Top 5 Running Injuries and How to Prevent & Treat Them
Top 5 Running Injuries and How to Prevent & Treat Them While running is a popular activity that presents a number of important health benefits, it’s not without its risks. Running injuries can affect anyone, from experienced runners who push treat them themselves hard to beginners whose muscles are not used to running. Many runners […]
Looking for Skinny Summer Cocktail Recipes?
Looking for Skinny Summer Cocktail Recipes? Mixers, syrups, and sodas really get people into calorie trouble, because most drinks start with 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits that only have around 96 calories, but mixologists can easily turn that into a drink with hundreds of calories. Also, consider that whether you’re drinking a
Secrets of a Successful Personal Training Business
Secrets of a Successful Personal Training Business 1. Know what your clients know. Beyond keeping up with your own professional education, pay attention to what your clients are learning. Reading professional journals is important, but it’s not enough. You also need to be reading popular publications both online and offline. They’re
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Gluten-Free Lifestyle: Is It Here To Stay?
One buzzword that keeps popping up in grocery stores, restaurants and even churches is gluten-free. Gluten, a protein found in grains like wheat, barley and rye, is difficult for some people’s bodies to process, resulting in an autoimmune digestive disease that damages the small intestine
Impressive New Smartphone Apps in Health & Medicine
Smartphones are just about everywhere. In the U.S. alone, more than 91 million Americans now use a smartphone. Of course, these devices are much more than just a phone. The fact that there are apps for many areas in personal health and medicine is
What CrossFit Teaches Us About Pricing
What CrossFit Teaches Us About Pricing Walk into any CrossFit gym, and you’ll probably hear loud music blasting over the grunts of CrossFitters pushing their bodies well past what most would consider possible. CrossFitters sweat, shout and groan their way through rigorous exercises. They often train so hard they can hardly stand
Substitute Ingredients for Meat, Dairy and Fat
There are many substitutions forand meat and dairy products, and fatty unhealthy ingredients; and more products are coming out all the time! Just the other day while shopping at my local grocery I noticed a new non-dairy product – Quinoa Milk! Regardless of your reason for choosing non-dairy, non-animal
Construct a Weight Loss Workout Plan that your Clients will Love
Your clients are spending hours and a significant amount of money with you every single week; so nothing can be more frustrating for you and your client when they aren’t seeing the results they are looking for. Unfortunately, this can happen for a number of different reasons.
Using Goals to Motivate Clients
Using Goals to Motivate Clients After a fairly intense workout, Bruce, a relatively new client, looked at me and said, “I do not like doing this kind of thing.” Trying not to take his disapproval with my program design personally, I began to offer my usual pep talk about how much
Non-Dairy Milk That Tastes Good
Looking for a non-dairy alternative for optimal health and performance? Whether you make smoothies on a regular basis or enjoying a morning bowl of cereal, you’re probably using dairy or non-dairy milk. Nowadays it is common to see in the grocery many different types of milk besides just dairy and soy.