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Welcome to newportfit4life.com! My name is Phil Gephart and I am a Certified Personal Trainer in beautiful Newport Beach, Orange County, California. If you’re looking to get healthy and fit, you’re in the right place. I bring over ten years of experience in athletics and personal training to show you how to lose weight and get fit!
Personal Trainer, Physical Fitness, Weight Loss Coach, Nutrition Counseling, Orange County, Newport Beach, CA
Call me today for your complimentary training session– 949.786.0608
A personal trainer should be educated through a reputable fitness organization. This person’s job is to assess your fitness level, set up a program for you and keep you motivated. Sometimes you will be pushed past your comfort level– something that can be difficult to do on your own without the help of a personal trainer.
Are you ready to change your life and get fit? Getting started with a personal trainer is the easiest part of making a permanent change to be FIT 4 LIFE! Phil works with his clients at Duffy Fitness Institute in Irvine (map), but is also available for in-home training in the Greater Orange County area. Phil prides himself on teaching his clients proper functional movements and helping them to develop excellent core strength, emphasizing to his clients that it is important to be FIT4LIFE!
Phil’s Success Stories
Zhanna Rotar
“Training with Phil is really a breath of fresh air. His knowledge of the body and how it moves makes our training sessions not only intense, but extremely productive. My body is my career and I take great pride in how I look and the exercises I use to reach my results. I trust Phil totally and encourage anyone to check him out as well.Read more about Zhanna”
Paul Ingle
“I’ve told myself for several years that I’m going to change my diet and exercise more, but I’ve always found excuses to put it off. It wasn’t until I was introduced to Phil Gephart at Newport Fit 4 Life that I actually started to work towards the goals I set long ago. This has been one of the most self satisfying rewarding things I have ever accomplished. I’m down to a weight that I never thought I could get to 6 months ago.
I came to Phil during a time when I was experiencing small heart issues that I’ve been trying to figure out how to get rid of for 4 years. I had two doctors tell me to lose weight and my problems will go away. Thanks to Phil’s strong exercise programs I’ve been able to lose the weight I need and get rid of my heart issues once and for all.The best part of the whole experience so far has been the results. I feel stronger, healthier and more alert.”
Charlene
“Phil helped me get myself into modeling shape! He is very smart and knowledgeable in the ways of health and fitness and I have learned so much about diet and good body maintenance that I never knew before. I enjoy the fact that every training session is different. We could go 2 months without doing the same exercises again. That is what makes it so fun, you’re working out your whole body and you don’t even know. ”
Melissa McCune
“As a personal trainer myself I was finding that a long day of motivating my clients and pushing them towards their fitness goals was keeping me from giving my all in my personal workouts. Training with Phil gave me the push I needed to be an example of what I teach others to do. Phil has the intuition to push me when I need it and tells me to back off when I want to push myself too hard. It is also great to have him there to watch and critique my form, because no matter how many years you have been doing this… you can’t see yourself while concentrating on the exercise at hand. I have really seen an increased benefit in my workouts since working out with Phil!”
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Personal Trainer, Physical Fitness, Weight Loss Coach, Nutrition Counseling, Orange County, Newport Beach, CA
It’s Time to Change Your Life, for Life!
Are you ready to change your life and get fit? Getting started with a personal trainer is the easiest part of making a permanent change to be FIT 4 LIFE! Fill out this form now and get a free training session with Phil Gephart, Orange County Personal Trainer.
The Challenge For A Healthy 2012…
To kick off the New Year I thought about what better way to start than to start the year off right with the proper nutrition. Being a personal trainer here in Orange County I am always asked about what to eat. Fitness is not just about working out. So many factors come into play regarding proper health. Nutrition & diet is a HUGE part of it.
So many of my clients here in Orange County have struggled with what to eat over the years that I’m going to make it REALLY simple. I’m reducing all of our diets…yes, I am doing this as well…to the bare minimum – To the macro and micronutrients that we need to survive and operate at our peak level, and nothing else.
Paul Chek talks about the 3 choices we always make: the optimal, the suboptimal, and the indifferent.
-The optimal always produces the best outcome for everyone involved.
-Suboptimal often produce what we want, but create friction in relationships with others. They cause pain, but they are still useful choices because they produce life experience, which is necessary if we are to evolve.
-The indifferent choice is choosing to do nothing. It is almost always the worst decision we can make because it halts our own self-evolution.
So for the month of January I am choosing to only eat meats, eggs, above ground vegetables, olive oil, coconut oil & avocado. Organic is preferred and HIGHLY recommended. Veggies served raw are also HIGHLY recommended (although I’m sure I’ll cook some as well).
Many people call this the “Paleolithic diet” as it is the way our prehistoric ancestors ate. It basically is the scientific way we are supposed to eat for the peak performance of our bodies. We weren’t meant to eat sugar, gluten, alcohol and the like.
The results you will experience will be greater than you expected. How you will feel and the energy you will have will be off the charts. What we are doing is eliminating all of the common food allergies and detoxifying our bodies by focusing on what it REALLY needs and not filling our bodies with things that harm it. No gluten. No grain. No soy. No dairy. No caffeine. No alcohol. No corn.
Science has taught us that it is not fat that causes us to get fatter. It is carbohydrates. Insulin is the hormone that causes fat to stay on our body. I wish all personal trainers taught this belief. They do not. Many health professionals (personal trainers, strength coaches, nutritionists, dieticians, weight loss experts, etc) teach the “calories in vs. calories out” mantra. That if you burn more calories than you consume you will lose weight. Science tells us that this is simply not true.
***Do NOT count calories.
This month long diet will eliminate carbohydrates (except for the fibrous type found in some above ground veggies). Some people may feel a loss of energy for a week or so. Fear not. This will go away and your energy levels will rebound even higher than before you started this diet challenge.
***I have done this challenge in the past and people have had some questions. So to clear up some things that ARE acceptable:
Butter-I recommend and use KerryGold. They use
dairy from grass fed cows. Do NOT use margarine.
Raw nuts- these are encouraged as a snack.
Salt/Pepper-used in moderation are ok. I only recommend Himalayan or celtic sea salt, NO table salt should be used.
Just try it…
If you’ve been struggling with getting rid of fat what is it that is keeping the fat on? Whatever you are doing it isn’t working. It’s time to try an alternative method to fat loss. What’s the worst that could happen? The science has shown that eating a paleo style diet will cause the fat to melt off. It is simply the right way to eat.
I challenge everyone reading this blog post to participate with me and see how great your body can look AND feel in just 30 days. But I’m guessing that after the 30 days are up you will want to continue to eat this way because of what great strides you have made in your health. If you want to eat any of the “banned substances” after 30 (or more) days then we’ll reintroduce ONE AT A TIME to see if you are intolerant to it AS WELL AS show you how your body reacts to it. Right now you can’t tell how it reacts because it’s been desensitized over the years.
Your gut wall will be in better shape making food more digestible by the body. You won’t experience dips in your energy (like after lunch) as often.
Your sense of smell and taste could even improve!
The two other things that are necessary that I’ve preached since day one are:
1. Drink 1/2 your bodyweight in ounces of water per day! (So if you’re 150lbs you drink 75oz/day) Drink more on days you work out.
2. Be in bed AND ASLEEP by 10:30pm. NO EXCEPTIONS. This will allow proper rest for the muscles (the most metabolically active organ in the body) and reduce stress-inducing hormones like cortisol (promotes belly fat) and raise stress relieving hormones like melatonin.
Please pass this blog along to anyone who you think would want to join us…
Let’s all get lean, healthy and strong in 2012 and let’s do it together!!
