Do You Read Food Labels?

It’s important to be aware of what’s in your food as manufacturers often hide large amounts of sugar or unhealthy fats in packaged food, even food claiming to be healthy.

Set Yourself Up for Success

To set yourself up for success, think about planning a healthy diet as a number of small, manageable steps—like adding a salad to your diet once a day—rather than one big drastic change. As your small changes become habit, you can continue to add more healthy choices.

Working Out Your Legs

Try something new the next time you exercise your legs. Often times, we work out a combination of both our quadriceps and our hamstrings. However, many individuals tend to have a muscular balance in their legs. The majority have very strong quadriceps but weak hamstrings, but the reverse is possible as well. Regardless of your individuality, try to split your legs into two days this week. One day solely isolate your quadriceps, and the other isolate your hamstrings. If you have any questions about your muscular balance, talk to the certified personal trainers today.

Don't Give Up on Your Fitness Goals

Giving up on a fitness goal because of one setback is like slashing your other three tires because you got a flat. Get into the fitness center today!

Treat Your Body to a Healthy Diet

Quit eating junk food and high-fat fast food. Your heart, brain, and overall health are harmed by foods high in saturated fats, salt, and cholesterol. There's no getting around it. You've got to replace them with healthy foods: lots of fruits, vegetables, fish, nuts, olive oil -- what we call the Mediterranean diet.

Challenge Yourself Today

Increase your intensity of exercise, whether it be adding 5 extra pounds to each set of exercise or simply increasing your speed on the treadmill, make sure you are pushing yourself today.

Eat Your Veggies

Vegetables are filled with nutrients, water, fiber, and very few calories. If you fill half of your plate with vegetables, you'll get fuller faster and cut down your calories without feeling deprived.

Keep Hydrated

Make sure you are staying hydrated during your workouts. The simplest way to maintain normal hydration status is to measure your body weight before and after exercise. Your sweat rate provides you with a fluid replacement guide. Active individuals should drink at least one pint of fluid for each pound of body weight lost.

Workout Tips

If you are lifting your upper body today for your exercise routine, in between each set, we want you to do 30 standing squats just with your own body weight. If you are lifting your lower body today, then in between each set perform 25 pushups.

Goal For Today

Intensity. Speed up your resistance training today or lift heavier in each set to ensure that you are keeping a high intensity today. If you are utilizing the cardiovascular equipment then increase the speed or the incline to boost up the intensity.

Cut calories by drinking water or unsweetened beverages. Soda, energy drinks, and sports drinks are a major source of added sugar, and calories, in American diets.

Achieve Your Nutrition Goals

Instead, of fad diets find a reliable source of information to help you understand nutrition. The USDA offers a number of tools and resources, or you can consult a registered dietitian in your area. An RD is specially trained and can give you tips and tricks to help you achieve your specific goals.

Resistance Training

Increase your weight for each set during your resistance training today. We encourage you to push yourself beyond limits that you are comfortable with. If you need an extra boost or a spotter, talk to the certified personal trainers.

Get your cardiovascular exercise in today. If you don't feel like you have the energy, find a friend to exercise with you. There is no excuse today.

Resistance Exercises

There are hundreds of variations to do in the fitness center and achieve the overall same effect when it comes to resistance exercises. What is your favorite resistance exercise when you are in the fitness center? It is always good to talk with others about your exercise routine, because you may find out something that you have never done before and can incorporate into your own workout.

Keep that heart rate up today. In between your resistance exercise sets, perform some jumping jacks. Don't just 'rest' today, make it a challenge for yourself and keep that intensity high.

Health Tip

Make sure you are constantly fueling your body today. It is extremely important that we give our body the proper nutrients to stay well-nourished throughout each and every day. Therefore, no skipping meals and in fact we want you to aim to eat a small snack today in between your meals as well. If you have any questions, talk to the certified personal trainers in your fitness center today.

Your fitness is a personal journey. You may workout with others, but no one will ever workout for you. Get into the fitness center today!

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