Nutrition Myths Busted

If you’re focused on wellness, you know how important nutritious and healthy eating is. Proper nutrition is the foundation of a healthy lifestyle and critical to personal performance – whether in the gym or in day-to-day life. Meeting your wellness goals means consuming whole foods with high nutrient density, and avoiding fast foods and processed or pre-packaged-high preservative foods is …

How to Turn Exercise Into a Habit That Sticks

One of life’s greatest mysteries might be how to stick with a workout routine. While motivation and excitement can be great ways to get started, neither lasts long, and many people wonder where they went wrong. But the truth is, creating and building a new habit is hard, especially if you’re going from a sedentary lifestyle to a more active …

How to Create a Great Home Gym on a Budget

When it comes to working out, there’s no doubt that consistency is key to feeling results and hitting your desired goals. But if you’re always wondering where you’re going to hit your workout – whether it’s a gym, a yoga studio, or your living room – that can be a hindrance to maintaining a regular exercise schedule. So if you’re …

How to Get Back on Track after Falling off the Exercise & Healthy Eating Wagon

You’ve been crushing your workouts, making those green smoothies, and getting 8 hours of sleep every night. But slowly, you start to miss a workout here and there and find yourself eating dessert with every meal. Next thing you know, you’ve completely fallen off your exercise and healthy eating wagon. If this scenario sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Busy schedules, …

How Online Personal Training Can Help with Fitness Accountability

We live in a world of packed schedules where convenience and speed can be the determining factor in our choices, and unfortunately, a regular and consistent fitness routine can be the first thing to fall by the wayside. Work, parents, spouses, kids, and other obligations often come first, making it challenging to see and feel results from sporadic workout regimens. …

5 Simple Steps to Healthy Eating

An integral part of any wellness program is eating. The old age “you are what you eat” rings very true, and whether you’re trying to lose weight, build muscle, or just feel more energized, your diet plays a critical role. But in a society with abundant food choices at every turn and eating advice coming out of the woodwork, it …

How to Choose a Fitness Facility

If you’re just starting out on a wellness journey, it can be hard to figure out where to start. How do you start eating healthier? What advice should you listen to? And perhaps one of the most overwhelming decisions to make is… which gym do I join? Not all fitness centers are created equal, and not all gyms are right …

Overcoming Fitness Failure

When it comes to making transformational change, the road can be challenging and rocky, and it can be tempting to give up. Whether it’s getting our finances in order or eating healthier and exercising more, our goals can seem unattainable and we may beat ourselves up for any setback – big or small. Failure becomes a four-letter word and can …

Want to create change? First, change your mindset

If you’re looking to make real, transformative changes to your wellness – whether it’s eating healthier or embracing a sustained program of physical activity – your mind can play just as big (if not bigger) a role as your physical body. In fact, mastering a mindset shift can be the “key” to achieving your wellness goals versus riding the roller …

The 6 Levels of Fitness Hierarchy

Whether you’re just starting out on a fitness journey, training for an event, or somewhere in between, it’s important to remember that the human body is a complex machine capable of remarkable performance and generally responds in a very predictable manner. For example, if we’re sedentary and consume more energy than we use, we can expect to store body fat …