A colleague recently asked me a thought-provoking question regarding the concept of maintenance as it pertains to training. To maintain means to give attention to something to ensure it is in its proper working/functioning order. So, how do we properly train with our goal being to maintain? To answer the question, let’s establish a few [...]
Imagine this: You get home from work tonight. Exhausted, you set your keys on the table and hang up your jacket. You begin thinking about what you might have in the fridge to cook for dinner as you casually thumb through your unopened mail. But then you notice a letter with a law firm logo [...]
Yes! Despite the common misconception that heavy weight-training is only for men and/or extreme body builders, this type of resistance training can help both men and women build muscles and increase bone mineral density. After more than two decades in the fitness industry, I have assisted many men and women with resistance exercise plans. Often, [...]
Happy New Year! With each new year, typically comes a new set of resolutions, but very rarely do we think of these resolutions in terms of goals. If we put as much thought and effort into making new years’ “goals” instead of just “resolutions,” we just might be more likely to actually accomplish a few [...]
I don’t know about you, but as a child, I always looked forward to the holidays because I knew I’d get time off from school, receive Christmas gifts from Santa and enjoy playing outside in the snow. As adults, though, we tend to become overwhelmed by the stress and burden of the holidays with their [...]
The combination of colder weather, longer nights and the many food-centric events of the holiday season often leave us peering into the bathroom mirror on New Year’s Day, wondering where that beach body we were so proud of just a few months ago disappeared to. The truth is, we nibbled away at that tanned, toned [...]
In recent presentations on BBC News, researchers have challenged the assumption that weight gain, particularly in children, is caused by a lack of exercise. The investigators followed a group of more than 200 children for 11 years, regularly monitoring body fat and exercise. Their findings suggest that rather than weight gain being caused by a [...]
In April 2010, a paper published in the Archives of Internal Medicine¹ examined individually and collectively the effects of four behaviors on mortality in adults. The behaviors examined were physical activity, diet, smoking and alcohol consumption.
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