Whenever you make major lifestyle changes, including adopting a new exercise or strength training program you’ll likely go through 5 stages before succeeding. Five Stages to Fitness Health: Pre-contemplation – As the title implies, at this stage, you are not yet contemplating or thinking about starting an exercise program or making any permanent lifestyle changes. [...]
Stay on track with your health and fitness goals: Begin each day by self-reflection. After waking, think of something that you want to accomplish that day. Make it something you can achieve with some effort but don’t get crazy with it. The idea is to boost your self-esteem so that you can reach short [...]
If your mindset is far from optimal when it comes to the thoughts and beliefs it entertains about your health and fitness goals, if your mindset could use some strengthening, there are tools you can use that will help to strengthen your current position, foster a more positive and growth-oriented mindset and help you to [...]
People are being robbed of their healthy years and most do not even realize it until the timing is too late. Chronic disease is a modern health holocaust and accounts for 70% of all deaths. Diseases that are incurable and continue to slowly worsen during a person’s lifetime fall into [...]
Before starting and succeeding with any diet plan, you must have the right mindset in place. Your mind is a powerful dictator over what you do so if it’s primed to set you up for failure you can only imagine the course of events that will follow. However, if it’s primed to set you up [...]
A really important aspect to achieving success in any endeavor is the creation of proper goals. Without goals…there is no direction to focus on and without direction and no real firm game plan your ideas will just be floating around in your head with nowhere to go. Proper goals allow us to view exactly where [...]
“Habits begin like flimsy cobwebs at first and are strengthened day by day to become like unbreakable cables to shackle or strengthen our lives”. For many, the word discipline is a dirty word. But, in reality, the opposite is true. Self-discipline is the act of doing what you believe in your heart is best for [...]
Believe it or not, we are now empowered to influence the aging process. The fountain-of-youth that once seemed so elusive is literally revealing itself to our understanding as researchers and scientists probe the workings of our DNA. Thanks to science we now understand that protecting the cell’s DNA…most specifically the telomeres is the key to [...]
Endorphin’s are certain chemicals that can cross through the gaps between neurons and pass along messages from one to the next. There is a huge variety of endorphins and science is just beginning to tap into and understand information about their different functions and purposes. There is however one thing [...]
Many people start an exercise program looking to achieve changes to physical appearance – weight loss, less body fat, firmer and more toned muscles, improved heart health and so on. But there are many more health benefits from exercise that you cannot see. These “invisible” often hidden benefits are just as important, if not more [...]
