When to Eat for Weight Loss
Best times to eat and not to eat to promote weight loss.
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Interval Training for Weight Loss
What is interval training? Why is it the best single type of exercise for weight loss? Find out in the blog post.
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Rebounding for Weight Loss
Rebounding or jumping on a mini-trampoline has many benefits, one of which is the enhancing of weight loss.
The main reason that rebounding helps in weight loss is that it helps to activate the lymph system. The connection is this: the rate that our bodies burn calories decreases as our lymphatic system becomes less efficient.
Continue reading →Supplements to Enhance Weight Loss
Supplements to Enhance Weight Loss
There are some supplements that truly help your body to metabolize fat. No, I am not talking about some controversial herbs (the ones to avoid are listed further down in this article).
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The Best Time to Exercise
What is the best time to exercise?
Not trying to be flippant but the very best time to exercise is the time that you will actually do it.
No matter what any “expert” says is the “best” time to exercise, it does you no good, if that is not a time that will work for you with your schedule or with your established habits or with the times the local fitness club is open or with the times for your local weather to cooperate.
Continue reading →Habit Change Planning—the Plan D Way
What is Plan D habit change planning? It is contingency planning for your habit change issue. You brainstorm possible obstacles or likely hindrances that could stop you from succeeding with your specific habit change goal.
For example, let’s suppose you have decided to go to your local fitness club on a certain day of the week to work out. What if your car won’t start? What if the club is unexpectedly closed? What if the school calls and you have to go pick up your sick child at the exact time you had your workout scheduled?
Continue reading →Improvement Goals for Your Exercise Program
An improvement goal in general is getting better, doing more, working harder, developing new skills, learning something new. Some examples of improvement goals are to walk one more minute, do 5 more crunches than the day before, learning a new stroke in your favorite sport or trying out a new piece of exercise equipment.
Improvement goals are not as rigid and general as making a goal to exercise three times a week for 60 minutes each time or setting a short time frame to say, run a marathon. Unless you are already in the habit of exercising very closely to those goals, then you are setting yourself up for failure.
Continue reading →Easy Ways To Sneak In More Exercise
Either you can’t seem to fit in the recommended 30-60 minute aerobic exercise all at one time or you are finding time for that but you are also making excuses later on, because you “already exercised today”. Either way, you can benefit from sneaking in more exercise into your day. Think movement and stretching. Also think, “every little bit counts”, because it’s true!
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