Mobile Fitness

Kurt Salquist, Co-founder and Master Trainer

About me: I was fortunate to find my passion early in life, personal training. I had always been adamant when it came to my own fitness level.  I took my first college courses pertaining to personal training, in order to increase my own knowledge and learn techniques to train myself more effectively. It didn't take long for me to realize this was my calling in life and I wanted to help others achieve the feeling of conquering their own personal goals.

There is no way to describe the feeling of success when you literally bring your body and mind to a completely different level. The feeling begins when you first see the scale displaying a number you never thought possible.  The real sense of success comes from your family members, friends or even complete strangers that have seen this change happening and are amazed by the accomplishments and work you have completed.

The thing that will suprise you the most is when your're doing the everyday task that used to take your breath away, like climbing a flight of stairs. It's an amazing feeling to reach the top and want to run down and right back up - because you can! I remember when one of my first clients came in and told me how excited she was to be taking the garbage out! I looked at her a little puzzled but then she explained how her husband would have to do it every time because the bag would just get too heavy. She had hurt her back years ago and had not been able to lift many heavy objects, so her husband did a lot of the chores around the house. During the time we spent losing her unwanted fat she also increased her strength and her back no longer hurt.

It's that very feeling of accomplishment that inspires me, and it is my passion to do whatever I can to help people reach their goals.  For some it's fat loss, others rehabilitation, and for many it's just the accountability of maintaining their health. Either way, it is what drives me. -- Kurt Salquist

George Goldschmitz, Co-founder and Master Trainer

At a young age I watched the male gender in my family struggle with heart disease. My grandfather passed away from a heart attack at the age of 50. I watched my father become physically disabled from his first heart attack; he went through three open heart surgeries and was spending more than $700 a month on medications. They then discovered he had cancer. He passed away three months later at the age 65.  

 As a young teenager I was determined that was not the life I wanted to live. I read and researched different ways to help avoid the genetic problems that plagued my family. I discovered that consistent physical training and a healthier diet was the key to a life I was determined to have. 

 I am now nationally certified by ISSA  in personal training.

I'm looking forward to beginning the real passion in my life, Mobile Fitness. This new concept in fitness is fast, effective, affordable, and convenient.

I look forward to the beginning of a whole new trend in changing fitness in as many lives as possible! -- George Goldschmitz

The Quick Fitness Tip:

You Are What You Eat! Time for a metaphor: If you were constantly filling your car up with gasoline that seemed to contain foreign objects like dirt, rocks, and other things that weren’t supposed to be there or just weren’t meant by the designers of your engine in order for it to run properly. How long do you think it would take before the fuel pump went out or maybe something bigger, something closer to the “heart” of the engine from excess wear and tear and clogging of the lines and valves? Get the picture? Our bodies were not meant to run on man made additives like partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and even fake sugars like aspartame. Aspartame fools your body by looking just like a sugar molecule so your body does what it thinks is necessary, release insulin to absorb the sugar in the blood stream, but there is actually none there. Partially hydrogenated oils have had an extra hydrogen molecule attached to the formerly good fat that could have lowered your cholesterol but now is going to get attached somewhere to the wall of your arteries and increase it.

Check your labels; it’s in way too many of the foods we eat every day. Buy whole foods with short ingredients list, stick to the outside of the supermarkets where all the fresh produce and meats are. Always bring a list when you shop and don’t go on an empty stomach. And avoid these ingredients as best you can: high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, refined sugar, aspartame, splenda, sweet n low, equal, enriched foods, and MSG.

HIIT: Work smarter not harder. Increase your calorie burn by more than double for the time spent working out by incorporating high intensity intervals in your training. Use this technique while doing cardio or even resistance training!

To do proper HIIT training you should already be warmed up (using an active dynamic warm up) because you are going to be bringing your heart rate up above 85% of the maximum target heart rate zone. In order to get the full effects brought on by the intervals you will also need to allow your heart to come back down to 65% of the maximum heart rate. By repeatedly raising and lowering your heart for the 20 minute session you will put your body into exercise post exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC) that will speed up your Krebs cycle and thus continue to keep your metabolism burning above normal even after you complete your workout! For more information on how to work smarter and not harder please feel free to contact us at (509) 993-1941.

Yo-yo diets: We are all too familiar, and susceptible, to these types of diets. They often promise quick results – 10lbs. in 10 days, or the “fruit flush diet, lose 9lbs. in 3 days with detox” -- seriously I just googled it! They all sound very tempting with such big promises and it is possible for a very small percentage of the population to actually achieve these results. Especially for those morbidly obese who may be consuming 10,000 plus calories per day. When they give up those calories, they drop incredible amounts of weight in relatively short durations of time. A good example would be the hit TV show “The Biggest Loser.” But for the people on the “The Biggest Loser” they are able to keep loosing weight and keep it off. Why and how? Easy, they workout and eat a healthy diet thus allowing them to maintain lean body tissue (which burns a ton of calories for you everyday by just having muscle) and lose body fat.  People who have experienced a yo-yo diet will often lose weight but weight from water and lean body tissue. This lowers the overall amount of calories their body will burn everyday. This means to keep the weight off they will continue to have to eat less and less. A diet that was already unhealthy becomes a danger to the individual if they try to maintain or further their weight loss. According to any credible source, take the American College of Sports Medicine for example, the body can safely lose an average of 2lbs of fat per week. So when planning your timeline for your weight loss goal stick to that number. Odds are, if you do, you will have lost your weight by creating a healthy lifestyle and not just by using another fad diet and you will keep the weight off!

SAID principle: Supposed Adaptation to Imposed Demands. So what does that mean? Basically it’s saying that your body will adapt to change. This is why when you first start a new workout routine, you are sore for the next day or two. After about two weeks, assuming you continue the same workout routine, you will notice the workout doesn’t feel as challenging as it did when you initially started the new program. In the beginning, your body burned  extra calories trying to adapt to your workout. Now, by the third week, your body isn't working as hard because it has adjusted to the program. Your body is not burning nearly as many calories during the workout, so change in your body has begun to slow down. This is why you need to change your workouts every time, allowing you to burn the highest amount of calories and reach your goals as quick as possible.