Coping with Workout Injury: Keeping Your Shape and Your Sanity

If you're reading this, chances are you're like me, and working out is more than just a means to being fit and healthy.  For me, my daily workout keeps me balanced, it calms anxieties, and focuses my mind.  It also kicks in endorphins.  

 

So, when you're basically addicted to working up your sweat and injury occurs, whether mild or catastrophic, the emotional toll is as difficult as the physical. 

When Your Kid Wants to Bulk Up

 

Kids, like adults, seem more fitness oriented these days - and businesses are responding.  You might have noticed the plethora of gyms around town now offering teen fitness classes. And, lots of my clients have weights at home and it's not uncommon for me to see their children grabbing the dumbbells. It all raises a question: what's appropriate for them when it comes to weight training?

Recent studies indicate that kids can begin strength training as early as 8 years old  - provided they have proper direction & technique.  That said, kids (pre-adolescents and early teens or "tweens") need to be trained differently than adults.  Their muscles, tendons, and bones are still developing and they don't yet possess total body awareness, control or balance.

 

When it's Time to Break-Up with your Personal Trainer

 

These tight times have all of us looking at ways to cut expenditures – and as much as I believe in personal trainers (aside from the fact I am one!) there are times when it does not work.  Now this can be due to the client, the trainer or the fact that the combination of the two isn’t right.  Below are five signs that it might be time to move on.

You aren’t breaking a sweat.  Breaking a sweat matters.  Now, I’m not inferring you must be dripping with sweat during every workout, but if you ain’t at least misty, there’s a problem.

Avoiding the Post Holiday Paunch

With the holidays fast approaching, we all need to be thinking about how to handle the all the excess!  Here are some a few tips so you won’t feel like a beached whale come January:

*Drink tons of water.  I even like to do one glass in between each cocktail.  Have a sparkling water with lime or lemon – so you feel like you are being festive.  This will keep you hydrated through all that partying and will cut down on calories as you fill up with water and don’t feel the need to keep drinking.  It also works wonders when trying to avoid that awful morning hangover.