Whew!  It’s the second week in December and I’ve already done ten shows.  Last weekend I was in Corvallis and Salem for company parties.  Susan Adkins with Class Act Event Coordinators did a phenomenal job creating a Charles Dickens-themed event for the Videx company Christmas party. 

The Salem show was for the James W. Fowler Company.  It’s the third time in six years that they’ve invited me to be part of their Christmas party.  And, like Videx, it’s great knowing that there are companies that are not just surviving, but thriving in the challenging economy.  2010 is looking to be a huge year for them.

I picked up a top hat and scarf to fit the Dickens theme.  I liked the look so much it became part of my annual Christmas photo! 

Many thanks to my good friend and business partner Rick Anderson with Bruno Photography for taking all of my promo photos over the years. 

The hat and scarf are functional, too.  Last weekend I performed strolling magic outside for the Dupont Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony where temperatures were well below thirty degrees.  It’s the first time I wore long underwear tops and bottoms beneath my tuxedo, a wool cap under the top hat, the scarf, and was still chilly! 

• Yesterday:  Frank Tobey Jones staff party (Tacoma)
       BizXchange holiday mixer (Seattle)
• Today:  Lionfish Creative holiday party/Seattle
• Saturday:  Olympia Country Club Santa Breakfast
       Tacoma Fire Department
       Microsoft holiday party (Seattle)
• Sunday:  Bellevue Regional Library – open to the public
       Microsoft holiday party (Bellevue)
• Monday:  Bow Lake Elementary Reading Magic (Federal Way)
       Valley View Elementary Reading Magic (Seatac)
       Federal Way 320th Library Holiday Magic – open to the public
• Tuesday:  Lake Hills Elementary Reading Magic (Bellevue)
       Aberdeen Police Officer’s Guild
• Wednesday:  Military Officer’s Association of America (Olympia)

Shout to Blogs is Watching for posting this up. I lifted it from ‘im:

Read the article in City Arts magazine here. I’m probably too old to learn this sh*t now. These children are the future and it’s a beautiful thing, no?

I warmed up with Robin Thicke, ran with John Legand, JayZ (New York!) & Lauren Hill, then cooled down with Robin Thicke.  It was perfect… and short.  Including stretches, it was only 5 songs… so why don’t I normally do this?  On a normal sunday afternoon running would be the furthest thing from my mind.  Relaxing, reading, football, hanging out with the family, grocery shopping, laundry, and getting prepared for work & kids school week would be what a typical sunday after church would look like.  Ok, so I have a ton of excuses & stories on why I deserve to “Chill”.  But, c’mon… 5 songs!  It didn’t take a ton of time or effort.  But, it took a lot of overcoming mental roadblocks and self talk.  At the end, I wondered why I just didn’t do this before.  Overcoming negative voices in my head was as easy as just making a decision.  Wow, deciding is powerful!  

I went to first service at church, attended a quick meeting, ate a small lunch, took my vitamins, and dropped off my son at his football game.  I ran from the parking lot of Federal Way Memorial Stadium to Pac Highway, around to 312th, to the Boys and Girls Club, and back (check out my stats, map, & calories burned on http://www.buddyrunner.com/clemence).  16 mins of peace and calm in my life.  Stress has been linked as the cause of so many diseases and illnesses like Thyroid, heart, intestinal, ect.  I wonder how medicinal 16 mins a day of calm affects my health & life expectancy?  And I was back before my son’s game started.  They won by the way, 29 to 7 and my son ended the game with a big tackle.  It has been a great day.  Tell me about yours….

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One of my favorite places to eat. I’m allowed to clap, yell, take pictures, and be loud a.k.a. have fun! It was my friend Krista’s birthday last nigt so she had about 30 people coming so a great place that will accomodate that many people easily is Tokyo Steak House. The atmosphere is loud, fun, and even kid friendly…………if you have one.

Tokyo Steak House recently remodeled by adding a really nice Sushi bar.

They also remodeled the rest of the interior of the restaurant. It still has that new car smell

I was able to record this firey video without getting too close to the action.

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This place for me is about the fun but the food is pretty damn good too, it really is the best of both worlds.  I like to be able to talk in a restaurant without having to whisper and I like to be able to eat food without having to worry if I’m holding my fork the right way……….CHOPSTICKS!!!

Ok, I’m just being ridiculous now. I’m just trying to make these pictures work somehow. I’m fired.

Hahahahaa!

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I had the pleasure of photographing Jamie and Brett’s Wedding on July 11th in Federal Way.  We started at a place by Dumas Bay.  I had never been there before, but what a surprise find.  the view was amazing, and the weather was perfect.  Their wedding was full of great family and friends.  The reception at Federal Way Community Center was spacious and allowed everyone to have a great time!

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Mindy’s dad is in town so instead of making a huge mess in the kitchen we decided to go out to eat. Mindy loves Korean BBQ and her dad has never been so this was the perfect place to go. There are a few places to go eat Korean BBQ but we like Kokiri the best, it’s close to our house and the quality of meats are fantastic. We chose the marinated meats for four eventhough there were 3 of us, needless to say, there are leftovers. Everything was great and the best part of Korean BBQ is you get to cook for yourself, that’s always a plus in my book! So ericriveracookswhileheeatsatarestaurant!!! Thanks again for dinner Bruce!

Sizzling Meat Video!!!

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I talked to Jon Shook from Animal and he told me that I need to go out to eat as much as I could so you’ll be seeing a few more of these restaurant things popping up. I don’t review so don’t expect that from me. I’m just trying to figure out different flavors, foods, and techniques.

so today, i watched 3 asian movies, all of them are quite famous.

the first one, i finished at about 2 am, which counts as TODAY, was Departures or おくりびと (okuribito). hao rec’d it to me the other day, but before school ended, we had exit interviews for japanese because sensei wanted to ask us about the year and the ap test. at the end of mine, she asked “what advice do you want to give next year’s students?” and i said to watch dramas and stuff for listening practice. and she showed me the trailer for this movie and it was for the seattle film fest. i totally wanted to watch it then, but it was still hella new and i couldn’t watch it anywhere else but the film fest. and it came back to mind when hao told me to watch it, so i did. yes. that’s the story. -.-;;

anyway, it was exactly what i expected it to be: touching, enlightening, and japanese (culturally, of course).

it was just beautifully projected on the screen, the actors, the story, especially. YEAH! it seemed like that story could actually happen; how this cellist became an encoffiner and actually enjoyed his job when everybody, even his wife, was ashamed to be in his presence. you see, in asian cultures especially, death is an extremely impure, filthy thing. it’s bad luck, essentially. but kobayashi, the main character, was taken by his boss’ precision and elegance when sending off the dead for the last time. he turned something impure into something beautiful, as it should be. a person should be the most beautiful when they leave for the last time. that’s what i learned from this movie. it was hard to find online with it’s japanese name, but if you search for ‘departures’, you’re sure to find it.

next, i watched part of a movie called ‘dororo’ on free movies on demand. lol
it was SUPER bloody and about this girl and demon guy getting revenge on this evil guy. there were all these plot twists and whatnot, so it was pretty un/predictable. but one thing caught my attention the whole time: the lead guy! :O
he was the guy who played suzuki in ‘waterboys’. oh ho, what a discovery. he’s pretty yummy (especially with the long ancient hairstyle LMAO).

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yeah, so hella people were killed and it was a funny ending when dororo kicked the main guy (hyakkimaru) in the balls. they are in love. lol but i seriously thought it was the anime, you know the froggy one? and it turned out to be a bloody movie. wha~~~~~~~~~~~~~~t??!?!?!?!

and lastly, i saw the famous korean movie, OLD BOY. and i FINALLY get the joke in Super Junior H’s ‘Cooking? Cooking!’ song. FINALLY!!  (it’s the first 18 seconds or so of the video).

IT’S AN OLDBOY PARODY. anyway. this movie was super weird and unexpected. i didn’t know what to think because the main theme of the whole movie was revenge and trying to figure out why dae-su (the main character) was locked up in some room for 15 years. and then it turns out that the guy who did it wanted to get revenge on dae-su. -.-;;

what the hell. and the reasons for doing it are CRAZY!!! and there’s also hella incest, which is quite disturbing. anyway, i also saw the famous yoga pose the evil guy does!!

that’s something, huh! well, i can tell why the movie is famous and why it won so many awards. the story was intriguing and beautifully written, but it made me look away at times, especially at the end when dae-su finally gave up and was kneeling in front of the evil guy begging for forgiveness because of the rumors he spread. and to repay the evil guy, he cut off his own tongue so he could prove that he wouldn’t spread rumors anymore. so the story was really complex and would take me forever to explain (not to mention it’d be annoying), so go watch it yourself. just hope you don’t get any mysterious prettily wrapped purple boxes…

and then, my family and i went to eat buffet. my grandma’s favorite buffet that i would also recommend to anyone who loves sushi. they really have the prettiest, most varied sushi i’ve seen at a buffet. and it’s all you can eat. it’s called ‘main japanese buffet’ and it’s in federal way, washington. i’d recommend lunch because it’s a hell of a lot cheaper (like 7 dollars cheaper) for basically the same thing except for snow crab or stuff like that. it’s still a fabulous deal, so stop by because weekends there are crazy, unless you wanna pick up some korean boys/girls while you’re waiting for a table.

after buffet, we went to the market and the bag boy was totally my type. haha, just saying. -.-;;

783 words, betches. and as gary would say, ’smell ya later’

ps. my delusional cousin is…well, delusional. her and her ‘husband’ are fighting again, and making mount everests out of mini-mini-mini-mini-mini^-9999999999999999999999 mole hills. and then she still holds grudges from forever ago. i’m worried but she needs to learn to grow up and learn that she’s mainly the one at fault. gah.

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Once again I’m shooting another really cool event. For the next couple of weeks I’ll be shooting the U.S. Open Swimming championships in Federal Way, WA. There’s a lot going on, events going all day, some of them quick and others, like the 1500m freestyle, that take forever.

I’ve often found it quite ironic that as I’d end up shooting so many different sporting events when I’ve never really been a sports person. Sure, I played soccer as a kid and later on in life I was drafted by the roller hockey team some of my co-workers had formed when I worked at The Mac Zone. I’d never even watched a hockey game, but when they found I was was born in Canada they decided that Hockey was in my blood and I should be the goalie. Other than that my interest in sports has been pretty minimal since Magic Johnson left the Lakers.

How is it then that I ended up spending so much of my time shooting sports? Some 15 years ago I was hired by a medical device company to travel around the country taking photos of their products in various hospitals and I was thrilled to finally be making money doing something that I love. When I got back from that trip I started contacting all the local newspapers until finally I badgered the editor at the Federal Way News enough that they finally gave me a couple of assignments and I kept after them until finally the sports editor started giving me regular work. I was so excited to be doing the work that it didn’t matter a bit to me what I was taking pictures of, I was being paid to take pictures and they were being published in a newspaper! I did this as a sideline along with my day job for a few years until I finally decided I’d had enough of the day job and quit without any real plan other than I knew that I wanted to take pictures for a living.

It took a few months, but I finally got in touch with a company that specializes in sports photography and since that was what I’d been doing with the paper I thought it was a good match. I started doing contract work for them 7 years ago now and I still love it. While I’ve never really been into professional sports, at least not since I spent my youth watching Lakers games with my dad, I do really love getting to go to all the high school tournaments. I also get to travel quite a bit and see a lot of places I’d never get to see otherwise.

In response to the Excessive Heat Warning and Air Stagnation Advisory issued by the National Weather Service, King County government has designated several “cooling centers” in Auburn, Black Diamond, Federal Way, Redmond and Tukwila. Click here for a complete list of locations.

City of Seattle facilities, including parks, libraries and the Seattle Center are offering people a way to cool off and stay safe during the heat of the day. Click here for more information.

And finally, Seattle City Light offers advice for ways to stay cool while conserving electricity and what to do if your power goes out. High temperatures can add strain on electrical equipment and outages could occur.

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Invisalign System a clear orthodontic alignment system, is “a clear alternative to traditional metal braces, providing patients with predictable cosmetic results”.

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 The older, more familiar traditional orthodontic method of dental alignment utilizing metal braces and wires, is becoming the less utilized choice, by patients since the introduction of this newer clear alignment system.  Although not all patients may be able to utilize comfortable, advanced orthodontic alignment system, all patients are able to visually assess treatment concerns prior to commencing with orthodontic cosmetic treatment and smile enhancement.

The Invisalign orthodontic alignment system offers many significant advantages for the adult and younger adult patients.  Invisalign provides orthodontic smile enhancement with predictable results, producing beautiful natural smiles in a very efficient and typically much more comfortable treatment approach. 

In addition to the typical crowding and alignment of crowded or crooked teeth, probably one of the greatest, most beneficial applications today, is the utilization of Invisalign for the patients that have already worn braces in the past and have noticed tooth movement or changes since having their braces removed. Tooth movement and cosmetic changes is an unfortunate consequence for the older adult which is easily addressed using the Invisalign method of realignment.  Typically patients that have worn braces for a number of years and are now noticing some minor or even moderate crowding issues (often referred to as relapse by dental professionals) are pleased to learn that these cosmetic issues can be corrected utilizing Invisalign clear orthodontic aligners.

Working adults find this clear Invisagn method of orthodontic alignment and cosmetic correction to be fast, efficient and a very comfortable way of reestablishing that beautiful, natural smile.  A smile they once enjoyed and after wearing braces so many years to accomplish, during the patient’s earlier years of orthodontic treatment.  Invisalign treatment offers an extremely comfortable and uncompromised advantage for the working adult. For working adults, not willing to accept the unsightly placement of metal braces to accomplish the realignment, “Invisalign offers a clear advantage.”

The Invisalign program, is an excellent system for orthodontic corrective cosmetic treatment.  Invisalign treatment requires very few appointments for patients to get started.  Most cases, can be completed in a very short 6 to 9 months of active treatment time, with very few office visits,  This is a big time savings for the busy patient and busy parents of patients.  The Invisalign system of clear aligners are becoming more popular with young adults as well, for understandable and the obvious reasons of not having to wear metal braces.  More and more young people are finding the Invisalign program an appealing alternative, with faster treatment times and more significantly more efficient treatment process.

The Invisalign system offers a popular, state of the art, computer aided simulation program for allowing our patients to view their smile and assess their smile before and after treatment.  Invisalign accomplished this through a unique CAT scan technology of the patients intial dental molds prior to beginning treatment.  The Invisalign computer software allows patients to view their actual teeth, after being uploaded onto the companies proprietary software, allowing the patient and doctor to analyses their dentition right along with the dental profession.  This effectively allows the patients dentition to be analyzed in many different 3 dimensional views.  Smiles can be evaluated in the many views, dental concerns can be visually expressed and addressed, and the final orthodontic aligners to be fabricated in the event Invisalign is chosen as the treatment of choice to enhace the patients smile.

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The Federal Way Dental Center in Federal Way Washington and Dr Joseph Ardizzone DDS PS have provided cosmetic dentistry, comprehensive rehabilitations and restorative treatment, orthopedic, and orthodontic care for more than 20 years. Our highly skilled clinical team and office staff receive great personal satisfaction in providing beautiful cosmetic results that our patients recognize to be exceptional dental treatment. The greatest reward for the dental treatment we provide is the dazzling smile of a happy patient. We invite you to experience our special way, of providing you the cosmetic dental care you deserve — a beautiful smile and a positive dental experience. Dr. Ardizzone received his doctorate from the University of Washington (87), and has practice family, cosmetic and comprehensive dentistry since. Our technical skills and and caring approach to your dental care is recognized by those we have treated and most patients are referred to us by their friends and family.  We invite you, to come join us.  If you or someone in your family is in need of URGENT DENTAL CARE or Having a DENTAL EMERGENCY……..PLEASE CALL 253-839-7270,  our friendly staff will be happy to assist you, in seeking the care your deserve.

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Last month I posted about Beacon Hill and Rainier Valley and their improving housing markets(click here to read previous post). This month happily I am posting about several other improving markets. According to the Puget Sound Business Journal Green Lake, Ballard, and North Seattle are all reverting to seller’s markets. Only three months ago everywhere was a buyer’s market, with most everywhere having at least a 6 month supply of homes. This means it would take 6 months to sell all the homes in the area. Now Green Lake has only a 2.5 month supply and North Seattle only a 1.9 month supply. (As of May 2009). The shorter the supply of homes the more demand they have, which in turn makes them worth more. The first time homebuyer tax credit I mentioned in an earlier post has something to do with the upturn in sales. (Remember that this Tax Credit ends in November so don’t miss this amazing opportunity). Once homes start to sell, it triggers market buoyancy and before you know it we will be out of this slump. I believe the market will continue to strengthen in the coming months and throughout the year. As homes sales increase it gives an indication of a wider market recovery across all business areas.

Read the Puget Sound Business Journal article mentioned above. Click Here.

“Discover the 7 Dirty Little Secrets Tacoma Health Clubs, Gyms and Fitness Centers Don’t Want You to Know About…”

Did you the majority of gyms and health clubs in Tacoma are capitalizing on the fact that 9 out of 10 people who walk through their doors have no idea what they’re getting themselves into…

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Hi I’m Jeff Jowers, a fitness enthusiast Personal Trainer in Tacoma Washington. Since I’ve been a player in the world of health

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I will not argue the fact that the use of health clubs, gyms and fitness

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I’ve seen the lies, the secrets, the tricks and the dirty underhanded

tactics that these fitness centers use to take advantage of people and it

disgusts me…so I’m getting revenge…

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I’m letting the public in on the industry secrets that the health clubs

do not want you or anyone else to know about…

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I’m doing this so you can keep the ball in your court when you’re

ready to get in shape. Some of this is pretty hush-hush stuff so

I might make a lot of enemies in the health club industry, especially around

Orange County, but I figure if I help at least one person then it’s worth

it.

Tacoma Health Club Dirty Little Secret # 1- They’ll talk you into

signing up but they really hope you don’t workout after you do…

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These Tacoma health clubs count on the fact that 80-90% of their members

will never use their facility beyond maybe a month to three months per year.

Why?

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Did you know if all the people who have club memberships were to actually use

the gym it would be so over crowded the local Tacoma Fire Marshal would

shut them down faster than the downfall of a celebrity marriage?

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You see the way these gyms make money is by smooth talking hundreds of people

into getting gym memberships but counting on the fact that only around 10-20%

of these members will use their club with any kind of regularity.

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Everyone knows fitness centers and Gyms in the South Sound and Tacoma are super

crowded in January and by March they’re empty. The gym staff knows with

near certainty that if you’re still here in March, it’ll be a miracle, and they

actually need you to disappear for awhile so everything can get back to normal.

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If you’re like the average Tacoma workout or Health Club member after

February you probably won’t step foot in a gym until June when it’s

bathing suit season and those lake side insecurities start to set in. Again, the

health club owners and employees can predict you’ll be around for a month

or two but again will stop coming in until January

rolls around. If every member continued to use the facility on a regular basis

they would be to overpopulated to function and would be breaking more fire

hazard laws than a fireworks show set up at a gas station on the 4th of July.

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These fitness centers have this whole thing down to a science and here’s

what typically happens…

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When you sign up for health club membership, the wheelin’ and

dealin’ fast talking salesmen knows damned well that you, like most

Tacoma Health Club members, will hardly ever use their facility with the

exception of maybe a month here and a month there.

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Oh they know you’ll intend to use it, but they rely on the reality that

you hardly ever will. In fact they know the only part of you they’ll be

seeing is your hard earned money, which is fine for them because the salesman

works mostly on commission.

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In reality these fitness centers use many of the same tactics that sleezy car

dealerships use. Say you come in to take a peak at the gym, if the salesman

can’t close the deal he’s instructed to pass you off

to the sales manager who is much more experienced at closing the

deal, and if he doesn’t pass you off he gets into trouble.

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I remember seeing these tactics being used first hand . One particular incident at a large well known corporate health club I

worked on in North Tacoma really got to me. There was an elderly woman

who wasn’t sure she wanted to sign up, so the salesman passed her off to

the sales manager so he could swarm down on her with his forceful closing techniques.

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It was obvious this poor lady just wanted to get out of there, so as an excuse

she said that she needed to run out to her car, well the sales manager just

about demanded that she leave her house key with him. I nearly had a heart attack, how could he do this to this little old lady?

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I witnessed as she nervously and hesitantly handed over her house key to this daunting salesman. And when she came back he bullied her into

signing up when it was very obvious the only reason she was giving in was

because this forceful salesman had practically made her. A day

later her son called the gym demanding that her contract be cancelled, so to

stay in accordance with Washington State Law, they did.

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That’s just one of countless horror stories I can recite…

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These gyms do not care if you get into shape they only care that you pay them

money. Let me further illustrate this point…

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Maybe you made the innocent mistake of calling one of these corporate health

clubs to inquire about a membership or perhaps you filled out some free one

week workout coupon that you see with those lead boxes around Tacoma. If so, how

many times did the sales associates call and harass you to try and get you in

to take a tour?

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The staff is literally trained to call back as many times as it takes to get

you in and sign you up. Sell to you until you either buy or die is the motto.

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On the other hand, have you ever belonged to a gym? If you have and you started

slacking off on your workouts did they call you and try to motivate you to get

your butt in gear? Not likely…They know if you’re not accountable you

probably won’t show up and if you don’t show along with 80-90% of

the other members who don’t workout you’ll make their lives a lot

easier…

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Why is it they’re willing to call you 14 times to get you to come in and

sign up but not once to make sure you’re sticking to your workouts?

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It’s because all they care about is that you sign up and hand over your

money, they have no interest in getting you to workout, because if you did it

could make there lives a lot harder.

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Bottom line…Tacoma health clubs and gyms want you to sign up but not

Never come workout.

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Tacoma Health Club Dirty Little Secret # 2 – Gyms are literally crawling

with dangerous bacteria…

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That’s right, gyms and fitness centers are literal cesspools

of….well…

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According to Philip Tierno, director of clinical microbiology at New York

University Medical Center, around 80% of all infectious disease is transmitted

by both direct and indirect contact.

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That makes the gym and fitness centers, with its sweaty drippy bodies in close

proximity, a highly conducive environment for catching everything from

athlete’s foot to the flu to serious Staph Infections.

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From taking swabs of exercise medicine balls, for example, Tierno found samples

of MRSA — a strain of staph resistant to some antibiotics. “Any time you touch

a medicine ball or machine, you have to know that your hands are contaminated

and should be washed.” Tierno says.

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I personally know one fitness trainer who almost lost his hand because of a

nasty infection that he caught from a Tacoma health club. It’s hard

to get into shape when your whole arms in a sling because of a infection you caught at your local gym…

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You see, bodies dripping with sweat side-by-side in a fitness center create the

moist environment germs need to thrive. In gyms and health clubs germs lurk on

the equipment, treadmill handles, floor, shower stalls, exercise and stretching

mats, water fountains, steam rooms, whirlpools, swimming pools, sinks, and

toilets. You could say they are everywhere.

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These germs are transported from machine to machine, and one accidental contact

can set off a domino effect of infecting you with viridians, staphylococcal,

streptococcus, and e-coli, the most common bacteria found in human feces. Yuck!

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This is common knowledge in the health club industry but most gyms will never

tell you this because it could seriously hurt their membership numbers.

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What can you do to protect yourself? Definitely use the spray bottles that some

gyms and health clubs provide for wiping down the equipment, wash your hands

regularly, consider wearing gloves, wear long sleeves and pants while working

out, bring your own towel, while in the locker room, make sure you wear

flip-flops, and avoid sitting nude on any exposed surface. And very important if you have any minor cuts or scrapes make sure and wear anti-biotic

ointment with a band aid on it, you definitely don’t want to end up like

that trainer I know who almost lost his hand…

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Tacoma Health Club Dirty Little Secret # 3 The gym counts on you NOT

reading the small print in their contracts…

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When it comes to signing a contract with a fitness center the devil is

definitely in the details so be sure and read all of that small print before

you sign anything. You’ll be amazed at some of the stuff that’s in

there, in fact you’ll probably think twice about joining.

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Fast-talking wheeling and dealing gym sales reps may offer you a deal that

seems too good to be true, that’s because very often if is. Many times

you end up with health club salespeople trying to make quotas so they use

pressuring techniques which can lead to a glossing over of important details

that’s imbedded in the small print like some kind of Morse code.

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Did you most people have trouble canceling health club memberships because of small print

stipulations is one of the top complaints against health clubs logged with the

Better Business Bureau and states’ attorneys general offices?

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For example, many gyms in Tacoma , Federal Way and Fife health clubs have a 60 day

cancellation policy that’s in the fine print in the contract….and if you try

to cancel your contract they can’t do it right there at the front desk, you

need to call corporate to do it. Well guess what happens when you call

corporate, they’re going to tell you that you need to give 60 days

written notice submitted by mail to cancel your contract. This means you might

end up being charged a total of three more times for your gym membership before

you can stop making payments.

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I know, I fell for this one myself! Admittedly I never read the small print and

ended up kicking myself afterwards…..Man was I upset…

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Here’s another example: One popular health club offer that has elicited

complaints on the Consumer Affairs’ web site is a 30-day trial membership that

had a simple little catch: You must visit the club a minimum of 12 times during

the first month to cancel without penalty; otherwise, you’re locked into a

multiyear membership.

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Many consumers complain they did attend the required number of times but that

when they decided to cancel, the club had no record of the visits. A

spokesperson for Bally Total Fitness says the company’s policy is to check all

members entering the club and record their usage; however this obviously

wasn’t the case.

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So how can you defend yourself? Read every single word of the contract

including the small print and never rely on a suave salesperson’s “word”.

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Tacoma Health Club Dirty Little Secret # 4 -When it comes to getting the

body you want nutrition plays a far bigger factor than exercise…

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Let’s face it, no matter how hard you work in the gym if you’re

eating a crappy diet you’ll never have the body you want. It’s

true, exercise is extremely important, but eating the right foods in the right

amounts is even more important.

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There is only one exercise I know of that will get rid of the excess fat put on

by plates of fatty foods…….push aways. That’s right, push away all

that food and get yourself something healthy like some fruit or veggies with a

lean protein source.

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However, it is very important to work out when losing weight because not only

will the exercise help you lose the weight but it will also help you look real

good when the weight comes off.

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The problem is most Federal Way, Puyallup, Lakewood, Auburn and Tacoma Health Clubs want you to think that just

using their facility is the magic bullet to having the body you want and the

truth is that it isn’t. Yes, having the right equipment is an important

part of the process but equally and more importation are doing the right

exercises, using the right form, working out at the right intensity, and

getting proper rest and eating the right foods in the right portions at the

right times.

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You see exercise is just one spoke on the wheel of having the body of your

dreams.

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Tacoma Health Club Dirty Little Secret # 5 Most of the members

who use the facilities today look exactly like they did one year ago and the

staff could care less…

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When I worked as personal trainer in the health clubs and large corporate gym

settings in Tacoma I saw the same exact thing happen day in day out. You

might even know what I saw because you’ve seen it too. I saw

Nothing…I mean hardly anybody was getting results. It was as if everyone

looked the same month in month out. Hardly any members using the gym were

losing fat or getting firmer and more toned. And you know what the worst part

was…

Not a single members of the gym staff cared.

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Tacoma Health Club Dirty Little Secret # 6 Most of the members

using these fitness centers are using the wrong exercises, the wrong form and

have absolutely no idea what they’re doing…

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That’s right; the majority of the Tacoma health club members are

using the wrong programs, the wrong equipment, doing the wrong exercises and

even worse………

When most people workout they are using the wrong exercises!

Making these mistakes will cause you to get minimal results, compromise your

health, cause injuries, make women who don’t want to look buffed out look

buffed out, ruin your joints and create horribly unattractive posture…just

look around some of these gyms and you’ll see what I mean…guys with big

ole’ chest muscles pulling their shoulders forward so they look like a

caveman, and women with muscles in places where women are just not meant to

have muscles–like having thick masculine traps and necks.

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What’s the solution? What do people who really want to get into shape do?

Well, for one we can look at what celebrities do, we can look to their secrets–and I’ll give you an idea, it’s not pills,

powders or magic drinks or crappy supplements…

Look at guys like Christian Bale who goes from an anorexic in The Machinist to

a bulked up muscular Superhero for Batman Begins in a matter of months!

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These celebrities are just like me and you, you’re human, when it comes

down to it they’re bodies are no different so how in the world do they do

it?

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The secret is Personal Training. That’s right – these stars always have a

personal fitness trainer to keep them on track.

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So what can you do to get in shape like the stars? One solution is to sign up

for your local Tacoma Health Club and Tacoma Personal Training services, but before

you do I think you should know…

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Tacoma Health Club Dirty Little Secret # 7 Most of the personal

fitness trainers in these gyms have no idea of what they’re doing or how

to help you reach your fitness goals…

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The sad truth is that the majority of personal fitness trainers in health clubs

don’t know the first thing about what it really takes to get most people

into shape

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You see in the Tacoma health clubs you predominately have two types of

trainers:

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Random fitness Health Club Problem Trainer #1- The problem is most of

these gyms will hire just about anybody to be a trainer, they will literally

post a “for hire” ad explaining that they are looking for trainers,

salesman and janitors, and guess what? If some one comes in a applies for a

sales job and the positions are all taken, they’ll hire them to be a

trainer, have them take two to three days worth of classes (mostly about selling

personal training instead of actually training) give them cheesy certification

and call them a personal trainer.

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They’ll literally push them out onto the gym floor loaded with sales

tactics to talk people into training

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The gym teaches them a few routines and they literally take people through the

same routine workout after workout. Just ask a few of your friends who’ve

used trainers, doing the same routine over and over is one of the biggest

complaints you’ll hear.

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Tacoma Health Club Problem Trainer #2- And then you have the

other type of trainer in these gyms – the genetically gifted workout freaks.

You see these kinds actually do have an interest in exercises the only problem

is since these trainers are genetically gifted everything they’ve tried

when it comes to getting into shape works for them. They can literally read a

magazine about getting into shape and magically they start to get into shape.

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The problem is it’s just not like that for most people, most people need

to work out the proper way, using the right exercise techniques and programs

for their goals, if they used the shot gun approach that the genetically gifted

exercise enthusiast can get away with they see hardly no–if any–results.

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The big complaint you’ll hear about these trainers is they spend more

time checking themselves out in the mirror than training you effectively. These

trainer make for great reality TV but don’t do much else besides give the

personal fitness training industry a bad name.

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Now don’t get me wrong, I love what Personal Training can do for someone.

When the right kind of training is applied I’ve seen people completely

transform themselves, I’ve seen the overweight woman become the smoking

hot babe, I’ve seen the sloppy looking loner couch potato become the

alpha male stud, I’ve seen peoples self images completely transform…

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As a matter of fact, from using the right training and exercise techniques

myself I made quite a transformation a few years back, just check out these

pictures of me taken 4 months apart at http://www.tacoma-personal-trainer.com

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(To read about my dramatic transformation visit us at Tacoma Personal Trainer)

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So I don’t think personal training per say is the problem, the problem is

most large Tacoma health clubs hire the wrong kinds of trainers. I

should know, I used to work in one of these places and used to actually see it happen week after week in the health clubs I worked at…

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I finally got fed up with there whole system of doing things that I started my

own personal fitness training business and have never looked back…

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