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There’s an inevitable rhythm to January 1. You take down the tree, vacuum up pine needles, and start making New Year’s resolutions. The list usually looks like this: Lose weight. Swear off TV and saturated fat. Eat salads. Write that novel. And Floss. By midday your worn out, intermittently dozing in front of a football game and swiping from a plate million-calorie nachos. Sound familiar? In fact, about a third of New Year’s resolvers make weight loss their primary goal, and about 15% aim to begin an exercise program.

It’s not that you totally lack discipline. It’s just that you don’t sufficiently appreciate what’s going on in your brain. Self-restraint is a rational desire, which means it lives in the front of the brain, the section that’s most recently evolved and most vulnerable to being overruled by survival instincts. Pleasure resides in the brain’s most primitive part, which has spent millions of years learning to reward us with a deeply satisfying jolt of dopamine when we give in to these kinds of urges.

So how do you help the rational (i.e., your New Year’s resolutions) triumph over the pleasure-seeking? You need to outsmart it with these research-proven strategies.

1. Give It a Workout

You always thought of willpower as a steady, steely resolve that made some women triathletes and some couch-nappers. But it’s more like a muscle, the well-known addiction treatment center. That means the more we use it, the stronger it gets — and quickly.
To try this at home, squeeze a grip strengthener (available at sporting-goods stores for under $10) or a rubber ball till it becomes uncomfortable, then hold as long as you can. Repeat at least twice a day. But, as with a muscle, push too hard or under conditions that are too challenging, and your resolve (like an overworked hamstring) will collapse. “If you’re very hungry, no amount of willpower will keep you for overindulging in empty calorie pleasures,” Gerardo Lambert, president of Door to Door Fitness says.

Because bodies are living, breathing matter, they need to be stimulated in order to become more fit. This means exercise is ideally done just outside your comfort zone. You’re taking your body a little outside where it is, because it needs that challenge – that stimulus – to be able to improve. “It’s easy to walk into a gym, and see somebody with a body that you want, and say, ‘I’m going to do everything that I can to get that,’” says Gerardo. He says some people assume they know how to achieve the perfect body, jump into a workout routine without educating themselves on proper form and use of the equipment, and then get hurt.
To ward off injury, he suggests consulting a trained professional such as a personal trainer or reading books, magazines, or reputable web sites for advice.

If you do get hurt, don’t work through it. Don’t think your whole fitness routine is out the door either. An injured shoulder does not prevent you from working out your lower body, and a sprained ankle does not mean you can’t exercise your upper body. “A sprained ankle doesn’t mean your whole body is shut down, and it doesn’t mean you can eat pizza and ice cream,” says Gerardo. “At Door to Door Fitness we help you use the rest of your body as much as you can, and still maintain exercise, and still maintain a good nutrition program. ”

2. Break It Up

Since your supply of self-control is finite, make resolutions that require small acts of will, not weeks of vigilance. “Lose 10 pounds” sounds specific, but it’s less likely to work than behavioral goals like “This week I’ll try to go to the gym three times, take the stairs at work at least twice, and bring a healthy lunch every day.” You’ll feel good when you accomplish each goal, and your success will help bolster your resolve: The better you are at making small changes, the easier it will be for you to keep going.

Resolving to get more fiber in your diet this year? Maybe more fish or fresh fruit? Any diet change is easier if you take slow, small steps. For example:

Vow to add a piece of produce to your brown bag lunch daily.
Designate a day as fish day.
Package up a single serving of your favorite whole-grain cereal, then treat it as your midmorning snack.

New Year’s Diet Resolution No 3: Water, Water, Everywhere

Water: It’s cheap, fat-free, and gives your body a quenching boost. Find the idea of eight cups a day daunting? Think small:

Drink one glass first thing in the morning, before you brush your teeth.
Tempted by more soda? Another glass of wine? Drink a cup of water with a splash of your favorite beverage in it first.
Resolve to drink one more cup of water today than you had yesterday.

4. Stack the Odds in Your Favor

Don’t forget to help yourself succeed, and to reach out for help when you need it.
-Sign up with a personal trainer who can provide the persistent accountability that you need. Or buddy up with a friend or family member with diet and weight loss resolutions. Then share your ideas, plans, and successes regularly.
-Leave the temptations — ice cream, chips, soda — at the grocery store. Promise yourself you’ll cater to cravings only outside the home, in one-serving portions.
-Socialize with non-food events. Get your friends together in the park, for a hike, or at the movies.

6. Crank Up Your Greatest Hits!

When you feel discouraged, remind yourself how much you’ve accomplished in the past. People beat themselves up about still needing to lose the baby weight or no longer going to yoga class. But they overlook the long list of things they have done that required major self-discipline, like building a nest egg or sticking with the computer training they needed in order to get a better job. Write down 100 things you’re proud of, right down to ‘I get out of bed when I don’t want to.’ It’ll remind you how much willpower you really have!

Bonus New Year’s Diet Resolution: Baby Your Body

Prevention: It’s a lot less daunting than treating a chronic condition, so do the little things that keep your body thriving.

-Get moving 30 minutes a day most days. Go for a walk, give the car a good scrub, take a hike. Whatever gets the blood pumping qualifies!
-Get those tests you know you need. Cholesterol checks, prostate exams, pap smears — stay ahead of the game by staying healthy.
-Get all the snooze-time you need. Sleep helps body and soul recharge, stay healthy, and cope with stress.

Take enough steps and you’ll reach any goal. Resolve to make a few small fitness, and diet resolutions this year and then just watch how far you’ll go!

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut— November 8, 2012—
Door to Door Fitness LLC (www.ddfitnesstraining.com),
the premium fitness service in the comfort of your own
home in Fairfield County, announced that it will begin
offering personal yoga instruction for individuals and
groups of 2-3 people. Door to Door Fitness has hired
on a Yoga Alliance, Registered Yoga Teachers certified
instructor, Lisa Murchie, who will be facilitating this department.

“Right now what people need is balance in their lives, and we plan on providing just that,” says Gerardo Lambert, president for Door to Door Fitness LLC. “We are seeing now more than ever before that people are stressed! Yoga will help our clients to feel happier, sleep better, relief aches and pains caused by stress, and build self-confidence.”
Yoga provides the perfect counterbalance to Door to Door Fitness trainer’s functional trainer techniques. Yoga is known to increase GABA levels while a regular aerobic routine increases endorphins, making Door to Door Fitness clients possibly the happiest people on earth! Studies also show that yoga releases 41 percent less of a tension-triggered cytokine (a type of protein) that can make you feel tired and moody, keeping Door to Door Fitness clientele energized through out the day and able to handle their daily challenges. And most importantly, smart yogis also know that dumbbells aren’t the only way to sculpt! Yoga is strength training. You’re using your body weight to move from posture to posture, and in certain poses, you’re lifting every pound of it. Door to Door Fitness CEO, Gerardo Lambert is certain that,“Combining yoga and functional training into a daily workout regiment is a revolutionary practice that will be sure to reshape every ones way of life.”

Door to Door Fitness’s current packages consists of private and group sessions specializing in maintaining and reaching clients goals including unique packages for bridal parties, and nutritional counseling. During the warmer seasons Door to Door Fitness offers outdoor group classes that are well received by the surrounding communities. With the holidays around the corner, Door to Door Fitness will soon be offering their yearly holiday gift packages, promotional events on Facebook, and New Years resolutions for everyone!

For 3 years, Door to Door Fitness’s philosophy has been to create lasting relationships that motivate and compliment the structure of each clients fitness routine. The brand provides an expansive knowledge of the latest fitness advancements, as well as traditional coaching methods from calisthenics to TRX Conditioning .
The company currently provides services in-home across Fairfield County. The brand launched its Fairfield County services in January 2009.

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FAIRFIELD, Connecticut— May 15, 2012— Door to Door Fitness LLC (www.ddfitnesstraining.com), the premium fitness service in the comfort of your own home in Fairfield County, announced that it will begin opening bootcamp classes across Fairfield County over the course of the summer. Currently bootcamps are being performed in Bridgeport’s Veteran’s Memorial Park on Saturday mornings. Within the month, Door to Door Fitness bootcamps will also be open to the public in Weston and Westport.
“We have decided to focus on what we do best, which is intense functional training,” says Gerardo Lambert, president for Door to Door Fitness LLC. “We are constantly evaluating our business and want to ensure that we offer customers what they want while keeping to our promise, which is to get Fairfield County moving!”
Door to Door Fitness’s current packages consists of private and group sessions specializing in maintaining and reaching clients goals, as well as unique packages from bridal parties, to nutritional counseling.
For 3 years, Door to Door Fitness’s philosophy has been to create lasting relationships that motivate and compliment the structure of each clients fitness routine. The brand provides an expansive knowledge of the latest fitness advancements, as well as traditional coaching methods from calisthenics to TRX Conditioning .
The company currently provides services in-home across Fairfield County, and now in local parks open to the public. The brand launched its Fairfield County services in January 2009.

Gerardo Lambert has always been an outstanding personal trainer, training high end executives and CEO’s in elite Manhattan gyms such as the New York Health and Racquet Club, and the New York Sports Club; but Gerardo has one uniquely convincing attribute that reveals his true determination. In 2005, Gerardo was diagnosed with an idiopathic cardiomyopathy. And in 2009, Gerardo received a heart transplant from a 20-year-old motorcyclist who lived in Minnesota.

For 15 years Gerardo dealt with subtle symptoms of cardiac disease, and never thought anything of it. “In high school, I was disqualified from a college scholarship basketball game after passing out on the court in a prior practice. I didn’t know it yet, but even then, heart disease was altering my life path.” It wasn’t until Gerardo’s late 20’s that he realized there was something much more serious happening to his heart.

Gerardo’s athletic passions and will power never waned. After high school Gerardo proceeded straight to the gym, working his way up the chain of command to become one of the top selling personal trainers. He was a gym rat to say the least, with a charming personality and a passion for fitness. His clients adored his ambition and fed off his energy. It was at this point in Gerardo’s career when the hours became long and strenuous. Gerardo was swamped with clients in the gym as well as private clients outside. His day began at 5am and ended at 10pm. “I was in peak condition, doing fitness modeling on the side, and training every hour of the day. I thought I could handle it, but my heart was silently weakening.”

It wasn’t until one morning in 2004, when Gerardo was traveling to his first client location of the day that he realized, he was extremely fatigued and out of breathe just from walking a few blocks. As the symptoms persisted for a week, he decided to make a visit to a cardiologist at Bellevue Hospital. Dr. Timothy Vittorio, who later was able to move his practice along with Gerardo, his prized case, to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he took the position as Chief Cardiologist, leading off their new branch of operations on heart transplantation. But for Gerardo, this journey was only the beginning of a downward spiral that he never would have imagined possible.

Gerardo’s girlfriend, Tiffany, had a heart condition as well. She lives with an at-birth heart condition called Patent Foramen Ovale. A more common condition where a small hole in the atrial septum, which is needed during fetal growth, failed to ever close. It then, in adulthood, allowed blood clots to freely pass threw the heart and flow quickly to the brain, increasing the chance of a stroke in patients over 40 and causing severe migraines. Tiffany was still surprised to hear the outcome of Gerardo’s diagnosis. “I remember when Gerardo broke the news to me, we were sitting in Washington Square Park and he told me he was scheduled to have a pacemaker implanted in his chest in two weeks. It was all very overwhelming, and hard to wrap my head around. He was so young, and looked so healthy.”
Tiffany’s perspective was fairly universal. The general population, even many doctors and patients, believe that heart disease patients are incapable of hard workouts, and cannot then be physically in shape. Heart patients are told to follow a strict diet from the day they are first diagnosed, with low sodium and low potassium options to lessen the swelling in their legs, and thin the blood. But doctors rarely mention to patients that they need to keep a low fat diet as well, or that they need to get cardiac exercise, just like any normal human being. It has only been a recent change in thought that patients with chronic heart failure can and should get out for a 30-minute walk everyday, or that they can lift moderate weights under supervision. Life with cardiac disease does require lots of changes, but the healthier a persons body is, the more likely that person will be able to cope with the effects of heart disease, and prolong their life expectancy.

Test results for Gerardo showed that his heart had grown over the years to the size of a football. There was no identification of the causes. His heart had grown so large that the valves no longer were able to push blood through effectively, and was pumping at only 35% oxidization. The New York Sports Club asked Gerardo to quit when they believed he was too much of a risk on the floor and began cutting his hours drastically. Over the next five years Gerardo under went three operations for replacement pacemakers, had a stroke, more than 20 heart attacks, and passed out from lack of oxygen more than twice a month. “I would walk down the street and look for soft landing areas such as a patch of grass, or even a pile of garbage bags, because I never knew when the lights would go out and I would wake up on the ground with my head pounding, and sometimes bleeding.”

None of this prevented Gerardo from doing his physical training. Though he needed more sleep, and recovery time between repetitions; he still managed to train a few loyal clients, go for 2-mile walks through Central Park, and do functional training using only his own body weight; such as push ups, squats, and leg extensions. “I watched so many others in my position give up on careers, give up on all physical activities, and just sit themselves down in wheelchairs for the rest of their lives. Having heart disease is not as discreet and forgiving as propaganda makes it out to be. People do get fired because of liabilities, lose financial stability; and then become depressed, and completely give up taking care of themselves. Without an exceptional support group, and the right guidance, cardiac patients loose the will power to live.

It was an extremely hard day for Gerardo when Dr. Vittorio told him that the medications were not working any longer. Gerardo had come down with jaundice. His body could no longer breakdown the medications that he was putting into his system. Gerardo’s heart had grown to the size of a basketball and was pumping at 10% capacity. Timothy Vittorio would need to add Gerardo’s name to the UNOS (United Network of Organ Sharing) transplant list. It was a difficult process for Gerardo to comprehend. His life until then, would end permanently. With one surgery, Gerardo’s life expectancy would begin with a 75% chance of making it past the operating room, then an average 10 years before the heart begins to reject it’s alien body. He would take over 40 pills a day, and start a lifestyle of protection against all foreign germs. He would not be able to visit family while they are sick, he would have to wear a mask while his children were sick, while in the hospital, and while cleaning or vacuuming the house. He would not be able to share foods with family, or eat at buffets, potlucks, or picnics. He would never be able to receive flowers again, garden, or have a bird or a cat. He would never have sushi again, rare steak, honey, imported cheese, or alcohol. So many restrictions, yet it was a second chance to live.

The year of 2009 was a blur of ambulances, emergency rooms, and hospital beds. Gerardo realized it was the end of the line when he was at the annual spring carnival with his children. “I was watching my little girl having fun on a ride when everything began to go dark. I grabbed onto Tiffany and prayed for my life.” Tiffany’s version was slightly intensified, “Gerardo had grabbed onto me many times before. Over the years it had become like a well-choreographed dance for us. But this time, as Gerardo’s body convulsed from lack of oxygen, I waited for the pacemaker to shock us both and bring him back to life. When it came, Gerardo continued to seizure, he didn’t relax as usual and wake up. It took ten more seconds to reboot and a second shock for his heart to stabilize. This has never happened before. A man came up through the crowd of people watching Gerardo in my arms and said ‘My father has a pacemaker, thank God for technology.’”

It would be five months before Gerardo received his new heart on June 23rd 2009. Three of those months, Gerardo would be bound to a hospital bed, attached to an Intra-aortic Balloon Pump through his groin which acted as a hand holding the heart and pumping it every second. He was in a drug-induced comma for one month to keep his heart relaxed, and lost over 40 lbs of body muscle. By the second month, his organs were failing, and when he woke up from the comma, he couldn’t remember who he was or why he was in a hospital bed. Tiffany recalls, “The doctors would tell me almost everyday that he might not make it through the week. But the weeks went by, and finally I got a call one day, that there was a heart on the way. I hurried down to the hospital. With in the hour, Gerardo would be in the operating room.”

It took another month of recovery before Gerardo was released from New York Presbyterian Hospital. Gerardo’s new heart was so strong that it took him two months to stop hearing its constant pounding in his head, and another year to begin trusting that his heart would never stop on him again. “I tell this story to everyone I meet because I believe that this experience has given me a greater appreciation for life and the body it is held in. There is never a better time than now to exercise, eat healthy, and concentrate on the positive. I am striving to do this through my attitude, through my work, and I hope to touch as many people as I possibly can!”

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January 30, 2012

Fairfield Coupon makes its debut this month with Door to Door Fitness as its largest deal so far. With $37 for $150 worth of personal training sessions, not even Groupon could surpass this offer. Fairfield Coupon is partnering with small businesses such as Door to Door Fitness to bring the discounts close to home.

Door to Door Fitness’ founder Gerardo Lambert couldn’t be happier to offer people the opportunity to get inspired and get in shape with this great deal. For only $16 per session, he is offering 2 full hours of private training, a full fitness assessment, education in proper form and injury prevention, nutritional guidance, and 100% accountability, with calls the day after each workout, and answers to any texts, anytime.

Gerardo hopes to show Fairfield that he’s not here just to make business, but to keep Fairfield healthy for the long run. After a miraculous recovery from a heart transplant in 2009, Gerardo understands the importance of good health, a balanced diet, and routine exercise. Gerardo has been a personal trainer for over 15 years in New York City were he built his reputation for quality service, and strong relationships. Gerardo is certified by the 
International Sports Sciences Association. He has had hands on experience training clients with torn ACL’s, lower back injuries, dealing with obesity and eating disorders, post-transplant recovery, cancer patients, and exercising with arthritis.

Visit the Door to Door Fitness website at www.ddfitnesstraining.com to follow up on training advice from Gerardo Lambert, and discover great deals like this one.

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Based on over 30 clients results over the past year, Door to Door Fitness has found that we are able to achieve individual’s most unimaginable goals in an average of three months. Those with memberships to the generic, oversized, machine-pumping, gyms can spend up to three years and still never find themselves fully satisfied with their self -image. How can this be true? Studies have shown that breaking years old habits and building healthier ones takes more than self-discipline to realize. It takes an objective viewer and accountability to hold a steady path on building a healthier lifestyle. Each new habit takes 21 repetitive days to accomplish before it becomes a learned and committed synaptic path in the brain. Here are five reasons why personal trainers really are cheaper than the gym:

1. $$$

The most obvious expense to achieving a healthier you, are the gym fees. These days signing up at gym has become so cheap, a ten year old could afford it. With some gyms offering monthly fees as low as $10 per month. But if you did this for over three years, with annual fees, late fees, and contractual fees, this could add up to over $500 to achieve your goals. Personal trainers at Door to Door Fitness offer package discounts as low as $480.

2. Exercise Does The Body Good!

It comes to no surprise that exercising daily keeps the heart running smoothly and helps burn unnecessary fat particles in the arteries. But with a personal trainers assistance you could lose the extra weight around your midsection, making you less prone to cancerous diseases. Or they could help you train to run that ½ marathon supporting the fight against heart disease that you’ve always wanted to do. Keeping your body in mint condition can, and most likely will, prevent you from having serious medical bills in the future costing up to and over $50,000.

3. Energy = Productivity.

The personal trainers at Door to Door Fitness are educated in the body’s metabolic functions and how to increase their productivity. Each workout is built to increase the body’s basal metabolism rate, in return giving you more energy through out the day. No more mid-afternoon coffee breaks and less empty calorie intake. Also energy equals productivity, and productivity means money in the

4. Hired. Not Fired.

Recently studies have shown that business owners and bosses are more likely to hire healthier people. It is in our genetics to believe that the healthier person is going to do a better job, and bosses can trust they will do the job right. Tavis Smiley devotes a whole chapter in his newest book FAIL UP to keeping it tight, because ‘all other things being equal, the person who looks the best – 9.9 times out of 10 – will always win.’ So go get hired, not fired. Save that salary, or even that promotion!

5. Priceless.

Do you look back on some photos and wish you could Photoshop them! Door to Door Fitness curbs your temptations by giving you the body you adore for that special event. Brides, not to worry, you can fit into that size 4 dress by the big day! MasterCard couldn’t say it better; those photos will be priceless.