Hey Clients, Friends and Family. Here are your next two tips to get you looking and feeling your best for the holidays. Exercise Tip: It’s all about the effort!So today one of our clients was mentioning to me how much she loved a certain Elliptical trainer over a different model. I asked her what was…
One Exercise and One Nutrition Tip that you can commit to right now!
Hey clients, friends and family. Instead of waiting until New Year’s to resolve to carve out time for yourself so you can look and feel your best, let’s make a commitment to ramp it up right now. Why wait? There’s no better time than today. Plus, we’ll get you looking and feeling amazing for the…
Read this before Thanksgiving!
Many of us are still dealing with Halloween Candy and now Thanksgiving is about a week away. It’s enough to take even the most-disciplined, die-hard exerciser off track. In America, Thanksgiving dinner goes hand-in-hand with an all-out gorge until you’re about to burst. A retreat to the couch follows because you’re just too stuffed to…
When was the last time you saw a guy in a wheelchair Bungee Jump?
We place our own limits on ourselves. When I lived in Vancouver BC, I had the fortunate honor to be Rick Hansen’s Trainer – the man who wheeled around the world raising millions of dollars for spinal cord research. He told me once he had to decide to focus on the 1000 things he couldn’t…
When was the last time you had Geese chasing you?!
Happy Monday! I just finished presenting at the fabulous CanFitPro fitness conference in Vancouver BC. I often hear from clients that they have a hard time keeping up with their fitness routine when they travel. I always explain to them that if you want something bad enough, if your health and fitness is really that…
Nutrition Principle #5 to Losing Weight and Looking & Feeling your Best
Nutrition habit #5 – Control your Portion Sizes This is an important principle – you’ve got to pay attention to your portion sizes. We are victims of a society that is hooked on supersizing everything…supersize drinks, monster size cookies, muffins and bagels and astronomical sized restaurant entrees. For many of us, it may not be…
Nutrition Principle #4 to Losing Weight and Looking & Feeling your Best
Nutrition Habit #4: Stop Eating Three Hours before Bedtime If you have planned your meals correctly throughout the day, you shouldn’t need to eat anything right before bed. Often the calories that are consumed after dinner are those that are eaten not because you are hungry and need the energy but because of habitual patterns…
Nutrition Principle #3 to Losing Weight and Looking & Feeling your Best
Nutrition Habit #3: Plan your meals so that you consume 5 small meals and snacks throughout the day See if you recognize yourself in any of the following. You skip breakfast, guzzle coffee all morning and then, practicing great self-control, you eat a tiny lunch. By mid-afternoon, you are starving and so you grab a…
Nutrition Principle #2 to Losing Weight and Looking & Feeling your Best
Nutrition Habit #2: Drink More Water Did you know that 50-70% of our total body weight is water? The brain is composed of 70 percent water, lungs are nearly 90 percent water and our blood is about 83 percent water, which helps digest our food, transport and eliminate waste and toxins, mobilize fat, and control…
Nutrition Principle #1 to Losing Weight and Looking & Feeling your Best
Nutrition Habit #1: Consume a balanced diet that is rich in FiberCarbohydrates (CHO): are fruits, vegetables and whole grain breads, pastas and rice. Carbohydrates in your diet will be sent to your liver and either burned for energy or stored as fat (70% conversion ratio). Did you know the only energy your brain can use…