When it comes to teaching our kids new things, we as parents are pretty confident that we have a handle on teaching them good habits.
As the saying goes, “with age comes wisdom,” so as we get more years under our parenting belt we all become our own parenting experts, right?
But when it comes to exercise, maybe it’s time we look to our little leaguers for some expert workout advice… and the younger they are, the more we can learn.
You Don’t Know Squat

Here you see my 15 month old daughter naturally …

If you are eating out a lot you are putting your waistline at risk!
Follow these 5 simple tips to eating healthy while eating at your favorite restaurants.
1. Never go to a restaurant starving! You are setting yourself up for failure right from the start. Have a quick snack before you go if at all possible. A piece of fruit, some mixed nuts or a protein shake will help satisfy you without filling you up so you can enjoy your meal. If you are really stuck, just grab a …

Are you frustrated with your fat loss results even though you have lost some fat around your middle and your spare truck tire is now the size of a bicycle tire?
Notice I said FAT LOSS not weight loss, because its FAT you want to lose, not to attain some magical scale weight, which means nothing (unless you are a contestant on the Biggest Loser).
So if you want to say good-bye to that gut, read on to get that fat burning furnace going again…
Basically what happens when you plateau on a …

With today’s economy we are all looking at our budgets a little closer.
But the one thing you should keep investing in is your health and fitness. It will provide you with a lifetime of high returns.
You don’t need to buy an expensive gym membership or a $1000 piece of equipment that becomes an expensive coat hanger to get in shape. People were building muscle and burning fat long before any of those strange looking machines were invented.
All you need for an inexpensive home gym are an exercise mat and a …

1. Start your engines
As your old high school gym teacher might have led you to believe, stretching before weight training is not the best way to warm-up. Recent reports show that static stretching before exercise can reduce muscle strength. Stretching relaxes your muscles, so why would you want to relax your muscles when you need to lift explosively during weight training? The proper warm-up for weight training should involve 5-10 minutes of dynamic mobility movements. These drills help improve active range of motion and activate the nervous system. Exercise like …

With a New Year well underway, you are probably trying to make healthier choices when you sit-down to eat. You do sit-down to eat, right?
You are trying to stay away from all the obvious fatty offenders, you switched from white bread to whole wheat, and many items in your fridge have “probiotics” or “omega-3s” added to them.
Well, you may think you’re eating healthy. But are you eating these 5 must have foods for men?
These 5 Super-foods will give you some powerful nutrients to make sure you are on your way …

Take a look around the next time you are at the gym. What do you see?
No, not the girl on the leg curl machine! Keep looking….
You see people lying on dirty gym mats doing endless crunches and spending hours on cardio machines like a hamster stuck on a wheel. Even today, with all the great information out there regarding exercise and weight loss, this is what people continue to do to lose unwanted belly fat and get rock hard abs.
So let’s finally end this confusion on how to …

Wabush, Labrador, Canada. A small mining town nestled in the cold and desolate woodland of northern Canada. 7 months of the year this isolated town in the middle of nowhere is covered in a deep and cold blanket of snow. Darkness comes early and temperatures with the wind-chill can reach –70 degrees Celsius. But there is a place where I go where the temperature is a lot warmer. Tucked away in the basement of the local recreation center is a little room I like to call The Dungeon. Some people …