Weight training is your ticket to lean muscle and less fat after 50. It’s not as simple as just “lifting weights” though. There’s a specific set of rules for lifting that’s diffferent based on goals. If you want weight loss, bone density, sports performance or something else your training program should cater to it! Listen […]
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It’s Very Possible To Become a Better Fat Burner… Even at your age. Even with hormones trying to help you hold onto fat. Once you know what the rules to the game are you can develop a strategy. So here’s a small science lesson in plain English. Before I go too far into how fat
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Interval Tuesday is Back! Whether you’re doing intervals on the Nu Step or the track, in the pool or on the elliptical, they provide a time efficient way to get results. If you’re just joining the blog, check out the first introduction to intervals earlier this month and don’t just dive in here in the
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Do you think you know what to do but beleive your problem is doing it? That’s the impression of nearly 75% of over 50’s. The truth is that what they think is the key to eating right, getting fit or losing weight is all wrong. What you’ve learned over your last 30 years may in
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HIT A WEIGHT LOSS PLATEAU? It happens to the best. There are several things you can do to make a change, which is what your body is seeking, in order to move again. Sticking with a weight loss and not inching up is a good thing. Keep in mind a few things: it’s not weight
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I’ll dive right into interval Tuesday. Remember that if you’re a love-to-exercise peep…this will seem short. It is supposed to. Leave it all there on your intervals and need the recovery and even if you finish feeling like you could do more, it has done it’s job! And you’ll be spending extra energy in the
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Imagine a 70-year old yoga instructor and personal trainer. If you picture someone gently stretching during chair yoga or helping clients lift pink dumbbells you don’t have a good image of our guest today. Lin Goldkrantz is 70 and after picking herself up after hearing “diabetes” from her doctor she got a trainer, got empowered,
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The Dirty Dozen (+1) of Gym Etiquette: YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW If you’re new to the gym experience you don’t know what you don’t know. Sure, you can read the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) your gym posts but that don’t really give you the inside scoop. You, after all want to look like
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Interval Training Has It’s Perks And in case you’re wondering here they are: less time consuming more optimal effects on growth hormone to build lean after 50 (we tend to produce less especially if we sleep poorly) more optimal effects on cortisol (keep your intervals appropriate duration work-to-recovery and frequency appropriate and you have the
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Reader “Dawn” wrote in her situation and you’ll hear how I coach her on the “next step.” If you’re implementing changes in exercise, diet quality and timing and not seeing consistent evidence of change, listen up! The answer can be hidden.Are you next? Got a challenge with weight loss or finding an active routine or
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Shoulder
Circumference outside of both arms, at the armpit
Right Triceps
Halfway btwn shoulder & elbow, arm extended.
Hips
Find the widest point of girth at the hips
Right Thigh
Standing with weight on both legs, measure halfway between knee cap and hip flexor
Right Calf
Standing with weight on both legs, find the largest point of calf.
Chest
Measure from the rib cage just under breasts at bra line
Waist
At the belly button/umbilicus
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