Guide to the Better you

  Some days you simply do not have time for your usual workout.   Perhaps you are traveling or you have meetings from dawn ‘til dusk.   Or maybe something totally unexpected comes up and your workout time disappears. When life steals your exercise time, however, you do not have to forgo your workout.   If you have just a few minutes, you can burn off 100 calories, get your heart pumping fast and redeem at least a little of your workout. Here are 10 ways to torch 100 calories   Use them on busy days or even to supercharge your normal workout days.   Most estimates are for a person weighing approximately 130-150 pounds.   If you weigh more, you can probably shorten the duration, but if you are lighter, add a few minutes to ensure that you burn at least 100 calories. 1.     Take the stairs .   Stair climbing for 15 minutes will burn 137 calories.   Have a 15 minute break at work?   Find a stair case and set your phone...

  No matter how committed we are to getting in the recommended five to nine servings of vegetables and fruits every day, sometimes we come up short.   It may be that we are busy and barely have time to eat at all, or perhaps we find ourselves in eating situations that don’t include many fresh vegetable choices.   Or maybe we just don’t like them. On days that you find it hard to eat enough vegetables and fruits, a green drink is the perfect answer.   It is a great way to boost your health and even detox your system. Green drinks are just that—green, because they contain the juice of fresh green vegetables and other vegetables and fruits.   There are many reasons to consider adding green drinks to your diet. Why drink green juice? Vegetables and fruit are full of essential vitamins, minerals and enzymes that your body thrives on.   And because you are consuming it in liquid form, your body can digest it quickly.   This is especially helpful if y...

  I have good news and bad news, Dads. First the bad news:   you can’t do it all.   That long to-do list you have staring at you?   Working harder, longer and more frantically will not help you get all your boxes checked.   The reason is because more tasks, more responsibilities, and more activities keep piling on.   But the harder you try to do everything, the more frustrated you become.   The hard truth is that there simply isn’t enough time to do everything there is to do.   Of course we know this intuitively, but for some reason we keep on trying to do it all—probably because we don’t really know what else to do. And if you are like most men, one of the first things to go is your own fitness and health.   Who has time to go to the gym when you are buried under 6 weeks of backlogged to-do’s? Now for the good news:   there is a way out.   You see, when you try to do everything, the most important tasks get mixed up wi...

  It’s time to stop planning and start empowering yourself.   The time to move is now, and a group personal training is the perfect way to get started. Exercising by yourself can be tough.   Nobody knows if you skip, there is no one to push you a little harder, and you don’t have a commitment to anyone else.   One day off turns into two, and before you know it, weeks have passed without you even raising a sweat.   Getting fit in isolation can be done, but it’s much harder and requires a resolve few of us have. That is perhaps why the popularity of group personal training programs is exploding:   people sign up for them because they work. Group Personal Training Benefits 1.   The biggest benefit that a group personal training offers is support .   When you join a group personal training program, you are ensuring that you have like-minded people to motivate you and a qualified leader to help you reach your weight loss and fitness milestones....

  Each year, on the last Monday of May, we celebrate Memorial Day.   Originally instituted as a day of honoring those who died during the Civil War, it eventually became a day to remember any soldier who died fighting in the United States Armed Forces. Memorial Day is the perfect time to pause and consider how much we owe to those men and women who have given up their lives in the pursuit and defense of freedom.   We are so accustomed to living with this freedom in our country, that it is easy to take it for granted.   It is hard to appreciate it when we do not know anything different.   Just like a fish who doesn’t realize it is wet (because it has never been anything else but wet), we tend to not realize the magnitude of privilege that is ours. It takes warriors to build a country where freedom is the rule, rather than the exception.   And Memorial Day is a time to honor those wounded warriors who have made our lives of freedom possible. But we can ...

  There is one common thing among new trainees...   They all go over the different exercises in the gym because somebody else told them to do so.   However, they don’t know the logic behind it. They lack knowledge.   As a matter of fact, most people DO NOT know what they are doing in the gym before they start doing it...   In order to be efficient with your time and progress in the gym, you have to understand why you are doing specific movements, resting for specific time frames, etc.   Have you ever wondered what the fundamentals behind a successful fitness plan are?   Why are the exercises ordered in a specific way?   What are the fundamentals in creating the perfect fitness plan, which fits your goals?   To learn the answer to all of these questions and more, continue reading.   What Does The Perfect Fitness Plan Consist Of?   It might surprise many of you, BUT a random training program from ...