New study may have come up with a more accurate estimate for healthy women to predict peak exercise heart rate. Ladies, we may have been making things harder on ourselves for a lot of years. A new study out of my home town (Chicago) may have come up with a more accurate estimate for healthy women […]
I was shocked when I heard that 37 yr. old Gwyneth Paltrow was recently diagnosed with osteopenia, the pre-cursor of the crippling bone disease osteoporosis. This silent menace normally affects women over 50. But recently it's become more common in younger women because of many stupid lifestyle fads like low fat diets, juice cleanses, macrobiotic diets […]
Our fast paced, air conditioned sit on our butt society has produced an epidemic of vitamin D deficiencies. Any of these symptoms ring a bell? Low or no energy, weakened immunity, fatigue, depression, muscle pain or weak bones? If so, you may be a victim. Here are 4 possible causes for Vitamin D deficiency. […]
Do you get enough sleep? I don’t during the week and it’s been one of my goals to get more for as long as I can remember. I know my problem has a lot to do with my profession and the time of day I get up in order to do my own workouts before I […]
Does this sound familiar? “I don’t like my butt, so I feel very self conscious sticking it out.” I can’t tell you how many times I hear those words. Can’t blame them, I totally relate. I struggle daily with similar negative “self trash talk”. We’re either built that way or conditioned by society. Or maybe a little […]
Each morning as I head to the club at o’dark thirty to inflict workout pain on my clients, I enviously notice more cycling commuters on the road. I wish I could bag the drive and join the growing .55 percent of Americans who use a bicycle as their primary means to get to work. Experts […]
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution TV show, The Calorie Count Disclosure part of The Health Care Bill and the movie Food Inc. Are these indicators that we may be on the brink of a Food Revolution in the US? Man I sure do hope so. I’ve been so pumped recently seeing these events unfold. Positive changes like these have really […]
Today President Obama signed into law the much debated Health Care Bill. Over the past two days I’ve been doing my own un-official survey because I was curious what folks really know about this much debated subject. Do they know what’s really in HR 3590? Has anyone read it’s over 2,000 pages and what are […]
Yesterday or maybe I should say all week was a huge eye opener for me. I’ve learned so much that there’s too much to share in this short post. However, I will tell you 2 quick things that slapped me smack dab in the face. Earlier in the day after finishing with my client torture sessions, […]