering Personal Training, Massage Therapy, and Chiropractic Care at one location 2511 W Swann Ave #100 Tampa, Florida 33609. The team has been asked are you guys a boutique gym? No it’s just a nice private studio, with good people, great clean atmosphere, and I would say it’s also any trainers heaven when it comes to a functional training space for working with clients.” says – Marco Echeverry, Co-owner of Driven.

This Driven team has been in business 9 years and will be celebrating their 10th Anniversary in January. This combination of disciplines brings us the total package when it comes to preventative wellness. Preventative wellness has always been the next big thing says the onsite Doctor – “people are starting to realize this approach gives highest return, and ensures clients are provided with a realistic goal, education, tools, and accountability that ultimately will lead to a longer and healthier life”. – Sarah Sponaugle – Doctor of Chiropractic, Acupuncture Certified, Active Release Technique Certified, and owner of SWS.

For scheduling your scan simply complete form below and one of our team will assist you in scheduling

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How Exercise Rejuvenates Cells, Extending Lifespan

Written by Luis Echeverry on September 28, 2017. Posted in Lifestyle, Personal Training, Transformation.

Tampa Bay is full of opportunity to create a healthy well rounded lifestyle and a core component to a wellness lifestyle is daily exercise. With more and more research emerging on the importance of activity we are understanding how truly important exercise really is even down to the cellular level. Below is a great article on how exercise effects the building blocks of our bodies, our cells. (Previously published on medicalnewstoday.com)

Dr. Sarah Sponaugle, D.C., certified in acupuncture

New research provides a window into how, on a cellular level, exercise can improve muscle health and, ultimately, exercise capacity, which is “the best predictor of mortality in the general population.”

A new study published in the journal Nature Communications describes how exercise helps the body to keep the cells in the muscles healthy and strong.

“Whether muscle is healthy or not really determines whether the entire body is healthy or not,” says lead researcher Prof. Zhen Yan, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville.

“And exercise capacity, mainly determined by muscle size and function,” he adds, “is the best predictor of mortality in the general population.”

According to the new study, exercise improves muscle health by renewing its cellular powerhouse: the mitochondria. Mitochondria are crucial to the good functioning of our bodies, as well as to our overall health and longevity.

These tiny parts of the cell turn the food we eat into energy. Mitochondria transform proteins, fats, and sugars into the fuel that the body needs to live.

So, how does exercise affect the mitochondria in the muscles?

Exercise promotes mitophagy in mice

The answer given by the new study is through “mitophagy.” Mitophagy describes the process by which damaged or defective mitochondria are selected and removed, usually after a period of stress.

In the case of muscles, mitophagy contributes to keeping skeletal muscle healthy and strong. And to show how exercise induces mitophagy, Prof. Yan and team genetically modified mice to carry a gene that helps to report on the effects of physical activity.

This gene is called pMitoTimer. It makes mitochondria fluorescent, allowing the researchers to study mitophagy in vivo, after the mice engaged in 90 minutes of treadmill running.

Three to 12 hours after the running session, the researchers observed that mitochondria showed signs of stress. After 6 hours, they saw signs of mitophagy.

Prof. Yan explains the effect of exercise on mitochondria through an analogy that includes a vehicle inspection, the purpose of which is to remove defective cars from the streets.

“Aerobic exercise removes damaged mitochondria in skeletal muscle. If you do it repeatedly, you keep removing the damaged ones. You have a better muscle with better mitochondrial quality. We clean up the clunkers, now the city, the cell, is full of healthy, functional cars.” Prof. Zhen Yan

Chemical reaction in mitophagy identified

The researchers also identified the molecular mechanism behind the process. The treadmill workout seemed to activate a kinase called AMPK.

A kinase is an enzyme that modifies other proteins through a process called phosphorylation. In this biochemical process, phosphate groups are added to proteins.

The researchers determined that, in a biochemical chain reaction, AMPK triggers another kinase called Ulk1.

Prof. Yan continues the vehicle inspection analogy, saying, “When [it’s] turned on, Ulk1 activates other components in the cell to execute the removal of dysfunctional mitochondria.”

“It’s analogous to a 911 call where a tow truck removes the clunkers. However,” he says, “we still do not know how these activities are coordinated.”

To confirm their discovery – that Ulk1 plays a critical role in mitophagy – the team created a mouse model lacking the Ulk1 gene. These mice were also subjected to treadmill exercise, but the ensuing mitophagy was considerably inhibited.

“Mice that were unable to do mitophagy did not have the benefit of exercise,” explains study co-author Joshua Drake, a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Yan’s laboratory.

“Even though, from an exercise standpoint, they still were able to run just as far as normal mice, they didn’t benefit metabolically with training,” he adds.

“These findings provide direct evidence of exercise-induced mitophagy and demonstrate the importance of Ampk-Ulk1 signaling in skeletal muscle,” the authors conclude.

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Tampa Massage, Personal Training – Upcoming Holiday Gift Cards

Written by Luis Echeverry on October 24, 2016. Posted in Driven Announcements.

As the holidays approach we can often get distracted, and put off getting our loved ones gifts on time and instead leaving for the last minute. This holiday you can create a custom gift card that can be used for tampa massage therapy or personal training in the Tampa bay area in advance and have delivered on the exact date you would like this holiday season.

Click Here to go to our custom online gift card store to create your gift of health & wellness and have delivered online. Credits purchased can be used for fitness programs with a Tampa personal trainer. Also use credits purchased for recovery sessions with a Tampa massage therapist.

We offer deep tissue massage, swedish massage, couples massage, athletic stretching and more. Male and Female massage therapist available.

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