The ten minute abs of steel fallacy personal trainer nyc

NYC Personal Trainer Takes on the Empty Promises of Getting Washboard Abs: If It Sounds Too Good To Be True … Build Abs of Steel! The Ten-minute Six-pack Workout! Abs of Steel … Guaranteed! 30 Days to Abs of Steel! Everybody’s thinking summer, and many, in turn are thinking about bikinis and washboard abs. There are programs, challenges, and guarantees that feel like they’re too good to be true. Well, I hate to tell you this. They’re too good to be true. Honestly, if it only took ten minutes a day to get a six-pack, everybody out there would have abs of steel. So, what’s not working in these foolproof bikini body plans? Myths abound, and there’s a lot of money selling products or plans that make empty promises. Our abdomen muscles...

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Registered Personal Trainer in NYC Talks About the Building Bone Fallacy: It’s About Maintaining Bones, Not Building

Catchy headlines offer us solutions to everything. As we’re celebrating a month of foolish and foolproof headlines when it comes to diet and exercise, I couldn’t not discuss bone health. 5 Ways to Boost Bone Building Power. Weight-Bearing Exercises to Stop Osteoporosis.  8 Workouts for Strong Bones. These headlines, though have some truth to them, are incredibly misleading as exercise does not build strong bones, at least in not a significant amount. Being concerned about bone health is real. “[M]ore than 700,000 spinal fractures and more than 300,000 hip fractures occur annually in the United States ..” (Jane E. Brody, 12 Minutes of Yoga for Bone Health, well.blogs.nytimes.com, December 21, 2015).  http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/21/12-minutes-of-yoga-for-stronger-bones/ ....

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Registered Dietitian Gives Tips to a Healthier Pantry - Spring Clean Your Pantry to Make Room for the Flavors of the Mediterranean

Time to clean out the pantry and think Mediterranean! What’s the hoopla about those olive-oil, wine-drinking, cheese-eating skinny people over there? It’s simply not fair. Haven’t they heard about fat-free products? Don’t they know that they’re walking cholesterol bombs? The Mediterranean Diet has been touted by registered dietitians, nutritionists and physicians as one of the healthiest diets in the world. The Mayo Clinic says it’s “associated with a reduced risk of death from heart disease and cancer, as well as a reduced incidence of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.” We’ve all heard how important a variety of fruits and vegetables are. But the Mediterranean diet also includes crusty bread drizzled with olive oil, olives, wines and cheese, among what many consider to be big diet...

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Personal Trainers and Nutritionists in NYC Promote National Physical Fitness and Sports Month - Make Movement a Mindset

I have to go to the gym every day and do a hard workout for it to count. I have to lose 10 pounds in the next month to get into my bathing suit. No pain, no gain. Being hungry is a part of every diet. I just have to get used to it. I can’t eat carbs or sugar if I’m going to lose weight and have the body I want. *cue music* da-dum-da-dum. Registered dietitians and personal trainers have a bank of catch-phrase kisses of death – beliefs many people have regarding diet and exercise that float around out there like germs. These very ideas doom people to fail their diet and exercise goals. The extremism of these goals, focusing on numbers and time, instead of behaviors, turn health into a game where only points seem to matter: the number of minutes, the number on a scale, the number on...

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Registered Personal Trainers Battle Osteoporosis - How to Battle the Bone Thief with Exercise and Weight Training Programs

May is all about the women in our lives – from May Day to Mother’s Day. More importantly, though, in May we celebrate National Women’s Health Week from May 10 – 16. Established by the US Department of Health and Human Services in 1991, National Women’s Health Week hopes to promote, educate, inform, and create policy to help women get healthier at every age. Moreover, it’s a platform to address career advancement for women in health and scientific professions. Initially, women’s health week was designed to shine a spotlight on women’s health issues, many of which were brushed aside for too long. The Office on Women’s Health (the OWH) is now focusing on “women’s health priorities to meet the sweeping demographic trends of the next century and...

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Dietitian Spring Cleans After Long NYC Winter - Starting May With Celiac Disease Information

“The world is mud-lucious and puddle wonderful.” (ee cummings) Finally it’s arrived after a very long, very cold, very bitter winter. Spring is about new beginnings, new life. This month on the blog we’re going on a spring cleaning binge, sweeping away old behaviors with some new ones. We’ll be brushing off dusty old ideas about exercise and nutrition, disease and diet, and we’ll be replacing them with up-to-date information. And in the meantime, we hope to shine light on Celiac disease, osteoporosis, senior and women’s health and fitness as well as the famous Mediterranean diet. It’s springtime. It’s time to puddle stomp and window wash, throw on a light jacket to run errands instead of avoid the outdoors. It’s time for new life, new...

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