Salads have a bad rep as being a boring diet food, or a simple precursor to the real meal, but a good salad with the right ingredients can be your ticket to getting a load of vitamins and antioxidants in one low-calorie – yet yummy and healthy meal! The trick to keeping salads interesting is to switch up the ingredients each time you have one, so your taste buds don’t get bored. By adding fruits, nuts, dried berries, lean meats, beans and/or cheese to your salad, you can make a delicious, highly nutritious meal that will also help you widdle your waistline.
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Did you know that eating a healthy snack after your workout is necessary to get the most out of your fitness regime? Having a post-workout snack will keep you on track with your diet and will help repair muscle tissues and replenish glycogen stores.
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Whatever path you choose to become a healthier person needs to be one you can picture yourself doing now, a week from now, a month from now and 20 years down the road…The key to maintaining a healthier lifestyle and/or change in weight is to make one small change at a time. Once you have made that change part of your lifestyle, then make another small change and keep at it until it becomes second nature.
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Hi Everyone!It’s the weekend (yay!) and we don’t have boot camp class today, so you’re getting a mini-break. However, you all did so well on your fitness assessment tests (seriously you kicked butt) we don’t want you to lose any gains you’ve worked so hard for, so we’ve created an easy interval workout to try this weekend, so you’ll be ready to go on Monday night! You can do it in the gym or outdoors, and it’s gorgeous out, so there’s no excuse!
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Okay, so we all know that exercise is good for us and being a lazy couch potato is bad. We also know that regular exercise helps us blast fat and maintain a healthy body weight. However, there are numerous lesser-known health benefits to regular exercise — from increased sex drive to better digestion and sleep habits! And the benefits affect all of you, regardless of age, sex, weight or physical ability.
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