5 Tips to Keep You Motivated and Fit Through The Holiday Season It’s no coincidence that the gym is packed in January. The holidays are typically a time when we fall short in the gym and slack off from our typical routines which can lead to weight gain, muscle loss, and a strong desire to…
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Train Your Neck and Hold Your Head Up Toned arms? Check. Lean legs? Got ‘em! Strong neck? Huh? Very few people think to train your neck, let alone performing strengthening exercises for the neck musculature. But if you consider how often your head moves, neck strengthening is a no-brainer. Think of your head and neck…
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Strength Training for Injury Prevention If we look at what is strength training we can see how it has been a part of sports conditioning for many years. It is a key fact for its effects on speed, strength, and agility and muscle mass. Strength training is a very effective tool for injury prevention for…
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Naughty Food Cravings: Indulge, Ignore or Redirect Have you ever wanted dark chocolate so much that you didn’t catch a single word during that meeting just salivating over the thought of it? Or a burger so desperately that you were willing to drive an hour just to make sure you got it? Have you ever…
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Hello Pennsylvania! Ashley King On May 1, 2015 I arrived in the beautiful state of Pennsylvania. I left my family, friends, and everything I knew back in Southern California to follow my biggest passion of all, love. Following my heart and moving to the east coast has been one of the best decisions I’ve ever…
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Spotlight: Bill FitzGerald Behind every great man is an even greater woman. Bill FitzGerald knew he had to start taking better care of himself. However, he didn’t start until his wife told him to! That was over three years ago. Bill, a professor of English at Rutgers-Camden University, chose Vertex for a couple of reasons:…
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5 Questions to Ask Before Starting a New Diet I dislike the word diet. For most people it means a short term period of deprivation that will inevitably be abandoned. That’s one of the reasons my approach is about making a lifestyle change and getting into balance and in my experience, when you do just that,…
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Big Muscles? No Thanks! Many clients say things like, “I don’t want big muscles. Now that I am firmly entrenched in my fifth decade, big muscles aren’t as alluring as they once were. Maybe its because I don’t play sports anymore. Maybe it’s because I am married with a couple of kids. At the very least,…
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5 Tips to Eat Healthy When Holiday Traveling Chances are, you’ll be traveling during the holiday season to reconnect with family and friends or take a much-needed vacation. While holiday travel can be great for your psyche, it can take a hefty toll on your health. The journey itself can be filled with stress—traffic, flight…
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5 Reasons You Are Always Hungry Do you sometimes feel ravenous, even though you just polished off a tasty lunch, a full dinner, or a midnight snack? We eat more food than we need and we are all guilty of doing it: mindless munching on a bag of pretzels or treating ourselves to a second…
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