When you train with one of our professionals you get access to every other discipline. Variety is the key. For those outside the NYC area, try one of our SKYPE WORKOUTS! It’s the next best thing to being there. Don’t be afraid to try something new.

When you train with one of our professionals you get access to every other discipline. Variety is the key, after engaging in the same discipline over a sustained amount of time your body stars to plateau and the exercise loses its overall impact. Don’t be afraid to try something new.

We’ve all heard it before, and yes it is contrived, clichéd, and hackneyed. However, the reason you keep hearing this is because it is true. The “Journey not a Destination” philosophy has been with us much longer than fitness has, and when undertaking fitness as a discipline, this philosophy holds true.

Like any other life altering discipline that an individual takes on it should be looked at as a journey, and fitness is no exception.

When fitness is done the right way it should be something that becomes part of the rest of your life. If you are looking for life long success, then it would stand to reason that fitness should be life long.

While every individual should have his or her short term goals everyone needs to have overall health and wellness as a life long goal.

Let’s be honest, most people get into shape just for that wedding, reunion or vacation. It’s good to have a focus, but more times than not once those events are over or once that short term goal is realized, most tend to fall off the wagon.

What’s the sense of putting in all of that hard work and dedication if it’s all going to be over in a couple of months? Why not take that discipline with you through out the rest of your life.
Take comfort and be proud that you have accomplished your short term goal but do not lose sight of the journey.

Remember those moments along the way that got you to where you are now.
Remember the fun you had, how great you looked, and more importantly how glorious you felt when you were done.

Remember the journey, half the fun is getting there.

During our high-energy 60 minute Boot Camp classes, you’ll do a total body workout that consists of 5 minute warm-ups, 20 minutes of Cardio, Upper Body (Push ups, back and shoulder movements), Core Work (Crunches, rotation and stabilization movements), Lower Body (Squats, squat thrusts, lunges, jumps), Stretch (Cool down dynamic stretching).

Mind Over Matter Health & Fitness caters to the fitness level of each individual during class. Our instructors will take the time to check on each participant’s form, make necessary adjustments, and pinpoint any individual concerns and answer questions.

Stroller Boot Camp

Can’t find a babysitter so you can make a trip to the gym? Worried you won’t be able to fit in a complete workout between your toddler’s naps? With Mind Over Matter’s comprehensive Stroller Boot Camp, there’s no more stressing and no more excuses. You can build muscle, burn fat and firm up all while spending valuable time with your baby!

Stroller Boot Camp includes everything the 60 Minute Boot Camp class provides – a warm up, cardio, strength training, stretching and cool down. You’ll jog, race walk and participate in resistance exercises, such as squats, lunges and various abdominal movements that incorporate your child and their stroller.

Indoor Boot Camp

Don’t let the cold weather keep you from achieving your fitness goals. Join us indoors once a week for a holiday-weight-burning workout. Contrary to popular practice, resolutions are actually meant to be achieved!

Podcasts / Audio Segments

 
Dr. Victor Zeines Radio Show: All About Mind Over Matter
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Karen Salmansohn’s Satellite Sirius Radio Show
“Exercising and Fun”
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“Love, Sex, Love”
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“Net Play”
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Strength Nation
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“Save On Fitness”
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Miss Young Radio Segment: “Healing Is A Mind Over Body Connection”
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Wedding Podcast: “Exercising For Your Wedding”
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Protein source should always come from lean meats. Several ideas are chicken, turkey, and nowadays, bison. Other quality protein sources include fish, beans, legumes, tofu, and eggs. You of course need to get your glycogen stores back up and that’s where carbohydrates come in. If you a re going for the French fries at least go for sweet potato fries as they provide a better source of carbohydrates for the body. Another option is baked fries; at least you will then avoid the fried oil that the starch is swimming in. Alternative sources are brown rice, quinoa, or whole wheat pasta. If you are recognizing a theme here then you are on the right track. Think brown when you are choosing your carbohydrate sources, not white. If it’s white it’s not right.

The hardest thing about exercising isn’t the workout itself, but finding the time to do it. With that in mind, Mind Over Matter is proud to provide you with an effective tool to maximize your time when it comes to exercising. This exercise video will show you the quickest way to get optimal results in a short amount of time. It’s not how long you work out, but how efficiently. This video will show you how—in a safe, result-driven manner.

The exercises included are trademarked exercises of Mind Over Matter, and specifically Joshua Margolis. They reflect the philosophy of Mind Over Matter, of moving as much of your body as often as possible as frequently as possible. To use as much energy and therefore burn the most calories, all the while achieving a toned, firm, lean physique. Remember, your body is the best piece of exercise equipment you’ll ever need.

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You can learn more, and purchase the DVD, here.

Mind Over Matter Health and Fitness was founded in 2004 to provide busy New Yorkers an accessible service that would help integrate fitness into their lifestyle. MOM’s mission is to provide certified, friendly, reliable fitness professionals specializing in areas such as Personal Training, Yoga, Pilates, & Private Boot Camp Classes. We also have an emphasis in Pre-Natal and Postpartum Fitness. Whether in your home, office or even outdoors, MOM trainers are equipped with the skills to turn any existing space into your own private health club, complete with your very own private masseuse.

I know strength training sounds like a daunting task to many of you, possibly because you’re not knowledgeable or informed on the benefits of it, or even how to design an appropriate program for your body type.  At Mind Over Matter, we can help with this.  We design programs specifically for post-partum fitness, helping women achieve their pre-pregnancy figure; however, enough of the self-promotion.

Here’s what you need to know, and here’s the main reason why strength training is significantly more beneficial than cardiovascular work:  Strength training is the only thing known to change the shape of your body.  I repeat: change the shape of your body.  Cardio is great.  Cardio is a necessity, and cardio helps you lose weight.  However, it will not change the shape of your body.  Many times while doing cardio your overall weight will drop, but that just feeds into our preoccupation with numbers.  It’s not about numbers, it’s about how you look, how you feel, and how you fit into that dress you wore pre-pregnancy.  Strength training will help you do this.

It’s as simple as this:  Strength training builds muscle.  Not bulky mass, like some of you maybe thinking or fearing, but if done the right way, long, lean, firm, toned muscle will be the return.  What that muscle does is burn fat.  In fact it’s the only thing known to mankind that burns fat.  It burns fat while you sleep, while you eat, while you sit, while you stand, and especially while you move.  The second you get off that treadmill, the cardiovascular benefit is over.  However, after training consistently with resistance workouts, that benefit lasts a lifetime.

At Mind Over Matter Health and Fitness, we take our moms and their responsibility very seriously. One of our responsibilities is to cater to the mom lifestyle and recognize all the demands that are placed on New York City moms. What you need to do is remove as many excuses from your excuse list that we all have in our minds. What we need to do is cut down significantly on your commute time to the gym by turning your apartment into your own private gym. It might sound a little more daunting than it really is, but you can do any exercise at a gym right now in the privacy and comfort of your own home. And better: you can do these exercises in a better, more efficient, and result-driven manner.

Your body is essentially the only piece of exercise equipment you’ll ever need. Your body provides more resistance than you may realize. However much you weigh, that is how much weight you’re moving. Simple, non-weight-bearing exercises can be performed right on your living room floor: pushups, squats, abdominal work, lunges, arm raises, inner and outer thigh movements. With the guidance and instruction of a trainer, a simple workout program can be designed for you that can take all of 30 minutes. If you’re thinking about cardiovascular, spend the $3 on a jump rope. If you want to go outside, bike, walk, run, rollerblade, your choice. But outside of that, you can achieve everything you need without leaving your home. That’s not even to mention yoga and pilates, which are two fitness disciplines that achieve significant results without any equipment. There is an endless amount of videos out there, but why not schedule an appointment with a trainer?

You had the talent to be a sports star, but you lacked the discipline. You couldn’t bring yourself to go to bed early or pick up a barbell instead of an Oreo. On the bright side, your kid gets to start from square one: He or she inherits your talent but not the repercussions of your lackluster approach.

Or maybe not. Research in the growing science of epigenetics-which, among other things, looks at how genes can be switched on and off-suggests that your actions could have genetics-related consequences for your child. Better think twice before pounding down that next cookie.

At the turn of the 19th century, French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed a theory of evolution that said animals quickly adapt to their environment and pass the adaptations along to their progeny; for example, giraffes acquired long necks because their ancestors stretched to reach leaves high on trees. But Lamarckian evolution was eclipsed In1859 when Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution by natural selection, which says traits are acquired over millions of years as random genetic changes that happen to be beneficial are passed on. Today, however, the idea at the heart of Lamarck’s theory-that our choices can affect our children’s genes-is making a comeback.

Your behavior will not change the sequence of your child’s DNA, but it might change the action of certain molecules-called epigenetic marks-that attach to DNA and signal genes to turn on and off. Consider a study, published in 2008, of adults in the Netherlands whose mothers had suffered through a German-imposed food embargo in the winter of 1944-45. Six decades later, those whose mothers were in the early stages of pregnancy during the Dutch Hunger Winter had fewer “turn.N.a.e.-1104+-filagglUrilikniel.hyl molecules attached to their IGF2 genes than did their siblings. The IGF2 gene is a key component in growth and development, and the study may help explain why children of mothers who experience famine during pregnancy have a higher risk of developing obesity, schizophrenia and diabetes later in life.

Studies now under way should further illuminate the epigenetic link to sports prowess. In one study published last year, rats that exercised regularly and rats that didn’t were twice thrown into beakers of water. On the first go-round, all the rats struggled vigorously to swim and attempt to escape the beaker. A day later, when they were again put into the water, the regularly exercised rats displayed better stress-coping mechanisms: Instead of clawing at a glass wall they could not climb, these rats, having learned from the previous day’s experience, conserved energy by floating. When their brains were examined afterward, researchers found that the exercised rats had altered epigenetic marks that in turn affected gene expression in a part of the brain that helps form memories. “Exercise has a great impact on the brain, not lust the muscles,” says Johannes Reul, one of the researchers and a neuroscientist at the University of Bristol, England.

Perhaps one day a similar epigenetic explanation of memory will help us understand why great cornerbacks don’t get beat the same way twice. -D.E.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1169443/index.htm#ixzz17lbSbpWO

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