In all sorts of areas, the term “Best Practices” is used to describe what things have been shown to work best in any given situation. There are best practices for teaching, for health care, for food service, for businesses. These are basically ways of doing things that have consistently shown success. So what are the [...]
I just read the announcement on People Magazine about “How Jennifer Garner got her Body Back.” I thought, was it stolen from her on-set trailer? Perhaps she left it in a first class seat on a trans-Atlantic flight. Oh, dear, had she loaned it to somebody because she was too tired to do another romantic [...]
Do you remember that silly Saturday Night Live skit with the two body builders, Hans and Franz? “We’re here to PUMP you up!” Anyway, I want to talk to you a bit about what we in the biz call “Resistance Training.” Some people refer to it as “Muscle Training” and sometimes it’s “Weight Lifting.” No [...]
So I’m looking at this CDC (Centers for Disease Control) Website and I understand what it’s about and what it all means and it’s still a little bit confusing. For someone who hasn’t been very active or doesn’t really know where to begin, all of this information can be a bit overwhelming and it [...]
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? Your are a child of [...]
Physical activity is any movement you do with your body. Walking around the grocery store, changing a tire, pulling weeds or carrying a baby are all forms of physical activity. Exercise is physical activity that is planned, structured and repetitive for the purpose of conditioning any part of the body. In this post I’m going [...]
Lyrics from Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”:
I know a woman, became a wife
These are the very words she uses to describe her life
She said a good day ain’t got no rain
She said a bad day’s when I lie in bed
And think of things that might have been
I was twenty years old and was driving down [...]
I think at this point we’ve pretty clearly established that weight loss and weight gain is a simple equation of calories in, calories out, right? Now it’s time to try to start figuring out WHY we as individuals tend to overeat or “undermove” and come up with some strategies that work with our individual personalities/issues/problems. [...]
One of the things I want to do is help you sort through all of the information that is out there about weight loss. Doing the work that is necessary to lose weight is difficult enough even when you have good, solid, accurate information. Some weight loss information is downright dangerous, some of it is [...]
We’ve all got to start somewhere, and I thought it would be appropriate if my first post were about motivation. I’ve been thinking about what to write about, thinking I don’t really have time right now and that unless it’s a literary masterpiece it’s not worth doing. Basically I’ve fallen into all of the no-motivation [...]