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1). Exercise and Weight Loss Tip #1: Why Behind-the-Neck-Exercises Are Bad For You Please don't be like me! Several years ago I was warned to stay away from behind-the-neck exercises and movements, and do you think I listened? Of course not. And as a result, I acquired a rotator cuff injury that slowly gets worse and worse over time. It is often said that it is much smarter to learn from ... 2). Lose Weight: How to Exercise and Burn Fat on a Busy Schedule In my fitness consulting business, I get the opportunity to talk with people from all walks of life about their health, fitness, and weight loss goals. Whether their goal is to lose weight, gain muscle, stick to a diet plan or program, improve their cardiovascular health, or simply to maintain their current fitness level they all have one common en... 3). Men's Health and Weight Loss Tip #1: How to Regain Your Prime and Never Lose It Again Guys, let's face it. Aging is an inevitable process for all of us. However, you don't have to take it "lying down". As a matter of fact, you can literally manage the whole ordeal and either hang on to your body's prime condition or regain that which has been lost for years following a few very basic principles. Eating H... 4). Weight Loss and Exercise in Tough Environmental Conditions Working out is working out, right? Wrong. Depending on the environmental conditions where you live, there may be extra precautions that you'll want to consider when trying to lose weight by following a healthy diet and weight loss program. High Altitudes High altitude environme... 5). Weight Loss Motivation: Mastering the Motivation to Stay Fit Have you ever just felt like you were doing everything you were supposed to in order to lose weight and STILL weren't dropping the pounds? During her journey to lose 40lbs in 16 weeks, my good friend Kim faced some pretty serious challenges with regards to her level of motivation. Another friend of mine, Antonio Goodwin, w... 6). Weight Loss Newbies: The Beginner's Guide to Losing Weight So you've decided that you're going to do it. You're sick and tired of being sick and tired and are once and for all hell bent on losing weight. Well, let me be the first to warn you of a very grim fact: Millions have tried before you and most of them have failed miserably at reaching their weight loss and die... 7). Weight Loss Tip #11: What's Stopping You From Weight Loss? One of my favorite success quotes talks about having a single, overriding objective and making everything else in life bend towards helping you to attain that objective. Well I've got a challenge for you. I am literally daring you to make your weight loss goals the single, overriding objective to which you will make othe... 8). Weight Loss Tip #12: How Starving Your Body Can Make You Gain Weight No, that title is not a typo. One of the things that makes people not get the weight loss results that they want is that they may occassionally be starving their bodies. There are two basic ways that this can happen. One is for it to be done inadvertently---like when you just get busy and forget to eat. Ano... 9). Weight Loss Tip #1: Why Most Fail and Only a Few Succeed at Being Fit In the age of information, many of the principles of health and fitness have become all but common knowledge. Nevertheless, there still is a very clear divide between those people who become successful and losing weight and/or staying fit and those who do not. Why is that? And what can you do to improve your chances of bei... 10). Weight Loss Tip #2: How to Pick a Good Personal Trainer One of the major benefits of the YourBestBodyNOW Program and several other programs like it is that you can lose weight and meet your fitness and weight loss goals even if you have neither the time nor money to get a personal trainer. At the same time, if you do ultimately decide to hire trainer at some point, I want to m... 11). Weight Loss Tip #3: Moderate Drinking May Help You With Weight Loss The connection between moderate drinking and avoiding heart disease is pretty much old news to most of us at this point. But now, experts are saying that those of us who have 1-2 drinks a few times a week are less likely to become obese than non drinkers. Finally! A Weight Loss "Do and Don't" that we can have some f... 12). Weight Loss Tip #4 Protecting Your Spine and Lower Back While You Lose Weight When most people begin a Weight Loss program or diet plan so that they can tone up and/or lose weight, the often forget about THE most important aspect of any exercise and diet program: Safety. Although there are numerous ways in which exercising safely is beneficial to you, one of the most important and the least observed is co... 13). Weight Loss Tip #5: Trim Down Your Waist to Avoid Heart Attack A recent global study has come to some pretty alarming conclusions about the link between your waist-to-hip ratio and the risk of suffering from a heart attack. How does waist-to hip ratio (WHR) work? Well, if your waist and hips are exactly the same circumference, you have a ration of 1 to 1 (1:1). If your waist is small... 14). Weight Loss Tip #6: Using Antioxidants in Your Weight Loss Program If you're smart, you should not only be focused on your goal to lose weight but to maximize your weight loss program to its full extent by getting some health benfits out of it as well, and make them priority #1. One of the health benefits you should be aiming for as you lose weight should be getting a good daily dosage of antioxida... 15). Weight Loss Tip #7: You Become Who You Hang Around Can you remember the last few times you completely gorged on food that you KNEW was making you fat? Were you alone? And if not, who were you with? More than likely, you were pigging out with the same person or group of people that you have no doubt done this with on more than one if not many occassions. One of... 16). Weight Loss Tip #8: Have Your Cake and Burn it Off Too With Christmas less than a week away, the holiday season is almost over, but the holiday EATING for most people will last for nearly another month. I could try and tell you how to not eat anything but lettuce and fruit while the rest of the family is enjoying succulent hams, delicious cakes, and scrumptious pies; but that would be a w... 17). Weight Loss Tip #9: Don't be a New Year's Casualty! I got so caught up in this year's fitness goals that I completely forgot about something that I usually brace myself for this time of year. But no sooner had I stepped into my gym a week or two ago than I was sharply reminded of it. Reminded of what?, you may ask. The New Year's Resolution crowd. 18). Women's Health and Weight Loss Tip #1: Lose Weight to Fight Osteoporosis It is a well known fact that exercise and weight loss make you both look and feel better. Another bit of common knowledge is that to lose weight, control your diet, and exercise regularly gives you a healthier heart. In addition to the previously mentioned benefits of proper diet and exercise are several other very specific health ... 19). Women's Health and Weight Loss Tip #2: The Importance of Calcium in a Woman's Diet Recently I published an article about the importance of exercise in fighting against the bone-brittling disease osteoporosis. There are actually 3 primary factors that may put someone at risk for osteoporosis---women in particular: lack of calcium hormonal deficiency (estrogen in particular)... 20). Women's Health and Weight Loss Tip #3: The Importance of Iron in a Woman's Diet One of the biggest weaknesses of the traditional commercial diet is the lack of iron that exists in its stringent and often excessively limited eating guidelines. In order to lose weight, many unsuspecting women get bamboozled into taking part in weight loss programs that cut out many of the nutrients that they need. Iron is one of th...