The Sum of Your Lifestyle Choices
Today is a big deal… You woke up this morning and began making choices. You chose whether or not to exercise, to eat a healthy breakfast, or to do something productive. You chose whether or not to eat that doughnut, to sleep in, or to watch an extra hour of TV. At the end of each day the sum of your choices pushes you in a distinct direction. It could be pushing you in the direction of fitness and health, if your choices were...
Workout Results: You Get Out What You Put In
Have you ever noticed how two people can do the exact same fitness routine for a period of time and one will have breathtaking results while the other looks the same as when they started? Why is that? It’s frustrating when you are the person going through a fitness routine without seeing dramatic results. Might make you look for a reason outside of yourself to blame, such as genetics. In reality, the thing holding you back is...
Exercise Feels Good
I realized something important about exercise that’s worth sharing with you. Most of the time, when encouraging you to exercise, I focus on health and fat loss. These are two significant benefits, but there’s another side effect of exercise that’s hugely important… How you feel after doing it. Every workout has an immediate impact on your energy, mood, body chemistry, and even mental functioning. The endorphins released are...
New Years Resolution Weight Loss Snap-Back Effect
According to popular statistics, only 8% of New Year’s Resolutions are successfully kept. This means that 92% of us that are brave enough to set out for self-improvement will fail. Those aren’t very good odds. Thankfully there is science that explains this curious “Snap-Back Effect” and offers us tools to make the effect work in our favor. Snap-Back Effect: A term coined by Dr. Maxwell Maltz, the author of Psycho-Cybernetics to...
New Diets Fail Too Often For ‘No Reason’
You realize that you want to lose the weight and to get into phenomenal shape. You believe that your health is important to you, and that you want to improve the quality of your life through diet and exercise. You feel that this time it will be different, that this time the changes will stick and you’ll become the best version of yourself. Starting out with great intentions and high expectations, the first few days go well. You’re...
Think Positive and Get Fit
Your mindset plays a big role when it comes to getting and staying fit. In the same way that an app on your phone is limited by the functions that have been programmed into it, your body is limited by the messages sent by your mind. If you have the goal of changing your body for the better by dropping pounds and increasing your muscle tone, the first thing to do is to begin with your mindset. It’s a step that far too many well-meaning...
Look Your Best for the Summer
Say Bye Bye to Belly Fat With summer and holiday parties and gatherings quickly approaching, most of us are now thinking about looking our best while dressed in our finest. Too bad that losing body fat is a slow and steady process, rather than an instantaneous fix. However…I do have an extremely effective 2-step method for losing belly fat faster than ever, and I’d like to share it with you today so that you can utilize it to look and...
5 Things To Do NOW To Slim Down Before The Holidays
We are officially on the verge of holiday season…and with it a myriad of food temptations and weight gain traps. Don’t fret, if you act now there’s still time to tighten up before putting on your holiday finest. Do these 5 things NOW to quickly shape up… 1. Eat more Veggies: Your mom was right, eating vegetables really is a good idea, especially when aiming to drop pounds. Why? There are a couple of reasons. First, veggies are low in...