How many times in your life have you tried to start or maintain a workout program? 5 times? 10 times? Have you lost count? Although we have so many options available to us to improve our health and fitness, human nature continues to win out in the struggle to improve our wellbeing. Although this struggle
It doesn’t matter what age you are as you read this article, you’ve probably had a concern or two about getting older. If you’re in your teens, you might be worried about getting wrinkly when you’re 30. If you’re in your 30s, you might be worried about getting heart disease when you’re 50. If you’re
If you’re one of the hundreds of thousands of people who joined a gym after the first of the year ready to get back in shape, you’ll likely start to notice something different about the size of the gym crowd in the next couple of weeks. There’s a funny thing that happens the first week
You’ve probably been told once or twice that staying physically fit is important for your health and longevity. However, considering how bust the world is today, it can be tough to squeeze those hour-long workout sessions into your schedule. Understandably, you just have a lot of priorities lined up that need attended to. What you
What if I told you that the bowl of oats that you had this morning was keeping you from burning fat? Or that healthy, whole wheat bagel that you had for lunch? Or even that whole grain, gluten free pasta that you’re making from dinner? It’s all keeping you from burning fat. Which may not
When it comes to making a change in our lives, there are only 2 obstacles we all need to overcome: getting started and keep going. No matter if you’re nearing your 50th birthday and want to start getting your health back or if you’re the CEO of an INC 500 company trying to implement a
While I can’t promise you that the exercises I’ll share in this article will lead to a shredded-wheat belly, I can promise they are more effective for the functional adaptation of the core. After all, you can do situps until the cows come home, but sadly, spot training for the sake of losing fat in
It seems that we’re constantly fed new paradigms about what type of exercise we should be doing to get fit, or how long we should be doing it, or how intense the exercise should be for maximal results. And there are certainly different types of exercise that are better than others, depending on your goals. However,
When it comes down to it, there are many reasons why we decide to make a healthy change in our lives. In last week’s article, I talked about what it means to find the right “why” for you so that you stay motivated when things get hard. If you want sustainable change, I recommend you read the
In order to achieve anything significant in life, you have to have a compelling reason to do so. Otherwise, it would be difficult to achieve the results you want because, inevitably, you will hit roadblocks along the way. Of course, everyone has a “why” to do everything. After all, if you didn’t have a reason to do
