This is one of those questions where the quick answer is “it depends.” (I know, boooooo. But hang with me a minute.) To start, we need to define what exactly a workout is. This isn’t based on duration or intensity, necessarily, but can be. A beginner may count a 10-minute walk as a workout, whereas a more experienced …
Boost Your Workouts With These 4 Kickass Finishers
It’s inevitable when you workout regularly for a long period of time. You hit a plateau with your results, you get bored, or you just want to push your limits and get a good sweat/muscle burn on. Never fear, I have just the tweak that your workouts need — finishers. Finishers are short circuits of all-out effort …
How to Make Exercise Feel Like a Guilty Pleasure
Now that we’ve hit September with the official first day of Fall just around the corner, it’s common to take stock of where we are with our life and goals and where we want to be before 2023 arrives. I know I am! It’s so easy to let the busy days pass us by, one right after another, a blur …
Run Strong: 5 Super Effective Bodyweight Exercises For Runners
Strength training is critical for runners. It helps prevent injuries, increases speed, and improves running economy (how much energy is expended at any given pace). But it’s a common belief among many runners that they only need to focus on the upper body and core. They think that running already works the lower body enough, so they can …
Do What You Love and Results Will Follow
I hope your week is going well and that you’re fitting in some movement. Even if that’s “only” 1 or 2 times this week, no worries; it all counts. My philosophy is to simply do the best you can with what you have at that moment. Find what you enjoy and what works for you and stick with it. …
6 Counterintuitive Strategies for Fast and Lasting Weight Loss
When it comes to losing weight, we tend to rely on a few tried-and-true tactics. And whether or not they actually work for us, we keep going back to them and blame ourselves when things go south, for our inability to stick with them properly and ultimately get the results that we want. This is when it helps to look …
Incorporating Cardio into Your Smart Weight Loss Plan
Cardio is typically lauded as the best way to lose weight. Need to lose body fat? Run. Hit a plateau? Run more. Still not seeing results fast enough? Run even more. It’s easy to think that more exercise equals more results. This isn’t always the case. After a certain point, there’s diminishing returns on your efforts. You …
8 Common Fat Loss Beliefs That Are Actually Complete Bullshit (Part 1)
I like to tell it like it is with my clients. I don’t believe in sugar-coating anything, especially if it only keeps someone struggling longer. And I’m constantly on the search for new information to keep my health and fitness knowledge up to snuff. I would rather find out that I’m wrong about something and be able to change direction than …