Exciting times!

Since my last post I have signed up for the most recognized boot camp franchise in the world Fit Body Boot Camp. I now have a mentor who is very successful and is opening up his second location in Powell, Ohio. My location is 1200 Steelwood Rd Grandview, Ohio 43212 right next to The Ohio State University. Tommorow I am having a Faveroo ad which is in conjuction with the 614 magazine. This is like Groupon or Living Social and my ad will go out to a list of over 20,000 people. The deal is 1 month of my boot camp for only $25. If you were to attend 4 times per week for the month that would equate to about $1.56 per session. Meanwhile some personal trainers charge $50 to $80 per session. The coupon is limited to 2 per person and the evening sessions are extremely limited. Also I have limited hours available for personal training at an extremely affordable rate of only $25 per hour. Also my mentor is trying to hook me up with a contract with a major corporate restaurant which has a nutrition part of a wellness program but no resistance training included.

Grand Opening

Jackhammer Strength Training Grand Opening Coming Soon!

Combat the Fat Boot Camp!

Prices are $117 a month for 2 sessions per week or $147 a month for up to 4 sessions per week. Sign up for a package now and receive $50 off your first month.

The grand opening is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday January 18, 2011. There will be door prizes including a free 6-month membership, iTunes gift cards, and other incentives. For every friend you bring, $5 will be donated to the charity of your choice.

Jackhammer Strength Training provides small group training in an atmosphere conducive to success. Some of the things we do include training with medicine balls, kettlebells, body weight training using TRX suspension straps, boxes for plyometric drills, and sandbags to improve core strength. Nathan Jordan, owner and operator, is a Certified Fitness Trainer through the International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA) and is pursuing his Bachelor’s Degree in Wellness & Fitness.

Camps will be at 1200 Steelwood Rd Suite B in Columbus, Ohio. There will be time slots in the mornings at 6 am and evenings at 5:30 and 6:30 pm with camp offerings on Monday through Friday and Saturday sessions at 10 and 11 am. Camps will be limited to no more than 12 people to ensure personalized attention and to get everyone the best results possible in a minimal amount of time.

For more information or to set up your free week trial, Contact Nathan Jordan at:

(614) 499-4633
www.jackhammermusclesculpting.com
www.jackhammerstrength.com
jackhammerstrength@gmail.com

A space to help you reach your goals!

I finally found a space. It is in a good location in Grandview off of Kenny Road. It is close to home, has heat, has bathrooms, utilities are included, has enough space, and has more space if I end up needing more. I need to figure out what color to paint it and what equipment I want to have in place whenI open up in January. Things on my list to include are boxes for box squatting and plyometrics, sand bags, squat racks for squatting, cleaning, deadlifting, and anchoring suspension straps from, medicine balls, weight trees, weight sets, kettle bells, and jump ropes. If you can think of any other necesities please let me know.

Thanks,

Nathan Jordan
614 499-4633
jackhammerstrength@gmail.com

To do list and motivation!

I have a lot of things I need to do. These include securing a space to run my boot camps, obtaining equipment for my camps, getting press releases out, posting flyers, placing lead boxes, collecting leads from lead boxes, contacting leads, scheduling camps, planning workouts, placing signs on my car, attending networking events, making contacts with people of influence e.g. hair dressers and Mary Kaye consultants, orderin plastic gift cards, and getting several things to try to resolve certain matters that I do not wish to go into here. I am in a rut here and need some motiation. Does anyone have any good book ideas for motivation?

On a completely unrelated note I feel that I am getting stronger. I benched 265 for an easy 3 reps probably could have gotten5, 285 for a very easy rep today without a spotter and just missed with 305. I know my weaknesses include my shoulders and once I strengthen my shoulders I will be able to get some respectable numbers. I plan on attempting a 20 rep squat program for a little while basically the plan is to do 100 reps with fairly light weights probably 155 pounds for 5 sets of 20 and then add 10 pounds each week. This should up my conditioning level a little bit and help me get used to squatting regularly again. After 6 weeks I should be ready to squat heavy again and hopefully get 405 pounds.

Quic kettlebell workout!

Today's workout consisted of 80 squats with an exercise ball with 20 of those reps holding a 30 # kettlebell, 60 swings with a 20#, 50 clean and presses each arm with a 30#, plank, 30 pushups, an 500 burnouts which are kind of like jumping rope without a rope. This was a quick workout becuase I have some things I want to get done tonight. I went through the first 44 hits on citysearch for gymnastics facilities in the Columbus area and I found 22 that I want to contact and see if I can train bootcamps in their facilities. I will be getting my 25 lead boxes later this week and have 2000 take one postcards which entile the bearer of the card a free week. I need a place to train people as I have 6,000 potential free sessions coming up. I can tain people at OSU facilities and Planet Fitness but need something more permanent. If you have any great ideas for where to put them besides restaurants, clothing stores, movie theaters, movie rental places, chiropractors, massage therapists, hair salons, tanning beds, or doctor's offices who are cosmetic surgeons please let me know. Also if you or anyone you know would like to help me place lead boxes, signs, and flyer in exchange for training let me know.

Medicine Ball Training!

Medicine balls allow you to do explosive exerises such as slams, granny throws, and throwing the ball backwards over your head. These exercises help develop the posterior chain which is important in everyday tasks like standing up, squatting down to pick something up, as well as other things like deadlifting and squatting hudreds of pounds. Medicine ball training can help athletes such as football, rugby, basketball, and aussy rules players. Medicine balls also allow you to work in different planes of motion. Their are all kinds of things you can do with a medicine ball as a warmup to your actual workout like rotational handoffs, woodchops, swings, and presses. When I was in high school I used to take a 10 pound medicine ball and throw it against my stomach 50 times in a row while doing a leg lift. I do not know if that helped my jumping ability but I did dunk a softball at 5'9. If you want to learn more contact me.
Nathan Jordan
(614) 499-4633
www.jackhammermusclesculpting.com
www.jackhammerstrength.com

TRX Susension Training

Suspension training is unlike any other training modality. It incorporates all of the 37 core muscles. Because all the core muscles are activated you cannot train one muscle at a time like bodybuilders often try to do. This forces you to train the whole body as one synergistic unit instead of trying to hit individual muscles.

Some of the best suspension training exercises include chest presses, one leg jump squats, atomic push ups, the pendulum, and inverted rows. Suspension straps allow you to train in all three planes of motion transverse, sagital, and frontal.

One of the best things about suspension training is that you can increase or reduce the resistance by increasing or decreasing the angle. An example of this is the inverted row so imagine your feet are up against a tree holding onto straps suspended from a tree branch above you, your feet are horizontal to the ground and you pull yourself up. This is a real inverted row and it is very difficult. Now imagine you are standing and just leaning back at a 30 degree angle now it is a lot easier and you can probably do it without a problem regardless of your current fitness levels. By training in this manner you can progressively increase the angle and improve your physique with each subsequent workout.

TRX suspension straps are by Fitness Anywhere because you really can use them anywhere over a tree branch, pull-up bar, joist, or even on a door frame.

If you want to know more or have a training session let me know,

Nathan Jordan

614 499-4633

http://www.jackhammermusclesculpting.com/

http://www.jackhammerstrength.com/