GainsWithoutPains offers a variety of lifestyle programs and classes, available either in your doctor’s office or at the Center for Active Lifestyle Medicine in Irvine. You can consult our Weekly Class Schedule for class descriptions and times, and use our convenient on-line registration process to sign up for those that seem of interest. We provide classes in exercise and fitness, and diet and nutrition.
We also offer seasonal group detox sessions, lectures on fitness and nutrition, and the screening of movies that deal with nutrition and environmental issues. These items are listed on the Events Calendar in the column to the right.
Bob Tygenhof
A personal trainer certified by the American College of Sports Medicine – the oldest, largest, and most widely respected organization that certifies fitness professionals – Bob received his Fitness Specialist training and certification from Irvine Valley College.
While personal training is a second career for Bob, fitness is not. He wrestled and rowed crew while at Princeton University and was a 4-6 mile per day runner through grad school at USC and early fatherhood. Bob returned to weight lifting some 20 years ago and currently cycles through a varied workout of aerobic and resistance exercises 7 days per week.
In the 1970’s and 80’s Bob remembers eating a Pritikin Diet which gradually transformed into a modified Mediterranean Diet in the 90’s and early 2000’s. For the past 15 years or so, he’s been on a Paleo diet and now regrets ever eating anything out of a box, can, or sealed plastic bag. He adds legumes and non-gluten whole grains to his diet to make his microbiota happy. Give them a try; they’ll make the 100 trillion little critters in your gut happy, too.
He sleeps 7 to 7½ hours per night and wishes he could find the time to squeeze in another half hour. He also does BreathWorks meditation several times every day, especially on his drive to work – it makes all the other idiots on the road infinitely more tolerable.
While this is all well and good, the big question is this: does it make a difference? Click here to find out.