Health Is What You Breathe
"Seventy percent of cleansing the body is through breath or breathing, twenty percent by perspiration, eight percent by urine, two percent by excrement." -Peter Ragnar
This is the home site for Fitness Alliance, LLC located in Overland Park, Kansas owned by Bill Leavitt. My goal is to help people realize their fitness potential through professional instruction, gaining knowledge, and realizing dedication, and patience. I pride myself on being reliable, honest, and genuinely interested seeing you succeed.
My passion lies in sharing truthful, objective information and dispelling myths propagated by mass marketing companies and uneducated fitness ‘professionals’ caring or knowing nothing about true health or the body sciences.
Beyond sharing information, I am dedicated to designing a fitness process that is personally tailored and progressed appropriately making your exercise time safe and effective, yet fun.
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• Safe and Effective exercise design based upon sound Biomechanical Principles contained within the body
• Designing time effective workouts that provide results
• Eliminate worthless, time wasting exercises from your current workout strategy
• Eliminate high risk and potentially hazardous exercises from your current workout arsenal
• Provide objective viewpoint and rationale for each and every exercise assigned
• Progression and Variation of each and every workout. Repeating workouts and counting numbers teaches nothing
• Food recommendations. No worthless diets, meal plans, calorie counting, supplements, or pills. Eating really is the easiest part of getting the body you want.
• Dispel the myths of ‘Cardio’ vs. ‘Weight Training’ stating an Intensity Continuum instead. There is no deiiference...everything IS Caridio!
• Exercises that may seem the same but utilize multiple forms of resistance, bodily positions, and planes of motion to challenge and strengthen the body neurologically.
• Motivation to include and create simple workouts on your own
• Range of Motion Maintenance and Improvement through neurological assessment, activation, and reinforcement, not passive stretching.
• Fun stuff you may not have attempted since childhood
Eighty year-olds jumping rope, hopping and climbing…you bet!
This info about bodyfat comes from the ACSM text, (American College of Sports Medicine), Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, considered the gold standard when referring to Physiological testing protocol. I last read the text in 1995, so it was a good review. Read the rest of this entry »
The Facts and Fiction behind Stretching Revealed
The purpose of this article is to inform those who consider passive stretching a necessary component of their exercise routine of the true, objective, and Physiological facts surrounding it. Read the rest of this entry »
I can’t tell you how many times I have heard the term ‘Toning’ from both clients and more embarassingly… fitness instructors. This article I came across dispels some of the myths as to what Muscle Tone is…and isn’t. Read the rest of this entry »
This delicious nut is an excellent source of omega-3 essential fatty acids, a special type of protective fat the body cannot manufacture. Walnuts’ concentration of omega-3s (a quarter-cup provides 90.8% of the daily value for these essential fats) has many potential health benefits ranging from cardiovascular protection, to the promotion of better cognitive function, to anti-inflammatory benefits helpful in asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, and inflammatory skin diseases such as eczema and psoriasis. In addition, walnuts contain an antioxidant compound called ellagic acid that supports the immune system and appears to have several anticancer properties. Read the rest of this entry »