Simple Health + Fitness Minute

Whether you pick Team Naps or Team Good-Night Sleep, putting extra focus into snoozing downtime will have great benefits to your health.

Eating more salad is great, but a salad can get really complicated and extremely unhealthy without much effort. I've got just three key ingredients, plus two variables that will sell you on adding more salads to your eating.

So I got my training certification from the internet. That's not a reason to not listen to me in these podcasts.

Being early allows you to avoid issues and see problems forming early. But without action, being early just means losing sleep.

I'm not claiming you are not clean, but just not using a shower as a tool for motivation and relaxation. 

If all you need is to learn the basics, you don't need an elite level training. You will just waste your personal money and time spent together for both of you.

A message that takes ten seconds to deliver uses an additional 50 seconds to elaborate unnecessarily.

Don’t let the mental rush of determining your life-changing resolutions before 12:01 AM January 1stt keep you from making setting decent goals to meet on a measurable timeline.

Spot reduction is a great theoretical motivation to get you exercising, but weight loss doesn’t work that way.

A trick to helping you curb your snack addiction is portion control, and controlling your portion by keeping the extra portions out of sight when actively snacking.

Your daily routine calls for a time for snacking. But are you snacking because you need a snack or because you need something to do?

The path to six-pack abs is extremely simple. But it is not as simple as 'do more crunches.'

Excessive sweating limited to your workout periods and not throughout the day and night is a sign that you excessively sweat during exercise. It is not a sign that there is something else wrong with you physically.

To save you from yourself and bad eating due to lack of time, either real-time must be scheduled to prep and cook fresh meals, or real money should be spent on meal prep services.

You can still enjoy the childhood favorite dishes served up at your grandmother's house. You just can't have the same recipe as it was made way back when.

There are three key components to coming up with a plan that maintains consistent diet and exercise: be a plan you kind of like, gives you some measurable results, and can be executed even when your normal routine gets broken.

If the person who pledged to keep you on task with your health and fitness goals is failing you, or you are failing them, why make the pledge?

Cheat day meals are precious and meant to be enjoyed. But don’t just create an occasion to have a cheat meal just because you went extra hard on one normal workout session.

Healthy eating is not helped by the addition of unhealthy sauces to your meals, and many of the more popular condiments are destroying your healthy eating effort. This episode will give you a few sauces to cut out and avoid, and a few sauces to think about adding to the regular menu.

Half of Americans only reach about 5,000 to 7,000 'steps' in an average day, and that measure would still have you still consider as sedentary. Walking is a great form of exercise, but compared to jogging or running, you have to travel the same distance to get the same benefits. For effective weight loss, you're going to have the pick up the pace, go a longer distance, or both.