Personal training services, health and wellness blog posts
Are you spending hours in the gym every week and not seeing any results? It just might be that you’ve developed some habits that may be sabotaging your success, without even realizing it. Here are six of the most common workout habits to change now – and see improved weight loss and body composition while becoming more efficient in the process. Continue reading “Are you sabotaging your workout?”
Do you find that no matter how hard or how often you work out, you just can’t seem to make any progress? You may have hit the dreaded exercise plateau – and it’s sapping your motivation to continue. What you need to break through that plateau is a change in how you train – something called periodization. Periodization is the smart way to train in any exercise discipline. Continue reading “Breaking Through an Exercise Plateau”
Are you a runner? If you are, that’s awesome! Or perhaps you’ve tried running before and given up, or never gave it a chance at all. The truth is that running can benefit almost every part of your body and your mind. It’s not hard to learn, and can be done anywhere, anytime. Read on for more on the many health and wellness benefits of intelligently incorporating running into your life. Continue reading “The Many Health Benefits of Running – And How to Get Started”
When I tell someone that I just completed my 15th year in triathlon, the usual response is “Wow, that’s amazing – I could never do that!” My first response is, why not? The fact is, just about anyone, no matter their personal limitations, can do a triathlon. Continue reading “Triathlon: For Every BODY”
You’re committed to a workout program, even though you have to squeeze exercise into a busy schedule. To save time, you skip the warm-up portion of your workout – the main set is more important anyway, right? Or perhaps you’re late to an exercise class, so you jump right in with what everyone is doing once you arrive. Is a warm-up really necessary? Absolutely…and here are some important reasons why – plus some suggestions for what constitutes a good warm-up. Continue reading “Three Key Reasons to Always Warm Up”
Foam rolling is one way to perform what’s technically known as “self myofascial release” or SMR. Perform basic SMR techniques on yourself to reduce your chances of repetitive stress injury, minimize muscular imbalances and improve your overall flexibility, function and athletic performance. Continue reading “Hurts So Good – Why You Should Foam Roll”
Like any system, the human movement system relies on a complex integration of muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints that, when in balance, allow us to move freely without pain. But if one of those becomes impaired, a cascade effect follows where other parts of the system have to work harder and harder, or move in an unnatural way, to compensate for the part that’s not doing its job. Targeting the root cause of that pain (the “criminal”), and actually fixing it rather than dulling the symptoms (the “victim”), is the purpose of what’s known as corrective exercise. Continue reading “The Criminal vs. The Victim – Targeting the source of your muscle and joint pain”
In a previous post, I wrote about two important hormones that affect weight loss – insulin and cortisol. In this article, I discuss cortisol in more depth: its relationship to the body’s stress response, and how it influences fat and protein metabolism and blood sugar levels. Continue reading “More about cortisol, the “stress hormone””
Have you been trying to lose weight unsuccessfully through a restrictive calorie diet plus hard cardio workouts? The problem may actually be your hormones! Continue reading “Struggling with weight loss? It could be your hormones!”
You may think personal training is expensive. But honestly, isn’t the value of anything relative to the benefits you gain from it? We pay $5 for a cup of coffee without a second thought…but how much is your health and wellness worth to you? Give me five minutes, and allow me show you the value of personal training with these five reasons. Continue reading “Five Reasons Why Everyone Needs a Personal Trainer”
