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With the hot summer days upon us, exercising outdoors requires a little more precaution. In this post I’m going to provide you with some quick tips for working out in the heat. Some will be obvious while others you may not have thought about.
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If you’ve followed some of my earlier posts you may remember that I actually endorsed low fat chocolate milk as a post-workout recovery drink. I received a lot of feedback from my recommendation as many people we’re like “Shane, are you serious, really chocolate milk?” Yes!
I know it might sound contradicatory to everything I teach you but in this post I’m going to briefly explain the rationale and share some interesting new research that supports my idea. Read the rest of this entry »
In today’s post I want to talk specifically to the ladies over the age of thirty who simply aren’t happy with how their body looks. This is for all the women who’ve slowly lost the shape of their youth and just want to know how to get it back!
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My position on soft-drinks is no secret to readers of my blog and website. I’ve long been an advocate against consuming soft-drinks in a fat loss program because of the impact on hormonal balances. I recently stumbled on some interesting information though that I felt you might like to see. Just a few more reasons why you should leave this stuff out of your diet. Read the rest of this entry »
I frequently get asked about my opinion of caffeine for fat loss by my Charleston personal training clients and blog readers so I figured it’s about time I do a post on this subject. The truth is I’ve found caffeine can be a good thing, a bad thing, or even have a neutral impact on fat loss depending on how it’s being used. Read the rest of this entry »
Traditionally, personal trainers have had their older clients do mostly seated, machine-based exercises. The problem with this is it does little to help with the one thing this age group wants more than anything…mobility. Read the rest of this entry »
Even though the average life expectancy in the United States has increased dramatically during this past one hundred or so years, many would argue our quality of life due to chronic degenerative disease has gone down.
We are essentially “living too short and dying too long”. Far too many people are suffering from heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, and the list goes on and on, because they didn’t take care of their bodies. Read the rest of this entry »
People often ask me opinion about whether or not soy products are a good way to get protein. While I’ve never been a really big fan of soy, the more research I do, the more I’m against it. There’s a lot of hype and promotion for soy products all which usually comes with an agenda or some type of personal bias based on beliefs about not eating animal proteins. Read the rest of this entry »
I get questions quite frequently about my thoughts on Pilates and figured it was time to do a post on this subject. Let me start off by saying that I have nothing negative to say about Pilates as a fitness modality. It certainly has benefits and it would be foolish for someone to argue otherwise.
However, I must admit that I get very irritated when I hear Pilates being marketed and promoted through misleading and false information. I’m going to share with you the three biggest myths with Pilates so you don’t get caught up in the hype. Read the rest of this entry »
I received an email this week from a client that posed several very good questions regarding food choices for a pre-diabetic. I figured this would be a great opportunity to respond to her questions in a video so I could share the answers with everyone.
There’s a lot of misinformation out there about what’s ok to eat if you’re trying to control your blood sugar levels. The tips and inside scoop you get from this video should certainly help. Read the rest of this entry »
