Adolescents is a time of amazing growth and development.  All adolescents should begin a safe but effective exercise routine centered around improving strength, endurance, anaerobic and aerobic fitness.  The Eleet Program™ is a great place for any adolescent to start.  Our program incorporates all components of fitness into a 30-45 minute workout to minimize over training and maximize effectiveness.  We encourage all adolescents to focus on muscular strength and endurance until they have mastered the Fundamental Movement Progressions (FMP) set forth by our leading professionals.  Once the Fundamental Movement Progressions have been mastered, we believe more strenuous sport-specific training can take place.

Kids need to first develop the Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) prior to participating in fully structured exercise programs.

• Throwing
• Catching
• Striking
• Kicking
• Jumping
• Stability

Once your child demonstrates the mastery of the skills above then he or she can move on to the Foundational Movement Progressions (FMP) shown below.  Note that your child should only use his or her body weight until each skill is completely mastered and his or her development allows for external loading.

• Body Squat
• Reverse Lunge
• Lateral Lunge
• Rotational/Transverse Lunge
• Jumping Jack
• Deadlift
• Push Press
• Front Kick
• Side Plank
• Plank
• Jump Rope
• Ball Slam
• Push Up
• Pillar

ALL adults should participate in a regularly scheduled resistance training program.  Doing so early in life will allow for a strong foundation with proper technique.  Strength training has many short and long-term benefits:

• proper weight management (lean vs fat mass)
• slows the aging process
• can reduce back pain
• increases metabolism
• improves sleep cycles

Regular resistance training is not only fun and healthy, but scientific evidence has shown that with the right guidance and progression it is safe for almost everyone.  The Eleet Program™ is a great place to start.  Our program is designed so that anyone can safely begin a resistance training program without the fear of injury.  The scientific-based program is properly progressed and focuses on improving the functional movement patterns of the human body.

As we move into adulthood many things seem to change.  Our metabolism starts to slow down, our activity level usually decreases and stress levels drastically rise.  It is important to have a strong foundation of proper eating habits so we battle the rigors of adulthood.  For the last 20-40 years we have been duped into believing we need to eat more grains and pastas as these food items are supposed to have amazing health benefits (increased fiber, help reduce cholesterol, etc).  This is just not true and fundamentally sound research has confirmed that we need to stay away from these food items as much as possible.  Introducing new foods and the willingness to try a variety of items will be the best approach for a healthy adult diet.  The Eleet Program™ has a step-by-step nutrition program that is appropriate for any adult.  We suggest starting with improving your ingredients first and then move on to developing your meal plans.  We have also developed a shopping guide to help you choose the best items available at your local supermarket.

Ingredient List

Shopping Guide

We have also found that the idea of calories in versus calories out doesn’t always seem to hold true by itself.  As we mentioned earlier our metabolism changes as we get older.  You might also notice your body’s response to a particular food changes as well.  Our once very efficient digestive system has now been drastically altered and we are no longer maximizing the use of our food choices.   This is why it is very important to choose foods that are nutrient dense and promote proper growth and repair.  The more our body lacks the more we eat and the more we eat the more bad ingredients we put into our body.   This then brings the calories in calories out theory into play.  If we are not consuming the proper amount of nutrients and continuing an active lifestyle we will typically over eat, increase our weight gain and increase the likelihood of developing some type of lifestyle disease.

We endorse the use of the Nourishing Our Children food pyramid found below.

Figure 1: Our Food Pyramid (Source: Nourishing Our Children 2005-2010)

Click on the pyramid to learn more!

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Our View:

We at Eleet Fitness have created a fitness and nutrition program centered around one thing; making our clients healthy.  We don’t buy into the fad diets and all of the so-called exercise quick fixes.  We only promote scientific-based diet and exercise programs.  We hope that after reading this transcript you will realize some of the changes needed to maximize your health.

For over 60 years we have been lead down a miserable, winding path and our dietary practices have brought about a series of changes that are leading to possibly the largest epidemic on record.

So let us help you take the steps necessary to take control of your health.  Contact us today!