Valerie perfectly demonstrates two points. You have to up your game if you want to continue to lose weight and you can’t get really tone without weight training.

You are paying a good sum of money to a person you don’t know well, who will stare at your body parts, poke at you, order you around and you’ll be happy for the opportunity. But what if it doesn’t feel right? When should you leave your trainer?

As a trainer you need to keep your ego out of the session. It is always, always about the client, never about you.

Reality TV is crossing over into reality and people are getting hurt.

Most of the fitness experts you see don’t really look like that most of the time. Quite a few stars will diet down a dress size or two for the brief amount of time that they actually shoot the shows.

The fitness industry has seen how busy you are and responded with 30 minute workouts, 20 minute workouts, heck ~ even a 6 minute workout DVD that will get you slim, “in no time!” Doesn’t that all sound a little silly? Here’s a sane way to reach your goals and stay there for good.

If you’re going to get your Irish on this St. Patty’s Day you need to know how much damage you’re doing. What will it actually take to burn off a couple of pints ‘o Guinness?

Here are some fitness trends for 2009. Use them to shake up the same old, same old.