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Are you eating the wrong thing before you workout?

I think by now most of us know that we should fuel priorly before a workout, especially when we know its going to be a tough one! As much as we need to fuel, there are things you should and shouldn’t eat before a workout.

Let’s face it: Workout attire, especially the super-comfortable, easy-to-love (and wear 24/7) yoga pants, is pretty much the best clothing category ever created. It’s evident in the fact that athleisure — the act of wearing casual and comfortable clothing designed for exercise — has become a fashion trend in its own right.

America loves fast food, and that’s not something most of us are proud of.

According to a 2013 report from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Americans consumed about 11.3 percent of their total calories from fast food from 2007 to 2010. That’s a lot of hamburgers, fries, and milkshakes.

Pilates is a totally perfect exercise to cure chronic back pain... I almost hesitate using the word "cure", but it's the truth, it can cure it! I work with clients on regular basis that struggle with back pain from a variety of sources. I tell them that you can't have a strong front without a strong back and they both work together to keep your trunk strong and pain free.

Keeping fit isn’t easy. Despite how easy the media makes it seem, it takes time, commitment, effort, and discipline. While this does come easier to some people than others, it still takes work. It is important to make working out and exercising a part of your daily routine so that way, it’s like second nature and you just do it by habit.

Make a few simple changes to what you eat, what you do, and how you exercise to go from flab to fab.

The official start of summer is about ten weeks away but if you aren’t in tip-top shape just yet there’s no need to worry. Why? Because by making a few simple changes to what you eat, what you do, and how you exercise, you can go from flab to fab in about a month.

Anyone can benefit from clean eating, not just seniors, but seniors should know, it’s not too late to start eating clean! The older you get the harder your body has to work to fight off disease and infection, so eating the right foods and the right quality foods is essential.

So many trends and diet fads out there, it seems new trends emerge each week! Many of these can be extremely enticing, making claims of serious weight loss or outrageous results. While I can tell you that somer results are possible with these diet trends, most of them are just that: fads.

Started a new class but haven’t seen progress? Have you reached a plateau and are no longer seeing results like you once were? This can be discouraging and frustrating, and many times can lead to poor decision making like crash dieting, dangerous workouts or giving up.