Category: weight loss

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…

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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…

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Understand these simple nutrition principles to help achieve and maintain your ideal weight.

Most people approach nutrition and dieting with unbelievable will power and determination. But unfortunately, will power will only last so long then biology and physiology takes over. Here’s an analogy – Try holding your breath under water for as long as you can. No matter how much you want to stay underwater, eventually biology kicks…

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Missing a Workout is so much more than Missing a Workout!

Consider how much discipline it takes to workout three to five days a week. Think about how hard it is to keep stretching beyond our comfort zones and how challenging it is to exercise at high intensities. Consider the self-resolve required to eat healthy foods and drink lots of water every day when temptations surround…

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Last 3 Exercises for your Pumping Nothing Workout

Today is Day 7 – the last day – of your Pumping Nothing workout. You now have 21 different exercises you can do absolutely anywhere with no equipment whatsoever. So the next time you can’t get to the gym, are on holidays or on a business trip…NO EXCUSES! Here are your last three exercises to…

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3 more Muscle Toning Exercises you do with no equipment

Today is Day 6 of your Pumping Nothing workout – 18 different exercises you can do when you can’t get to the gym, are on holidays or on a business trip. I took my nephew, niece and sis through this workout when I was hanging out at their place in Canada and it kicked their…

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Day 5 of your Pumping Nothing workout brings you 3 more exercises you can do anywhere!

Today is Day 5 of your Pumping Nothing workout. You now have 15 different exercises that you can do absolutely anywhere using no equipment whatsoever. Keep these emails on file for the next time you can’t get to the gym, are on holidays or on a business trip. Here are the next three exercises to…

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Here are your next 3 Muscle Conditioning Exercises you can do anywhere!

Today is Day 2 of your Pumping Nothing workout. Remember, your body is the BEST piece of equipment ever and you can keep it strong, fit and conditioned with absolutely no equipment whatsoever! Review yesterday’s posts for more tips. Here are the next three exercises to add to your Pumping Nothing Muscle-conditioning workout. Try about…

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Tone up with 3 Pumping Nothing Exercises

I recently conducted a workshop titled “Pumping Nothing” at the world’s largest Fitness Conference, CanFitPro in Toronto Canada. The principle was simple – that is that the body is the BEST piece of equipment ever and you can keep it strong, fit and conditioned with absolutely no equipment whatsoever! So what does that mean? No…

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