Pick a brand new, never before tried, exercise for each of these muscles.  Pecs, Lats, Shoulders, Quads and Hamstrings.  They can be gym exercises or at home and outdoor exercises.  Do these new exercises 3 times per week for the summer! Try a new sport.  Choose something that you haven’t…

If you have tried to lose weight before you can most likely attest to the FACT that weight loss can be hard.  But why is it so hard, because at its core it is an easy concept right?  You need to burn more calories than you eat and you will…

There are some exercises that you can skip, some that are good to do, and then there are some that absolutely must be in your program each week.  All exercises stimulate different things in your body, some stimulate calorie burn, some impact the metabolism to a greater degree and some…

Do you twist, and then shout because of back or joint pain? Most people ignore the horizontal/transverse plane when they train.  You shouldn’t.  When you do almost anything when you aren’t at the gym there is some twisting action.  Think about starting the lawn mower, picking up your kid or…

What is the difference between a Fitness Enthusiast and a fit person and an unfit person?  What separates those people who never really seem to gain body fat from, well the rest of us?  What does is take to make that leap and not have body fat be a real…

When it comes to losing weight and keeping it off forever you need to know that what you have actually done is made a lifestyle change.  Some lifestyle changes are dramatic and some are subtle, but all changes will impact your health, fitness, and weight in one direction or another.…

All foods are not created equally when it comes to losing weight.  Foods are metabolized differently, they have different nutritional values and different calories. Here is my list of TOP 10 foods for the major food catagories – Carbs – Fats and Proteins.  If you want Free recipes and such…

Ready to try something new?  This is one type of training that will give you an awesome workout, kick your butt and put your heart into overdrive!  It is called PHR, or Peripheral Heart Rate Training. First, let’s go through the concept.  Have you ever worked out and felt that…

Here are seven easy to follow tricks that will have a impact both short term and long term.  Use the summer to implement them and be looking fabulous by fall. Get Real: Make a list of your workout goals and keep it in a place you see often, like a…

here is tons of info out there, both good and bad, about how to lose weight.  Sorting through all of that can be overwhelming.  It seems like most if not all of my clients have misunderstood or been completely misinformed at sometime on how to lose weight properly.  The problem…