New Years Resolution Tips

New Year Resolution Tips, Guidance, and advice

1. In order to accomplish your New Years resolution you must choose an attainable goal, keeping your goals realistic will make success much easier to achieve.

2. Stop choosing a New Years resolution that you've been unsuccessful in achieving year after year.

3. Create a game plan to achieve your goals, all good resolutions start with a plan.

4. Have a back up plan, don't assume sticking to your resolution will be smooth sailing. Plan how you will get back on track if you fall off.

5. New Years resolutions take time, most experts will tell you that it takes about three weeks to create a habit and six months for it to become part of your daily routine.

6. Try and reward yourself with each goal accomplished.

7. Accomplishing goals and sticking to your New Years resolution is possible if you limit your number of resolutions.

Good luck!

10 Tips to Boost Your Metabolism

Have you been doing the same workout and now notice that the scale has not budged at all? Maybe your metabolism is slowing down, which scientists say usually happens in your 30's. The good news is, you can make your metabolism faster, experts say, despite genetics and gender.

These are 10 simple secrets to boosting it big time.

1. Exercise more often: This is the #1 way to keep your furnace cranking. The more muscle you have the more calories you burn all day.
2. Kick up your Cardio: Aerobic intervals will help you maximize your burn, doubling the number of calories you burn during a workout.
3. Put some muscle behind it: A head to toe strength routine will turbocharge your calorie-blasting quotient. Adding 5 pounds of muscle to your body can help you burn as many as 600 calories during your hour workout.
4. Don't skip meals: To keep your engine running you need to have three healthy meals of 300 - 600 calories and tow snacks of 200 to 300 calories every day. *The American Dietetic Association
5. Fill up on smart foods: Start by serving yourself protein at every sitting. Not only does your body need it to build lean muscle mass, but protein also takes more calories to digest.
6. Eat breakfast: It will switch your metabolism from idle to high immediately. When you eat an A.M. meal your body is ready to turn those calories into muscle right away - the only time of the day this happens.
7. Get off your butt: Sitting too much slows your metabolism, even if you are exercising regularly. An easy fix is to stretch, stroll, and fidget throughout the day.
8. Go to bed earlier: When you deprive yourself of sleep you body goes into hunger mode and it makes you more likely to eat.
9. Schedule a nighttime workout: Do a 20 - 30 minute moderate cardio routine before you hit the hay to keep your metabolism humming all night.
10. Check your meds: If you recently started taking any new medication and the scale is inching upward, ask your doctor if there's an alternative treatment.

Good luck!

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Located in the Eastport Shopping Center in Annapolis MD.

Voted Best Fitness Club in Annapolis for the seventh year in a row!One of our three Group Exercise Studios

Pilates Reformer Studio

Voted Best Cycle Class in Annapolis 2010!

Newly updated Children's Center Indoor and Outdoor play

Stop in and see why Annapolis Athletic Club is your hometown club.

TRX Group Training now at AAC!

Born by the Navy Seals and developed by Fitness Anywhere, TRX Suspension Training is a revolutionary leverage method of bodyweight exercise. Perform hundreds of exercises that build power, strength, flexibility, balance, mobility, and prevent injuries, all at the intensity that you choose.
Classes are offfered twice a week on Tuesday or Thursday at 9:30 am. Sign up for the first 5 week session starting now. Great value for the training at $15 per class for members and $20 for non-members.
Get with the movement of TRX and sign up today!

Group Power and Group Step Summer Release

We hope you enjoyed our Group Step and Group Power Summer Release. We had an excellent turnout and appreciate the enthusiasm of all who participated. Did you enjoy the Summer Release of Group Power and Group Step? Did you enjoy the snacks provided by the club? Can you think of any way that we can improve our Group Power/ Group Step releases in the future? Please let us know. Your input is valuable.

Best of Annapolis 08'

The AAC Team at the Best of Annapolis 08' Party

The Best of Annapolis celebration was a great success, but the award presentation was competing with the noise of the crowd and the music. What do you think can be done next year, so that all participants and award winners are recognized properly?

Fall 2007 Open House

Preview to Group Step

Welcome to Annapolis Athletic Club's Blog. We recently had our Fall 2007 Open House and Group Power Launch! Did you enjoy trying Group Step? Or did you win a prize for bringing a guest? Let us know what you though of the Open House and share any suggestions for our Spring Open House.