September 2008 Newsletter

ENHANCE NEWSLETTER

September 2008

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Do You Have Oxidative Stress?

Combat it with Antioxidants

Our bodies are constantly reacting with oxygen. We need oxygen to breathe and execute normal body functions. Without oxygen we cannot survive. Our bodies process oxygen for energy. When the body uses oxygen, chemical changes take place which then creates unstable oxygen molecules called free radicals. Free radicals can cause damage to the cells and structures within the cells.

What causes increased production of free radicals:

Psychological stress – when the mind is under mental stress, the body produces hormones that create and trigger free radicals

Exercise – excessive physical stress can cause oxidative stress. Too much exercise can breakdown muscle tissue which then compromises the body’s immunity to fatigue and disease

Smoking/alcohol consumption/illegal drug use

Poor nutrition – high sugar intake, high fat diets, preservatives, etc.

External factors – pollution and excessive amounts of sunlight

Normal processes in the body – burning of sugars for energy

Free Radical Damage Can:

Disrupt a cell’s normal ability to replicate healthy cells

Accelerate the aging process

Contribute to the development of chronic diseases (cancer, heart diseases, macular degeneration, diabetes, etc.)

Body is more susceptible to common colds due to weak immunity

So how do we protect ourselves from all of that damage?

Antioxidants

Antioxidants can prevent and protect cells from free radical damage. Antioxidants are found in the food we eat like fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, nuts, and grains. Antioxidants can prevent or slow down the oxidative damage to our body.

Antioxidants are dietary substances and nutrients such as:

Beta-carotene

Lutein

Lycopene

Selenium

Vitamin A

Vitamin C

Vitamin E

You or your kids not getting enough antioxidants in your diet?

Try.....

NUTRILITE® Kids Chewable Concentrated Fruits and Vegetables

The good stuff, phytonutrients, from five-plus servings of fruits and vegetables.

Just two delicious chewable tablets give your kids the phytonutrient power of five-plus servings of concentrated fruits and vegetables. Also enjoyed by adults who don’t like to swallow tablets.

60 chewable tablets

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Nutrilite® Concentrated Fruits and Vegetables – Tablets

Leading health authorities tell us fruits and vegetables can help reduce our risk for a variety of cancers. That's why they say we need to eat from 5 to 9 servings a day. But who really does eat this much?

NUTRILITE® Concentrated Fruits & Vegetables can help. It captures crucial phytonutrients from natural fruits, vegetables, and plants – enough to equal the amount found in 10+ servings – in just 2 easy-to-swallow tablets.

We also add our NUTRILITE Plant Concentrate to the blend, and nobody makes plant concentrates better than we do. We choose the best fruits and vegetables, many from our own farms. We harvest them fresh, at maximum potency, when they're ripe with select phytonutrients. We've been doing it right for over 70 years and hold patents for many of our discoveries.

NUTRILITE® Concentrated Fruits and Vegetables Tablets:

Deliver antioxidants to help fight free radicals generated by smoke, pollution, and exercise.

Contain standardized antioxidant and phytonutrient levels, documented on every label.

Have no added artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives.

60 tablets

Item #:100648

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SIMPLY NUTRILITE™ Twist Tube – Blueberry Flavor with Antioxidants

If you think of your body as an engine, this is rust-proofing.

Now everyone can perform a minor miracle. Take bland water and turn it into a tasty blueberry drink that offers antioxidants and all their free radical-fighting glory. Just twist and shake. Not you – the drink. Well … we suppose if you want to twist and shake yourself too, there’s nothing wrong with that.

This SIMPLY NUTRILITE™ Twist Tube contains seven sources of antioxidants, including blueberry, pomegranate, cranberry, and green tea extract. It also contains 2,500 IU of vitamin A and 500 mg of vitamin C, which are powerful antioxidants that fights free radicals in our bodies. Free radicals are created from everyday stressors we face, such as smoke, pollution, and sunshine. Antioxidant levels can also be depleted by dieting, stress, or alcohol.

20 tubes per box

Item #:105484

Retail:$10.99

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SIMPLY NUTRILITE™ Juice – Berry Antioxidant

Why do they call it berry? ’Cuz it’s berry, berry good for you.

When blueberry met strawberry, they became fast friends. Both have a soft, sensitive side that caresses the taste buds. But both are fighters, too, standing up to free radicals that form in our bodies and cause oxidation of cells. It seemed the perfect pairing, but when they met up with black currant, mangosteen, and goji berry, the real antioxidant party got started! Simply Nutrilite Berry Antioxidant Juice brings that celebration to you. It’s full of very berry fruit flavors and benefits. In fact, it doesn’t have any added sugar or artificial sweeteners. There are no artificial flavors or colors, or cholesterol and preservatives either. It’s one party that you don’t want to miss!

Twelve 8 oz. cans

Item #:105521

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SIMPLY NUTRILITE™ Juice – Tropical Antioxidant

Tropical Antioxidant Juice – it’s like a holiday in a can.

Our Simply Nutrilite Tropical Antioxidant Juice is a delicious blend of fruits from the same family, like pineapples, apples, and pears. Only this family is happy and harmonious. No fighting at holiday gatherings or weird uncle nobody wants to sit next to. No one gets grounded. In fact, even its antioxidant-powerhouse cousins like goji berry, mangosteen, acai berry, and blueberry live in the same can with them. Of course, there are some ingredients that simply are NOT invited because they're a big bunch of troublemakers. Like artificial colors, flavors, or sweeteners; cholesterol; preservatives; and added sugar. You, however, can cross the Welcome Mat any time!

Twelve 8 oz. cans

Item #:105479

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Nutrilite® Antioxidant Complex

Nutrilite® Antioxidant Complex contains 8 antioxidants, including 90 mg of OPC blend (extracts of grape seed, grape skin, and pine bark) in every capsule to help fight free radical damage created from smoke, pollution, exercise – even just simple breathing.

NUTRILITE® Antioxidant Complex includes:

An OPC blend of 3 potent extracts that helps support and maintain normal blood-vessel integrity. These extracts are antioxidant flavonoids known as proanthocyanidins.

Green tea extract that helps protect the body's cells and heart. The polyphenolic catechins found in green tea are phytonutrients that are very potent antioxidants, with high ORAC values.

NAC (N-acetyl cysteine), a precursor to glutathione, a nutrient essential for a healthy immune system.

Alpha-lipoic acid, to support the protective activity of other antioxidants with high ORAC values.

Turmeric, which helps fight free radicals.

Quercetin, which helps support a healthy immune system, connective tissue, capillary strength, and heart health.

Item #:A-8603

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Why not also combat stress with a relaxing yet high-energy

FITNESS CRUISE

Enhance is developing fitness vacation packages starting with the Enhance Fitness Cruise. Enjoy the usual luxuries of a cruise vacation with planned fitness classes, excursions and personal training sessions. Each traveler will have a fitness and wellness program tailored to their goals which they will work on during the trip and learn the tools to continue when they return home. Enhance vacations are great for families as kids can engage in fun classes lead by a board certified physical education teacher while their parents train.

More information to come in our future newsletters!

Youth Strength & Conditioning

Working Hard vs. Working Smart

Throughout my time as a personal trainer, athletic performance coach, and a youth fitness specialist, I have been perplexed by some of the exercise principles that are not being taught to kids when participating in a fitness program or sport. In this newsletter, I would like to address the facts about “working hard vs. working smart” and what we should expect from a safe and effective youth strength and conditioning program.

Kids are Kids, not adults!

In my quest of becoming a fitness specialist, I had many questions that needed answers. So, I turned to the coaches. I asked three youth coaches for ages eight through 13 where they get their workouts for their teams. Here were there answers:

From the high school coach;

Online; and

I just run them until they are tired, then I know they worked hard

At first, I found that answer number one was well thought out and most logical. This coach took time to ask a local high school football coach what he should be doing in his exercise program. The coach had no problem talking, demonstrating, and designing a strength program for the youth coach to bring back to his youth football team (130 lb. Weight class).

Well, I was a bit curious about where this head high school football coach got his exercises, so I asked him. He said he got them from a college coach. He attends an annual football clinic where many division I college football coaches and strength and conditioning directors lecture about the game of football.

So let’s recap:

Youth coach got his info from the high school coach

The high school coach got his info from a college coach

See a problem?

The youth coach got his strength program indirectly from a division I football coach. So, the youth coach who is working with a bunch of kids/beginner football players is using a strength programs geared toward elite college athletes (adults).

What happen to everything in between?

This coach is allowing his youth football team participate in a strength program designed for a college football player...there is the problem. This is like skipping the training wheel step and leap right into the two wheel bicycle. Chances for injuries are much higher. Youth fitness training should not include much weight or how much they can lift (max). Youth fitness training should focus on movement, teaching how to move quickly, properly, and in a fluid motion. Kids learn through a motor development process, learning how to be strong when their center of gravity changes, and how to contract several different muscle fibers without any interference (CNS).

Improper conditioning concepts, neuromechanical capabilities, muscular imbalances, prior injuries, anatomical misalignment, limited range of motion, and improper strength training techniques are all common causes of youth sport injuries. If children continue to participate in youth sports without the proper training and knowledge of how their bodies move, youth sport injuries will continue. Common sport injuries like Osgood-Schlatter Disease, Little League Elbow, Patella Femoral Pain Syndrome, and Shin Splints can be preventable by administrating a proper youth performance program. Proper youth athletic programs should consist of four principles that will take the athlete to the next level and decrease the chance of injury. Those principals are neuromuscular coordination, hand/foot-eye coordination, strength and power training and speed and agility.

Neuromuscular Coordination

Have you ever asked yourself, “how did they do that” while watching talented athletes? Athletes are constantly thinking and reacting. Within all sports, you have a split second to decide what you need to do and how you are going to do it. One way of training that involves a lot of discipline, determination, and focus, is neuromuscular conditioning. In order to perform a highly skilled movement accurately, motor units must fire in perfect sequence. If your brain is unfamiliar with the impulse, then your body is not prepared to execute the movement. To perform the movement accurately, the brain must transmit messages smoothly to allow consistent muscular contractions. The purpose of this training phase/technique is to recruit and educate contractile units to optimize the muscle-firing sequence.

Hand/Foot-Eye Coordination

Keep your eyes on the ball! Eye-hand/foot coordination is the ability to watch with the eyes and react with the hands/feet in a very fine and direct manner. Eye-hand/feet coordination uses the eyes to direct the given attention and the hands/feet for the execution of that specific task.

Strength and Power Training

Strength is the ability to move an object. Power is the ability to move that object quickly. It is very hard to separate strength and power in athletic performance. Strength is the ability to hold a 34oz baseball bat. Power is the ability to take that baseball bat and produce enough energy to swing it. If the baseball player can not hold the baseball bat, the player can not exert enough force to swing it; therefore, strength and power go hand in hand. During strength and power training, the differences between strength and power are established along with understanding the close relationship both have in athletics. Strength and power training necessarily mean lifting weights. It is all about moving the body functionally with great force.

Speed and Agility Training

Just like strength and power, speed and agility training should not be viewed in isolation in sports. Speed and agility are both dependent on force. Speed is measured in lateral force while agility is measured in change of direction. To most coaches, speed and agility are the most important aspect in athletic performance. Both require a combination of balance, coordination, strength and power. To most athletes, speed and agility are the most difficult skills to develop, but with proper training, they become second nature.

No need to impress kids with the coolest looking, most complicated exercises. Start simple. The number one rule in exercising kids is, don’t treat them like adults! Form first then speed and complexity later.

Contact Mike at Enhance Personal Training & Athletic Performance, Inc.

to start achieving your fitness goals!

Enhance works with clients to establish and accomplish fitness goals on all levels, from weight loss to athletic performance. General goals include losing body fat, increasing lean muscle mass, increasing range of motion, decreasing muscle fatigue, and weight management. All training is custom fit to the client and their specific goals.

Start your fitness program and start seeing results!

Personal Trainer: Mike Padua mike@enhancept.com 312.401.1169

NUTRILITE® SLIMMETRY™ Dietary Supplement

Enhance fat and weight loss with SLIMMETRY

In a clinical test, SLIMMETRY users on a low-calorie diet lost an average of 5.4 more pounds total body weight and 5.6 pounds total body fat than those taking a placebo.

We all know that diet and exercise are crucial to weight loss and maintaining a healthy weight. But what if there was a product that could help you see results, sooner?

The weight (pun intended) is over! SLIMMETRY dietary supplement is shown to enhance fat and weight loss when used in conjunction with a low-calorie diet, and it comes with a lifestyle support brochure to help you commit to regular exercise and healthy eating. Take advantage of the handy tips and ideas to get the results you want, once and for all.

SLIMMETRY dietary supplement contains four all-natural herbal extracts that have been traditionally used in cultures around the world for their natural properties:

Green Tea – EGCG is found in green tea and is used in a variety of natural weight-loss products. It is believed to support a healthy metabolism.

Yerba Mate – Used to promote a feeling of satiety.

Birch Leaf – Has been used to make a tea, while birch sap is believed to have tonic qualities in Belarus, Russia, the Baltic States, Finland, and parts of northern China.

Coleus Forskohlii – Effective at aiding fat loss.

Proven Results

Over a 14-week clinical test, people taking the formula behind the SLIMMETRY dietary supplement lost an average of 5.4 pounds more total body weight and 5.6 pounds total body fat than a control group taking a placebo. While both test groups were on a low-calorie diet, those using SLIMMETRY saw greater total body weight loss and more total body fat loss. Check out the results!

Average weight loss in SLIMMETRY and control subjects over 14 weeks.

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