Get on Track to Live the Life You Love with Practical Fitness
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Working to a “failure success” is one of the keys to getting effective workouts at Practical Fitness. You get PRIVATE training sessions customized specifically to YOU — your body, your goals, your nutrition needs. Alcyr Coelho started Practical Fitness in 2009 and has been serving clients (some are still his clients from the beginning!) in a safe, private training environment.
And now, Practical Fitness has a new North Texas location in addition to the Frisco location. The Plano studio is now up and running with even more space. Visit their website today to set up your consultation. (Be sure to tell them Lifestyle Frisco sent you so you can get a few extra sessions for FREE!)
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SHOW NOTES:
[00:28 ] The difference at Practical Fitness
[04:30 ] How is 30 minutes so effective?
[09:35 ] The ideal candidate for Practical Fitness
[12:54 ] Practical Fitness has expanded to Plano!
[14:16 ] Nutrition Fundamentals
LINKS & RESOURCES:
- Practical Fitness on Lifestyle Frisco | Website | Facebook: @pracfitchapelcreek | Instagram: @PracticalFitness
- Frisco Location: 8501 Wade Blvd. #1340 Frisco, TX
- Plano Location: 5512 W Plano Parkway, Suite 200, Plano, TX
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Transcript
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Thank you for joining us today on the Frisco Podcast. Today, we’re talking to Alcyr Cohelio, the owner of Practical Fitness. We’ve had Alcyr on before, but we’re going to learn about some new things happening over at Practical Fitness. Welcome to the show, Alcyr.
I’m glad to be here, Kelly. Very nice to talk to you.
Yeah. So for those who, um, haven’t heard you talked to us before, tell us a little bit about what, you know, what’s Practical Fitness all about ’cause it is definitely not your average, you know, gym per se. So, it’s different. So, tell us what it is.
Yeah. So, yeah, we are definitely not a gym. Uh, we like to say to people that we’re basically an extension of their home. Uh, when you come to see us, it’s a 100% private experience, very professional. Uh, we have a state of the art equipment and you only need to see us once or twice a week for 30 minutes. And we are hundred customized to you. It’s not like when you go to classes and you join a boot camp. When you come to us, the focus is only on you. Every single workout is customized to you to your goals. You can even pick your music. So, uh, it’s uh, yeah, it’s a 100% a private experience.
You don’t, you know, assume that when someone’s walking in that they’re going to do the same workout as the person that came in before them, or that they need this or that, the same cookie cutter experience. You are going to meet with them and tailor what they need, specifically, for them.
A hundred percent. So basically I, so the experience begins with a one-hour consultation and we do offer the one-hour consultation, a hundred percent free to have a conversation with us. And we pair that with a 30-minutes session for you so that you can experience what our clients experience. And those are in separate days. So you come for a one-hour conversation. We listen to you, listen to what, you know, what you like to, uh, to achieve. And one of the things that we try to explain to people and we are able to achieve, I would say that probably 60-70% of our clients stay with us for over five years. And we do have clients that are with us since we opened our door back in Austin in 2009. We still have several, I would probably say probably 40 to 50 clients in Austin that are with us for over 10 years.
And that basically the same way we like to say the same way that you brush your teeth twice a day is the same thing for exercising. Our body needs to exercise. And one of the things that we emphasize as well, the exercise different than sports. Exercise is something that you do is so your body functions at their maximum capacity, right? Several of our clients that come with us with diabetes type two, for high blood pressure, individually, they have done hip replacements, knee replacements. We are able to substantially improve their, the, you know, their, their lives. Uh, several, I would say the most of our clients that come with us with high blood pressure, they quit the medicine. Yeah. Same thing with diabetes type two. And again, because the idea is you come to us, it’s only 30 minutes, twice a week.
It is a challenging workout because exercise in order to be effective is a challenge. No one really comes more than twice a week. We have some individuals that do. But, when they do the third, uh, the third session is not as challenging as the first two, because basically it’s a high, intense, workout, low-impact, extremely safe. That’s why, you know, folks with knee replacement, hip replacement, they can, they can come to see us. So there is no momentum. There is no ballistic movement. You come, you exercise. And the days that you are resting, that’s the day that your bodies recover and results come from. The results do not come when you exercise. The results come between the sessions. And between the sessions, we like to say that, you know, they, they can live the life they love because their body is going to be in an optimum state so they can have fun. They can take care of their grandkids. They can go rowing. They can go running. They can go play soccer. They can go play golf better. All those things we are able to improve because of the 30 minute session that they come to see us once or twice a week.
That’s- you know, living the life you love is important because you’re not in the gym every day for hours trying to accomplish something. So, um, with the 30 minutes, twice a week, you know, you have to wonder like how effective is it? And you just answered some of that. But, um, so tell me more. So it’s it’s you said high intensity, but low impact. So these are things they’re going to be doing. Again, it’s one-on-one right with the trainer. They’re watching you. They’re specifically, you know, watching to make sure you’re doing this correct so that you maximize every minute of that 30 minute workout, right?
That’s correct. So basically, yeah. So every single set of the exercise, we, we, we call the failure success. Cause basically we, you go toward muscle exhaustion. So we eliminate momentum because what you see a lot in the gyms is people doing their sets and they go too fast. So the effort [inaudible] and then the weight, the motion of the weight finish the movement for the person, right? So we eliminate momentum. We go very small. During the 30 minutes, our trainers are watching you. One of the things that we are very different: all of our trainers have a college degree. So they really understand the body. They really understand the muscle for what, you know, it’s extremely safe exercise. We watching your form. When your, when the muscle can no longer do the movement, that’s how we call success. It is not a failure.
Muscle exhaustion is the success. Actually the release of lactic acid, right? You feel that. A lot of people do not understand the burn that you feel is actually lactic acid that do two things for you. The lactic acid, uh, it tells your body “please, don’t move more because you can hurt yourself.” Right. It’s actually very interesting. So basically the lactic acid also helps your body to absorb glucose better. ‘Cause basically the glucose is the energy, right? So basically the food that you eat, the glucose and the glucose is the energy that makes you do things, right? So, so when you doing the movement with your, with your muscle, you’re actually losing the sugar that is in the muscle to do the job. Once that you will, you go to muscle failure, that glucose is depleted from your body.
Then you begin to feel that the legs burn. So then you stop. And, uh, the, the muscles release hormones that goes to the brain. It’s the messaging sys
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