New Year’s resolutions are time honored traditions that involve taking a deep look into the past year and finding answers to a better you. How many times have you turned over a new year and promised yourself this was going to be the year to ahealthier you? If you fall into this category, which a [...]
Alcoholic Beverages: Best & Worst Choices I don’t know about you, but this is my problem area. I am a social drinker and the holidays are a social time, so I usually drink too much. Being a realistic person and nutritionist, I know I am not going to give up alcohol but I will at [...]
12.05Is Less More?
What’s your stance on this? Is more really less? Lets hear it!
In my line of work, I am often asked a host of general shoe questions, due to the fact that bunions, plantar-fasciitis, shin splints, knee pain, hip pain and back pain can all be traced down to the feet. These kinds of pains are increasingly common, and people are searching more and more frantically for [...]
Back-to-school season is likely met with a great, unanimous sigh of relief from Montecito Parents. Many parents, however, able to focus on themselves for the first time in months will face the grim realization that they need to get back into shape. Unfortunately, even with the children back in school, time is not easy to [...]
Hi everyone! My name is Melody and I am Amber’s trainer for the Fitness 805 Challenge. I can’t even being to explain how excited I am to be a part of Amber’s health and fitness journey. After reading Amber’s blog, I explained to Amber that she is going to have stay patient during the first [...]
07.27Carry that weight!
This week I want to focus on what is probably the most common goal in exercising, and the main motivator for most people to become involved in fitness. I want to talk about weight-loss. Wanting to lose weight is what gets most people moving, but before we put on our running shoes and start psyching [...]
Is your workout routine getting stale and you’d like to spice it up? Or, do you need someone to hold you accountable and get you started with a new program? Either way, it might be time to bring in a professional! In the past five years, the personal training industry has become completely saturated with [...]
If you’re over 65 and aren’t involved in a regular workout program, you might be at serious risk. Did you know more than one third of adults 65 and older fall each year in the United States (Hornbrook et al. 1994; Hausdorff et al. 2001)? In 2005, an alarming15,800 people 65 and older died from [...]
Written by personal trainer Melody Here are some guidelines for achieving results in just 4 weeks: -Gradually lose weight- try not to lose more than 1 or 2 pounds a week. It may not seem like much at first, but you could be 16 pounds lighter in 2 months, or even better, 32 pounds in [...]