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Get Off The Treadmill
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’m really fortunate that the people who read my site have two things in common: a passion to lead a healthy lifestyle goal(s) that they are striving to achieve One of things I hope that I can provide to my readers as well as my clients is prescriptive guidance to help them achieve their goals. One of their main question is cardio? I live in Boston right next to the Charles River as soon as the snow melts the runners, joggers and walkers come out in droves. Do you know why they run — I mean at least 85% of them, come on you the answer, think about it!! That’s right its...
Read MoreThere Are No Food Mulligan’s!
For those of you who don’t play golf, a mulligan is a do over. You hit a bad shot and then you get to do it over again. Well here we are coming off a long weekend filled with fun activities that may have included lots of food and alcohol. You wake up today look in the mirror reflect on your weekend. You say to yourself, I’m going to the gym and hit the weights the little harder, do a little more cardio or skip a meal or to to make up for all this past weekend’s bad behavior. Do you think it will help? Sorry to inform you, but no. I tell my clients that you need to live the 80/20 rule. Eat cleanly 80% of the time and have some treats 20% of the...
Read MoreChocolate Does A Body Good!
That’s right, drinking chocolate milk after a HARD work out will aid in helping your muscles recover. Now let me reiterate HARD workout, if you just went a did a light workout and didn’t break a sweat, you won’t need a post workout recovery. But if you did come back from a long bike ride, run or hike chocolate milk will help you recover better than some of those other high beverages. Why?? Plain water just replaces the water you sweat out during your workout Carbohydrate laden beverages just builds and replaces your glycogen (stored muscle carbs) Carbohydrates and Protein combination not only replaces the glycogen but studies have that you see a...
Read MoreAre U A Cardio Queen?
Not it…. I am roughly 5 weeks out from a NE Classic. Here is where the dollar values double. Eat clean, lift heavy, do your cardio or GO HOME. Everything counts! My cardio has gone from 45 min to 60 minutes 6x/week. I have a confession. I HATE CARDIO. Yes, I hate it. I know that their are many pros and cons to cardio, but its the best way I know to lean out of a show. I can strength train all day long, but ask me to do cardio longer than 30 minutes the excuse monster comes up with some real doozies. Being on a piece of a equipment for 60 minutes makes me kooky. But it has to be done. Here’s my plan. I play a ton of mind games. The first game I play is...
Read MoreBut its 19 degrees out?
Most people think because you are a personal trainer you are super human… UMMM NO. We have those days when we don’t want to work out and sometimes even when we set a fitness goal and get in the middle of training we say to ourselves, what did I sign myself up for. That is me right now. Literally I signed up to the Miami half marathon. (I am registered, have a non-refundable plane ticket and hotel) Just 6 short weeks ago I thought it would be a fun challenge and keep me motivated through the holidays. WELP.. not so much. Today’s 19 degrees with a wind chill of 4 and I had to do 4 miles. Go ahead and call me a wimp, but this kid wasn’t going outside. So.. instead I...
Read MoreGetting Out Of Your Comfort Zone
As I train for the Miami half marathon a good friend of mine and an amazing marathon coach, John Furey has told me the secret to running an injury free marathon is cross training and intervals. I know interval training has been around for awhile and people have been doing them, but are you really getting out of your comfort zone! Really pushing yourself to that 9-10, when you push yourself to the limit. So.. why do we do it. Interval training helps: boost performance, by making the heart become more efficient at pumping blood helping increasing our tolerance for lactic acid burn we can increase our intensity in a short amount of time without risk of burning out or...
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