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We have all heard health organizations and fitness trainers give cautionary warnings about the effects of alcohol on our health and fitness. If your goal is weight loss then alcohol is counter-productive to your goal. I may be striking the obvious here but it is worth remembering everyone that alcohol can literally sabotage all of your healthy eating efforts to strike out all that you are doing well with your training and clean eating. Things you need to know about alcohol and your fitness goals. Alcohol is high in calories compared to protein and carbohydrates. Alcohol contains 7 calories per gram where as protein and carbohydrates contain 5 calories per gram. Calories from alcohol do not provide nutrition, and will not satisfy your hunger. This is the reason why it is easy to keep drinking once you are on a roll. It's easy to get carried away with a drinking…

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I had the privilege of attending a summit for fitness professionals. There were over 3000 fitness professionals exercising in the streets of LAPeople of all shapes and sizes, amazing weight loss stories, and those just getting started, all in one accord doing their part to end the trend of obesity in America. As I looked around, it dawned on me that all these people were success stories and a potential source of hope to someone else wanting to change their life. It didnt matter if they had lost 1 pound or 100 pounds, or maybe they have not lost any weight but for the first time in their life they are excited to wake up each day to be a part of a cause bigger than themselves . That hope and momentum was created by plugging into a supporting community, by being part of a tribe, a pack, a crew…

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The benefits of exercise are essential for healthy living. One of the benefits of exercise includes an improvement in your ability to excel in sporting activities such as football and basketball. Exercise provides us with the energy that we need in order to accomplish daily tasks that are important to us in life. Some health benefits of exercise include the maintenance of healthy blood pressure levels, better work performance and an improvement in brain function. However, have you ever wondered whether or not exercise helps to improve your vision health? Here is some information that you are going to find useful in applying a fitness routine to your daily schedule that will enable you to improve your vision naturally while improving your general health. Jogging: Jogging is a fitness routine that you can incorporate into your daily schedule. This is a form of exercise that will help you to improve…

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Once you have identified the sort of things you wish to get out of life, you will then need to create a plan of action that helps you achieve your goals and personal desires. Once you have written down a tentative plan on how to go about accomplishing your goals, you will need focus in order to stay on the path towards your shining glory and rewards. After setting goals, you need to manage these pursuits, as well as maintain motivation through an effective plan of action. Throughout society, the pressure to stay thin, maintain an attractive appearance and exhibit a perfect picture of health, as well as continue fitness goals are common personal goals. In this day and age, sticking to health and fitness goals are pretty hard with all of the enticing restaurants lining the streets of even the smallest of cities. Exercising often takes a backseat to…

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Having health and fitness goals as well as high personal standards are very important things to have. What’s even more important though is taking action and actually achieving these goals. So why do so many people get stuck, fall of track or don’t even get started at all? Here are just a few reasons that prevent people from getting started or pushes them off track. Information Overload Thanks to technology and the internet we have so much information right at our finger tips, but for some, this can be incredibly confusing. One day you’re supposed to eat a low-fat diet, the next you’re supposed to include more fat, then you’re not supposed to eat carbs, but then it’s okay to eat the “right” kind of carbs, then you’re not supposed to eat gluten or grains or dairy or sugar or GMOs, aahhh! We have medical doctors saying one thing and…

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