Gina Jackson Personal Fitness

OK, so you have been working out regularly-–on your own or with your trainer–for a few months now. You like the results you are feeling in your body and really do not want to let the upcoming out-of-town trip [or vacation for that matter] stop your progress.

You have finally moved away from the stationary machines in the gym and begun to incorporate free weights into your routine. Your shoulders, arms, chest and even your legs are beginning to show the definition you have been seeking for so long. It is simply impossible to carry those 15, 20 or 25 lb dumbbells in your carry-on luggage! Your partner said to forget even thinking about lugging the 5, 8, or 10lb weights as well. Dilemma? Oh contraire!

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Yes, I can throw heavy weights around quite easily.  I have, on occasion, loaded the leg press with 2X my body weight  and comfortably worked my legs.  But now, in my new personal training space, Pilates4Fitness Movement Space, there will be no need for weights anymore.

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I just received a most disturbing call from an adult.  A parent looking for private training assistance to help her teenage daughter develop a “more refined derriere.  If this call had come from an adult seeking to refine and reshape her own body, I would have jumped at the opportunity to show her “what, how and how often” we can and need to work the body – and the butt – to tone, shape and define it.  The fact that the work was for an athletic teenager under twenty years of age disturbed me. Read the rest of this entry →

Very cool, I think, for making so much heat and fire inside.  Just a few of my friends, neighbors and students doing what we do when “we” workout.

Inside, outside, group or private, using the core abdominal to perform every activity is the best way to stay fired up and ready to work, burn and move.

What does your workout look like?

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It is pretty amazing. The damage we can do to ourselves without even being present in the process. I work extremely hard at helping other people work hard on themselves. I pride myself on the consistent, hard work I do to my own body. I admonish others to work to their own limits and set a mean example of exactly that in my own work.

Whether it be strength training in the gym, Pilates in the studio, or my feeble attempts at following my yoga instructor, I try to work with high quality, excellent form and love pushing myself to that end to achieve the best results for the time spent at work. Read the rest of this entry →

During the winter months you might find you need a little extra energy to throw around that snow, shovel under those tires and tredge those bags up the icy steps.  Comfort food with that lean protein, right?

Eating the right kind of carb – prepared the right way – can give you the extra fuel source you need without compromising all the hard work you are doing with your body.

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I am a little torn by this “announcement.”  Delighted that the issue is put to rest for the athlete and her family, glad that the “officials” finally got it right, yet disturbed that strong, fierce, dedicated athletic women are so disturbingly confusing for much of the world.

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This study is pure fact.  It is about those “funny shoes.” My body is my testimony to the powerful use of the tool and I stand now at the end of the summer, now 52 years young, having exclusively used this tool with so much joy and pain free training, that I cannot and will not ever return to a “traditional form” of running in shoes….ever!  Technology and science, as reported below, make it impossible to go backwards.  If you experience any pain in your joints and movement while running or walking, read and follow me thru the the world with Kangoo Jumps.  And, I have a way for you to get a pair with a discount!! Read the rest of this entry →

Adding to my renewed interest in skating for the pure fun of it, is the use of Kangoo Jumps for cardio/aerobic fitness. Read the rest of this entry →

I met an amazing artist, performer, dancer, acrobat, and yoga instructor, Michelle Dortignac, and therefore, have been introduced to another fabulous way to bend, shape, lift and work the body with Aerial Yoga. Read the rest of this entry →