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The holiday season is quickly approaching! For many people, a significant part of what makes the holiday season so special are the delicious homemade foods available to eat. This poses a tricky situation for those currently on diets or seeking to lose weight. Someone dieting around the holidays might be thinking, ‘the holidays will be no fun this year because I cannot enjoy my favorite foods’ or ‘I will just restart my diet on January 2nd and enjoy eating as much of the holid

If you are trying to lose weight, you are most likely trying to maintain eating in a calorie deficit. Removing high caloric foods, especially ones that are very tasting, like highly processed sweets, chips, and meats, reduces cravings for these highly tasty, high calorie foods. One of the easiest and simplest weight loss tips that works to reduce consumption of super tasty, high calorie foods is completely removing them from your home. Clean out your pantry and fridge of a

Mobility is defined as the ability to move our body freely throughout a full range of motion. In order to do this, we need to have a combination of enough strength, flexibility, and coordination. Why is mobility important? Any movement that you make requires a degree of mobility. Without any, we could not move. So, a certain level of mobility is essential for all of us. How much mobility do we really need? Do we really need access to our body’s full ranges of motion? In p

So you have a goal to be able to do a bodyweight pull up, but you are not sure where to begin. I am going to quickly walk you through 3 useful tips to get you on your way towards performing your first pull up. Tip #1: if you are on the heavier side, and you know you could lose a few pounds, prioritize losing weight. While strength is absolutely necessary to be able to do a pull up, increasing your strength takes much longer than decreasing your weight. So, rather than trying

Undoubtably, physical activity is important for children to partake in for both proper physical and mental development and overall well-being. Perhaps now more than ever, children are growing up in sedentary households. If physical activity is limited in a child’s day-to-day routine, then allocating time specifically for engagement in physical activity is a good idea. Importantly, parents and guardians must understand that the language they use, and the attitudes they express

If you are an athlete who plays an explosive sport, like football, wrestling, soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, or basketball, and you have never done weight lifting or resistance training before, then strength training will get you the greatest improvement in your sport performance versus any other training modality. A great starting place for you is doing simply bodyweight movements, like bodyweight squats, lunges, pushups, and pull ups. When you can consistently demonstrate

-If you are trying to lose weight, you are most likely trying to maintain eating in a calorie deficit. Removing high caloric foods,...

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Everyone at some point experiences bad feelings, like stress, anxiousness, sadness, and fatigue. When these bad feelings present...

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Here are 3 tips to reframe exercise positively! # 1. Make the goal of each workout to feel good by the time you finish the workout. I...

Here are 3 tips to help find genuine enjoyment training in the gym. #1. Champion your progress in its’ many forms. Progress in...