Calorie Counting Made Easy
One “diet” method that will stand the test of time is calorie counting. If you’re goal is weight loss or fat loss, the amount of calories you eat each day will have the biggest outcome on your progress. With today’s technology, there are countless apps you can use to log your foods. They usually provide you…
Two Things You Need To Do To Crush Any Goal
A goal is defined as “the object of a person’s ambition or effort; an aim or desired result”. Goals are very important in life, because they push us to do something we otherwise may not have attempted. But they can be tough to accomplish. Working with clients week in and week out has given me a…
4 Tips To Make An Exercise Harder
If you’ve been going to the same gym long enough, you’ll start to notice an interesting trend. Some of the people perform the same exercises every single time. I remember one guy specifically from a gym I worked at. Each morning he came in, he did incline bench press, lat pulldowns, cable curls, and finished…
Vitamin D Can Help You Lose Body Fat? The Surprising Truth
Vitamin D deficiency is very common in America. In fact, there are roughly 3 million cases per year in the United States alone (1). Contrary to popular belief, vitamin D actually isn’t a vitamin, in the traditional sense. It’s a steroid hormone. There are two main forms, D3 and D2. D3 is found in foods like…
5 Questions You Need To Ask To Bust Through A Plateau
Why isn’t this working anymore? I thought I was doing so well? Should I just give up? All of these are common questions you may ask yourself when hitting a progress plateau. It’s easy to feel disappointed and frustrated in times like this. You had been working so hard, and all of a sudden the results…
One Easy Strategy To Decrease Your Calories Immediately
In the world of weight loss, calories are king. Study after study has shown that calories and weight are correlated (1,2). The number of calories you eat on a daily basis is the biggest determinant of seeing any drop in weight. But if you don’t count calories, it can be hard to know how many…
5 Fundamental Nutrition Habits For Fat Loss
Did you ever play sports when you were growing up? If so, your coach probably talked about the importance of fundamentals. In relation to sports, the fundamentals are the most important and basic aspects of the game. In basketball, for example, the fundamentals include passing, dribbling, and shooting. A player must build on these skills if they…
How To Get Results When You Are Short On Time
One of the biggest obstacles stopping many from getting to the gym is that they don’t have enough time. On one hand I think people lean too heavily on this excuse, but on the other I can see where they’re coming from. When you have a full time job, kids, and a host of other things…
2 Quick Fixes To Relieve Knee Pain During Squats And Lunges
One of the most frustrating things you will (or may have) encounter(ed) while training is knee pain. Unfortunately, it’s a common occurrence for many people. Anytime you are dealing with joint pain, you have to be careful. By careful, I don’t mean stop training all together. I simply mean being creative with the way you…
Eat The Foods You Love And Still Lose Weight
There are hundreds of diets flooding the nutrition industry today with the sole purpose of helping people lose weight. The bad thing is, these diets come with a strict set of guidelines to follow. One diet will tell you not to eat “this” while another says don’t eat “that”. Cravings persist when we’re in a…