Ron Adams has been one of Maryland’s leading bodybuilders for the past decade. Nowadays he is one of four
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owners of Evolution’s Body Clinic, arguably the finest fitness facility in the crab state. Ron and his partners are redefining the benchmark by which commercial fitness facilities throughout the United States are judged. The Evolutions high-tech training facility covers 22,000 square feet and is located in an upscale section of Annapolis, Maryland, home of the United States Naval Academy. More than a gym, Evolutions presents clients a comprehensive approach to the care and servicing of the human body. Imagine a shopping mall for the physique that houses a consortium of businesses, all dedicated to improving the body or the mind in one way or another. Going into their fourth year, Evolutions started life as a 3,000 square foot personal training studio for private clients. As word spread the clientele grew exponentially; their expertise caused local physicians to begin referring clients to Evolutions for rehabilitation, weight loss and diabetes management. Evolutions outgrew two successive facilities inside three years until they landed in their current super-sized facility.
Check out some of the features offered by this fitness mega-center:
Cardio equipment area w/
plasma TV’s
Private fitness facility separate
from public facility
Classical Pilates studio and
Power Pilates Teacher Training
Exercise class and seminar
room
Nutrition and Nutritional test
& measurements facility
Infrared Treatment Room
Comfortable men’s and
women’s lounges
Chiropractic
Acupuncture
Massage
Personal and Executive
Coaching
State of the Art Fitlinxx Training
Partner Network
Elegant retail facility
Evolutions allocates 5,000 square feet to the “open maintenance weight training and cardio area” which houses every conceivable piece of weight training equipment, including twenty-two weight machines and twenty-five aerobic devices. The “Private fitness” training room is roughly 1500 square feet gym and is a complete gym reserved for private one-on-one training. Six trainers can work with 12- 15 clients at a time. Other services include one of the finest Pilates training centers on the east coast. Erin Horst, President and coowner, is a senior level Pilates teacher/trainer and was awarded the Mid-Atlantic teacher/training affiliate center for Howard Sischel’s Power Pilates.
Evolution also offers clients Power Yoga classes. Dr. John Michie has a suite of offices within the complex and offers chiropractic, applied kinesiology, clinical nutrition, trigger point therapy and rehabilitation services. Locker rooms are equipped with space-age FAR-infrared dry heat sauna. Each locker room has whirlpool and full shower facilities; acupuncture and massage therapy are offered within the confines of the Evolution’s Body Clinic complex. Thirty people staff the mammoth facility. Ron Adams is an integral component of Evolutions Body Clinic team. In addition to being a champion bodybuilder and a veritable physique legend in the state of Maryland, Ron is a precise, articulate businessman and one of the driving forces behind this space age fitness facility. He describes the whirlwind he finds himself in, “It is going incredibly well. We have been attempting to build a fitness facility, the likes of which has never been seen in the state of Maryland. Conceptually we want the facility to support the fitness and related needs of anyone at any age. For children we provide comprehensive day care from 6-months to 10-years of age. We believe fitness habits are best ingrained young and to that end we provide a martial arts program called Little Dragons.
We also provide fitness programs designed to expose adolescents to the joy of fitness. The goal is to counter the obesity epidemic that plagues the nation’s young. This total approach to children’s fitness has been a huge hit.” This is just one aspect of the Evolution fitness menu. Ron was extremely excited about a computerized fitness program called Fit-Linxx and explained how it works. “Fit-Linxx allows a person to receive customized personal training information during the workout. Members are given a customized workout program and this is loaded into the CPU. Each member is assigned a five digit code and each exercise station in our maintenance area has a touchscreen kiosk that allows the user to log in. Evolutions’ Fitlinxx program provides state-of-the-art fitness solutions. Fitlinxx allows your exercise routines to be customized, using touch-screen monitors coupled with Evolutions fitness equipment. Fitness routines are established, recorded, adjusted, and automatically updated via the Fitlinxx network. You can monitor your own progress at the Evolutions main kiosk or on-line at www.fitlinxx.com. Fitlinxx guides you through customized exercise routines, targeting your individual needs, and producing motivating results. How does it work? Touch screens, known as the “training partner”, are installed on Evolutions fitness equipment for personally guided training. When a member checks in at Evolutions’ main kiosk and keys in an assigned pin number, all “training partners” are alerted that their workout is beginning.
The “training partner” will remind the member of position settings, target sets, repetitions and weights to be used, all of which are specifically designed for that individual. Guide bars on the touch screens also encourage proper form, range of motion, and repetition speed. Program progress statistics are accessible at the main kiosk or online. “At Evolutions we have a membership of over 900 clients and Fit- Linxx keeps our management team apprised of everyone’s progress. Anytime a client uses a machine the results are deposited in a central data bank. I can call up information on any client at any time and review their progress: how often are they coming in, how are they progressing in relation to the predetermined goal?” Ron Adams and the crew must be doing something right: in a business where client turnover is a harsh fact of life, the Evolution comprehensive approach is attracting clients and keeping them for the long haul. “Amazing as it seems, we have a 100% client retention rate since we opened the latest and largest Evolution’s facility 13-months ago.” Ron is quick to point out that Parrillo nutritional products form one of the cornerstones of his approach to fitness. “I’ve used Parrillo products since I started bodybuilding. I use them to this day. When a new client comes in we set up a nutritional game plan and part of the plan is the intelligent use of nutritional supplementation.
Parrillo Performance Products are what we recommend to all our clients. We are getting incredible results using the Parrillo Products. One client that comes to mind dropped from 335 pounds to 225 pounds in sixteen weeks.” Not all of Ron’s time is spent working with others; he feels ready to jump back into the competitive bodybuilding wars. “I took a year off from competitive bodybuilding in order to devote 100% of my available energy to launching our new facility. This November I will be entering the NPC National Championships in Atlanta, Georgia.” Ron stands 5-9 and currently weighs 251 with a 9% body fat percentile. He intends to step onstage weighing a shredded 225- pounds with 3-4% body fat. We asked Ron to outline his dietary and training approach and he was lucid and detailed: “I consume the same foods all year round; I have problems digesting refined and fast foods and therefore I maintain a healthy diet all year. I’m a firm believer that “bulking up” in the offseason is wrong. Instead I “muscle up” during the winter months. This approach avoids excessive weight gain and since the weight gained using the bulk up approach is water retention or body fat, why bulk up? I advise this same sane, healthy approach to eating for all my clients: the healthy clients and my clients with high blood pressure, diabetes, colitis, IBS, diverticulities, cancer or MS.”
Meal I
24 egg white omelet w/ spinach,
mushrooms and peppers; 2 pears;
1 Advanced Lipotropic™; 1 Mineral
Electrolyte™; 1 Essential Vitamin
Meal II
16 oz baked chicken; 2 cups cut
green beans; 1.5 cups of plain grits;
1 Advanced Lipotropic™
Meal III
16 oz baked tilapia fish; vegetable
medley 2 cups; 2 apples; 1 Essential
Vitamin™; 1 Mineral Electrolyte
™; 1 Advanced Lipotropic
Meal IV
16 oz Sautee ground turkey w/
onions, peppers and mushrooms;
1 cup brown rice; 2 cups
of broccoli; 1 Advanced Lipotropic
Meal V
16 oz salmon; 2.5 cups mixed
veggies; 1 Mineral Electrolyte™;
1 Essential Vitamin™; 1 Advanced
Lipotropic™
Meal VI
Same as meal V - food selection
may change
TRAINING SPLIT
Monday
Hamstrings and abdominals
Lying leg curls 3 sets; standing leg
curls 3 sets; leg extensions 3 sets;
step-ups 3 sets; abdominals 4
sets; hyper extensions 3 sets
Cardio: 20 minutes
Tuesday
Back and shoulders
Dumbbell rows 5 sets 12-15 reps
150-pound dumbbells; deadlifts 5
sets up to 500-pounds for 12-15
reps; lat pulldowns 5 sets 300-
pounds for 12-15 reps;
Cardio: 20 minutes
Wednesday
Legs
Squats 5 sets up to 585-pounds
for 10-12 reps; leg press up to
1800-pounds 15-20 reps;front
squat (machine) 585-pounds for
15-20 reps; stiff leg deadlifts up
to 405 for sets of 12-15 reps;
seated leg curls 5 sets up to 300
pounds for 12-15 reps; standing
calf raise 250-pounds for 25 reps
Thursday
Chest and arms
Incline barbell press up to 150-
pound dumbbells for 10-12 reps
or incline barbell press up to 450
for 6-8 reps; pec contractor upto
220 for 10-12 reps; alternate
dumbbell curls 5 sets up to 75
pounds for 10-12 reps; barbell
curl 5 sets up to 185-pounds for
12-15 reps; lying barbell tricep
extensions 5 sets up to 205-
pounds for 12-15 reps; triceps
pushdown 5 sets up to 220-pounds
for 12-15 reps
Cardio: 20 minutes
Friday
exercises will vary
Saturday and Sunday
rest
“My exercise selection changes
from week to week, as will my rep
scheme. For example one week I
may concentrate on sets in the 12-
15 rep range. The following week
I might drop to 10-12 reps and in
subsequent week drop to sets in the
6-8 rep range and finish with a
week of sets in the 4-6 rep range.
Then I return to 12-15 rep sets and
start the process all over. This repvarying
method allows me to stay
enthused and fresh and builds both
muscle strength and muscle condition.
Continual repetition variation
keeps me from getting bored or
stale. I maintain a more ‘refined’
off-season appearance as a direct
result.”
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