Raise your hand if you’ve ever received negative comments from those closest to you about your diet, weight or exercise routine *raises hand*. Now, raise your hand if you’re making positive changes in your diet, fitness or exercise routine and you still get negative comments from people closest to you *raises hand*. Remember when I …
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Your Rest Days Are Not A Luxury, They’re A Necessity
Let me preface this by saying, the volume of your workout, your physical and mental well-being and what your goals are, are all pretty good indicators of how many rest days you should take. ‘Volume’ simply means the weight x reps x sets. How would you know you’re doing too much volume? Quite frankly, you’ll …
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‘Women Are Weaker Than Ever Before’: A Pilates Love Story
I was scrolling the interwebs, and came across this article. Now the article itself is underwhelming but a certain point in the article struck me profoundly. ‘Women are weaker than they have ever been‘. I don’t know how valid that point is exactly but I do know that there might just be some truth to …
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Why Don’t We Stop Demonizing Half-Squats.
You know those videos shared on facebook where everyone is completely obliterating the guy in the video because he’s not squatting to full depth (i.e. not ass to grass or at least not parallel) because they think they know SO much more than he does? Nothing gets me more riled up than reading any of …
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Free Workout Guide #1 (Beginner)
Did someone say ‘fREE?’. YES, I did. Today I’m going to write a workout that you can implement over a given week. NOW, THIS IS IMPORTANT. I am not there to see if you’re doing each exercise correctly so I highly recommend you search for proper form videos online. Additionally, everyone will have different goals, …
I Can’t Find the Motivation To Workout!
Let me tell you, if I had a dollar for every time I heard someone ask ‘How do you find motivation to exercise’ I’d have approximately twenty dollars (give or take). I understand how difficult it can be to come back from work, exhausted and drained, then going to the gym to bust your butt …
Should You Change Your Diet?
Do you want to know one of life’s abysmal truths? You gotta diet to shed fat. It sucks, I know. As nice as it would be to just take a pill and shed 10+ pounds of fat overnight it just isn’t possible (yet). Many of us want a quick fix and aren’t willing to put …
Eating Carbs Before Bed = More Body Fat?
Here’s a short science lesson (it’ll be quick, I promise!). Carbohydrates = gives us energy.Energy = gives us the ability to function.Too much energy = stored as glucose in cells and in fat cells if not used sufficiently Ok, now that we got that out of the way, let’s jump right into it. Plain and …
Are You SURE I Can’t Spot Reduce?!
Spot reduction isn’t a myth. Cosmo keeps telling me how to target ‘stubborn love handles’, so they must know something, right? ehh- not quite. Spot reduction is probably one of the most popular requests I see. So what exactly is it and why is it so in demand all the damn time? Put simply, spot …
Lost Weight and Still Feeling Insecure?
‘I lost a lot of weight, almost 20 pounds, I’ve dropped down dress sizes, my friends say I look great. The only thing is, I’m still insecure about my body. I thought once I lost weight I’d be happier with my body but now I have these other insecurities that I can’t stop thinking about.’ …
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