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August 19, 2008- Daily Candy Miami
Fitting Room
Fitness Together Gym Opens

Hello, this is Simone Rodriquez reporting live from an unnamed Miami gym. I’m here, surrounded by empty treadmills and abandoned ellipticals.

Following rumors that cardio is less effective than weight training, women citywide have deserted their ancient NordicTracks in favor of Fitness Together, a new private gym in South Miami.

Trainer Scott Baumann honed his skills (and women’s buns) in New York for eight years before heading south. His new space has two semiprivate training suites, so women can come in pairs (or with a fella) and work out together (but still get individual attention). In lieu of jogging, the trainers use weights and circuit training to get you toned and taught.

Not for the dabblers, Fitness Together asks you to sign up for at least three months.

Looks like the training wheels are off, Sal. Back to you.

Fitness Together, 5829 Southwest 73rd Street, suite 2, South Miami ( 305-446-3665 ).

Scott Baumann
General Manager
Fitness Together, South Miami
305-446-3665
www.fitnesstogethermiami.com
www.scottbaumannfitness.com
"Where excellence in personal training meets privacy and luxury."

The FT South Miami Philosophy of Fitness

Fitness is about feeling great. When a client tells me he or she wants to “get in shape” that usually means to look and feel better. It’s that simple. That’s the beauty of what personal fitness can do. You have the ability to change the way that you look and feel. Through weight training we can literally change the shape of your body. You can lose excess body fat through cardiovascular training and nutrition. By becoming more fit you can spend more time playing a favorite sport or chasing after your kids. It is about improving the quality of your life.

Fitness is about feeling like you can overcome any challenge, whether it be physical or emotional. Physical strength and conditioning is very empowering and kicking butt through a hard workout will make a stressful day at the office seem like a walk in the park. We will push you to be more fit than you have ever been and look better than have ever dreamed you could. But more than that, you will be feeling great on the way there. This is the part that most people don’t realize until they begin training. You will feel better almost immediately because the process of getting into shape is hard work, but it is incredibly rewarding.

We are going to have fun. We are going to teach you, laugh with you, encourage you and push you to be able to do things you never thought you could do. You will not be scolded for eating dessert or for not being in the mood one day, instead we will make the best of it and come back another day to try again. We will work hard, very hard; but in a way that has you feeling victorious, not defeated. You will leave each workout feeling like you can conquer the world, or at least your day. And after all the hard work is done, you will be rewarded with a body that looks and feels 10 years younger than it is.

- Written by Scott Baumann, co-owner of Fitness Together South Miami Personal Trainers

“I just want to lose weight. How many calories do I have to burn each workout?”

Losing weight is not just about how many calories you burn during your workout or how many calories you eat or don’t eat. It is a very complicated equation that is not quite that simple. Playing the calorie game, burning lots of calories with excessive cardio or eating very little calories is something that provides only a short term answer. You will lose weight, but will you look better? Probably not. Why? Because losing weight in a hurry usually means loss of muscle and water, not fat. What most people want when they say they want to lose weight is to lose fat. Less fat and more muscle is what most people actually want. If I were to show you a picture of someone whose body you admire, it most likely carries more muscle and less fat than yours. So how do you get that?

We need to change your metabolism so it burns more calories. Not just during a workout, but all day long. So rather than restricting the calories that you eat, we increase the calories that you burn, even at rest. This is done by adding muscle through weight training. Now even if you haven’t built a lot of muscle yet, the process of building muscle and repairing broken down muscle tissue from intense training burns lots of calories. That is a very important point to remember. The afterburn (the burning of calories after exercise) from intense weight training or intense cardiovascular training is much greater than the afterburn of lower intensity aerobic training.

Simply cutting calories causes your metabolism to slow down and survive on less food. That is why this type of dieting only works for a short while. When your body catches on to what you are doing, it simply slows down your metabolism to burn less. It does this by losing muscle tissue because muscle is the most metabolically active tissue in your body, meaning that it burns the most calories. Not eating for hours at a time will slow your metabolism. Eating small, nutrient dense meals all day long will build your metabolism so it is imperative that you eat every 3 hours to build a fast metabolism and lose fat. If you do not do this, you will not lose fat. Period.

Cardiovascular conditioning should be done with the goal of increasing your body’s ability to burn fat, not simply to burn calories. You must do high intensity cardio (intervals, jump rope, kickboxing) to crank up the burning of calories and build the cell’s ability to burn and low intensity cardio (walking, jogging) to enhance the fat burning process.

In summary, to lose fat you need to do the following:

• Weight train hard 2-3x per week. Do high intensity cardio 2-3x per week.
• Do low intensity cardio (walk or easy jog) 3-6x per week.
• Eat nutritious, small meals of protein and veggies every 3 hours.
• Do not skip meals.

Remember, to lose fat you must build a fast, fat-burning metabolism. Always remember that it is about building and feeding that metabolism and not simply about reducing calories.

- Written by Scott Baumann, co-owner Fitness Together South Miami Personal Trainers

Press Release

PERSONAL TRAINING JUST GOT PRIVATE!
An exclusive new experience in fitness training.

South Miami, Fl- Local entrepreneur teams up with NYC fitness expert to bring exciting new concept to South Miami!

What do you get when you combine privacy and luxury with years of fitness experience and expertise? You get Fitness Together, Miami’s premier private personal training studio located in the new public parking garage near the Shops at Sunset Place. Miami’s own entrepreneur Eddie Rodriquez and fitness expert Scott Baumann have teamed up to bring a new level of service and elegance to personal fitness.

In their exclusive new Fitness Together studio in South Miami, clients will receive the ultimate in personal fitness by working with a professional fitness coach in their own private training suite. All clients are given a detailed nutritional program and cardiovascular routine designed specifically for their goals to ensure fast and dramatic results. Best of all, there are no membership fees and all sessions are done by appointment only to ensure that there is never a wait. Scott, widely considered one of NYC’s top fitness experts, recently moved to Miami to help Eddie bring this exciting concept to South Florida. “What makes us different from other gyms is the results. We focus only on one client at a time in private suites so there is no waiting and no distractions. Our clients typically see results in half the time it would take in a typical gym environment. Our facility is top of the line and the experience is the ultimate in privacy and luxury.”