The Excuse Buster

Mark Twain once wrote, “There are a thousand excuses for failure, but never a good reason.”
After being in the fitness industry for the last 17 years, I must have heard at least a thousand different excuses for not training consistently, for not eating properly, for “trying”, but not getting any results, or for not even [...]

The Secret Of Lifelong Fitness

Have you gotten “derailed” on your way to success in the past, and didn’t know why? That’s a demoralizing and confusing experience, and it can totally sabotage your progress and stop you in your tracks if you don’t know how to get the success process jump-started again.
Based on decades of experience with human behavior change, [...]

The Truth About Counting Calories

Do calories matter or do you simply need to eat certain foods and that will guarantee you’ll lose weight? Should you count calories or can you just count “portions?” Is it necessary to keep a food diary? Is it unrealistic to count calories for the rest of your life or is that just part of [...]

Weight Loss Success and Taming the Wild Ego!

By now it is accepted among experts that the only safe and lasting solution to weight loss involves, not a focus on diet and exercise, but on identifying and eliminating / replacing our own self-sabotaging beliefs and attitudes.
This – and nothing else – must be weight loss “Job #1.”
But there’s a major roadblock in [...]

Work at home? Then work out at home!

If you work at home, you have the ultimate situation and virtually no excuses not to be fit and healthy.  I used to have a two car garage and now I have a two kid garage.  I insulated the door end, bought an EdenPure heater (Paul Harvey loves it), put a TV, [...]

How Accurate is the Polar S1 Foot Pod and the Polar S3 Stride Sensor

Answer: exceptionally accurate. Having used the Polar S1 Foot Pod with my Polar S625X and now the Polar S3 Stride Sensor with my Polar RS800sd on the same routes, I know that they are both equally accurate. However, that has presented a problem for me, because they both confirmed that I am [...]

Are You Too Embarrassed to Work Out?

I am. That’s me at right this summer. Why would I be embarrassed to work out? Because I once was fast, and now I’m slow. I went to the Albuquerque Academy to do a short track workout, thinking that there would be no one there since cross country season is over [...]

Healthy Buddies

“Healthy Buddies!” What a great idea. Developed by Dr. Jean-Pierre Chanoine, of British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada and tested at two public elementary schools, over one school year, participants in the “Healthy Buddies” program, boosted their physical activity levels, gained less weight, and showed smaller increases in blood pressure, compared [...]

Ambassadors of Fitness

I am an Ambassador of Fitness. Will you join me in my quest?
Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor from Reuters Health News wrote an article August 28, parts of which I will quote here:
Americans are fatter than ever, with obesity rates up in most states and fewer people exercising, according to [...]

TWA Canyon Adventure Run

Sunday afternoons are my time to leave a little early and do a longer or more challenging run. Although quite short distance wise, the run from the Elena Gallegos Picnic Area to Domingo Baca Canyon presents the challenges of a rocky trail, altitude and then the limited “visibility” of the sun shining directly into your [...]