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When it comes time to making that New Year's fitness resolution, what type of exercise you choose is very important. For example, you don't want to...
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Stephanie Gibson has been a fitness professional teaching group fitness and personal training for over 20 years. “I was a personal trainer before there ever were personal trainers!” She now owns and operates StayFit 1on1 Health and Fitness and teaches group fitness classes at a local gym. She is certified by the American College of Sports Medicine.
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- Donuts - almost 500 cals and 30 g fat!
- Marshmallow Fluff - chemical fluff or white poison
- Colas and Sodas - 7 to 9 teaspoons of sugar, chemicals
- Bacon,Deli Meat, Processed Meat - high fat, nitrites,perservatives
- Sugar Loaded Breakfast Cereals - sugar, sugar, sugar + trans fats
- Fruit Juices and Fake Fruit Drinks - high sugar content, preservatives, food coloring
- Junk Food - chips,fried snacks, microwave popcorn are high in fat and preservatives and sodium
- Candy - calorie dense, sugar loaded, health destroying time bombs!
- French Fries - unhealthy fats and trans fats with a side order of free radicals
- Twinkies - If they don't decompose in a dump, what happens to them in your body?
- Giant Sets - 3 or more exercises linked togther and performed in sequence. One set is one time through the giant set.
- Super Sets - 2 exercises linked together that works antagonist or opposing muscle groups like chest and back, quadraceps and hamstrings or biceps and
- Drop Sets - Starting an exercise at one weight, going to failure, and without resting, dropping the weight and continuing on to failure. Continue thi
- Pyramid - Raising the weight with each set or lowering the weight with each set.
- Slo-mos - Doing each repetition very slowly, like 10 seconds up and 10 seconds down.
- Negatives - Using a spotter, the eccentric or muscle lengthening phase of the repetition is emphasized. The spotter assists with the concentric or mus
- Get 6 to 8 hours of sleep nightly
- Combine lean protein with complex carbohydrate at every meal
- Drink green tea daily
- Keep healthy snacks handy
- Get 25 grams of fiber daily
