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Is Your Cardio Routine Making You Fat?

by Debi Silber, The Mojo Coach | May 20, 2013

Are you pushing yourself in the gym, only to find your weight remains stubborn and your energy levels remain low? The amount and kind of exercise you’re doing may be harmful, rather than helpful to your health, fitness and weight goals.

Certain types of exercises like nature walks, hiking, cycling, interval training, strength training, yoga and Pilates can help balance the body’s metabolic needs and have many benefits, including increased blood and oxygen flow to muscles, increased muscle mitochondria (the energy-making powerhouse of cells) and increased fat-burning enzymes. Interval training, or bursts of high-intensity activity, can increase muscle fiber strength, work ability, muscle mitochondria, insulin sensitivity and natural growth hormone. These health benefits sound great right?!

On the other hand, long cardio workouts can often lead to overtraining which depletes your body over time. (more…)

Tags: adrenal fatigue, belly fat, cortisol, weight loss
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Healthy Eating and Exercise Travel Kit

by Debi Silber, The Mojo Coach | April 8, 2013

For many of us, travel often means putting our healthy eating and exercise routine on hold until we’re back from our trip and back into our familiar routine. This can also mean that because of this vacation from our healthy habits, we have a few extra pounds to deal with, along with the need to reignite our fitness motivation once we’re back home. Is there a way to keep those healthy habits working for you while you’re away? Of course! So I created the healthy eating and exercise travel kit.

This “kit” was developed when I realized that whenever I travel, I always packed my food, snacks and workout gear before I packed anything else. It was as if, as long as those items were with me, I could make do with anything else and clearly showed me what my priorities were. I also noticed that when others came back from a trip and complained about the need to lose the pounds gained while away or the need to get back on track with their fitness, it was never something I needed to do because those habits were deeply ingrained and planned for while at home and when away.

So with that in mind, the following list is meant for you to print out and keep in your suitcase or travel bag. This way, when you take out your bag and begin to pack, you’ll see this list and be reminded to pack your healthy eating and exercise travel kit first.  (more…)

Tags: healthy snacks, travel
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Four F’s of Digestive Health

by Jared Rice | January 23, 2013

Digestive dysfunction is one of the most common ills of today’s population. Symptoms of acid reflux, diarrhea, constipation and bloating have become so normal that people often don’t recognize them as problems to be solved, if they recognize them at all. The allopathic diagnosis of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) has become increasingly popular, leaving patients concerned and completely clueless as to the true source of or potential solution to their discomfort. Truth is, from intestinal parasites to food intolerances to emotional stress, digestive imbalances can have a variety of causes. (more…)

Tags: acidophilus, digestion, FOS, probiotics
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A Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced Cardio Interval Training Program

by Debi Silber, The Mojo Coach | January 21, 2013

Want to boost your fitness results? Interval training is the fastest way to do it. With interval training, you’re using short bursts of intense movements for up to a minute, then bringing your heart rate and intensity down for a few minutes until you’re ready to increase the intensity again. The entire workout can be less than 20 minutes but the impact is huge. You can do this with little or no equipment and the results come quickly.

Here’s an interval training program using just cardio (no weights, machines, plyometric movements, etc.). It’s a great way to shake up your existing cardio routine, while allowing you to spend less time working out and getting greater results.  (more…)

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New Product: Pathway Green Coffee Bean Extract for Weight Loss

by Paula Gallagher | January 9, 2013

If you need a little kick with your New Year’s resolution of losing weight, Pathway Green Coffee Bean Extract may be just what you need.

Recently on his program, Dr. Oz discussed green coffee bean extract as a “miracle pill to burn fat.” He said that taking green coffee bean extract can help you lose weight without changing your diet or increasing your activity level at all. Since that time, this supplement has been rising in popularity for this potential as a weight loss aid. It simply consists of and extract of the unroasted seed of the coffee plant (Coffea arabica). (more…)

Tags: coffee bean extract, dr.oz, obesity, weight loss
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