Sleep and hunger: the flat belly connection

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Tweet Think sleepless nights only affect your mental focus?  Think again. Lack of sleep has been correlated with weight gain, and for a few very real reasons. First, it’s important to understand the body’s appetite control system.  When you are running on empty and you need to fuel up, a hormone called grehlin is secreted [...]

Stop Wasting Time in the Gym! Part II: What you should be doing instead

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Tweet If you missed last week’s article on how to stop wasting time in the gym, you can read it here. Now you’ve gotten on the bandwagon and stopped doing really inefficient exercises in the gym.  Hurray!  Really, when you can get the same amount of stuff done in fifteen minutes as you can in [...]

Stop Wasting Time in The Gym! Part I

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Tweet It never fails to amaze me.  People complain, complain, complain about not having enough time to work out, and then I see them in the gym spending hours and hours on exercises that are absolutely useless! **Warning: If you’re highly committed to your workout routine, this might ruffle your feathers.  If you don’t want [...]

An easy way to improve balance and coordination

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Tweet Can You Pat Your Head While Rubbing Your Belly AND Bouncing on One Foot? So, maybe that’s a little much, but wouldn’t you like to have improved balance and coordination so you can waltz gracefully through life instead of stumbling into walls and door jambs? Guess what…it’s easier than you think, and it does [...]