Increases energy and performance. Speeds recovery. Helps prevent injury. Boosts immune system. Aids in weight loss. And all natural with just 15 calories. Sound too good to be true? Well, before you lump Quercetin in with all of the other “miracle” energy and diet products out there, have a look at:

http://www.qenergydrink.com/pages/Q-Science.html

Now you won’t find any claims that Qenergy will make you super human like many products, but instead you will see some scientific study of how Quercetin affects the human body. And after having a look at the results it’s easy to see why Quercetin is getting so much attention! It interested us so much we decided to give it a try ourselves and found similar results in our own “unscientific tests” producing a great energy boost without the “crash” of most energy drinks, better endurance, and it even seemed to help us fight off the flu!

In fact we were so impressed with Qenergy, that 30 Minute Hit Members will  have the chance to try it for themselves as Qenergy Drink will soon be available at a HIT near you!

On occasion we are asked about being sore from training. The simple truth is, if you are new to the HIT and push it hard, you will get sore at first. Even well conditioned athletes get sore when they start the HIT simply because it is a total body workout that challenges areas of the body many workouts do not. But this is not something you should fear or shy away from. Embrace the pain. It is your masacisitic reward for being good to you body, and your initiation into the world of the whole new you. Thankfully though, the intitiation does not last long. In just a couple of weeks the sore muscles should subside provided you are consistent with your workout. Now that’s not to say you may not feel the odd twinge in you lats after an especially vigourous final two minutes showing BOB who the boss is, but generally your body will accliamatize to your routine as will any well trained athelete in their chosen endeavor.

This is important to understand as some people are under the misconception that you MUST be sore following a workout in order to know you are pushing hard enough. And this really is not the case. In fact this logic can be harmful as it can lead to over-training and injury. Do you think that Pro MMA Fighters get stiff and sore after every single workout? They don’t. And if they did, it would simply mean that the gaps in their training consistency were WAY too big. At the same time fighters are always aware of the dangers of over tranining and make sure they rest their bodies as part of their training.

The best cure for the day after sore muscles is a light workout, a good stretch, a bath in epsom salts and a little rest. When your ready, HIT it hard again and you should quickly see your body adjust to what you are throwing at it.

With Spring just around the corner, thoughts turn from hibernation and New Years resolutions, to sunny days and beach weather! But if the motivation of how your butt is going to look in your new bikini this year, has inspired you to start working out, changing your exercise habits can sometimes take longer than people assume. Even with a super fun and rewarding program that offers quick results like the 30 Minute Hit, engraining any new routine into your regular rotation of daily activities can take time as we humans are creatures of habit.

But how long does it take? Well it’s not the same for everyone but our experience as well as others, shows that 30 days is usually a minimum. Yep, a whole month… consistently. So be aware that just a few trips to the gym are normally not enough to reprogram your couch potato habits, and you should set a minimum goal of 30 days of your new routine as a start. And here are a few more tips to help make your changes stick.

1. Write down a plan and stick to it. Things are much easier to see on paper and harder to ignore when they are in black and white.

2. Identify the things that send you back to your old routine and establish replacement habits that will redirect you towards your goals.

3. Make it public. Share your challenge with those around you and be accountable to more than just yourself. Tell your friends what your goal is and keep them in the loop. Facebook is an excellent tool for creating a “public support system” that will keep you on track.

So decide what you want to change, write down how you are going to get there, identify your potential pitfalls and how to get around them, tell all your friends, and start your 30 days, one day at a time. It will go faster than you think!

“I Just Love it!”…Probably one of the common phrases we hear from sweaty, rosy cheeked, totally spent 30 Minute Hit Members as they finish the circuit. But why do they love it so much? Is it the feel good chemical cocktail that a great workout produces? The satisfacton of learnng a new skill? The rewards of being fitter and stronger? Or the positive energy created by all the other girls in the gym? Probably, all of the above. But there is one more reason. The reason that “Hitting” feels so good is because it feeds our Primal Urges!

Now we all need to undestand, that these “Urges” have been hardwired into our DNA since the dawn of man (or woman) and there is no way to deny them, even if our culture tells us to be lady like. Hitting feels good because the release it offers feeds our survival or combative instinct like that of our ancestors, just as “other things” feel good as they feed the instict to reproduce. (That’s a whole other Blog!) And when ladies who have never had the chance to unleash their inner cavewoman get the opportunity to feed that urge (the survival one!) it is empowering!

So the next time the world is throwing shots at you, don’t just take it! Put on a pair of gloves and feed your instinct to “HIT” the world back! The cavewoman inside will thank you!

Sports Science has come a long way in the past few years. And the results are easy to see. Athletes are performing at levels never thought possible. Now it would be easy to note a number of recent studies that show 30 minutes of vigorous exercise as optimal, based on scientific study of how the human body reacts to exercise. But I will save you the dry reading and sum it up that current fitness wisdom maintains that after more than 30 minutes of vigorous(and vigorous is the key) exercise, you are just spinning your wheels. In other words, HIT it hard for a full 30 minutes…and you are done. Go home. More is not better.

Now I mention this because we pretty regularly get members who wonder if a half hour will be enough to kick their butts, or others who still feel the overwhelming need to spend a long time in the gym based on outdated training principals, and think that two times around the circuit half ass may be better than givin’ it for 30 minutes. In plain English, if the 30 Minute Hit does not totally kick your butt in 30 minutes, you are either not pushing your self hard enough, or you should consider signing up to run a marathon in the Sahara Desert. I’m not kidding, in all my years at the HIT, I have only seen a handful of women who could legitimately HIT it hard for more than 30 minutes as they pushed themselves at 100%, and one of them was training to run a marathon in the Sahara! And she finished the race at the head of the pack!

So take a modern approach to fitness based on current sports science combining resistance training, cardio, and core stability, throw in the convenience of a efficient workout, and the mental advantage of only having to push yourself for 30 minutes, and the 30 Minute HIT makes a lots of sense. Not to mention it will be the best 30 minutes of your day!