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.

Take Action

Good things might come to those who wait, but they come much faster to those who get up and get it done.

A Comforting Environment

When you are going to exercise, it is nice to feel like you are in a comforting environment. Do you know the name of those around you? If you exercise around the same time every day then you are sure to see the same individuals, so introduce yourself today. You may even find a new accountability partner.

Make Your Goals Small and Attainable

It is always easier when you are starting out a new exercise routine to make your goals small and attainable. If you start out with a huge goal, often times when people do not see the results right away, they will give up before ever truly allowing their body to reach the goal that they set.

Change Up the Order of Your Exercises

Have you ever gone to the gym and done just one or two exercises for your routine? We are always talking to you about changing your order of exercises or the exercises themselves. If you are exercising chest/triceps, try doing bench press and in between sets perform tricep dips to fatigue. Then try a tricep pressdown with max push-ups in between each set.

Tip of the Day

Remember if you are injured in any way that doesn't mean that you can/should stop exercising all together. Try to exercise the body parts that are healthy. If you stop exercise completely, your body is going to lose the central adaptations that have developed over time from cardiovascular and strength training. For example, a lower resting heart rate.

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.