It’s Ok To Say “It’s Ok”
The one aspect of health and fitness that isn’t spoken about much today is mindset. There are magazines and books covering nutrition, workouts, and supplements. And yet one of the biggest players in seeing real results, mindset, isn’t explored. The fact is, a negative mindset can be so powerful, that it can completely derail any effort…
Exercise Intensity: How To Determine What’s Appropriate
Intensity is a word often misunderstood in the fitness community. Many believe, in order to see results, they need a workout that leaves them vomiting, sweating buckets, and hardly walking the next day. There’s also the opposite end of the spectrum where reading the newspaper and pedaling aimlessly on a recumbent bike go hand in hand toward…
Carbohydrates: The Nutrient Everyone Loves To Hate
The topic of nutrition is a funny thing. It seems like everything changes on a day to day basis. One day it’s fine to eat 3 meals a day, the next day you must be eating 6 meals a day to maximize fat loss. One day the media reports that fat causes heart disease, the next day…
Nutrition Tips for the Holiday Season
With Thanksgiving approaching quickly, I wanted to dedicate a short article to providing a couple of nutrition tips to keep you on track. Holidays are one of the guaranteed times of the year where people seem to struggle sustaining their nutritional goals. With all the family gatherings and extreme amounts of food, it’s easy to see…
Lose Fat with Green Tea
Tea is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world, and for good reason. It has a host of benefits, especially green tea. One study showed a reduction in fasting blood glucose and insulin resistance in mice consuming green tea extract (1). These are two big markers of diabetes. Another study showed green tea…
Nutritional Tips While Traveling
Nutrition seems to be the #1 struggle for people when attempting to lose weight. Rightly so. With all the sugar, fat, and other chemicals loaded into food these days it’s incredibly difficult to give that up for broccoli. But once a change is made, the benefits are seen quickly. You notice you aren’t as hungry…
Find the Problem, Fix the Problem
Once you begin changing the way your body looks, there are a lot of variables that factor into your success like exercise, nutrition, and sleep. Unfortunately these variables can also play a part in holding you back from achieving your ultimate goal. Each one can present unique problems that could stop you from seeing any changes. For instance,…
5 Fitness and Nutrition Myths
There are a lot of myths surrounding the fitness and nutrition industries these days. With all the information available on the internet and all the “studies” coming out, its no easy task sifting through it all to determine what’s right and what’s wrong. Unfortunately many truths, as claimed by the media and biased researchers, are…
Why Diets Suck
Dieting is a term our nation is quite familiar with. As the rates of obesity rise, we are more aware of its long term effects on our life and health. With this mind, dieting has become very popular. But what exactly does the word diet mean? Well, according to Merriam-Webster, a diet is defined as…