Reading Time: 3 minutesYet, without any words exchanged, here we were. Two strangers; me motivating her to keep going, and her the same to me.
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Why Weight Loss Is Harder Than A College Degree
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor many people school isn’t particularly fun. Sure, you get to visit with your friends or you might even have a class or two that pique your interest. This is usually outweighed by the required courses for your degree that bore you to death. (Does anyone actually like bio-chem? Or statistics? How about an entire…
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3 Tips To “Fall” Back In Love With Running
Reading Time: 3 minutesUse these strategies to keep your love for running strong even as the temperatures decline.
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Why Not You? – An Inspiring Weight Loss Transformation Story
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn incredible 10-year weight loss transformation story. Extraordinary people are created through daily actions and decisions.
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Follow This Advice to Build Your “FitFam”
Reading Time: 3 minutesFollow these 4 tips to build your fitness support system–your “fitfam.”
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The Secret to Staying Fit While Traveling
Reading Time: 4 minutes[Originally written June 3rd, 2017] I’m sitting in a hotel room in Sacramento, CA, nearing the end of a long week-and-a-half stint of travel. Memorial Day weekend was spent in Toronto for a fitness conference (5-hour drive both ways), arriving back home for a quick two-day break before heading back out on a flight to…
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4 Reasons You’re Wasting Time In The Gym
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe number one excuse people have for not exercising: lack of time. U.S. adults are spending more hours at work than ever before. With the majority of our time being spent at work, and trying to balance family and social time, it can seem impossible to carve out the time needed three to five days…
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Gym Etiquette for Beginners: 8 Gym Norms to Follow
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe gym can be a very daunting place, especially for a beginner. It has its own culture, and within this culture are acceptable and unacceptable forms of behavior. Part of the anxiety that is caused by going to the gym revolve around not fitting in. One sure way to stand out (not in a good…
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Need to power through a workout? Crank up the tunes.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re having trouble getting yourself to the gym to workout, or find yourself getting really bored while you exercise, then putting together an awesome playlist of your favorite music can help. Listening to music while exercising has been shown to improve exercise performance and adherence. [1,2] This performance-enhancing effect is likely caused by a…
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Quit Overeating By Defining Your Happiness
Reading Time: 10 minutesWhat is the secret to combatting emotional eating and the shortcomings of willpower? Start by defining who you want to be.
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Food Over Family?
Reading Time: 4 minutesI was driving early the other morning, around 5:00am when the cold air felt like the atmospheric version of my alarm clock–unforgiving, annoying, and if it were wireless I’d probably have thrown it across the room. I was listening to some talk radio show on whatever station I had on. One caller had phoned in…
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Which Should You Do First: Cardio or Weights?
Reading Time: 3 minutesYou’ve started a new fitness program, and this new program calls for both cardio and weight training. You don’t want to spend every day at the gym, so you decide to stack some of the weight and cardio workouts on the same days. If you are going to perform both in the same workout then…
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How To Convert Your Loved Ones To A Healthy Lifestyle
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat is the single biggest risk factor for being overweight? Being surrounded by other overweight people. This includes friends, family members, and spouses. In fact, the strength of this “social network” risk factor is in that particular order—with an increase in the likelihood of being overweight by 57%, 40%, and 37%, respectively.1 How many times…
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So, You Hate Your Workouts? Here’s How To Beat The Dread of Starting Them. [Podcast]
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you often find yourself procrastinating to start your workouts, to the point of not doing it at all, then this podcast is for you. In this episode I discuss a concept called “affective forecasting” – predicting our future emotional states as a result of participating in some future activity. As it turns out, we’re…
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Have Lofty Career Goals? Fitness Can Get You There Faster
Reading Time: 4 minutesExercise is good for more than just improving your health and your waistline. In fact, regular exercise is what’s known as a “keystone habit,” meaning the benefits extend far beyond the physical ones. Exercise has been shown to improve mood and brain power too.1,2 In addition to the physical and mental benefits of exercise, did you…
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