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The Ideal Virtual Instructor: Who Has What It Takes to Represent HOTWORX?

At HOTWORX, fitness isn’t just a routine…it’s a revolution! Our unique blend of infrared heat, isometrics, and high-intensity interval training inside virtually instructed saunas has created a workout model that’s changing lives. And behind every powerful workout is a Virtual Instructor (VI) who brings energy, precision, and passion to the screen.

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June 19, 2022

What is “Overweight”?

Sometimes people will ask me what I think constitutes being “overweight”. Overweight can mean different things to different people.

June 12, 2022

Don’t Skip the Workout Warmup!

Have you ever taken yoga from an instructor who skips the warmup? What about a personal training session with a trainer who starts you off with no warmup sets or active stretching?

June 5, 2022

Infrared Cross Training for Accelerated Performance

By practicing cross training an individual is able to work muscles and make strength, flexibility, cardio and endurance gains from all different angles, thereby reinforcing the performance for the main activity, or sport.

May 31, 2022

Get More From Your Workouts in Less Time

Training inside of an infrared sauna is a fitness game changer for time management. Take back an hour from your weekday and reduce your necessary gym time. Think of what you can accomplish with an extra 5 hours during your work week!

May 23, 2022

Infrared Training and Mental Focus

The importance of the mind/body connection is well documented when it comes to athletics and fitness. It requires mental clarity and focus.

May 15, 2022

Fat Oxidation and Infrared Training

Fat slows you down! If you want to be a lean, mean productive machine, then you need to lose the fat.

May 8, 2022

Do You Have What It Takes to Be a HOTWORX Virtual Instructor? Last Chance!

In order to produce high quality workouts on video to be served up virtually, there still has to be a talented fitness instructor on the set to lead the workouts for filming. This is why HOTWORX decided several years ago to hold an international Virtual Instructor Competition each year at their franchise convention.

May 2, 2022

Infrared Acclimation Training

I am confounded at times when I see a video or read an article from so called fitness experts who extol the ineffectiveness of training in the heat. They even claim that there is no detox from sweating.

April 25, 2022

Infrared Sauna Sessions = More Oxygen, and More Fat Burn

It is well known that infrared sauna sessions can increase blood flow and expedite the absorption of oxygen into the bloodstream. This is due to the nitric oxide effect.

April 17, 2022

Anthony Walker Signs Franchise Agreement for HOTWORX Location in South Florida

Anthony Walker has made a name for himself in the NFL as a linebacker known for his range, physicality and leadership on the field. Recently Anthony decided to put that competitiveness to work off the field as well in the fitness business.

April 10, 2022

A Fitness Ascent Based on Desire

It’s been almost two months since our HOTWORX team climbed to the summit of Kilimanjaro. That magnificent mountain, “Kili”, as it is referred to by the locals, is the world’s tallest free standing mountain.

April 4, 2022

More Than a Quarter Century of Spa and Fitness Franchising

I have to say a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our franchise organization with this article. Last Friday, April 1st, the company turned 26 years old!

March 28, 2022

Infrared Workouts, Intermittent Fasting and Diet Tracking

Research has shown that exercise and exposure to infrared energy and heat can accelerate the metabolism. When infrared training is combined with intermittent fasting and a disciplined logging of food intake, your fitness results can catapult onto the fast lane.

March 20, 2022

Find Your Summer Workout Shred with Infrared

We talk a lot about wellness in this weekly HOTWORX Blog, and rightly so. Infrared training is a super healthy form of exercise.

March 13, 2022

Focus on the Calorie Burn with Infrared Training

Every week I read about, and I listen to, numerous new success stories about how infrared training at HOTWORX has helped customers go beyond their fitness goals.

March 7, 2022

Infrared, Foam Rolling, and Detox

The practice of foam rolling as a part of your workout routine can be helpful for detox, especially when combined with exposure to infrared heat.

February 27, 2022

Infrared Generates Radiant Heat for Recovery During Exercise

I am amazed sometimes when I see very smart people making outlandish claims about infrared, and it is obvious that they have a very limited understanding of infrared saunas.

February 20, 2022

Kilimanjaro Cardio

Our mission involved a major cardio challenge. We were to get to the top of Kilimanjaro with the fastest, most difficult route to raise money and awareness of a place in the Black Hills of South Dakota known as Sacred Mountain Retreat Center @sacredmtn.

February 13, 2022

Hike for Heroes

SO the trek begins in a few hours. We leave our hotel which is literally down a dirt road in the middle of nowhere between the town of Moshi and the giant Mt. Kilimanjaro here in Tanzania.

February 6, 2022

Active Recovery and Pain Free Infrared Training

I always refer to the HOTWORX 3D Training Method as active recovery. I actually call it a “recovery workout” in conversation a lot.

January 30, 2022

Stay Active with Infrared Training

I’ll be 59 in March and I want to continue snow skiing and climbing mountains for as long as possible. With that in mind, I know from personal experience the best way to keep the action going is to practice infrared training for fitness.

January 24, 2022

Yoga in a Sauna

The breakout year was 2014. Looking back, it was a year of self discovery for me, but also one of business discovery. It was a year of self discovery due to a change in my personal fitness path.

January 16, 2022

Infrared Workouts and Your Photoreceptors

What you see with your eyes is the most advanced form of photo-reception. But did you know that scientists have recently discovered that humans have light sensor molecules within the body, but outside of the eyes?

January 9, 2022

Detox Strategy for 2022: Infrared Training + Diet Tracking

It’s a new year, it’s 2022. Maybe this year should be the year to make detox a priority. Your body is invaded daily by harmful substances known as either toxins from natural, organic sources or toxicants like air pollution which are human made.

January 3, 2022

First Ever Integrated Dual Tracking 90 Day Challenge Fitness App

Last week I announced the company’s intention to launch an innovative new update, Diet Trax, (which is now available) to its workout Burn Off App.