Motivation
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Working Through Your Excuses
Tips on how to make that first big step into the gym. |
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Fitness Tips
Simple steps you can take to change your life. |
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Health Creates Wealth
Working out can help you recover from injuries, remain healthy and active as you age, and to look more attractive for potential partners. It now appears like there's also a significant monetary reason to be fit. Getting in shape can actually help your bottom and your bottom line! |
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Live Longer
9 things you can do to add YEARS your life. |
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Just Did It - Sex Before Competition
Passion is an amazing thing. It drives people to accomplish incredible feats. But can passion, when it turns to sex, diminish an athlete's performance? |
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Bodybuilding Myths
Don't believe these commonly accepted myths about weight training. |
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Focus on Achievement
Are you overwhelmed when you think about starting a fitness program? To be successful, you just have to do ONE thing. |
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Seven Holiday Gift Ideas
Need help picking out holiday gifts for friends and loved ones? These suggestions can help. |
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Ten More Reasons Not to Workout
Feeling too tired, old or busy to workout? Read this article to find out why NONE of these are good excuses. |
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Music & Fitness
Can music really help you get a better workout in? What type of music, how fast or slow should the tempo be and does volume make a difference? |
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Staying Healthy in Your 60s, 70s and Beyond
If you don't think exercise is important, ESPECIALLY as we age, you've got to read this article. If you're a woman, the information is doubly important. We now know it's even more important for women to exercise than men. |
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Do Aerobics Work?
I read an article from a gym owner that claimed "Aerobics don't work." It was such a profoundly incorrect statement I had to set the record straight. This article is my response. |
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Can Grunting Improve Your Workout?
I've heard lots of strange things come out of people's mouths when they're exercising. Chance are if you workout, so have you. But does it really help you lift better? Exactly why is it some people make such incredibly strange noises as they're trying to get in shape? |
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Overcome Energy Sinkholes (Part 1 of 2)
If you wake up in a fog, stumble through the day with your eyes half open and feel like you're hitting a wall every afternoon, have I got good news. I'm going to tell you about some of the "energy sinkholes" people tend to fall into every day and what you can do to climb out. |
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Can Friends Make You Fat?
Who's responsible for America's obesity epidemic? Fast food companies? Junk food manufacturers? Believe it or not a new study places a lot of the blame on our friends and loved ones! |
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Overcome Energy Sinkholes (Part 2 of 2)
This week we share the secrets of how to get more energy in the afternoon and at night. If you've been feeling tired you shouldn't miss this article! |
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How to Help an Out-of-Shape Friend
Do you have a friend or loved one that needs to get in shape? Are you worried about them, but unsure how to bring the subject up? The way you deal with the problem can mean the difference between helping and being ignored. Learn how to start them on a healthier path, while still remaining friends. |
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Mood Boosting Foods
Here are four foods that can help give you a boost when you need it. As a bonus, there are links to 4 healthy recipes for the very foods we talk about. |
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Wristbands - Use a Wristband to Change Your Life
Rubber wristbands were wildly popular when Lance Armstrong first started using them to promote his LIVESTRONG campaign for cancer awareness. Read on and we'll tell you about a new way to use those wristbands that can change your life. |
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Emotional Eating
Is food a drug? Why do we crave certain foods when we're happy, sad or afraid? A glimpse into some of the emotional connections we make with the things we eat and how some foods really can change our attitudes. |
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Five Reasons You're Still Fat
"Why am I still fat?" It's a question people ask me often and there are plenty of reasons. Read on and I'll share the top five. |
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Twelve Changes in Twelve Months (Part 1 of 2)
Here are five small things you can do, one each month to make profound changes in your life. |
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Fitness Over Fifty: Five Ways Exercise Helps You Live Longer
We're living in the age of the quick fix. Got a problem? Pop a pill! Unfortunately pills aren't a replacement for physical exercise. Learn five ways exercise can help YOU live longer. |
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Twelve Changes in Twelve Months (Part 2 of 2)
Here are seven more steps you can take to make major changes in your life...including the five things to look for in ANY healthy meal and healthy alternatives for fattening foods. If you're serious about improving your life this is a great way to do it. |
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Fitness Over Fifty: Three Exercises to Get You Started
It's time to take action. When getting older is the problem, exercise is the solution. Up to eighty percent of the health problems commonly linked with aging can be postponed or prevented if you keep fit. |
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Bet Your Butt Off
Still having trouble losing weight? Now you can use money as a motivator. Several sites on the internet allow you to bet that you'll lose weight. If you achieve your goal, it doesn't cost you anything. Fail and you have to pay up. Here's how three of those sites work. |
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Exercise Your Blues Away
Feeling blue? Down in the dumps or depressed? Learn how exercise can be used for therapy. |
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Valentines Day Fitness Ideas
Ready for Valentines Day? Read up and plan ways you and your loved one can celebrate without eating an entire box of chocolates. Plus, healthy things you can do on a date and what to do if you're single. |
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Biggest Loser - Are they hurting their audience?
Do you enjoy watching NBC's The Biggest Loser? It's good entertainment, but full of bad examples. Read on for our four rules to watch so you get the most out of the show. |
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Four Habits That Could Kill You
There are 4 habits that are so deadly, doing any one of them will take years off your life. Do all four and you could die 10 years sooner. See if your habits might be terminal. |
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Bored? Depressed? Angry or tired? Workouts for Every Mood
To get the most out of your next exercise session, take a brief emotional inventory before you start. Then adjust the type of workout you've got planned based on how you feel. |
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Is it Healthy for You, A Corporation or the Planet?
Are you green? Do you believe in consuming only products that are grown on organic farms, harvested by fairly paid labor and distributed fresh? The healthiest choice may not always be the greenest choice. |
