NeighborhoodTrainer

It is tempting to think that everyone knows what a yoga session is. But once you start to talk to people you begin to realize people aren't sure what yoga is really about. The confusion isn't helped by the bewilderingly varied versions of yoga that are out there. To make things worse, how would you know if you were at a good yoga studio or a bad one? Yoga is a little like a chameleon. There are so many different types that all profess a different advantage. One of the recent 'fads', for want of a better word, is hot yoga. But as well as hot, there are many other types too. Trying to find the one which is right for you is not as simple as it looks. Queens yoga is a great place to start. You can find a way into a yoga practice to find which specific type works for you. Yoga in the west has been richly influenced by Richard Hittleman - he brought it back from India but subtracted the spiritual aspects. Limiting practice to the exercise and stretch aspects ...

Personal trainers are amazing. There are so many different things they know and you don't it makes them seem rather more like superheroes than ordinary gym-bunnies. The other thing about them is they know more about your goals than you do. Starting out with a personal trainer is the start of a journey. At the end of the journey, there has been a transformation of one of the travelers. Although of course, both the trainer and the trainee are not left unchanged. It's just the trainee who has become unrecognizably different. A shadow of their former selves, or fitter than ever before or somehow, someway different. Step one is to assess what your goals are. Personal trainers will start by asking what you want to achieve and what your timescale is. Then - and here's the good part - they will begin to craft a plan which will get you there. You will not need to think about it any further. All you have to do is show up and put the work in. You will find out that your ...

You are a grown up, right? You have been looking after yourself for a while. You buy toothpaste and dishwasher soap. You turn up for work on time more times than you're late. You might even put something into a savings account. Oh and you vote, there's the sure sign of a grown-up.  So perhaps it is excusable that you're carrying the same delusion as the rest of us, you know, the one where you believe it is all going to be different because the date has changed. The delusion? Yes, that's the one that says this year it will be different. So just in case you'd really like to make a difference in diet, here is one way you just might do it. Here's a newsflash; although we have every possibility of good nutrition and we can provide ourselves a good diet, shockingly few of us do so. Most of us grab a quick something to eat, and because it is done in a hurry and with little thought it is probably not the best for food for us. You know, a quick something ...