Wanna Change? Planning Makes A Difference
When changing a habit it is important to plan. As you look at your schedule it is important to “schedule” your workouts just like you would any other appointment. Pack your gym bag the night before: put your shoes, clothing, water bottle, hair ties, iPod, earphones, towel, etc. in the bag and place the bag […]
Facing Fear With Movement
So, I’ve been listening to uninhibited women leadership online conference with Ashley Burnett this week and the topic today was about fear. I found it interesting to discuss fear and struggle to know what I am truly afraid of. I spend a lot of time working with people who are afraid, I talk about it most days […]
High Intensity Training is the Rage for Good Reason
HIIT training allows us to access the higher level energy need followed by recovery only to rebound back to the higher state of energy need. This back and forth helps us burn more calories than sustained longer workouts at a lower training rate and do so in less time. HIIT is a wonderful way to […]
Realistic Goal Setting
Photo Credit: All in The Mind. People often underestimate what it will take to be successful in a goal. Many times they have chosen a large goal and then fail to break it into smaller pieces. For example I once had a woman tell me she needed to lose 50lbs in 3 weeks for a wedding […]
Quantify All Your Movement Using Metabolic Equivalents (METs)
Want to know an easy way to count all your movement? Try using METs. These are metabolic equivalents and they help you determine how hard you are working when you do movement. A MET is an absolute value used by exercise physiologists to help us understand how much work is being expended by any given […]
Cycling Your Workouts
Cycling your workouts helps on two fronts. First it helps you get over plateaus (which we’ll discuss in a few days) and second it allows you to make sure you don’t get too efficient in your workouts.An easy way to look at cycling workouts is to start with your time frame – say you have […]
When is your best time to workout? Morning? Noon? Night?
When are you feeling most energetic and most active? It can be hard enough to fit exercise in, not to mention trying to fit exercise in when you are tired and feeling worn out. Some of naturally gravitate toward early morning – others toward evenings. Some of us like to be in bed early others could […]
Outlining Your Next Fitness Plan & Sticking with Your Goals
It’s time to consider what the next steps of your health goals will be. If you started something new with the new year, it’s time to consider how you will evolve it. In December we taught you SMART goal setting, a few weeks ago we started asking the questions to focus your workouts for the […]
Find Support to Reach Your Fitness Dreams
Have you ever had this experience: You are on top of the world, flying high on your excitement and new found dreams, only to have someone close to you squash it? It may be a look or comment. Maybe its a person whose opinion is held so dear to your heart that it devastated you to get […]
Engaging Family and Friends in Your Workouts
We all know doing things with people we like can be really fun. AND when we have people to be accountable to we often do a better job of getting our goals done. When you set up a workout buddy – someone to check in with, meet at the 6am workout class, or do fun […]
