Posts Tagged ‘exercise’

Exercise… getting in shape… working out…whatever you want to call it, is something most of us avoid.  This includes myself.  The reality?

The older I get and the busier I get, the lower exercise becomes on my list of priorities and goals.

However, we really enjoyed watching the Olympics at our house.  Seeing the determination of athletes who push their bodies to the limits for the sake of a dream is absolutely fascinating.  …

This year I’m helping coach my son’s peewee (3rd-4th grade) football team and I wrote up a quick nutrition handout for the parents, which I thought you may find helpful. Everyone was surprised to hear that chocolate milk is a healthy and great post-exercise drink. Enjoy!

Good sports nutrition for kids, like all good nutrition, starts with a balanced diet. Young athletes need to have energy to play sports and to refuel their body after activity.

Obesity rates in the U.S. and worldwide are skyrocketing with more than 1/3 of adults clinically obese.  Just as alarming are the 12.5 million children that are obese, according to the Center for Disease Control.

 Along with obesity rates, Type 2 diabetes is also soaring. This comes as no surprise, since 80% of Type 2 diabetics are also obese.

Weight loss can best be done by exercising, as we all know.  But, what is surpising is that the …

Can you actually improve your health, strength and power with energy drinks?  Or, is all that extra endurance just in your mind?

Plus, learn how you can train your mind to control your exercise goals and diet discipline for the results you’ve been wanting to see.

There is a lot of talk about how you can harness the power of your mind to control your body – for eating, for exercising, for anything.

Here is a wonderful example …