Dieting but gaining weight–not a good place to be! Trying to lose weight but not having success is frustrating!
But it happens!
Take an honest look at what you are doing. Keep a food diary. Measure your portions. Eliminate sugars and white products such as white bread or anything made with [...]
Soy in not really a part of the Standard American Diet (SAD). You know meat and potatoes are just not made of soy. Tofu and tempeh seem like odd concoctions to many Americans and really they are odd, even though if you learn how to use them you really can make some delicious [...]
Go to any health food store (or almost any store for that matter!) and you will see shelves upon shelves of “dieting” aids– Fat burners, diet pills and more. But do these products really help you lose weight? And how do they affect your health?
Most of us remember the Phen-fen fiasco. [...]
Traditionally, pilates has not been considered an effective way to lose weight. It has always been considered a great toning exercise but the pace in traditional pilates was not fast enough to elevate your heart rate and the effect on the muscles was limited to toning and not building.
However, Winsor pilates claims [...]
I admit it, my favorite clothes in the world are workout clothes. I live in workout clothes. I have a busy life. I workout early in the morning. I don’t have to dress for work because I am extremely lucky to work at home so workout clothes are what I [...]
There is a question about adding weights to your cardio workout and how or if it is more effective. Well it depends upon the specifics of the exercise.
If you are adding weights to a treadmill workout or a walking workout the benefits will not be that much greater and you are also [...]
If your training program is in a slump and you are not making the gains that you are wanting, it may be useful for you to look into putting periodization into your weight training program.
Periodization is basically organizing your training into blocks or time units that focus on a specific skill. You will [...]
Great Abs, don’t we all admire them, idolize them, covet them? No other body part commands so much of our fitness attention whether we are male or female. And just how many different gadgets for ab workouts do they sell on informercials? And of course, every one claims to be the [...]
