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Make or Break Your Fitness Plans

What are your fitness plans? Are they to lose weight? Are they to get in shape? Are they just to fit better into your clothes? Maybe you just want to reduce the stress in your life? Whatever your fitness plans are there are lot of make it or break it moments that you are going to encounter along the way. Here are some clues for you to help you make it or break it where your fitness plans are concerned. Skip Your Morning Java – That’s right, have hot cocoa or orange juice rather than coffee in the morning. Caffeine … Continue reading →

Fitness Tips: Healthy Mistakes

The title sounds like an oxymoron, I know. But there are a lot of healthy mistakes we all make and the scary thing is, we don’t even recognize them as mistakes when we do them. Mistake Number One: Sleeping in on the Weekends We get up early all week long, so turning off the alarm and just sleeping in a few extra hours on the weekend sounds like a great plan. Unfortunately, most people who sleep in late when they get up early the rest of the week face a problem called sleep inertia – they are groggy and have … Continue reading →

Boosting Your Metabolism

If you find that losing weight hasn’t come as easily as you would like, or that you are like a yo-yo, with your weight going up and down…then you should take into consideration how your metabolism may be playing into it. In fact, it may seem like you are doing all the right stuff. You are eating right, exercising, yet progress seems to be slow-going. Sometimes when a person has changed their diet, the body will react with a slowdown in your metabolism. It is almost as if your body feels that it is being starved (even if you really … Continue reading →

O is for Over Training

I’ve posted warnings about over training before. I’ve made suggestions and recommended rest. I’ve said that over training is bad for you and can have negative side effects, but let’s talk about what over training is. Typically, if you are exercising beyond your ability to recover, then you’re overtraining. What does that mean? Someone who exercises 7 days a week at a high intensity, never giving their muscles the 24 to 48 hours they need to rest, recover and repair from the previous workout are overtraining. They are doing this because the constant stress on the muscles without repair can … Continue reading →