What Are The Benefits Of Infrared Heat?
Infrared saunas have increased in popularity as an important tool in overall health and wellness. What is all the sweat about? Below are 5 reasons to incorporate infrared heat into your conditioning program. Relaxation Relaxation is more important to health than most...
How Do I Train For A Mud Run?
So you're thinking about doing a mud run? Or you've already signed up for one! So how do you prepare for it? Just like training for a 5k, tennis match, or basketball game, we must first look at what the task involves before we decide what exercises to choose for the...
Total Body Conditioning: 3D Matrix Performance Series
Doug Gray – Gray Institute The 3D Matrix Performance Series is an environment, as well as an experience, in which movement facilitates the expansion of one’s functional threshold. A functional threshold can be defined as the body’s ability to successfully perform the...
Keep Going When The Going Gets Tough
How to keep going when the going gets tough. Maintaining weight loss motivation. Having problems sticking with your weight loss plan? You are not alone. Most people: set goals that are too vague utilize poor strategies have no positive support system lack the proper...
Preventing Impulse Eating
It’s happened to all of us. You know the feeling – you are away from home running errands, or you are out late because you had to stay at work longer. And you realize that you are hungry. Not just a little hungry though. You haven’t eaten for hours, your head is...
Understanding Hormone Imbalance
Do you know what your pituitary gland, thyroid, thymus, adrenal glands and pancreas have in common? They are all endocrine glands, and their jobs are to make hormones. Hormones are chemicals that deliver messages throughout your entire body via the bloodstream. ...
What Is Fiber and How Can It Help With Weight Loss?
You hear a lot about fiber in connection with losing weight. While it is not a magic cure-all for dieters, it is a pretty big weapon in the battle of the bulge. So what is it and how does it help you lose weight? Understanding Fiber Fiber is that part of a plant that...
Why Fad Diets Do Not Work
Are you tempted by the latest fad diets? You are not alone. At any given time, two-thirds of all Americans are on a diet to lose weight, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With so many people struggling to shed pounds, it is no wonder fad...
Upgrade Your Warm-up
You might be tempted to skip the warm up when you work out. After all, you only have so much time to exercise—“Let’s just get on with it already! I’m in a hurry!” But warming up is a critical component of your fitness routine, and skipping it could have unpleasant and...
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