On March 10, 2010, the Medical Wellness Association sponsored a Medical Wellness and Nutrition forum as part of the IHRSA convention in San Diego. As an aside, Sunny San Diego? Are you kidding me? It was sunny, but, man, was it cold! The wind was blowing. Hard. Felt it to my bones. Probably not cold [...]
Jeff Garlin, co-star and executive producer of Curb Your Enthusiasm, has written a memoir about his lifelong struggles with weight. In an interview for ABC news, Garlin talks about his addiction to food and his new diet. You can read the interview and watch a video here.
This is sad. Really sad. He said he’d [...]
Most people I work with are significantly overweight – average weight > 300 pounds. As you might expect, all have a cluster of metabolic disorders. Coincident with their condition, they take a laundry list of prescription medications. In general the lists are nearly identical and include prescriptions for hypertension, diabetes, cholesterol and digestive disorders.
Given [...]
Props to Heather Davis. She has lost 110 pounds. It’s a story many would like to live. She didn’t follow a gimmicky diet or or sign-up for a quick fix fad. She did it with a good plan, hard work and perseverance.
Here are ten tips she offered in a CNN story that you can [...]
First, you need to get into my boot camp. Today is the last day of the first week, but you can still register – right up until next Friday!
Second, If you’re skeptical of the results you can get from a Boot Camp, read this article.here.
Finally, the best Boot Camps are fun, challenging, rewarding and [...]
January 8, 2008
The American College of Sports Medicine published it’s fitness trends report for 2008 in December of last year.
A pdf version of the article is here: http://www.informz.net/acsm/data/images/worldwidetrends.pdf
In surveying nearly 2,000 fitness professionals throughout the world and corroborating with internationally known fitness experts, a list of 20 fitness trends was identified. I’m giving you [...]
January 07, 2008.
From a recent article posted in the San Jose Mercury News by Melinda Sacks…
I took the liberty of highlighting important benefits in each of the points. The benefits of weight training are numerous and this article does a good job of highlighting some of the more
important ones.
Even though this article is [...]
11 Steps guaranteed to get you there!
How do you feel right now?
tired?
soft and mushy?
sluggish?
bloated?
unable to focus?
no drive?
Why do you feel this way? Is it just the natural aging process? Should you live through your 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and beyond feeling tired, taking prescription medication and feeling this way?
Is [...]
Here is the post I promised in the newsletter on increasing torso rotation.In the article, I said the golf swing was complex and any program needed to take this into account. The stretches below do just that. Each stretch should be performed in two different ways. The first is a more traditional method of stretching [...]
From the American Heart Association…
“Research shows that when properly supervised and prescribed in the light of a patient’s history and condition, whether they have cardiovascular disease or not, resistance training increases muscular strength, endurance, independence, and ability to perform a large range of activities. It reduces disability and enhances quality of life. Other benefits include [...]
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