Fitness Tip: Thanksgiving
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it's important to stay on track with our health and fitness goals. The secret to eating a healthy, balanced diet is planning, and that especially applies during the holidays.
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it's important to stay on track with our health and fitness goals. The secret to eating a healthy, balanced diet is planning, and that especially applies during the holidays.
I had just returned from the annual National Association of Newspaper Columnist’s conference down in New Orleans, and I was inspired with a renewed vigor for writing. One thing amongst many that I took away from the experience is that I will always be a student in writing as well as in other areas of my life.
A part of overall fitness is maintaining flexible. When your muscles are tight, you are more likely to sustain an injury than when you are stretched out, so logically it is beneficial to keep your muscles limber and supple.
I often encounter women who are scared of lifting weights for fear that they will put on “too much muscle”. They are usually middle-aged, new to exercise, and have picked up a lot of misconceptions here and there along the way.
I know first hand just difficult it can be to fit exercise into a busy schedule, but if you don’t do it regularly, it will be very hard to see results.
How many of you reading this finds it difficult to adhere to a fitness regime? If you’re like most Americans, you probably find it at least challenging, some may even go so far as to say impossible.
As you may have discovered for yourself, sticking with an exercise program long enough to make it an actual habit can be difficult, to say the least. While hopefully most of you reading this are either currently exercising or planning to start doing so in the near future, almost all of you will at one time or another grow tired of your current fitness program.
Many long hours in front of my laptop, along with some advice from a good friend, inspired my column for this edition—how to incorporate fitness into your office job and break up the hours spent on your computer.
There's a big misconception that there is a fat burning zone that you want to stay within to burn fat.
My inspiration for this edition’s column comes from two of my clients, we’ll just call them Joe & Bob, who have been having a difficult time exercising regularly due to several bouts of sickness.