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Here Are 3 Things You Can Do Right Now To Make Running Easier

By: Alex McBrairty May 11, 2020May 9, 2020

ExerciseExercise, Fitness, Health, Outdoor Exercise, Running, Running TIpsLeave a Comment

Reading Time: 2 minutesHere are three things you can do right now to make running easier.

Does Choosing Salads Lead To Eating More Cookies?

By: Alex McBrairty March 30, 2020March 30, 2020

Exercise, Health, Lifestyle, Mindset, NutritionDecision Making, Exercise, Fitness Psychology, Food Choices, Health, Health Psychology, Licensing Effect, Mindset, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight LossLeave a Comment

Reading Time: 3 minutesAre your healthy decisions throughout the day, choosing a healthy option at lunch or making time for the gym, actually backfiring and causing you to be more unhealthy? Find out how you can combat the desire to reward yourself with the bad stuff.

How To Stay Active While Working From Home

Reading Time: 3 minutesWorking from home presents a unique set of challenges to those used to moving throughout the day. Follow this advice to keep yourself healthy and active throughout the workday.

How To Adopt A Fitness-Minded Traveler’s Mindset

By: Alex McBrairty February 17, 2020February 19, 2020

Lifestyle, Mindset, TravelAdventure, Health, Mindfulness, Mindset, Travel, Travel Fitness, Traveler Mindset, VacationLeave a Comment

Reading Time: 2 minutesWant to travel while maintaining your fitness plan? Follow this simple advice.

How The Scale Deceives You (And Other Measures of Success)

By: Alex McBrairty February 4, 2020March 23, 2024

Exercise, Health, Mindset, NutritionBathroom Scale, Body Image, Fitness Tips, Health, Non-Scale Victories, Nutrition, Sleep, Weight Loss, Weight Loss SuccessLeave a Comment

Reading Time: 4 minutesHow the bathroom scale lies, and other ways to measure progress in your fitness program.

The Unspoken Power of Encouragement

By: Alex McBrairty June 16, 2019March 6, 2020

Exercise, Mindset, MotivationEncouragement, Fitness, Friends, Health, Motivation, Running, Support, Weight LossLeave a Comment

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.

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.

Are Daily Multivitamins Necessary?

By: Alex McBrairty September 6, 2018

Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition, SupplementsFitness, Fitness Coaching, Fitness Tips, Health, Nutrition, VitaminsLeave a Comment

Reading Time: 2 minutesAre vitamins necessary as part of a healthy diet?

When Being Healthy Becomes Unhealthy

By: Alex McBrairty June 20, 2018August 2, 2020

Health, Lifestyle, MindsetFitness, Fitness Goals, Fitness Psychology, Fitness Tips, Health, Healthy Eating, Lifestyle, Mindset, Psychology, Unhealthy, when healthy becomes unhealthyLeave a Comment

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen do healthy behaviors become unhealthy? Find out in this article.

One Daily Practice To Immediately Improve Your Life

Reading Time: 3 minutesI want to talk briefly about an often overlooked daily activity. Like many things, we get busy in the hustle and bustle of the day-to-day and forget to pause and reflect. I want to talk to you about the power of gratitude. Today, after a headache of a morning that included getting stuck in construction traffic,…

Abstaining From Moderation

By: Alex McBrairty May 17, 2018April 23, 2020

Health, Lifestyle, NutritionAnn Arbor, Ann Arbor Personal Trainer, Binge Eating, Eating, Fat Loss, Health, Lifestyle, Mindset, Nutrition, Nutrition Tips, Online Coaching, Personal Trainer, Weight LossLeave a Comment

Reading Time: 8 minutesWhen should you relax on your diet? How frequently should you include your favorite junk foods? This article covers a new approach to nutrition that will increase both adherence and success of a weight loss diet.

Is BMI A Good Health Measure?

By: Alex McBrairty March 5, 2018April 23, 2020

HealthAssessing Health Risk, BMI, Fitness, Gym, Health, Health Markers, Health Risk, Personal Training1 Comment

Reading Time: 2 minutesDoes BMI accurately reflect potential health risks?

Need to power through a workout? Crank up the tunes.

By: Alex McBrairty January 9, 2018April 25, 2021

Exercise, Mindset, MotivationFitness, Fitness Tips, Health, Learning, Motivation, Music, Personal TrainerLeave a Comment

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…

Quit Overeating By Defining Your Happiness

By: Alex McBrairty November 16, 2017April 2, 2020

Exercise, Mindset, Motivation, NutritionBinge Eating, Eating, Fitness, Fitness Coaching, Fitness Psychology, Fulfillment, Happiness, Health, Motivation, Nutrition, Personal Trainer, Psychology1 Comment

Reading Time: 10 minutesWhat is the secret to combatting emotional eating and the shortcomings of willpower? Start by defining who you want to be.

Which Should You Do First: Cardio or Weights?

By: Alex McBrairty September 7, 2017

ExerciseCardio, Exercise, Exercise Order, Fitness, Fitness Coaching, Fitness Goals, Fitness Tips, Goals, Health, Learning, Running, Science, Strength, Weight Lifting, WorkLeave a Comment

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…