Exercise Update

Do you always over consume potato chips, corn chips, and other snack foods that come in bags and boxes? Next time don’t put the bag of chips or box of crackers between you and the TV. Instead put a serving on a plate and then put the bag or box back in the cabinet. You’ll be less likely to overeat or inconvenience yourself to get up and get more.

I love it when retail companies go beyond just selling products and decide to give their customers great information as well.  Here are 42 fitness tips and article links from one of my favorites Road Runner Sports.
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Can Caffeine Makes You Go Fast?
The 30-Minute Workout Routine
Women: Be Healthier and More Fit than someone 12 years [...]

Just like you have goals for other aspects of your life you should have fitness goals.  They should be detailed and have a specific date to achieve them.  For example if you want to exercise with your kids set a specific event and date that you will do something with them you can’t do now. [...]

When Do You Need to Exercise the Most?  It’s often the times we don’t feel like it.  We tell ourselves we have been too busy, or too tired, or we deserve a break.  Those are the moments that you need to jump up off the couch and start your workout.  Have a great workout tomorrow!

Getting in shape is not about having a single “killer” workout that leaves you sore and exhausted the next day.  It’s a gradual change where you push yourself just a little bit each day so that overtime those individual workouts add up to a lot of progress.

By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
www.TurbulenceTraining.com
Last summer I trained a Hollywood starlet who was in Toronto to film a movie. She was a model Turbulence Training client, doing everything I asked in each session including her first-ever chin-up, except for the Sugar-free Red Bull she insisted on having before each workout.
She said she needed the energy.
Everywhere [...]

Be mindful that the first month will be the most difficult. Essentially, you are breaking old habits — changing your routine. This is not easy. Our minds are conditioned to “protect” us. It learns from repetition. Naturally, if your mind “knows” your routine does NOT involve physical activity, it will attempt to persuade you to [...]

By Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
www.TurbulenceTraining.com
Men’s Fitness magazine recently asked me for 3 of my best fat loss secrets. Since most times the magazines just don’t have enough space to run my full tips, I thought I’d give you a more detailed explanation of my secrets here (plus a few extra bonus tips that I didn’t [...]