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Weight Management, Part V: If You Fail to Plan, You Plan to Fail (part B)

Back on track with our weight management series. In case you missed out, here are the previous four parts of our series: Part 1: “If You Do What You Always Did, You’ll Get What You Always Got” Part 2: Setting Emotional Goals Part 3: Start Easy, Build on Success Part 4: Mastering the “Basics” Part…

Weight Management, Part IV: – Mastering the “Basics”

Hey all, hope the weekend went well. We’ll hop right into it today, continuing our series on weight management, today talking about what I consider to be “the basics” of weight management. Just like in anything else involving in life involving mastery, if you don’t have the basics down, you have no reason at all…

Weight Mangement Part III: Start Easy, Build on Success

Anyway, today we’re gonna continue our post series on Weight Management, and in case you missed out, here’s part 1 and part 2. So here’s a question. How many of you have a friend** that, in a conscious effort to lose weight, decides to: – Cut dietary carbohydrate consumption in half – Immediately cut total caloric consumption to…

Weight Management, Part II – Setting Emotional Goals

We’ll continue our series on weight management today (last time we talked about recognizing health behaviors that lead to less than stellar outcomes). Just think for a second about the last time you accomplished a significant goal that really meant something to you. What were your driving factors? Chances are, you had a lot more motivation…

Weight Management, Part 1: “If You Do What You Always Did, You’ll Get What You Always Got”

I think a series on weight management is in store for today and the next few blog posts. Today’s topic revolves around a simple, effective, yet often forgotten quote; “If you do what you always did, you’ll get what you always got.” Obviously, a statement that can be applied across multiple areas of life, but…

Metabolism Basics

I’m partial to Paul Chek because he’s a no-frills no-bs holistic health practitioner who has worked with world class athletes and everyone in between. I like this 3 minute video of him speaking about spot reduction (hint: it doesn’t work, people), as well as covering the TRUE method behind optimizing your metabolism. Pay close attention…

Steady State Cardio vs. Interval Training Cardio

Which is better: Steady State Cardio vs. HIIT Cardio, or High Intensity Interval Training Cardio? Which is more effective for performance? How about for fat loss?? Well, as all things related to fitness, it depends. The Gibala Study out of McMaster University compared 20 minutes of HIIT cardio (30 sec sprint, 4 minute rest) with…