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Push Yourself Mentally, Listen to Yourself Physically
Take Action & Respond: What steps do you take to push yourself mentally to make sure you do your best during a workout? While the post’s...
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Stuck? An Activity to Overcome a Chronic Dieting or Defeated Mentality
Overcoming Chronic Dieting: How About Half a Burger and a Big Salad? I frequently work with clients who have “tried every diet” and feel...
jasonmachowsky
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Revolutionizing the Resolution…Set Health and Fitness Goals that Stick!
Guest post by Dwayne Brown, CSCS The date is January 1st. Today is the day when most people are trying to put into action the resolutions...
jasonmachowsky
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How Thinking Like a Kid Can Improve Your Health and Fitness
I have the pleasure of training some awesome clients at a boutique gym in Jersey City, Hamilton Health and Fitness (HHF), that has an...
jasonmachowsky
4 min read
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In the Mind of a Nutritionist
I originally wrote this post for the Hospital for Special Surgery blog, which you can find here. From the HSS On the Move Blog, “In the...
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2 min read
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The Olympic Pursuit of Health and Fitness
As I watched some of the world’s best athletes compete last month, I started thinking about all of the time, energy and resolve they...
jasonmachowsky
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How Hard Should I Train? Stay Between the Lines
You want to work hard enough to get results. But not so hard that you get injured and laid up for six weeks – and there goes those...
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3 min read
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The Epic Quest for Six Pack Abs
In Death of the Diet, I stress the importance of determining your Why – the true motivating force driving you to improve your eating and...
jasonmachowsky
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Modifying the Seven Minute Workout
High intensity interval training, often abbreviated as HIT or HIIT, has become quite the rage in a world where time is precious and the...
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Why I Love…and Hate Yoga, Part 2
Image: sakhorn38 / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Over the past couple weeks I’ve received a few responses and inquiries as to what aspects of...
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Why I Love…and Hate Yoga, Part 1
Image: sakhorn38 / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Inspired by the NY Times article, “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body”, I took a moment and began to...
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Three Tips to Maximize Exercise Results Each Session
Three Ways to Make This Lat Pulldown More Effective Image Courtesy of: Microsoft Images / Corbis Being physically active is an important...
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Measuring Fitness Results Beyond the Scale
Weight: Only One Marker of Fitness Results Image Courtesy of Microsoft Images The one instrument that most people use to measure health...
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Three Tips to Safe and Effective Interval Training
Interval Training Courtesy of Mircosoft Images An excerpt from Death of the Diet: “Interval training is an advanced, highly effective...
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Weight Loss Success Stories: Pulling Inspiration from Jealousy
Weight Loss Success: Choose Inspiration Photo: Microsoft Images In many ways, jealousy and inspiration are fundamentally opposite...
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Achieve Weight Loss & Fitness Success by Setting the Bar
Setting the Bar – and Clearing It Image Courtesy of Microsoft Images Leave a Comment: What’s the current bar you’re reaching for? I had a...
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Bridging the Attitude-Behavior Gap
We know what to do, but do we choose to do it? Photo: marin & freedigitalphotos.net If knowledge were all it took for people to be...
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Movie Review: Lbs.
“Monday came. Alright, Monday came and I started. And I’m going to go back and I’m going to tell everybody that Monday came and I’m...
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A Holiday Gift to Tight Muscles: Four Self-Myofascial Release Videos!
Rolling, rolling, rolling. Keep those IT Bands rolling. The holidays are a season of giving, so let’s make sure we give our body and...
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Modifications and Cues for Re-Learning the Squat
Squatting is one of the main exercises and human movements performed on two legs (other exercises, such as walking, lunging and stepping...
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