Optimal Life Fitness, for health, fitness and a new lifestyle outdoors.

On a sad note, Georgina will be leaving the company shortly as she is moving away from London to the leafy suburbs of Cambridge. I hope most of you have come into contact with George at some stage over the last year and a bit. She has been a complete asset to The Optimal Life Fitness Group and will be hugely missed. Her talents and skills have helped us develop our services and products immensely. Her effort and approach to her role were second to none. We wish her all the best for the future and we hope she enjoys the countryside!

Good luck Weller!

Performance Boxing
Boxing for group training instructors and personal trainers
Performance Boxing designed by Johnny Lewis

The Performance Boxing course has been designed to give the fitness instructor or personal trainer the skills and knowledge to:

- Safely design and implement boxing into group fitness or personal training.
- Display and teach the correct technique and movement for punching and holding focus pads and coaching mitts.

- Communicate positively with class participants and client to create positive relationships that will ensure people will be returning to your class or Personal training session
- Successfully structure group training and personal training sessions and have the skills to vary sessions so participants never get bored of your routines

Who is Johnny Lewis?

Johnny is Australia's leading boxing trainer who has trained five World Champions - including Jeff Fenech and Kostya Tszyu - and who has also been involved in training the Australian Rugby League Team and many NRL and AFL teams.
Johnny's practical techniques for training Australia's greatest boxers have formed the Performance Boxing course.
With Johnny's practical knowledge Corey Bocking who works with us in Australia desinged Performance Boxing and has successfully run this course in Australia for 2 years.

Who is Corey?

Corey is a fitness professional, who has trained many professional athletes' including some of Australia's leading boxers. Corey has worked for two of Australia’s leading Universities and has lectured for the Australian Strength and Conditioning Association presenting their level 1 course.

Course Leaders in the UK & Europe
B.J. Rule and A.J. Philips

With our strong affiliation to 'Peacock Gym' in London we will also be bring along some of the UK's top amateur boxers and possibly even some pro's to present to students.

This is a fantastic addition to our educational portfolio and one which we believe will be hugely successful in the UK.


Course Outline:

Introduction to Performance Boxing
Physical Execution
Learn the key techniques punching and padding
Fighting Stance
Punching Technique
Focus Pad Technique
Hand Wrap Sequence

The Boxing Instructor
Learn how to teach effective sessions and get the most out of your clients.
Communication
Instruction
Interaction

Structuring a Class or Personal Training Session
Learn how to design the perfect session that will give you great results
Group Training Options
Designing a Boxing Workout that Works
Personal Training Options

The Extreme Kettlebell Team have just had a great weekend in London working with a group of 23 fitness trainers from across the UK. The challenging and intense Extreme Kettlebell Instructor course was the order of the day and I think by the end of the weekend all the guys were pretty happy to be finished. Thankfully they were still smiling as you can see on the group photo.

I hope this newsletter finds you fit and well.

In this our 8th instalment of the Extreme Kettlebell Newsletter we have an article from Andy Marshall an EKI based in Hertfordshire. Andy’s done his homework, it’s an interesting piece about training origins. Enjoy:

http://www.optimallifefitness.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=416

We also need volunteers. Last week we spoke about our trial fitness testing up at York St. Johns Uni, below are some of the protocols. If you’re up for it why don’t you give the following a try and either send us your results or post them on the forum.

You need a 24kg kettlebell, a heart rate monitor, a stop watch, as well as a mate to monitor and record, a big heart and some guts!

What you need to do:
- Take 3 resting heart rates taken when you first wake up (over three days).
- Sufficiently warm up.
The test:
- You will perform 3 sets of kettlebell swings with 1minute rest between. The first set is 3minutes long the second set is 2minutes long and the third set lasts for 1 minute.
Heart Rates: record a heart rate at each of these points
Start- (set 1)
1min-
2min-
3min- (end set 1, commence rest 1)
4min- (end rest, commence set 2)
5min-
6min- (end set 2, commence rest 2)
7min- (end rest 2, commence set 3)
8min- (end set 3)

Good luck and send us your results ASAP!

For an update of all our upcoming courses:

http://www.optimallifefitness.com/optimal_life_fitness/olf_calendar.php



Keep Lifting and Keep Strong

The Optimal Life Fitness Group has launched the first Olympic Weight Lifting Course designed for Fitness Professionals. The 2 day course covers all of the lifts and their assistant exercises. The approach taken is to teach all of the parts of each lift so the trainer has a full understanding of where to start and how to improve. The course also comes with an in-depth manual describing all of the lifts and their component parts.

We have just run our first course this weekend, held in central London at one of our training venues. The course was a huge success, all of the trainers passed the practical and theory assesments. Although a little warn out after 2 days of lifting, the feedback was fantastic. With such a successful course already done, we have announced our second date.
This will be on the 13th - 14th September in London. For more information on this course, please go to the Olympic Lifting section of our website or call our sales team on 02077313133.

I hope this newsletter finds you fit and well.

In this our 4th instalment of the Extreme Kettlebell Newsletter among other things we’ll discuss Fat kids.

I went for a swim the other day and had a bit of shock. To read more visit here:

http://www.optimallifefitness.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=405#405

We have just launched our first in a series of 5 Extreme Kettlebell Training Exercise Wall Charts. The Structural Strength session is a pre designed workout, set out in full colour on an A1 size wall chart. It comes with beginners and advanced exercise options and high quality action photos which clearly demonstrate how to perform the exercises.
At home, in the gym or at the studio, our wall charts are the perfect way for you or your clients to follow Extreme Kettlebell Workouts.
Available now with a great introductory offer Extreme Kettlebell Training ‘Structural Strength’ reduced from £20.00 + VAT to £12.50 + VAT to see the wall chart and order yours now click here

We are running our first Olympic Weightlifting for Fitness course this weekend. Please contact the office if this is something you would like to do in the future as we are currently trying to sort dates out for the rest of the year.

Our next Advanced Course is on the 25th of October for this and other courses please visit our website.

Keep Lifting and Keep Strong

BJ and Tommy