NeighborhoodTrainer

Success in anything means managing the basics first. Too many people want to get granular about things before they prove, to themselves, that they understand and are capable of handling the broader picture. This is the same with diet and exercise. There is a lot of information out there the multi-billion dollar health and fitness industry wants to deem necessary to achieving. Yet, before I chose one method over another, my personal trainer Queens suggested I master some basic principles first. Learn to eat for fuel, not for pleasure. Food is meant to be nourishment for your body and mind. There are no secrets here. If you feed your body the clean, nutritious food it needs, the body machine performs better. Similar to a high performance car that gets regular unleaded instead of super. The engine knocks and pings and doesn't perform at the high level it was designed to run at. Fruits and vegetable, lean meats and fish, whole grains, and healthy fats are what you wa...

In the latest statistics on adult obesity rates, rates are down .8%.  While it isn't an increase, it isn't a decrease. We can take some solace they didn't go up, but this is no cause for celebration.  Obesity is defined as being 35lbs or more overweight.  So, if .8% of these people have dropped down to 30lbs overweight, there is still a lot of work for them to do.  Physically, there isn't much different of a feeling, even though you have dropped toast differently named statistical category.  While it may be easy to just get out and walk the avenues of New York City, some people turn to NYC personal trainers to help them get active. People of all weights can have health problems, but with the rise in healthcare costs becoming a lightning rod, the causes of that rise are being highlighted and obesity is right up there.  No one wants to be scrutinized, but if work colleagues are going to start to eyeball heavy coworkers, one should make a change or be ...