How 10,000 People Lost Weight and Continue to Keep it Off
You can keep lost weight off. Most media coverage about weight loss these days is about how hard it is to lose weight. There are many confusing reports about what one needs to do to lose weight. And, even if you've been successful at...
Advanced Abdominals Exercise: Pilates Roll Up with a Twist
The video above is an advanced version of the Pilates Roll Up (in LuciFit Style). Core exercises like the Pilates Roll Up when done mindfully, will give you great looking abs and better posture. And there's more- with a...
Your Hidden Fitness
Not seeing the numbers on the scale go down as fast as you think they should? You're not alone. So many people go through the same ordeal in the beginning of a weight loss endeavor. They work hard to maintain a clean diet...
To Avoid Injuries and Falls Strengthen Your Ankles and Calves
- Co-authored by Brandi Rosser, Certified Personal Trainer with LuciFit How often do you exercise your ankles and calf muscles? Once per week? Once every couple of months? Or has it been so long that you can’t remember the last time you worked them? If you hardly ever...
Do Calories Count?
(Watch the video or read below.) Some say counting calories doesn’t matter, but it can make the difference between success or failure in weight loss and weight maintenance. If you’re eating clean foods and exercising and...
Best Exercise for Thighs and Butt, Hamstrings and Glutes: The Lunge
The lunge works the entire leg and can be done without any equipment and there are a few different kinds of lunges. The one I describe here focuses on hamstrings and glutes (back of the thighs and butt). It also works many...
How to Stay on Track with Exercise: Great Body, No Stress
In my last video I talked about the five things you need to be doing in order to achieve your goals in health and fitness for once and for all. They may seem simple and they may be things that you already know you need to do, but you...
How to Make Health and Fitness Goals That Work
Did you make some health and fitness goals for yourself last month? And have you stuck with them? You know a lot of people have trouble sticking to resolutions and staying on track with their goals, So if you do too, you're...
Fast Track Back to Your Healthy Diet and Exercise In the New Year
If you've been following my blog posts and getting my emails, no doubt you have been hearing some of my favorite tips on how to maintain your healthy eating and exercise during the holidays. And now that the holidays have...
Running Through an Italian City on the Mediterranean
I’ve written plenty of blog posts about how to keep an exercise routine and good diet while on a trip or vacation. What I haven't yet addressed is why I exercise on vacation. I never thought to answer that question...
The Clean Eating Challenge with MyFitnessPal Webinar 2: Eating Clean While Eating Out
Last week, MyFitnessPal and the Institute for Responsible Nutrition co-hosted a 10-day Clean Eating Challenge. This is the second of two, live public webinars hosted by the Institute for responsible nutrition to make...
The Clean Eating Challenge with MyFitnessPal Webinar 1: Cooking for Family with Ease
Last week, MyFitnessPal and the Institute for Responsible Nutrition co-hosted a 10-day Clean Eating Challenge. Clean food = unprocessed, natural, otherwise known as real food. To make clean eating a little easier for...
Putting What We Currently Know About Sugar into Perspective
I'm sure you've seen the media reports on sugar lately. Too much of it can be bad for you. But the media can sometimes oversimplify. In fact, there are a lot of misconceptions. This week I got...
Healthy Fast Food – Kale
If you want kale that tastes good you've got to know how to buy it. The more fresh your vegetables are the better they're going to taste, and the same goes for Kale! Curly kale needs to have soft leaves. The stem needs to be turgid...
Pilates Roll-Up for Abdominals
Abdominal exercises need to be done mindfully in order to get their benefits. I wrote about that in my last post. The Pilates Roll Up works the entire rectus abdominis very intensely, and it stretches your spine. It's...