There are many factors that come into play in any effective and efficient strength training program but intensity may be the most important factor of all. Becoming leaner and stronger is not just about the exercises you do…but more importantly about how you do them. Its form, focus and intensity that count. Simply going through [...]
If you’re like most people that begin a serious quest towards health and fitness you believe that “more is more.” The more you do the better off you will be and the quicker you will see the results you are after. You hit the gym 6 days a week and you give it 110 percent [...]
Do you wake up early so you can get your work-out in before you start your day? If so, your self-discipline and diligence should be congratulated. If however you wake and run out the door to your local gym without fueling your body first, you need to rethink your position. How do you expect your [...]
If you hope to experience and maintain any lasting effective results from exercising then what you are doing must challenge the body over and beyond what it is presently experiencing doing everyday tasks and activities. In truth, when we exercise, we are attempting to cause the body to adapt to a specific imposed stimulus. In [...]
Although the green leafy vegetable kale may not have found its way into your kitchen yet, this super vegetable is not new. Research suggests that kale originated likely in eastern Mediterranean or possibly Asia Minor. As the rising star in the vegetable superfood world, this leafy green is quite primitive having been gathered, eaten and [...]
Often when people decide to make a lifestyle change and start a fitness plan or eat better they manage to get one or two components right but neglect to have a complete plan. If major changes are needed with your health, such as losing weight, restoring good health or putting the brakes on aging you [...]
Many people mistakenly believe that weight loss is just a process that begins when you make changes to your eating or activity levels and ends when you have lost the weight. But this is not the best way to view it as if you do not make lasting changes you will end up back at [...]
For the most part, when we think about our metabolism it is in relation to our body weight and it is an easy way to assess the health and condition of your body’s engine and your fuel burning capacity is whether you are storing fat or burning fat. One means you become overweight and the [...]
For the last few decades losing weight was all about restricting food intake and adding lots of low intensity long duration activities in the hope of forcing our body to use up its fat stores. We have all been conditioned by the billion dollar weight loss industry to believe that it was all about losing [...]
Just 30 years ago diabetes was an old person’s problem but no longer. Young people who are not even yet into their teens are being diagnosed in frightening numbers. In just 10 years the incidence of children needing medication for diabetes has increased a whopping 150 percent. This situation has become so serious that one [...]
