50% of the people who join health clubs quit within six months, according to statistics reported in fitness industry trade journals, and it is even worse than it looks. My experience with traditional health clubs is that most of those left are not getting results that match their expectations. We have a nation full of exercise failures. What is going wrong? There are two categories of fitness failures: exercise burnouts and comfort zoners.

As an avid walker, one of the things that I like best is to stretch after a long walk. I see it as a treat. It’s a way to tell my body that the tough stuff is over and I can relax.
However, there is so much misinformation about stretching that some people drop it altogether. One friend thought that having a hot shower was one way to “warm up” her muscles. She felt confused by the contradicting information about the length of time to hold a stretch.
A “warm up” is …

Exercise that orients around performance is far more effective than exercise that orients around time. You can transform your fitness results by shifting your mindset this way.
Is More Really Better?
For many, the sole reason to exercise is to burn calories, so it would seem that more time must be better, right? But what if you could train your body to be better at burning calories, all the time, and not just during exercise? Even if weight loss is your main goal, wouldn’t having a body that burns calories …

Summer is in full swing and with it comes the excitement to get outdoors and try new activities. If you’ve been indoors this past spring, watching sports more than participating in them, be especially careful when you re-start your exercise program. A good indicator of how hard you are working is the “Talk Test”.

I remember when I was a child, I observed my mother going on an extreme low calorie diet – eating only cabbage soup and bananas. I was disgusted by the soup, but impressed that she lost weight in such a short time. However, the weight loss didn’t stick. Eventually, she went back to eating normally and gained back the weight she had lost. Dramatically cutting calories is not the “be all and end all” of dieting.