I get this question all the time. Both through the contact me page, and during my weight loss classes. People ask me, “Can I lose weight just by walking?” In this world of extreme weight loss television shows, gyms on every block, and awareness of strength training, it is a valid question. Is plain old…
Walking: Is It Enough for Weight Loss?
I get this question all the time. Both through the contact me page, and during my weight loss classes. People ask me, “Can I lose weight just by walking?” In this world of extreme weight loss television shows, gyms on every block, and awareness of strength training, it is a valid question. Is plain old…
Day 2: Pullups & Squats Beginner’s Home Workout
This is part two of a home workout series! In this video, I cover easy variations of the pullups and the squats and give goals to hit before moving on to a harder exercise. On Day 2, we do: Wall Pullups – 3 Sets of 50 Jackknife Squats – 3 Sets of 40 For more…
Is Your Brain Foggy? Here Are Five Ways to Clear It
The other day, my friend Kristina told me that one evening she unintentionally locked her husband in a downstairs part of their house. She had known he was down there, but while distractedly locking the door for the night, forgot completely. She didn’t realize what she’d done until she saw a text from her husband…
Pushups & Core Beginner’s Home Workout
This is part one of a home workout series! In this video, I cover easy variations of the pushup and the leg raises and give goals to hit before moving on to a harder exercise. For more information on this routine, philosophy, and how to progress, follow me here: The routine will be broken up…
Making the Time to Workout
One of the biggest challenges to exercising is to convince yourself to wake up early or go to the gym late at night after work. But what if you can strategize your day so that exercise seems as routine and “painless” as possible? Here’s 7 tips to make the time to workout! 1. Make a…
A Recipe for Lifelong Exercise
I learned about the value of being physically active from my dad. He grew up in the Canal Zone of Panama, which used to be an unincorporated territory of the United States. He was a member of the local swim team and apparently he had some talent in the water. He went on to be a collegiate swimmer, and…
Kids’ Diets and Screen Time: To Set up Good Habits, Make Healthy Choices the Default at Home
The availability of junk foods and screens is increasingly creating challenges for parents. But in the home environment, parents shape their children’s diet, activity, screen time and health. This includes managing the foods they eat and the activities available to them, and the expectations around these. We know early childhood is a key time to influence and…
Preventing Type 2 Diabetes in People With ‘Prediabetes’: Do Diet and Exercise Work?
Most of us will be aware that our modern world has a problem with diabetes, and that it’s getting worse. In type 2 diabetes the body becomes unable to control blood sugar levels, leading to a smorgasbord of complications that can affect almost every part of the body. Usefully, blood tests can detect the stage…
The Health Risks of Sitting at Home
Decades of fitness research remind us that physical activity is one of the best preventive measures available to help us avoid disease. It’s one of the pillars of good health, alongside nutrition, sleep, and hydration. That reality holds even more significance now as we deal with COVID-19 and the physiological fallout of social distancing and…
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