Every now and again you will get on a treadmill or elliptical trainer and see that it lists the number of METS in the workout, like me you probably glaze over it and just start. But this Mets number is very interesting and important. If you are anything like me it gets kinda confusing sometimes […]
5 Signs of Weak Core Muscles
If you have weak core muscles you will find your balance is poor. This leads to an unstable body, increasing the possibility that you could suffer a fall. A weak core also makes you feel physically weak. You can support more physical effort when your core is strong. Most people think of core muscles as […]
Can You Be Fat and Fit?
Often we see people that run or workout, and are kind of overweight, or we ourselves can be overweight but exercise, and think that being fat and fit is good enough. Really the fitness level seems important and your weight isn’t that important. Right? Well that isn’t really true. You have to lower your fat […]
100 Eating Tips For A Healthier Lifestyle
A total of about 100 eating tips for a healthier lifestyle. These are a giant list of simple and easy eating tips that can help you live healthier starting today. Do you think you can integrate 100 eating tips into your life right now? I don’t. The best thing to do is to copy this […]
Barbecue Safety this Holiday Weekend
What a timely article I was sent this week. Just in time for the American 4th of July weekend I got these barbecue safety tips to help us all to stay safe. Barbequing is one of America’s favorite pastimes, especially during Fourth of July weekend. However, it’s hard to believe that this enjoyable and easy […]
Summer Hydration Tips
It is really hot in the Summer and as much as we all love the nice sunny warm weather I also know that some hydration tips may be needed for all of us. The heat can take a toll on us but the kids are the worst because they will avoid drinking until it is […]
8 Natural Pain Relievers
Pain is a feeling that all of us would want to avoid, but often end up experiencing. Be it in the form of a headache, period pain, muscle ache or joint inflammation, an ache never leaves our side for too long a time. The method that most of us follow to get rid of a […]
How to Workout in Less Time
Everyone should learn the basics of how to workout in less time. One of the real problems that I have seen with people is a lack of a good plan when getting started in a gym. You look at the big loud guys, see what exercises they are doing and subconsciously or not you start doing the […]
10 Tips to a Great Weight Workout
Great weight workouts can be tough and you may be wondering what you can do so that you can get the most out of your workouts. The last thing that you want after working so hard is to not get all of that last bit of muscle from the workout. When doing training it is […]
Vitamin E And Your Body
We all know that oxygen is a primary component that is needed for life. This very same oxygen, once inside of the body, becomes very reactive through certain molecules and will start to cause damage through the free radicals, which is known as oxidative stress. As an antioxidant, vitamin E will help to prevent this […]
Break An Ankle, Take A Break
We have had a long long Winter here in Calgary and I have to say I am excited seeing the temperature finally start to pick up. I think I was too excited a week ago Monday as I was going down my back stairs to take the recycling out and had a bit of a […]
Getting Started With Ketogenic Diet
The ketogenic Diet, also just known as the Keto diet has gone from being an interesting offshoot from the Atkins diet to a very very popular diet with lots of scientific backing. Did you know the standard American diet (SAD) contains 45-65% of calories from carbohydrate rich food? That’s why there is an epidemic of […]
Low Carb Diet-What You Should Know About It
Carbohydrate is the root cause behind your obesity, or so the supporters of low-carbohydrate diets would have you believe. Low-carb diets have always been more popular than the other dieting methods. After all, who hasn’t heard of the classic ones such as the Atkins, South Beach Diet, and especially now, the Ketogenic diet which is […]
Who To Rely On For Your Fitness Goals
This subject is something that I have thought about writing about for a while now as it gets to our core beliefs of whether we can really do it, with it being our goals or not. I always wonder how I can stop people from failing, heck even stop myself from failing. What do we […]
Foods to Avoid on the Paleo Diet
When you take a look at the foods you can eat and compare it to those on this page you will see that the difference is in the state of the food. Allowable foods on the Paleo Diet are in a natural form while the others are all artificial and have been manipulated in some […]
