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3 Tips To “Fall” Back In Love With Running
Reading Time: 3 minutes Use 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 minutes An incredible 10-year weight loss transformation story. Extraordinary people are created through daily actions and decisions.
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Abstaining From Moderation
Reading Time: 8 minutes When 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.
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3 Fat-Loss Myths – Debunked
Reading Time: 4 minutes Have you ever tried losing weight, thought you were doing everything correctly, and still didn’t see the progress you wanted? Sure, there are a number of reasons why you weren’t seeing the results, but what if the changes you made to your diet weren’t actually that helpful–or even downright useless? There are numerous myths surrounding…
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Gym Etiquette for Beginners: 8 Gym Norms to Follow
Reading Time: 5 minutes The 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: 3 minutes If 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 minutes What is the secret to combatting emotional eating and the shortcomings of willpower? Start by defining who you want to be.
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So, You Hate Your Workouts? Here’s How To Beat The Dread of Starting Them. [Podcast]
Reading Time: 2 minutes If 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 minutes Exercise 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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[Audio] Why You’re Hardwired To Avoid Change – And How To Fix It.
Reading Time: < 1 minute “Change is the only constant.” – Heraclitus Have you ever realized how hard it is to make better food choices and adopt a regular exercise routine? You aren’t alone. In order to effectively grow and reach your goals, you will have to adopt behaviors and do things you don’t normally do—much of which will be…
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What Does Your Sweat Say About Your Workout?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Many people feel that they need to be dripping in sweat after their workout in order for it to be effective. The truth is, how much you sweat is not an accurate predictor of how many calories you’ve burned during your workout. What’s the deal with sweat anyways? Why do we sweat in the first…
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Optimize Your Hormones For Better Weight Loss
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hormones play undeniably important roles in the daily functions of our body. However, poor diet and lack of exercise can alter the effects of these hormones, stealing the precious, beneficial effects we get from them. The good news is this: even though a bad diet and no exercise can negatively affect the function of hormones…
Read More[Video] Insider Look At Alex’s Online Fitness Coaching ‘Strategy Sessions’
Reading Time: < 1 minute I’ve recently entered the online fitness coaching market. However, unlike many online personal trainers, I don’t only provide workout templates and nutrition plans. I create custom workout plans based on the needs and lifestyle of the client, I track nutrition via food logs online, and most importantly I complete 20-min Facetime “strategy sessions” with every…
Read More[Podcast] The Most Important Skill You Need To Be Successful
Reading Time: < 1 minute I call it my “pseudo podcast,” another medium of providing you all with some great content. My hope for this project is to discuss mindset- and motivation-related topics in a very real, raw, and authentic manner. Tune in as I discuss the most important skill you need to possess, in order to be successful in…
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