Get more out of your cardio workouts and do it in less time! Are you one of those people who faithfully do long, steady cardio workouts? I see people at the gym running, cycling, stepping, etc, while reading a magazine, or plugged in to TV or iPod and usually with a bored, joyless expression. If [...]
Some advertising on our behalf said “Sit-ups remain one of the best methods of reshaping the abdomen. . . ” This is NOT true and we DO NOT ever do sit ups. Sit ups will eventually cause damage to most people and, other than making the rectus abdominis thicker (a thicker waist?), they have no [...]
“Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.” -Viktor Frankl It is often said that a goal not written is only a wish. When I can get personal training clients to write their goals and chart their progress they make better progress and they [...]
“Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don’t like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don’t necessarily enjoy.” Earl Nightingale Life is just a series of habits. The trick is to form the right ones. Here is some good news and some bad news on habits. Good [...]
“Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.” -Rosalind Russell Bulletin: A person can be beautiful (handsome) and NOT be thin and thin is NOT necessarily beautiful. This is not a “Big Is Beautiful” endorsement because that isn’t true either. I’d love it if nobody had an extra pound, but beauty is much more complicated that weight or [...]
One of the keys to weight loss and over all fitness is to eat, eat, eat! Being hungry is bad, bad, bad! Now having said that, we must remember to do it right. That means we eat 5 – 6 times a day, small meals always including some protein and fat. ( see http://www.fitmaniaboise.com/eat-to-lose-weight.html ) The problem most [...]
I started being interested in fitness in the early eighties and for most of the years since then I believed everyone should workout an hour a day. Ten years ago I did a few 12 week sessions of Body for Life and learned that four hours a week could be at least as effective. Last spring [...]
“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.” -Buddha I loathe diets and programs. These books and programs have messed with a lot of minds and bodies so I have never recommended or written one but a good friend and client of mine gave me some advice. He said that when people are [...]
Diets* don’t work. We know it and yet they are ubiquitous. It seems that every other person you know is dieting and the book stores always have a new program on display. Let’s look at why they don’t work and offer an easier alternative. Main Reason Diets Don’t Work: Going without enough food is like [...]
I will soon be 55 years old. Is that old? I just can’t seem to grasp it. Do I look it? I don’t think so but nobody my age thinks they look it. Certainly no one wants to look any older than they have to. Here are a few things I have learned about looking and feeling younger. 1. Exercise. [...]
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