Healthy Weight Loss
Posted by Mawuena in Digestive Health, Fatloss, Hormones, Nutrition & Lifestyle on 08. Apr, 2010 | No Comments
People frequently seek out nutritionists, health coaches and trainers for exercise programs to help lose weight, increase energy and feel better. Unfortunately, strategies employed in the past by most of our clients to lose weight include calorie-restricted or starvation diets full of processed foods (bars, shakes, packaged meals) and overdone cardiovascular workouts. Both these misguided [...]
Can You Exercise Out of Depression?
Posted by Guy in Health Psychology/Motivation, Nutrition & Lifestyle on 05. Nov, 2009 | No Comments
Daily exercise as daily medicine: For this patient, it works. If Jennisse Peatick, 36, ever had to stop exercising—well, the idea leaves her almost speechless. She doesn’t know what would happen. “I started exercising because I was getting fat and I realized it was helping me deal with my ongoing depression,” she says. Now [...]
World-Class Health & Fitness in 100 Words:
Posted by Mawuena in Fitness & Exercise on 06. Oct, 2009 | 3 Comments
Eat high quality (organic where possible) meat & vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch & no sugar. Drink clean water, 2-3L per day. Eat regularly, when hungry, every 3-5hrs. Understand good posture, body mechanics, technique before intensity and endurance. Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Learn how [...]
Learn Your ABCs of Movement Fluency
Posted by Guy in Fitness & Exercise on 01. Sep, 2009 | No Comments
Here’s a great way to think about what better movement means. Movement can be thought of as a language, and good healthy movers can be thought of as fluent in the language of movement. Who is fluent in movement? Most children are fluent, at least before they ‘learn’ to become stiff, inflexibly, poorly co-ordinated and [...]
