Does muscle weigh more than fat? Nope! Here’s why. Have you ever said or heard, “I don’t like doing resistance training with weights, because muscle weighs more than fat and I’m trying to lose weight”? It’s a common statement that people make when they sit down with a personal trainer for the first time. I…
For about a year now I have been posting my after-workout sweaty selfie pictures in the Mama Exercises Motivation Group. There’s no perfectly done make-up or hair (ha, okay, there’s never that!), but what there is is a lot of sweat and, most days, smiles. In fact, “exercise and post picture” is on my daily…
Some people are not naturally morning people. Thankfully, I’m perfectly content getting up at 4am these days, but that’s not always been the case. When I realized that, for me, the morning was the most effective time for exercising, I knew I had to change my sleeping-in-until-7am ways. If you want to work out in…
Stress can wreak havoc on your health. It causes depression, leads to tightened muscles, harms the heart and the brain, and, yet, for many of us the stress of daily living is hard to shake off. For me, stress sits in my shoulders. It hunkers down for the long haul and sometimes even recruits my…
It’s almost the new year and with it comes the pressure to make resolutions, start new habits (like exercise), and kick out what’s not working in your life. We have grand ideas, make lists, create tracking charts, save ideas from Pinterest and, generally, do all the work necessary to ensure that we have a great…
Stress and Exercise – how are they related? I wear a lot of hats in my life. Mom, wife, daughter, sister, friend, business owner, social media marketer, teacher, personal trainer…the list is seemingly endless. Most days, I manage to navigate the changing of hats without a great deal of hassle. But other days…the days when…
What are your exercise excuses and how can you overcome them? Exercise Excuses Slipping from bed in the wee hours of the morning, driving to the gym, working out and getting in some much needed physical – and mental – “me” time. It was fantastic and over the course of three months, I was well…