When someone says they want to lose weight, what they really mean is they want to shed excess body fat. However, without a well-designed plan in place, a calorie deficit leads you to lose both fat ... Continue Reading
The Right Way to Lose Fat: How to Exercise
In a past article, The Right Way To Lose Fat: What To Eat, we addressed the nutrition component of sensible fat loss. A lot was presented such as low carb/high protein, high carb/low fat, micronutrient ... Continue Reading
‘How To’ Is Pointless Without ‘Why’
“He who has a 'why' can bear almost any 'how.'" - Nietzsche Back in the 1800s, Nietzsche understood how pivotal the question of ‘why’ is to the human experience. “He who has a 'why' can ... Continue Reading
Is Personal Training Too Personal?
”Anything you avoid in life will come back, over and over again, until you’re willing to face it–to look deeply into its true nature.” - Adyashanti ”Anything you avoid in life will come back, over ... Continue Reading
How Much Does Happiness Weigh?
Beachbody’s Insanity program is sold with the promise: “I’ll get you a year’s worth of results in just 60 days!” The Jenny Craig diet promotes that you can: “lose up to 16 pounds in just 4 weeks!” Every ... Continue Reading
Don’t Sweat the Demon Scale
There are a whole lot of people who struggle with anxiety about stepping on the scale. It could come as a bit of dread or panic at a doctor’s visit or for the weigh-in for a meet. These principles don’t ... Continue Reading
The Cold, Hard Truth About Weight Loss
It's time for the article that should hopefully shape the rest of your weight loss journey for the better. Let's first start out with a fact: your metabolism, or your body's ability to burn calories, has a ... Continue Reading
Individualizing Macronutrient Ratios for Fat Loss
You’ve probably heard you need to go low carb to lose fat. Chances are other people have told you to go low fat. Right now, the ketogenic diet (a high fat, moderate protein, zero carb diet) is having a ... Continue Reading
Study Tests Common Ingredient in Weight Loss Pills
New research published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology has analysed the effect of consuming p-synephrine on the burning of body fat during exercise. P-synephrine is an alkaloid found ... Continue Reading
Get Back to Fighting Weight and Conquer Race Season
You finished your last endurance race of the season, so you devoured all the Christmas cookies. Some people put on just a few pounds for maintenance, while others go a little past healthy maintenance and ... Continue Reading
Body Image Matters: Your Relationship to Weight Loss
The Fine Line Between Weight and Body Image The relationship between weight gain or loss and body image is complex and not well understood. On one hand, having a self-identity tied too closely to a flawed ... Continue Reading
What Housekeepers Can Teach Us About Weight Loss
In a previous article, I discussed how taking a placebo can improve performance. For example, taking a supplement, which contains no active ingredients, helps athletes perform better. The placebo effect is ... Continue Reading
How to Avoid the Fad Diet Cycle (and Keep the Weight Off)
New year, new you - right? Possibly, if you take the steps to set yourself up for dietary success and choose a diet that works for your lifestyle. That is, a diet that is not just another fad. Fad ... Continue Reading
The Role of Aerobic Exercise and Diet in Weight Loss
When it comes to losing weight, there is often a difference between what clients expect and what a trainer wants them to do. Many clients believe you need more exercise, whereas coaches often believe diet ... Continue Reading
Switch Off Your TV: The Truth on Fat Loss
An afternoon talk show got me thinking of this topic. This particular program was a segment on weight loss and the appropriate exercises for it. Obviously, I was skeptical as to what the content would be. ... Continue Reading
The Biggest Loser: The Most Damaging Show on TV?
With millions of viewers tuning in to watch NBC’s The Biggest Loser, 67% of them being statistically overweight, this show has a major influence over the masses and their education on how to go about ... Continue Reading
How to Cut Weight Without Beating Up Your Body
Weight loss and low levels of body fat can have substantial impacts on health and performance, and those effects can be good or bad. In a recent review published by the Journal of the International Society ... Continue Reading
Don’t Throw Away the Scales
Usually at this time of year gyms are filled with people wanting to shed a few pounds after their holiday excesses. Nothing wrong with that, but there’s one piece of advice that often gets thrown around ... Continue Reading
The 3 Pillars of Fat Loss
Anyone who ever tells you “this is what you should do one hundred percent of the time” when it comes to your training is trying to sell you something. The sales pitches are even more pronounced when it ... Continue Reading
What Is the Minimum Effective Dose? (My Tim Ferriss Obsession Confession)
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. - Ellen Degeneres I’m obsessed with Tim Ferriss and his obsession with ... Continue Reading
The Right Way to Lose Fat: What to Eat
Let’s set the record straight from the outset: the goal of any weight loss, pound-shedding, “trimming,” or whatever-you-label-it program is body FAT loss, not necessarily scale-weight loss. So, bubble-wrap ... Continue Reading
30 Minutes of Exercise More Effective Than 60
A recent study brings good news to those who have limited time to exercise. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark have shown that thirty minutes of daily exercise provides just as much ... Continue Reading
From Gaming Addict to Gym Rat: My Story of Transformation
I was always a chubby kid growing up, and got most of my satisfaction from the foods I ate. And I liked to eat! Deep-fried foods, sugars, you name it I ate it. I loved food and it loved me back. But the ... Continue Reading
