Learn More About My “Zero-Momentum” Approach to Exercise

I’m a Shreveport based personal trainer with over 20 years experience training and coaching people on a face-to-face basis. I specialize in safe, sustainable and time efficient exercise for busy people who don’t have the time or inclination to live in a gym. My approach to exercise is geared toward helping my clients attain maximum results in minimum time.

And the phrase “maximum results in minimum time” isn’t just a catchy, meaningless cliché with me. My somewhat unorthodox approach to exercise truly does deliver dramatic results without requiring a huge time commitment on your part.

My Zero Momentum Fitness System ™  utilizes very slow “rep-speeds” on each exercise, which involves lifting the resistance in a very smooth and controlled 5-seconds, then lowering the resistance in 5-seconds.

Maintaining a very s-l-o-w speed of movement during all exercises removes all momentum/inertia from the exercises which forces your muscles to work very, very hard. And it is this very hard muscular work which generates the excellent results in a fraction of the time of other approaches to exercise.

The slow speed of movement during each exercise also protects your joints, tendons and ligaments from the excessive acceleration forces which are inevitable with more reckless “fast rep” forms of training.

If any personal trainer ever suggests you should perform an exercise in a quick and “explosive” manner, run as fast as you can in the other direction, for you are talking to an injury production specialist, rather than someone you can entrust your long-term orthopedic health to.

There is no escaping the immutable law of physics which tells us that Force = Mass x Acceleration. The faster you accelerate a given amount of resistance during an exercise the more acceleration force you’ll be imposing upon your joints and connective tissues. This fact is not even debatable. But performing exercises with a very slow speed of movement keeps excessive acceleration forces away from your joints and connective tissues, while keeping a smooth, constant and safe amount of tension where we want it – on the working muscles.

My Zero Momentum Fitness System works for people of all ages. I’ve had young athletes tell me it’s the toughest workout they ever had – yet most of my clients are over age 40, and appreciate how healing this form of exercise is to their joints and body. So don’t be scared off by all my talk of “tough workouts” since I scale all workout to each client’s individual capacity. I will ask a lot of you, but I’ll never ask for more than you’re capable of.

Benefits of Personal Training with the Zero Momentum Fitness System ™

- One-on-one coaching in a PRIVATE training studio
- Work with a trainer with over 20 years experience helping people get in shape
- Safe and sustainable exercise with The Zero Momentum Fitness System ™
- Exercise program customized to meet YOUR unique needs
- Challenging workouts, but scaled to YOUR abilities and limitations
- Transform your body with smart exercise & dietary protocols
- Get in awesome shape WITHOUT having to live in the gym
- Train in a way which heals joints & low back pain rather than making it worse
- Develop well-rounded fitness (strength, metabolic conditioning and flexibility)
- Prevent bone demineralization and muscle loss as you age
- Prevent/reduce low back pain
- Help prevent heart disease and diabetes
- Increase your levels of mental clarity and energy
- Get in the best shape of your life with smart coaching and 3rd party accountability

Because you deserve results from your personal training program, I will push you hard in your workouts, and equip you with the tools you’ll need to make smart eating choices.

Depending on your current level of fitness, I’ll start you out gradually, then ramp it up very systematically and progressively over time. Each week, I’ll be looking for you to do just a bit more than you did the previous week. You’ll be pushed hard during your workouts, but always within your own personal limits.

The #1 Reason People Hire a Personal Trainer

Over the years I’ve learned the main reason most people hire a personal trainer is because they want to LOOK BETTER. Therefore my approach to training is very focused on helping clients achieve dramatic improvements in body composition via intelligent exercise programming and a healthy dietary approach you can actually live with.

In addition to helping clients make dramatic cosmetic improvements to their body, I also focus on increasing client’s muscular strength, cardiovascular ability and flexibility, as I feel these are the most critical indicators of a person’s overall level of health & physical fitness.

What about Diet & Nutrition?

Your diet will absolutely make or break your efforts to transform your body. I work very hard to present clients with an eating plan that will not only help them achieve a dramatic physical transformation, but is also one they can actually live with. Because no matter how good a given diet might “look on paper” it’ll be virtually worthless if it’s something YOU won’t stick with.

I generally lean toward some type of reduced carbohydrate diet for most people, with carbohydrate intake being customized on an individual basis. My basic dietary template is to eat lean meats, fish, vegetables and low-sugar fruits such as berries. Healthy fats from nuts, avocados, olive oil, etc. are also emphasized.

I do not believe that a high-carb diet (The diet most people have been indoctrinated into believing is the “best” diet) works as well as a reduced carbohydrate for most people, and therefore generally advise limiting one’s intake of all sugars and starchy foods.

I am of course well-aware this advise is the total opposite of what most “nutrition experts” advise. Most recommend a very high carbohydrate/low-fat diet instead. But I have come to believe such advise is based on outdated dogmas, rather than current science. The scientific evidence for the efficacy and safety of reduced carbohydrate diets is simply become harder and harder to deny. I suggest you read my article Vegetarian Scientist Admits Low Carb Diet Beats Vegetarian Diet for more thoughts on this issue.

Where and How Often?

Photos showing part of my private personal training studio in Shreveport

All client training sessions are conducted in the privacy and comfort of my private training studio. I have rigid standards for controlling the training environment my clients are exposed to. I keep the temperature and humidity low and air circulating. The studio is kept impeccably clean and all equipment is sanitized with a germicidal several times per day. I also provide free cold bottled water to all personal training clients.

Most of my clients train with me for two 20 to 30 minute sessions per week, which for most people is the ideal training frequency and duration. Although I can also make a once a week training program work quite well, for those who are simply too busy for the twice a week program. I also strongly encourage taking brisk walks on the days you don’t train with me. This is a very low time commitment, and takes away the “I don’t have time to exercise” excuse. Yes you do have time to exercise!

I could go on and on from here I suppose…but the best thing will be to set up a free consultation, let me put you through a workout, then learn first-hand if my rather unorthodox approach to training and exercise might be a good match for your unique needs.

So shoot me an email or give me call to set up your free consultation.

In Health & Fitness,
“Coach Jeff”
Shreveport Personal Trainer & Fat Loss Coach

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