More on how to change your attitude! A University of Chicago Booth School of Business research study had one group of participants visualizing eating an unpleasant food and the other group visualizing avoiding the unpleasant food. You guessed it – the first group formed a more favorable opinion of the food, the second group, nothing. [...]
In Parts 1 and 2, I covered the leg workout and the chest and front delts workout that I do in 15-20 minutes. I add in 15 minutes to warm up and stretch, so in 30 minutes I can get a good workout when I am pressed for time. This is part 3 of the [...]
Short on time? Don’t miss your workout, ladies. Take these suggestions for a 15 minute workout.
In my previous blog post I discussed getting the most from your trainer; how to do it and what your responsibilities are as a client. So why are we talking about whether to end the relationship with the trainer? Fact is, like any relationship, things can feel ‘old and stale’, or we reach the point [...]
Now that you have selected your trainer, negotiated the price and number of sessions, how do you get the most for your money? And as a reminder – this is a business relationship - each party has obligations to make the relationship function productively. I have had personal trainers for short periods occasionally over the [...]
Last week, my guest spot topic on Carl Lenore’s Super Human Radio Show was about Women and Personal trainers. (The link to the show is posted at the end of this blog post.) The topic is so broad and deep, and on the show we covered a small part, so I have this pent up need [...]
Women have both an advantage and a disadvantage when starting out weight-training. The advantage is we have no expectation of having to prove we can lift heavy weights the first time we go to a gym; the disadvantage is that many of us are intimidated because unlike men we were not introduced to weights when we were younger.
The title of this post comes from a sentence in an article on abs from a guy with really great abs. Yeh, I know there are a lot of hot guys with great abs – see the plethora of calendars, online and offline, making the rounds now that 2010 is in sight. You haven’t seen them? Maybe I can find [...]
I don’t know about you – but I have been working out with weights for a lo-o-o-o-ng time. I really notice it when the workout routine comes around to the start of the cycle and I think “man I just did legs…. or so it seems”. Does no-one else get that feeling? Is it just mydays [...]
I like the quote from jacket: ”The Slow philosophy is about giving each task the time and focus that it deserves so that you do it better and enjoy it more.” It got me thinking about the power of slow in relation to training/working out. And as in previous blog entries, I aim my comments [...]
