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WOULD YOU FUEL YOUR BRAND NEW FERRARI WITH FRENCH FRY GREASE?
I hope this title grabbed your attention and made you start thinking about how you fuel the most finely tuned piece of precision machinery you own—YOUR BODY.
As I was fueling my car at the gas station yesterday, I started looking at all of the other customers around me and I noticed something. Most of them were...
“DO AS I SAY” NOT AS EFFECTIVE AS “DO AS I DO”
If you ever need to take a look at yourself, no mirror is necessary. Just stop and look at your children. On a daily basis my children will do something that all of a sudden I realize is something that I do. It mostly makes me laugh but then at times, cringe. Even at their young ages of three and a half and seventeen months they have picked up both the good and the not-so-good.
The good: I got home from a run...
SNACK ATTACK
I am a huge fan of the snack! Even the word is fun to say and makes me smile. For some, snacking, when done properly, can help support a healthy diet and weight loss plan by decreasing the time between meals, without which for some means overeating later on. And many people feel more alert and have an improved mood as a result. As I reflect over my career as a professional fitness trainer, I think the number...
BODYWEIGHT EXERCISES: EXERCISE FOR WHEREVER YOU ARE
Finding ways to incorporate exercises wherever you are may enhance your ability to stick with an exercise regimen and see positive long-term results. When on the road traveling for work, I often find myself in situations where I don’t have the luxuries of the same weight room I am used to at home. As a result, I often look to bodyweight exercises as a way to do resistance training. For the exercises to be effective for...
