I finished a difficult leg workout this morning and had a thought. “I never pushed myself this hard when I went to a big box gym.” Especially legs! I did more machines and less free weights on legs because…, it was easier. Even though the burn was in the muscles and maximum effort was attained, it still doesn’t compare to our leg workouts here. Was the difference using free weight? I do think that is a factor. While machines have their place, for most of us, we will benefit m

With Thanksgiving dinner adding about 3200-4500 calories to your daily intake, which is enough to gain over a pound of fat in one day, I thought I would continue to try to ruin your holiday with a few more very round and general statistics. Did I say ruin? I meant inform. This is the average of average. Calories – 3200-4500 Carbohydrates – 320-450 grams Calories per pound of fat in your body – 3500 (They usually use that to determine how many calories you have to burn to lose

We are told all our lives about what old people can and can’t do. In fact, we are first instructed what young people can and can’t do. I am not saying that there are certain things that a 5 year old shouldn’t do like drive a race car, but it does seem that from the crib we are taught about the expected boundaries of our age. Our problem, especially as we get older, is that we believe them. We have accepted limitations to our health and fitness put on us by society. In a study

When I say “health”, what do you think of? These days we are thinking less about physical health and more about mental, emotional, relational and other areas of health. They all are inextricably linked. There are two trends that have been ingrained in our society; physical health only deals with the physical, and mental, emotional health has very little to do with the physical. Fortunately, society is beginning to see that it is all connected. The World Health Organization (W