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Quarter-Hour Sessions

For those of you who are really tight on time, we are now offering 15 minute training sessions with Neil. While you will miss out on some of the important exercises that normally fit into your half-hour sessions, you will still get a fairly well-rounded, beneficial workout that engages the major muscle groups and packs… Continue

If the weights aren’t getting heavier, then you’re not getting any stronger, your bones aren’t getting any denser, and your muscles aren’t growing.

Every missed workout is a missed opportunity to stimulate exercise benefits.

You accrue benefits from exercise during the rest periods between workouts.

And if you’re not eating in a manner in line with your fitness goals, you’re almost (almost) wasting your time.

If you’re walking around with uncomfortable shoulder and neck tightness, the last thing you’d likely want to do is work those muscles hard - but it’s exactly what you should do. Here’s why:

If you’re like most folks, your shoulder and neck muscles are painful because they’re doing too much contracting. Maybe your life stress is causing you to volitionally tighten your neck. Or perhaps you’ve got poor posture. Whatever the case, you’ve got achy, spasmy muscles - muscles that are constantly tight… Continue

I am always amazed by how many people I talk to that do not eat breakfast on a regular basis. The two most commons reasons I hear are: 1) I don’t have time and 2) I have trouble eating so soon after I wake up.

Breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. Why? Think about it this way…the last thing you had to eat last night was at 9pm. You went to bed at 11pm. You woke up at 6am. You SKIPPED breakfast. You ate lunch at 12 noon. You have just gone 15 hours without eating. During this w… Continue

Not only is it important to lift weights slowly, but are you also incorporating going slow in your daily lifestyle?

We live in a world where everything that we do tends to be done fast: We eat fast, we walk fast, we talk fast, we speed date, we use high-speed internet connections and the list goes on. Our everyday committments to work, family, hobbies, exercise and whatever else is on the list, seems to be getting too stressful and our health suffers. We crowd up our lives with all these activi… Continue