Muscle Confusion Spells Trouble

In my monthly newsletter, I wrote an article about soreness.  Sometimes it’s appropriate to be sore and sometimes it’s not.  If you’d like to get the premium content, you need to sign up at the bottom of this page!  I could have taken a tangent in...

Why Low Fat/Low Cal Foods Don’t Promote Weight Loss

You’re trying to lose weight.  You buy all the “right” foods.  The label says it’s low fat, so it must be healthy.  You eat low fat snacks and have low calorie lunches right out of the microwave and haven’t lost a single pound.  Sound...

Top 5 Exercise Technique Cues

Chances are if you’ve taken a group exercise class or trained with a personal trainer, you’ve heard a lot of exercise technique cues to keep you moving with good alignment.  You know you’re not supposed to let your knees go past your toes during...

Tips for Preventing Knee Pain While Exercising

Over the course of my personal training career, I’ve heard my fair share of cracking and grinding knees.  These sounds and damage caused by trauma or years of poor exercise technique has led to squats, lunges, and the like to be added to the banned exercise...

Do You Need to Strengthen Your Inner Thighs?

Ok, ladies.  I’m talking to you!  You get so caught up in the body parts that are flabby, don’t you?!  So, it’s no wonder you’re constantly looking for an exercise that will “tone up” your inner thigh.  You want to feel those...

5 Lessons Learned From A Cleanse

If you had asked me a year ago if I’d be willing to do a cleanse, I would have said no.  My thinking was that cleanses were either a rapid weight loss gimmick or a liquid/starvation diet.  This was a case of me not doing research on cleanses and immediately...