Welcome to our blog of health & fitness tips and suggestions for better wellness and a healthy lifestyle, meant to keep you in better shape.
At the beginning the New Year many of you made resolutions. So, how are you doing with yours? Well, I know all too well how this works. If you’re doing great with yours, then you probably don’t need to read this. However, if you’ve fallen off that horse already, then read on. You’ll find some good advice here.
Here are some delicious and healthy snack ideas, from Registered Dietician Natalie Green, that will help keep you energized throughout your workout. Have one of these snacks 1 hour before working out.
Well, it’s that time of year again. What I call “The Holiday Trilogy”. Also known as THE DIETER’S NIGHTMARE. With Thanksgiving here, many of us will face the challenge that starts now and will continue through January 1st when we will then resolute to lose weight and get back in shape.
When choosing an exercise plan one first needs to ask how much time can be devoted to exercising. Some may have every good intention to workout six days per week (high volume), but that’s not always practical or realistic.
In 1826 Anthelme Brillat-Savarin said, “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” In 1863, in an essay entitled Concerning Spiritualism and Materialism, Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach wrote: “Man is what he eats.”
I often get asked, “What is the best kind of exercise equipment?” Years ago the answer to that was simple. I’d simply reply, “The one you use the most!” Today, the retail fitness landscape has changed quite a bit and we are now offered a smorgasbord of choices when it comes to exercise contraptions.
Hello friends! Hope you all had a great Independence Day. Speaking of which, I agree with my fellow Fit Pro friend who emphatically says we should start calling it “Independence Day” again instead of the “4th”. I agree! After all, we need to be reminded that of all that makes us the greatest country in the world. Sure, we may be in the midst of political unrest like we haven’t experienced for a while. But I believe America is still the greatest country in the world! I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else!
Growing up in the 70’s I was taught “The Four Food Groups” at a cooking class in Junior High school. Yes, lots of boys took that class back in those days. Since 1916, the US Department of Agriculture has periodically issued food guides. After several revisions, in 1956 the USDA recommended its Basic Four Food Groups in its Leaflet, Food For Fitness.
How often have you thought about performing a task and it seems that just thinking about it takes more energy than actually performing the task itself? You know what I mean! You’re thinking, “I gotta clean house”…”I gotta clean house”. Then when you actually get around to doing it, you discover that it wasn’t so bad after all.
