Her Whole Family Does P.A.C.E. Together

Dear Health Conscious Reader,

Have you heard about how fast P.A.C.E. gives you results?

It’s the easiest, quickest way to get lean and fit. P.A.C.E. works because it helps coach your body to do what it wants to do anyway. In almost no time, nature takes over and it becomes easy.

My patients who do P.A.C.E. feel so energetic, happy and transformed they tell everyone they know about it.

One of my patients, let’s call her D.W., told me that after she dropped 30 pounds of fat and shed over 25 inches, her whole family joined in. Now they all do P.A.C.E. together.

It’s fast and fun, and people enjoy doing P.A.C.E. workouts together. In fact, over the last few months, I’ve had hundreds of people from the area near my clinic call and visit to ask if we had a place where they could try P.A.C.E.

So many people are champing at the bit that I decided to team up with two local trainers to open a new P.A.C.E. fitness studio a few miles from my Wellness Center.

The trainers are my friends and fitness instructors Avis and Ciana. They’re a P.A.C.E.-certified mother-daughter team and they’re already giving several P.A.C.E. classes a day. They have dozens of students doing P.A.C.E., and more and more people sign up to join in every day.

I love to hear about their successes. S C. wrote me and said, “Working out with Ciana and Avis has done wonders for me. The work out is fun [and] it pushes you. Besides the obvious weight reduction, the program has boosted my energy and stamina.”

J.R. says, “I love the classes with Avis and Ciana … very energetic and enthusiastic! Plus, I have noticed that my lung capacity is so much better … you can feel the difference!”

But I don’t deserve the thanks. It’s the students and all of you who do P.A.C.E. who deserve a thank you.

I’m so grateful for all the support that I decided to throw a grand opening party at my new P.A.C.E. studio this coming Thursday, July 21, from 6 to 9 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend.

My whole staff will be there to say hello and talk health and wellness, what we’re doing here at the clinic and with my new Sears Center, and all about P.A.C.E.. Avis and Ciana will be there too. Just send us an e-mail and let us know you’re coming.

If you’ve never tried P.A.C.E., here’s a workout you can try for yourself. It will strengthen a body part most people ignore, but that you use constantly: your hamstring muscles.

Hamstrings are the anchors of your legs. They slow your leg down and prepare you for your heel to hit the ground when you walk or run. They also stabilize your hips so you can take the next step. And your hamstrings also keep your upper leg from over-rotating so you can walk or run in a straight line.

What does that all mean to you? Without hamstring muscles, you’d fall on your face instead of being able to walk or run. Unfortunately, doing traditional leg curls isn’t going to help. Here’s how to increase the strength of your hamstrings so they can respond to motion and gravity with natural speed and strength.

I call it a lateral hop with alternating cross reach:

1. Set up two markers or marks on the floor about six feet apart.
2. Begin by standing near left mark on only your left leg.
3. Hop off left leg over to right mark landing on only your right leg lowering yourself into a one-legged squat.
4. At the same time, reach with left arm down and across to outside of right foot.
5. Hold for one second, then hop from your right leg back over to the left mark, and squat onto your left leg.
6. Reach with your right arm down and across to the outside of your right foot and hold for one second.
7. Hop back and forth as many times as you need to to become slightly out of breath, then rest.
8. Repeat for three sets, but do not go over 20 minutes total time.

Practice doing this slowly at first to train your hamstrings to help you stay stable. To make this exercise more difficult, you can hold a small dumbbell or other weight in each hand. And to bump up the intensity even more, you can hop over something instead of hopping from marker to marker.

Remember that no matter what you do, to make it a P.A.C.E. workout you want to focus your intent on your intensity, and increase it with each set. Also, remember to accelerate the time it takes you to get to that intensity level. You can do that by decreasing your rest time, or starting off each set at a little higher intensity.

To Your Good Health,

Al Sears, MD