1. Organic Food. Organic food is marketed as the stuff that is supposed to make us healthy. It's more expensive than regular food, has green packaging and claims to prevent all kinds of disorders, how can it not be healthy. Organic food can sometimes be beneficial when compared to conventionally...
1. Dirty Gyms. Gyms are pretty dirty places and some are worse than others. Everyone is sweating, few people actually wash their hands and almost no one wipes off the machines. If your gym seems like it's the dirtiest one on the block, it probably means that it sucks. 2. Too...
1. Sports. Find a sport that you like. It can be tennis, basketball, football, soccer or anything that you enjoy playing. When you're having fun, time goes by quickly and you'll be able to exercise for longer without getting bored. It's also a great way to meet people that share...
1. Large Meals. Avoid eating large meals. Eating small meals will allow your body to make more efficient use of the energy you provide it. Eating large meals will force your body to store energy that isn't used as body fat leading to weight gain. If you eat small and...
1. Different Exercises. The best way to fix a boring workout is to switch exercises. For example, if you've been doing the chest press with the bar, switch to dumbbells. If you're already doing a lot of dumbbell exercises, start doing some of them on a bar or cable machine....
1. Spot Reducing. When your body fat percentage is high, you usually have a few areas you'd rather do without. Sometimes your body will store fat in the arms or midsection and your first thought is to target those areas with specific exercises. Sit ups for the midsection, tricep extensions...
The New Year can be a great starting point to bring about positive change in your life. Whether you're trying to quit smoking, lose weight or start exercising, the New Year can give you the motivation you need to finally start to change. Here are a few great resolutions that...
1. Oatmeal. Oatmeal is packed with complex carbohydrates. Complex carbs will keep you full, energized and healthy. The fiber in oatmeal will keep you full for a very long period of time which will help you eat less throughout the day. Pick the traditional style oatmeal since it has less...
Getting a perfect set of abs is difficult. The process however, is fairly straightforward. Everyone has a set of abs. Unfortunately, the body loves to store fat in your midsection and as a result, any definition is obscured. The solution is to force your body to burn that excess fat...
It seems as though we go through the same song and dance every year. Come January 1st, everyone starts thinking up ambitious resolutions to transform themselves from unhealthy couch potatoes into health nuts overnight. They define success as perfection. This is a good thing, right? If everyone stuck to their...
