Weight Management Articles

client handout Expert tips on maintaining health and fitness Eating for Weight Loss xercise is one important part of losing weight. Eating nutritious foods is another. Cathy Leman, RD, LD, owner of NutriFit, a nutrition consulting and in-home personal training business in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, offers these suggestions to help you make healthy food choices that will support your weight loss effo...

research update By Jeff M. Reynolds and Len Kravitz, PhD Resistance Training and EPOC fter cardiovascular exercise or weight training, the body continues to need oxygen at a higher rate than before the exercise began. This sustained oxygen consumption is known as excess postexercise oxygen consumption (EPOC). Originally referred to as oxygen debt, this postexercise state was first hypothesized ...

Nutrition and Your Health: The New Dietary Guidelines Trainers and clients alike can benefit from following the new ABCs of fitness and health. OVERVIEW History. Since 1980, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the United States Department of Health and Human Services (USHHS) have jointly published the Dietary Guidelines for Americans every five years. Beginning with the 1985 e...

B y P h i l i p Wa l k e r, M S Fi t Ve r s u s Fa t : What's Weight Got to Do With It? Why fitness professionals should emphasize exercise-- not weight loss--for their overweight and obese clients. Jean is a stay-at-home mother of two girls who, like most parents today, leads a very hectic lifestyle. She is attractive, eats a healthy diet and jogs three miles several times a week. But at 5...

program trends We i g h t M a n a g e m e n t : A We i g h t y I s s u e he World Health Organization estimates that worldwide, 1.2 billion people are overweight. In the United States alone, about one-third of adults ages 20 to 74 are overweight, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. What is the fitness community doing to address this issue? In the 19...

EQUIPMENT CORNER 21st Century Fitness Planner By Gregory Florez A few years ago during an IDEA conference, a well-respected futurist told several thousand fitness experts that they would be carrying around information about their clients on handheld "computer devices" within 10 years. Among the murmurs in the audience that day were several outright rejections of new technology. First, the futur...

Hoping to improve their health, many people opt for vigorous styles of exercise. New research, however, suggests that minimal-intensity, longer-duration physical activity may be best for insulin action and plasma lipids. The study, published in PLoS ONE (2013; 8 [2]; doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055542), included 18 apparently healthy subjects around 21 years of age. Each participant was randomly selected to follow one of three protocols.

Anthony Carey, MA, CSCS, ACE-AHFP, owns Function First in San Diego, voted one of the city’s Best Personal Trainer/Studios in 2010 and 2011 and its Best Health & Fitness Club in 2012. Aside from being named 2009 PFP [Personal Fitness Professional] Trainer of the Year, he has written two best-selling books, The Pain-Free Program: A Proven Method to Relieve Back, Neck, Shoulder, and Joint Pain (Wiley 2005) and Relationships and Referrals: A Personal Trainer’s Guide to Doing Business with the Medical Community (CreateSpace 2012).