Archive for the ‘fitness’ Category

Jeff Garlin: finding success but still struggling

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 [...]

Top Prescription Drugs in 2008

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 [...]

How to lose 100 or more pounds

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 [...]

How Powerful is a Boot Camp?

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 [...]

Fitness Trends for 2008

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 [...]

Why Women Should Lift Weights

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 [...]

How to Look, Live and Feel Younger

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 [...]

Increasing Torso Flexibility for Golf

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 [...]

Resistance training good for heart health?

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 [...]

Why exercise is good!

Exercise is good. Inflammation in the body is bad! – it’s significantly related to a whole host of cardiovascular diseases.The most frequently measured biomarker of inflammation in the body is C-reactive protein (CRP). High levels of CRP indicate high levels of inflammation. Essential fatty acids (Omega 3’s, for example) are known to reduce inflammation – [...]