5 More Tips to Looking and Feeling Younger

Hey Everyone!

For those of you who read my article in Jewish Scene magazine, here are the other 5 tips to looking and feeling younger. For those of you who didn't see the article, there are 5 more tips out there! And check Jewish Scene each month for health and exercise tips from me, a certified personal trainer with over 14 years experience!

6. Set realistically attainable goals. Track your progress to keep you motivated when times are tough and you don’t feel like exercising. Keeping a journal of your cardio and resistance training workouts, as well as tracking what you eat is truly a fitness success “secret”.

7. Eat regularly throughout the day. When you restrict your diet, your body instinctively thinks it’s being starved and shifts into a protective mode by storing fat. Your body’s energy expenditures will be fueled by your lean muscles causing your body fat to remain essentially the same while you lose vital fluids and muscle. Here’s a good rule of thumb: make sure that you are consistently “grazing” on health foods about every three hours. This includes at least half a gallon of fresh water every day.

8. Don’t waste your time working small muscles with isolated movements. If you don’t enjoy doing resistance training, or are pressed for time, concentrate on working the largest muscle groups with compound resistance movements. Men should be concentrating on legs, chest and back. Women should concentrate more on their legs and back. Get a personal trainer to show you the best exercises including proper form, how many reps and sets to do.


9. Stretch or not stretch – this is debated and you must listen to your body to know how much is right for you. In general hold a stretch for 10-60 seconds and Never bounce, or aggressively push and pull a muscle beyond its natural range.


10. For a flatter mid-section of days gone by be sure to breathe properly while doing abdominal exercises. Pull your belly button in towards your spine during the exertion phase of executing an abdominal repetition.

Thanks, and good luck!

Make Your Feet Feel Better With Reflexology

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Here is the video we promised in our clients' Christmas gifts. We hope the wooden foot roller will come in handy after a tough work out!

St. Jude Marathon This Saturday

This is a great health-related event, and it's 3 races in one! This Saturday, thousands will compete in the marathon, half-marathon, and a 5k to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

If you want to participate, well it's too late to sign up for the race. All the spaces available have been filled which means that 14,000 people have signed up!

Not only is St. Jude in an incredibly worthy cause, but signing up for a race like this (you might want to start with the 5K rather than the marathon!) is really great motivation for getting in shape.

For more information on the race, you can check out the following websites.

St. Jude Marathon
Memphis Runners Track Club

Party Video

We had a great time at the Client Appreciation Party, and hopefully the video below will show that everyone else did to.

Let's Make This a Regular Thing

Hey Everybody,

I know we haven't posted in a while, but that's changing right now. Blogging is like exercising; you're not going to get much out of it unless you do it consistently.

[Top: Tonya Tittle (owner & head trainer), Mark Tittle (owner)

Middle: Kristin Dixon (trainer), Mike Nabors (trainer)

Bottom: Mary Jordan (administration), Lisa Sanchez-Sullivan (trainer)

Not pictured: Mary Beth Sclater (trainer)]

Any of our clients will tell you, we've got the exercise part of that analogy under control. Now we're serious about making this blog a great resource for people. Check in regularly (we're aiming for updates each day Monday through Friday), and get information on exercise, nutrition, updates about Energy Fitness, and more.

Feel free to comment and send us questions. You've got experts here to help you with anything fitness related.

Thanks,

Energy Fitness Staff