Learn about Las Vegas In Home Personal Trainer

Kurt Knisell

Kurt has a long history with Health and Fitness. Starting at the age of eighteen, he has over 25 years of experience, helping himself and other Las Vegas Personal Training clients determine their workout and meet their goals. At the age of nineteen, Kurt was named the Champion of the teenage Palm Springs and the Southern California Bodybuilding Championships based on his personal physique. Kurt was also runner up that same year in the Mr Orange County muscle classic. From that point forward Kurt has been dedicated to Health and Fitness. He has an excellent track record at helping others achieve their Health and Fitness goals. Kurt’s motto is,”Where there is a will there is a way.”

He is an Ace Certified Personal Trainer, as well as an Nasm Certified Nutritionist and has a certification in corrective exercise with Nasm,(which he finds most helpful with his Las Vegas Personal Training clients over forty years old).

To maintain his certifications and to stay up to date on the latest fitness developments, Kurt attends several hours of fitness related continuing education each month. But the best testaments to his qualifications are from his Las Vegas and Summerlin Personal Training clients. Get an easy way to achieve your fitness goals by having an in-home personal trainer.

Frequently Asked Questions

• “How Long Should I Work Out For?”

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  An ideal workout, is the one that gets consistently done! Start where you are; the most important thing is showing up. If all you can do is five minutes, do five minutes. You can always improve from there. Once you’ve mastered showing up, working up to an hour is optimal. Unless you’re training for a specific sport, training for more than hour is not usually necessary.

• “How do I lose weight?”

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  Weightloss happens when your body takes in less energy than it expends. The ideal way for this to happen, is through a combination of creating a caloric deficit and burning calories through exercise. A very simple rule of thumb for determining your caloric requirements: 10 calories per pound, usually creates a deficit for most people. So if you weight 150 pounds, 150 x 10 = 1500 kcal per day. If you weigh 200 pounds,

  200 x 10 = 2000 kcal per day. When you also include exercise with caloric management, it creates a deficit faster, resulting in faster weight loss.

• "How many days a week should I workout?"

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  The ACSM recommends (http://www.acsm.org/access-public-information/position-stands/position-stands/lists/position-stands/quantity-and-quality-of-exercise-for-developing-and-maintaining-cardiorespiratory-musculoskeletal-and-neuromotor-fitness-in-apparently-healthy-adults-guidance-for-prescribing-exercise) that healthy adults all need to be performing a minimum of 150 minutes of moderate intensity cardio, 75 minutes of vigorous intensity, or a combination of moderate and vigorous intensity exercise per week. When it comes to Strength training, performing at least two workouts per week is enough to keep your muscles in shape.

  It’s also worth noting: you can break these recommended workout times into smaller chunks if necessary. Having a specific day, time and place is helpful, i.e. I will exercise as soon as I get home from work on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays.

• "Why does it seem like I’m working out and not getting results?"

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  To answer this question I thought James Clear the author of Atomic Habits summed it up best: The Plateau of Latent Potential,

  “A stonecutter hits away at a rock 100 times without a dent; And then, on the 101st hit, the rock splits in half. Now, everyone celebrates the 101st hit because it’s the moment of breakthrough, but it’s the 100 hits before it that made the rock break.” The first major accomplishment is actually exercising consistently.

• "What type of Goals should I set?"

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  Example of Process Goals and Outcome Goals:

  For example, if your goal is to lose weight, your outcome goal would be to weigh less than 180 pounds. Your process goal would be to eat healthier foods and exercise regularly; i.e. I will eat 1800 kcal a day and exercise 3 hours a week. Process goals are the actions you need to take in order to achieve your outcome goals. “Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.”

• "How do I know how much weight to use?"

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  When strength training, it’s important to realize that the workout you’re doing is “your workout.” Don’t focus on how much weight others are using for their workouts. Instead, focus on your rate of perceived exertion on a scale of 1 to 10. When strength training, you should feel a perceived exertion of 7 to 9, with the last reps feeling significantly harder. The only person we’re really competing against is ourselves, right? When you increase your weights, it’s recommended to make the smallest percentage increase possible. Say you’re using 10 pounds weights, going up to 12 pound weights is a 20% jump, (which is a HUGE increase percentage wise). If you can do something 20 times, it’s probably wise to increase the weight a little, which will lower the amount of repetitions you can do.