“What do you have for breakfast?” “I don’t eat breakfast.” “What do you mean you don’t eat breakfast?” It’s the most important meal of the day!”

Or is it really? That’s right, I no longer eat breakfast, and I haven’t done so for a while. And this blog post is going to explain why I have given up “the most important meal of the day”. For the last year or so I no longer eat breakfast as a way of giving my digestive system a rest. I have adopted into my eating schedule something known as intermittent fasting. Wikipedia defines intermittent fasting (IF) as a pattern of eating that alternates between periods of fasting (usually meaning consumption of water only) and non-fasting.

I know it might sound minor, but the actual act of eating, in and of itself, is stressful to your body. You don’t realize it, but trust me it is. So when you are eating, your body has to digest everything you are putting in your mouth. This causes stress and inflammation to your system (bloating, digestion issues, heartburn, etc.).  Read more...

You pull into the parking lot to find that there are no spots left. Once you do park and get inside you see that it is very crowded and not only are all of the machines in use but the only treadmill that’s available is not working. Does this sound familiar?

In this brief article I will explain to you how and why setting up a small gym in your home his one of the easiest and wisest things you will ever do.

Before we get into the actual training benefits of a home gym let’s discuss some of the things mentioned in the very first paragraph. Your own home gym is always going to be right there for you open 24 hours a day and even on holidays, you’ll never have to wait to use a piece of equipment, it will always be clean (provided you keep it that way) and you did not have to pay a monthly membership fee to use it. And that’s without mentioning that you don’t have to deal with the annoying people that do nothing more than socialize and talk your ear off while you’re trying to work out (I’m assuming you’re one of those annoying people!).

Since we’ve covered the obvious “extra” benefits of home workouts let’s talk about how and why working out at home is the best thing you can do to change your body.  Read more...

Strength training or weight lifting is the lifting of weights and/or resistance in a prescribed manner as an exercise or in athletic competition. Notice I said weights and/or resistance. It doesn’t have to necessarily be a weight plate or a dumbbell. There are numerous TV reports, magazine articles, radio shows that explain all of the benefits of lifting weights, yet so many women seem to not be “hitting the weights” for one reason or another. One very good reason is that they don’t know how much lifting weights will actually change their body (more so than even running or any of the other cardiovascular activities). Another reason is that a lot of women are confused about what to do exactly (what exercises, how many repetitions, how many sets, etc.).

This article will help shed some light on why it is so important that every woman be involved and adhering to a strength training program.

You actually might be involved in a strength-training program right now. Even if you are, I want you to really pay attention to what we’re going to cover for the rest of the article. I’m sure it is going to have you thinking differently about why you should be lifting weights from now on.  Read more...