Get Stronger

Getting stronger is the most important thing you can do for your physical health. Lifting weights (or as we call it: progressive resistance training) has more benefits compared to any other exercise regimen:

  • Reduces body fat
  • Creates muscle
  • Reduces depression
  • Fights Osteoporosis
  • Stops Sarcopenia (muscle loss due to aging)
  • Improves sports performance / lowers sporting injury risks
  • Increases flexibility and general mobility
  • Controls blood sugar levels
  • Lowers your risk of Diabetes
  • Lowers blood pressure
  • Prevents back pain
  • Improves self-efficacy (how you feel about yourself)
  • Will make you look GREAT

“Fitness for Women” is only a marketing term

The most important objective of strength training is the accumulation and maintenance of muscle mass. Building and keeping muscle has the most health benefits compared to any other form of physical activity (see above for the list of good things it does).

The term “Fitness for Women” creates the illusion that women should ‘work out’ differently than men. Those words fill exercise classes with women who have been taught:

  • Women are ‘the weaker sex’ and are unable to do what a man does
  • Women will get ‘bulky’ if they lift weights

That is all B***S***

Getting stronger helps in every aspect of your life. You only get stronger by lifting, pushing, pulling and carrying heavy things day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. If you only jog, spin, barre, yoga, zumba etc. you will never build the muscle necessary to reap the benefits of a strong body.

You must put down the small, colored hand weights and lift like a HUMAN BEING.
If you do, you will look and feel like a goddess.

Building Armor – Strength and the Young Athlete

Sports are where strength, power and athletic skill are on full display for all to watch and enjoy. Outside of natural skill, an athlete’s strength is the single biggest predictor of success in their chosen sport. Making a varsity team, earning a spot on the starting lineup, receiving scholarships and beyond are all affected positively with strength training.

Strength training also protects the athlete.

  • Joint stabilization
  • Increases bone density
  • Strengthens connective tissue (ligaments, tendons)
  • Develops mental strength and discipline

A proper strength training program helps to ensure the young athlete in highschool or college will stay healthy and safe throughout their sporting career.

About Functional Strength and Conditioning

Resistance training will pay you back with great physical and mental health for the rest of your life but you must use the proper techniques and learn the proper strategies to see consistent results. That is why using a personal trainer at key points in your training is so important, especially when you begin.

My name is Stephen Jackson and I am a Certified Personal Trainer with the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) based in Newburyport, Massachusetts. My credentials include:

  • NSCA-CPT (National Strength and Conditioning Assc. Certified Personal Trainer)
  • CPR-AED Certified
  • Fully insured
  • Certified Black Belt/Instructor Hwa Rang Do (www.HwaRangDo.com)
  • Aerobic Kickboxing/Heavy Bag Boxing instructor
  • WSI/Lifesaving/Swim Instructor

Program Options

Personal 1 on 1 training:
10 Sessions for $490

Bring a Buddy group of 2 people:
10 sessions for $249 each