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Friday, May 30, 2008

Good Habits for Life: working out and life style tips

Hello Atlanta Health and Life Style people. This Article compliments of: Family Chiropractic of Decatur and Dr. Jim Heinz, 2545 Lawrenceville Hwy, Suite 100 ,Decatur, GA 30033, Phone: 404-373-3377. http://www.drjimheinz.com

There are three things that have to happen to successfully change a habit. The first is that you must make the decision to change. When you make a decision, you are affirming to yourself that you are willing to go to any lengths to make your wishes come true. This means that you will need to completely eliminate the word “try” from your vocabulary. When you say “I’ll try to do my exercises,”Hopefully with Fitness with Jeff Atlanta, you are leaving an open door to not doing them. Then in your mind, if you don’t do your exercises, that’s okay because you only said you would ”try” to do them. If you want to successfully change your habits to live a healthier life, you cannot leave an open door to your old habits. You need to just do it, just make a decision and not look back.

The second thing is to act “as if.” Whenever you change what you are doing, it will feel unnatural. It may feel like you are doing something wrong, funny, or something that is just not you. In a way you are right. When you change a habit, you are by definition acting in a way that is ‘just not you.’ But in a very short time, it will feel normal and it will seem strange that you ever acted any different. Changing habits is like starting a new job, the first couple of weeks are stressful and disorienting, but if you just hang in there, you will feel at home before you know it.

The third is to work on yourself every day. The highest demonstration of a healthy and growing self-image and self-esteem is the commitment to work on yourself each and every day. You experience an elevated consciousness when you realize your power to step up to your greatness or default to your weakness with every challenge, distraction and decision. Working on yourself with consistency and persistence connects you to your inner wisdom and inner strength to become unstoppable.

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Friday, May 16, 2008

Is it a good idea to diet while working out, thoughts and strategy's

The answer to this question is actually multi-faceted. And here it is: yes and no, and maybe. The truth is, many people can effectively lose weight initially simply by reducing their daily calorie count. And cutting calories may allow an individual to continually lose weight for weeks or months until a desired weight level is reached.
For me in my persoanl training practice here in atlanta is really better to exercise more and eat smart, More veggies, less cookies, chips and soda.

But, for many individual's, particularly those whose weight loss goals border on the ambitious, cutting food intake and daily calories may not be enough to rearch a desired goal.

This is because the body has a very annoying habit of adusting its metabolism to match energy expenditure against energy intake. In other words, if you eat less, your metabolism may slow down. On a very basic level, this allows human beings to survive longer when food resources are scarce. However, in a modern world that includes dieting, this fact of human biology can significantly impair one's ability to shed pounds.

For this reason, many, if not most, dieters will find it beneficial to integrate a regimen of physical activity into their overall dieting plan. In doing so, they can establish a more optimal environment for weight loss by creating a daily need for additional calories by exercising ie wieght training, running, tennis etc, while actually consuming more calories.

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Sunday, May 04, 2008

Workout training while your staying in a hotel,

Hello Atlanta Fitness group, My customers are always asking strategy's to stay on there workout program while there travelling for business or pleasure, I have people that visit Atlanta and are looking for Personal training or Tennis lessons and I work with them. While Walking through the Westin Hotel I picked up a card for running Routes around Atlanta. Thought it was very cool and checked out there site and found so much info about workout training and running and there gym facilities, you can even have fitness equipment in your hotel room.

Enhance your fitness program in the privacy and comfort of your own guestroom, a WestinWORKOUT® room

Our customized WestinWORKOUT rooms feature state-of-the-art, full-body equipment for all levels of performance. Elevate your travel and work well-being with a challenging and exhilarating workout.

The WestinWORKOUT room features this Workout equipment:

Treadmill or spinning cycle, Reebok® Pilates and Cycle DVDs
Adjustable dumbbells and Reebok core training equipment
Bicycling and Runner's World magazines and a fitness library
Runner’s World maps, Complimentary bottled water

360 Degree Virtual Tour Treadmill,360 Degree Virtual Tour Bike.
Here's the link for the Westin.com/workout

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