Fitness For Football Officials: 11 Ways to Stay Motivated in Your Fitness Program

By Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Author, Turbulence Training

Note: Most of these apply to achieving our Football Officiating Goals as well
— Todd


Today, we’re going to focus on something that I know a lot of men and women are struggling with – MOTIVATION.

So here are my top 11 inspirational tips to help motivate you to stick to your fitness plan and transform your body & life forever.


The Best Cardio for Fat Loss

over-40-joggingBy Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Author, Turbulence Training

Every day I receive an email or Facebook message asking me for thebest cardio program for fat loss.

The answer is a bit complex, so I’m going to cover it all in thisone article.


PFR 15:Fitness for Football Officials: Agility and Stretching



Join me as I discuss Agility and Flexibility with Roanoke College faculty, Dr. John Creasy and Jim Buriak. These gentlemen are experts in the field of sports fitness and training and have developed proven methods and routines to assist football officials with respect to flexibility and agility.


Elliptical Machines Suck for Fat Loss


By Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Author, Turbulence Training

Just over a year ago I was in Tampa, Florida, at another fitness seminar.

Between sessions, a physician from Georgia stopped me in the hall and said, “Hey Craig, you were right about those crosstrainer machines. I’ve had your program for a few months now and I’m getting
better results with metabolic resistance training
.”

It’s always great to meet clients, and I was curious to find out how he heard of me. Turns out, he found me through Google, landing on an article I wrote about “how elliptical machines (crosstrainers) suck for fat loss“.


The Fitness for Football Officials Collection

edJanuary was Fitness for Football Officials month. After receiving tons of emails, Facebook messages and Twitter Tweets about the topic of fitness and being in top physical condition I decided to make Fitness the theme for a month.

I reached out to my friend Craig Ballentyne to be a guest blogger for a month. Craig is a fitness guru who writes a column for Men’s Fitness and is the creator of the Turbulence Training workout program (which I follow).

This blog post will consolidate all the blog posts for the Fitness for Football Officials theme and puts them all in one location for easy reference.  Here they are in order: