How to Find Motivation for Exercise It’s easy to be motivated about starting a brand new exercise program. It’s something new, exciting, and you feel like you’re on the right track to achieving your fitness goals. However, after you’ve started your program, the challenge is in maintaining a regular routine and staying and finding…
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How to Maintain Healthy Eating Habits During the Holidays One of the most enjoyable parts of any holiday get together is the food. We all indulge a little, but then must face the uncomfortable feeling that follows stuffing ourselves silly with turkey, mashed, and gravy potatoes, not to mention all those festive sweets and deserts.…
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Exercise Recovery: Why You Don’t Need to Exercise Everyday Throughout the fitness industry, it has been touted that one must exercise daily in order to see great results and feel better. Many have been led to believe that greater volume equals greater results. While increased physical activity will benefit exercisers in many ways, one crucial…
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How to Make Time for Exercise As we settle into our work routines, it’s always a challenge to find time for exercise. It always seems like other things just take higher priority, you don’t have enough energy or lack motivation to get to the gym, or you plain just can’t find the time out of your…
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The Relationship Between Frequency, Duration, and Exercise Intensity: Why These 3 Terms Matter Lets start with the relationship between duration and exercise intensity: duration is the amount of time in which you participate in a single bout of exercise, and intensity is a measure of how hard you work during a single workout. These two…
Details25 years ago, a movie came out that raised the question, “if you could go back in time would you change your future?” The blockbuster film “Back to the Future” took that journey through time. In honor of its 25th anniversary, I’d like to raise that same question. 25 years ago, how did you see your life turning…
DetailsToday, there are many high stressful situations in the workplace. Having to meet deadlines, making new appointments or rescheduling appointments, staying into the early morning finishing the last bit of work. There are just not enough hours in the day anymore. Imagine being the manager of a small business. You are in charge of at…
DetailsMy first personal training session at Vertex was nothing like I thought it would be. I’ve been to gyms in the past but never to a personal training studio. I understand better now their differences. My original idea of a personal training studio was a place people simply go to work out. That’s it. But,…
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Reduce Tight IT Band Through Strength Training Almost 6 months ago, when I made the decision to do my first Triathlon this past September, I was excited as could be! I started swimming, biking, and running regularly, and was making terrific gains. Then one day, I noticed a little twinge in my hip. It wasn’t…
DetailsThroughout the day, we are providing muscular resistance against the pull of gravity. Notice how after sitting an office desk for prolonged periods of time often results in a slouched position, your shoulders roll forward and unwanted pressure is placed upon your spinal column. Tightness develops in your neck and shoulders. Sitting in that one…
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