Fitness

We’re in the middle of the busiest travel week of the year.  Millions are going from point A to point B to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday with loved ones and then to go plundering through malls searching for discounted goodies.  Holiday travel is full of stress, bad food, and uncomfortable seats.  Here are some strategies […]

A recent study that looked at nine different dietary supplements has declared all of them ineffective. Yup, there is no magic bullet people.  But you knew that already, I know you did. Researchers in Germany tested nine different pills in one of the most rigorous studies conducted to date.  The pills make various claims from blocking carbs

  There’s a lot happening in the fitness industry these days.  Michelle Obama is encouraging people with “Let’s Move,” and May 1st is World Fitness Day.  Perhaps it’s inspired you to do something in your community but you have no idea how to begin.  Here’s a roundup of tips and articles from the web to help you

Fitness pros work in a field that is really quite fluid. New research and fitness trends are being adopted all the time, and if you don’t know the difference between Tabata and HIIT, between a barbell and a barre, or between a transversus and vastus medialis, then you won’t be as good as the trainer up

Being a blogger creates its own unique set of fitness issues.  Most of us generally have “real” jobs and write on the side.  This means two main things: we sit at desks for a really, really long time; and because we work and blog, we don’t move around as much as we should.  So below

Man or woman? Which is right for you? The decision to hire a personal trainer in the first place may seem easy by comparison. All that requires is simply finding a professional who knows their way around a gym, who can save you time, and keep you safe by picking smart, effective exercises to whittle your waist

OK, they look gorgeous, they go fabulously with that LBD (little black dress), and you practically strut as you enter the party, confident at how great you look.  At least for the first hour.  Then you start to fidget, your arches are aching, and you want to rip those shoes off as fast as possible.

  I was surfing over to one of my favorite fitness sites, FitSugar, when their banner ad poked me in the eye.  A picture of Jillian Michaels with a yoga mat tucked under her arm, pushing her latest product a Yoga DVD.  Really?  The Yoga mat looked like the plastic sleeve had just been removed and

Wow!  This just announced: Jillian Michaels is leaving “The Biggest Loser“ after her contract is up follwoing the current Season 11 which is now shooting (and begins airing in January). Her reason? “I want to take a year off TV and focus on becoming a mommy and doing more charity work,” Michaels tweeted.  “Shooting ‘Losing It‘ also

I’ve been spending more time on my YouTube channel lately, adding videos, and talking about health and fitness. As I spend more time there, I’m realizing how much good information is available on YouTube.  I’ve been inspired, had a few good laughs, and even gotten some programming ideas for my clients. It’s definitely worth exploring! Of course,

We often think of extravagant resolutions.  We want new bodies, new careers, new significant others, all kinds of life altering hopes and dreams poured into a sentence or two.  If you’re in the “go big or go home” camp, you need to start making sure you’ve got all the stuff you need, specifically the gear

I had the chance today to speak with Cara Castronuova, one of the new trainers for “The Biggest Loser.”  I write for AOL’s That’s Fitwhich allows me access to group calls where a bunch of reporters pile on and each asks one or two questions. I usually hang back and listen to the other reporters before

Perhaps you’re not feeling quite as spry as you used to, or perhaps, like me, you feel pretty much exactly the same as you always have … until the day after you work out. High impact workouts have been making a comeback lately with programs such as P90X, CrossFit, and even Zumba. But is this the kind of activity

I’ve just finished my last week following The Smarter Science of Slim™ program from Jonathan Bailor.  I’m glad I found this book and I’m glad I had the chance to meet Jonathan and see his passion for helping people to live more healthfully.  It’s definitely something we share. On The Smarter Science of Slim plan, I’ve lost five pounds

  Their big toothy grins flash at you as you walk past them in big box stores.  Their hopelessly perfect bodies entice you to try their fitness workouts.  But what exactly goes into becoming a fitness star?  How do you break in to this competitive area of fitness? I’ve got the goods. I’ve been fascinated

  Oh the fun of being a blogger sometimes.  I literally got an anonymous phone call from someone connected with “The Biggest Loser” who wanted me to know who the two new trainers are for the upcoming season 11. I’ve got ’em.  Cara Castronova (you have to scroll down a bit to see her info) and Brett

I have found a new, fun and totally cool exercise and I love, love, LOVE it.  Hooping! Yes, the basic premise still holds just like when you were a kid: taking a hula hoop, holding it at your hips, and whizzing it around your waist.  But there is so much more.  You can hoop anywhere on your

When I was a kid, I read the book Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter. The main character, a young girl, has a very sunny outlook on life, which she shares with everyone else in her small town. But her disposition is tested when she gets hit by a car and loses the use of her legs, unable to

How much cardio do we need to do to lose weight?  How much do we need to maintain weight loss?  If you’re not sure join the club. The American College of Sports Medicinecollects studies from universities and research organizations and aggregates the results to give us a better overall picture.  Their 2001 guidelines recommend that all

Recently I wrote about the Boston Marathon bombing and my thoughts about this year’s pending race. I’m conflicted for sure … but one piece of my research that I thought was kind of amazing was how a former Paralympic athlete has reached out to bombing victims providing them with prosthetics. New Yorker Amy Palmiero-Winters is nothing short of

One of my favorite twitter people, Linda Marshall, sent me these shots from a Yahoo post and I was horrified.  I’ve done a lot of reading about the food industry this past year and one of the things I learned is that the Cheesecake Factory (among others) employs chemists and nutritionists to come up with ways to make

I was happily watching my new guilty pleasure—the TV show “Smash”—watching Debra Messing succumb to a passionate embrace with the wrong man.  It was a juicy scene, but I wasn’t focused on the kissing. I wasn’t even focused on the hot, half-naked guy she was rolling around with.  Nope, I was focused on her scantily clad body.