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Alcohol and Fat Loss

Published on June 30, 2010 by in General Health, Nutrition

Drinking alcohol on the weekend may not seem like a huge deal, but for those trying to lose weight, you may want to rethink your alcohol intake.  A study released by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition sheds some light on the effects alcohol plays on metabolism and ultimately, fat loss.  A sample of men were given just two drinks of vodka and sugar-free lemonade.  Each drink contained under 90 calories and were spread apart by 30 minutes.  Fat burning was measured before and after each drink. Studies showed that a persons fat burning potential was significantly slowed after ingesting alcohol.  The ability to burn fat decreased by a whopping 73%

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12 Easy Ways to Supercharge Your Brain

Published on June 30, 2010 by in General Health

Have you ever felt exasperated when you bumped into someone at the store but absolutely couldn’t remember their name? Sure, it happens to all of us. Despite being the strongest computer on the planet, our brains do lapse. It’s hard to blame them really. As humans, we spend much of or existence stuffing our brains with stuff. No matter how powerful our brains are, they need recuperation time to be kept in shape. Think of it as a tune up for your brain. Skipping brain maintenance is as silly as the person wandering the parking garage because they forgot where they parked. Is that you? Are you that person? If

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Building Muscle on a Budget

Published on June 29, 2010 by in Nutrition

Protein is the building blocks of muscle.  No matter how hard you workout in the gym, if you aren’t getting adequate protein, your hard-fought efforts will be in vain.  The problem is supplementation is typically extraordinarily expensive, steak isn’t exactly cheap, and no one can eat only chicken every day.  Below are 10 tips to add protein to your diet without breaking the bank. Canned tuna.  Coming in at 40g per gan, tuna is a great source of protein and other valuable nutrients.  Look for tuna packed in water to avoid excess fat.  1 can of tuna per day is perfectly safe for those worried about mercury levels. Egg whites.  Egg

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7 Easy, Healthy Lunches for Every Day of the Week

Published on June 29, 2010 by in Nutrition

Lunch is sometimes a tricky meal for people.  Breakfast and dinner are typically eaten in the home, but lunch is usually smack in the middle of your busy workday. Even the most disciplined eaters will sometimes succumb to that double bacon cheeseburger just because it’s so easy.  Often times you don’t even want to eat the junk, it’s just easy, you’re hungry, and you didn’t bring anything else. A little bit of planning can help you avoid that situation altogether.  By having a steady rotation of lunches you can easily make before bed, or in the morning before work, you will be able to eat healthy, cheap, and well, every

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Spend Less Time in the Gym and Burn More Calories

Published on June 28, 2010 by in General Health

So many people think the more time they spend in the gym, the more calories they will have burned.  The thought of letting any of that weight creep back on that they’ve worked so hard to lose keeps them glued to the elliptical for hours on end.  Naturally, to keep yourself in the gym for 90 minutes or more, you will likely have to back off on the intensity a bit.  Some people ration their heart rate between the aerobic zone and the fat-burning zone.  While that may seem like it’s working wonders for you, the fact of that matter is it’s not.  You are wasting your time, plain and simple.

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Doing Pilates at Home on an Exercise Ball

Published on June 25, 2010 by in Pilates

As you probably know by now, Share It Fitness will be bringing you live pilates classes directly to your homes.  Our goal is to show you that doing pilates, yoga, bootcamp, whatever doesn’t need to be done in an expensive studio.  You can have access to the same, or better quality trainers directly on the Share It Fitness website. Pilates, for instance, is often done on an expensive reformer machine.  People pay good money to do their pilates on this machine led by an instructor.  However, pilates is versatile in that you can reap the same benefits by performing pilates with slider pads, your own body weight, or an exercise ball.  All you

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Exercise Effects on the Brain

Published on June 25, 2010 by in General Health

Exercise has been touted to do everything from treat depression to improve memory, with the power to cure a host of problems while preventing even more. In particular, exercise leads to the release of certain neurotransmitters in the brain that alleviate pain, both physical and mental. Additionally, it is one of the few ways scientists have found to generate new neurons. Much of the research done in this area has focused on running, but all types of aerobic exercise provide benefits. Although the exact nature of these benefits is still being determined, enough research has been done to provide even skeptics with a motivation to take up exercise. Exercise exerts

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Drop the Toys or Get Sued

Published on June 25, 2010 by in General Health, Health in the News, Nutrition

It’s always good to see things like this in the news.  It’s no secret that McDonald’s uses happy meal toys to lure kids into wanting to eat their food.  Of course, they make no effort to make these happy meals healthy for children.  These meals are full of highly processed meats, sodium, and fat.  That pretty much sums it up.  With the escalating child obesity problem in this country, parents need to be much more careful about what they feed their children.  A happy meal every now and again is fine, but don’t make it a weekly thing.  A nutrition watchdog group is threatening to sue McDonald’s if the fast-food

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How to Cut Cravings for Junk Food Forever

Published on June 23, 2010 by in Nutrition, Weight loss

How many times have we started a weight loss plan and decided we need to cut out the junk we’ve been eating?  We swear off ice cream, fast food, candy, fried chicken, whatever it is that gets you going.  We are able to stick to our committment to ourselves for several weeks, or maybe even months, but sooner or later we revert back into old behavior. Maybe you are getting out of the office late and that 10-piece extra crispy bucket from KFC is just too tempting to pass up.  You reason with yourself and make excuses for your slip in discipline.  “Well it’s just this one time” (it never

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Try These – 21′s

Published on June 23, 2010 by in Strength Training

When you are working any muscle, you would be well advised to hit the muscle from various angles and intensities.  This is the number one way to make the gains you are so desperately seeking.  By incorporating exercises like 21′s into your routine, you will be sure to keep your muscles guessing and your gains increasing. Throughout the range of motion of any exercise, different parts of your muscle come into play to lift the weight.  While a bicep curl may work “the bicep”, focusing on the different angles within a bicep curl will work the ENTIRE bicep more fully.  This is the key to developing lean, toned, muscles. The

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