Are you stressed out and tired of being unhappy? Perhaps you are not paying enough attention to yourself. While many stress reduction techniques are available, weight training is a powerful stress reduction technique.
The payoff for a regular weight lifting routine is enormous benefits to your body and mind. This includes increased muscle tone and optimal [...]

Congratulations! You’ve chosen to embark on a journey towards a healthier lifestyle. After much research, you’ve eliminated processed foods and sugar from your diet, reduced your fat intake, and increased your protein. Each day begins with you dragging yourself out of bed to make sure you get in your new workout regimen, including both cardio [...]

Losing weight requires more than a physical commitment - the mental aspect is also vitally important. When it comes to fitness, the mind truly is a powerful thing.
Have doubts that there is a mind-body connection to wellness? Simply try this easy test: do a workout of your choice (running, walking, lifting weights) with your favorite [...]

I’m Talking to You!
I heard you groan when you read the title.  I know what you are thinking: “Not me.  Not ever!  I am too disgusting, too fat, too ugly, too unacceptable, too rejected, too skinny, too pock-marked, too flat-chested . . .”  I have heard it all and said much of it to myself.
Aren’t [...]

“Choice begins the moment you disidentify from the mind and its conditioned patterns, the moment you become present.”
- Eckhart Tolle, Author of The Power of Now
We live in a world of limitless change. I still remember when we got our first color TV, how thrilled we were to be watching movies in our own home [...]

It’s a New Year and a new set of resolutions. How many will you actually see through to the end, and how many will fall by the wayside because of one simple four lettered word . . . FEAR?
Fear gets to the best of us, whether it is fear of failure, fear of success or [...]

Being stressed, overwhelmed and over-tired is one of the primary causes of over eating. When we are worn out, we are much less able to resist temptation and much more likely to try to sooth or revive ourselves by over eating.
My tip for minimizing stress-related emotional over eating: learn to say “no” so that you [...]

It’s been a couple of months since I last visited with my Tom Terbrock, and he’s dropped 11 more pounds during that time, giving him a grand total of 110 pounds lost. That alone is quite impressive, but it is the inches he shaved off which truly makes the difference.
Five days a week for 2 [...]

Turning 40 is hard enough without having to worry about the changes going on behind the scenes with your body. When I was 20, thirty sounded old and forty sounded like the beginning of the end. Remember the photos of your grandparents in their forties? They looked ancient. Perhaps it’s just my perspective that [...]

So let’s get to it. Here are the experts’ choices on the most effective abdominal exercises. These should be performed two to three times weekly (for beginners, two is plenty to start). Each exercise should be executed until the point of momentary muscular failure, which should happen between 30 and 90 seconds. This is considered [...]