3 Restaurant Strategies for Ordering Goal-Oriented Food
Are you an absolute superstar adhering to your nutrition strategy and losing weight when you’re making all of your food at home, but trying to order a meal at a restaurant makes you feel panicked, overwhelmed, or defeated? You’re not alone! Many of my nutrition clients struggle feeling confident eating outside of their normal routine […]
4 Simple Activities to Start Improving Your Fitness Today
One of the biggest questions or concerns we hear as personal trainers is how to start improving your fitness when you don’t know where to start. Whether you are a gym novice or decades-old veteran who has gotten out of your fitness pattern, you can make healthy habits part of your life through small but […]
Afraid of Looking Bulky? 5 Real Benefits of Weight Training for Women
As a strength coach at a small personal training boutique, I get the opportunity to train a lot of women looking to improve their physique, health markers, and habits. Oftentimes, my novice female clients who are just starting out in our gym lifting weights will express that they really don’t want to get bulky, so […]
Why You Absolutely Need To Hire A Coach To Achieve Your Health And Fitness Goals
How are you doing with your health and fitness goals that you set out to achieve this year? Goal setting is a huge part of habit change and creating a healthy lifestyle. What are some of the other factors? Knowledge, accountability, and the tools to reach your goals. Getting a coach is the next step […]
The Keto Diet is Not #1 for a Healthy Lifestyle (or Sustainable Weight Loss)
The Keto Diet is the newest (but not actually new) craze for seeing those pounds melt off. Just weeks from flab to flat, right? Let’s talk about all of the ins and outs of this buzzword diet strategy, and figure out if the results are really worth the restrictions. What exactly is the Keto Diet […]
Can Thanksgiving Ruin Your Progress?
What do you look forward to the most on Thanksgiving? Is it the food? Time with family and/or friends? Relaxation and time away from your job? This year especially we have so much to be thankful for (even if some days or certain events throughout 2020 have made us feel less than thankful) – more […]
FOOD IS YOUR BODY’S #1 FUEL
When you’re deciding to eat or drink something, what is your main motivation behind choosing that particular item? Aside from being hungry or thirsty, it’s likely because you like the taste, texture, or feeling that consuming that food or drink gives you. Do you ever find yourself rewarding certain things like exercising at the gym, […]
GOAL SETTING FOR SUCCESS
When you say the year 2020 out loud does it sound weird? How about writing it? After the holidays, I am always looking forward to the New Year with great anticipation! Why? Because I have my 2020 goals under control. 2020 is going to be lots of change for me personally, due to my youngest […]
THE POWER OF SLEEP ON ACHIEVING HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS
One of the pillars of building lifestyle habits that promote a healthy weight is SLEEP! Lack of sleep (also called insomnia even if it is lack of sleep hygiene) has been shown in multiple scientific studies to create chaos. In most of the studies, one of the variable groups was deprived of sleep purposely to […]
THE OVERLOOKED IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNICATING YOUR GOALS
I have been a coach for about 9 years now and one thing I can tell you is that the clients and athletes that have a clear picture of their goals have significantly higher rates of achieving success, than those who just “know they need to workout” or the clients that pay me for accountability […]
