Can You Control Your Eating, Like you Control the Boardroom?
Who Knew the Skills You Exercise in the Boardroom, can Benefit you in the Kitchen?!? Many of the healthy eating skills I teach my personal training clients to use in the kitchen, are quite similar to the skills leaders exercise in their offices everyday. Eat Healthier...
What’s the Best Way to De-stress During a Busy Workday?
Bust Stress - Get Back to the Basics! You're in the middle of fiscal planning, annual reviews are due for you and your team, everyone at the office is sick and the holidays are right around the corner now! I get it, life can be really stressful. Weeks fly right by...
How Can You Simplify Meal Planning?
Write it Down! My personal training clients often ask me how to simplify the meal planning process. Writing out your meals and grocery list each week is critical to keeping you on the healthy eating path. I'm a forgetful, busy person who is always running from one...
What’s the Best Makeover You Can Give Yourself?
The Kitchen Makeover of Course! I’m currently working on earning my Precision Nutrition Level 2 coaching certificate. A large part of the way we’re graded, is through practical case studies. This is a terrific way to ensure that we’re able to apply what we’re...
4 Frightfully Easy Tips to Lose Weight This Halloween
Halloween Can be a Scary Time When You Are Trying to be Healthy! The word 'Halloween' strums up similar images for many of us. Images of delicious chocolate bars, salty and savory chips, sweet and tart candies galore and ooey, gooey toffee. While, get those images out...
This Simple Activity Dramatically Improves Strength & Energy!
Feel Better and Get Healthier by Simply Breathing! I've found that as a personal trainer, a lot of people come to me with questions about how they should be breathing, both when exercising and when living their everyday lives. It's a good topic to be thinking about...
Can the Way You Sit Be Ruining Your Health?
The Way We Sit is Critical to Our Health! We have all heard the term "Sitting is the new Smoking". Let's face it, when we are at work, many of us spend most of the day sitting. Because we spend 25%++ of our time at work, it's important to think about sitting properly,...
Can Salads Be Making You Fatter?
It is Shocking How Many Calories Some Salads Contain! Certain salads are not healthier options on a menu. I know of a Cobb salad at an unnamed restaurant that contains a whopping 1200 calories and 90 grams of fat!!! This is more fat than what's found in the...
Tips to Get All You Couch Potatoes Moving!
Couch Potatoes Need to Move More! I will admit it, I'm excited too, that the fall television shows have finally started. Nothing beats unwinding at the end of a a busy day by watching one TV program. I love Lethal Weapon, This is Us and Scandal. I'm also a huge...
Can Change Make you Better?
If You're Not Happy With Your Life, Make a Change! Change can be scary and overwhelming at first, but if you truly aren't happy with some large aspect of your life, change may be necessary. There was a time when I wasn't fully happy with my corporate career. No amount...
How Can You Feel and Look Younger?
How You Feel Vs. How Old You Are Can Be Decades Apart The messages out there, about how to stay looking youthful, can be overwhelming. We're told to use anti-aging skin care products, consume supplements, avoid the sun, and the list goes on... If you are already in,...
How Can You Burn More Calories on a Business Trip?
How Can you Make Business Travel Healthier? Make your next business trip a healthier one, by fitting in exercise for one thing. Nutritious eating is also important, I've covered this concept in my earlier blog, "What Does Healthy Eating on a Business Trip Look Like?"....