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Personal Training Destination Fitness

Posted: 05/17/2012

We all know about the “Freshman 15”. It’s a high school graduate you know, knew, or know of; perhaps it was you, go away to freshman year of college, and during that first year pack on 15 pounds. It’s the “Freshman 15”. New location, new foods, differing rest and school/work schedules, friends and party’s all add up to the increased buldge....

Personal Training Stroke Awareness and Prevention

Posted: 05/03/2012

According to the American Stroke Association (ASA), a stroke is a “brain attack,” as opposed to the most commonly known “heart attack,” that affects the arteries leading to and within the brain. A stroke occurs when a blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrients to the brain is either blocked by a clot or bursts. When this happens, part of the brain...

Personal Training The 10 Commandments for Losing Weight…and Keeping it Off!

Posted: 04/04/2012

Success breeds success. What exactly, in terms of lifestyle changes, do people who have been highly successful at both losing weight and keeping it off over the long term do? That’s just what researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Colorado set out to determine when they began their on-going study called the National Weight Control Registry (www.nwcr.ws). Currently,...

Personal Training Spring is in the Air: Time to Get Moving and Get Fit!

Posted: 04/04/2012

Spring is here, the flowers are blooming and the birds are singing—the time of year for new beginnings. Now is also the time to shed your winter coat and seize the season as most likely, by now, your New Year’s resolutions have melted away just like the winter snow. Let the beauty of the weather, with its cool, clear, sunny days, not too cold and not too hot, inspire...

Personal Training Healthy Eating Tips and Tricks

Posted: 03/15/2012

Healthy Eating: Tips and Tricks for a Nutrition Transition Spring is in the air bringing changes to weather, wardrobes and waistlines. With the holidays and cold weather months behind you and plans for spring break trips, pool time lounging and outdoor activities in the near future, this is the perfect time to focus on healthy eating. In light of National Nutrition...

Personal Training The Thinning of the Herd

Posted: 02/07/2012

These past 8 weeks, the local gyms I travel to for my own “destination workout” have been fraught with frenetic activity, lines waiting for cardio equipment, people waiting for weights and machines, all of which are accompanied by the wandering of new potential “gym rats” on club tours. In general it is an overall sense of a cram fest of people all tackling...

Personal Training Application Makes All the Difference

Posted: 01/22/2012

You’ve decided, “I’m going to get into shape”. You are motivated, you are determined; you are ready to get after it. There’s no stopping you, this time. A delicious ad for a treadmill appears, and “that’s it”, “I’ll buy a tread mill and use it everyday”. You execute your purchase, obtain delivery and set up your...

Personal Training Resolution Solution 2012

Posted: 01/18/2012

Resolutions are merely a group of solutions that you intend to find and use as you move forward on the road of self improvement. The important thing is to seek out those solutions and embrace your new beginning with anticipation, positive attitude, visualizing the end goal as being already accomplished. That is, “live as if” it has already happened. It may not be...

Personal Training Let's Get Flexible

Posted: 12/13/2011

Tight muscles, cramped joints and a lethargic body is not how you want to ring in this winter season. Instead, prepare your body for winter exercise by introducing stretching into your overall health and fitness routine. Don’t worry, you don’t have to schedule tons of time to make stretching beneficial and effective. Ten minutes will do the trick.Start with the BasicsWhen...

Personal Training Routine Maintenance

Posted: 12/10/2011

Undoubtedly, all of life’s routine’s get sorely tested in the coming weeks. Our “customary and regular course of life procedures” goes out the window to make room for the varying holiday activity that ends the year. Do they have to? Well, no, they don’t. It comes down to how you view your routines, and what are THE most important routines you stick...