By Melissa Buscetta, RD You don’t need a smartwatch, fitness band, or even a pedometer to track your steps. Your phone can track how many steps you take and how far you walk all by itself, assuming you carry it with you in your pocket. Sure, fitness trackers have a lot of useful features, but…
By Nicole Zaybak Drepaniotis, MS, RD, CDN Get your body into shape for 2017 with a healthy diet and exercise. Here are some fitness trends for 2017 to help you stay healthy: Body weight training is using your own body weight for resistance training rather than lifting with weights and machines. With minimal equipment needed,…
By Nicole Zaybak Drepaniotis, MS, RD, CDN People who exercise on a regular basis not only lose weight more effectively, but are more successful at keeping it off. The combination of both aerobic (cardiovascular) and anaerobic training (resistance) goes beyond the physical benefits. The combination of both of these exercises can provide the following health…
By Nicole Zaybak Drepaniotis, MS, RD, CDN Do our muscles have memory? They sure do. Do our muscles respond well to routine? They sure don’t! Changing up the duration and type of exercise is an essential piece of the fitness puzzle. To take your fitness to the next level, you may to try an extensively…
By Daphne Baldwin Kornrich, MS, RD, CDN Many of us believe that we are unable to lose or maintain weight due to our slow metabolism. However, it’s very unlikely that our metabolism is the problem. Metabolism is our body’s way of converting the foods and beverages that we eat and drink into fuel that helps…
By Daphne Baldwin Kornrich, MS, RD, CDN Summer Time and the Living is Easy … Research shows that we do more physical activities in the warmer weather. The beautiful weather entices us to spend more time outdoors. We find ourselves wanting to go outside to take a walk, wash our cars, tend to our gardens,…
By Nicole Zaybak Drepaniotis, MS, RD, CDN Technology has had an enormous impact on our daily lives, in some ways good and in some ways not. One of the negative impacts it has had is reflected in our increasing weight and incidence of chronic diseases. Many people have office jobs and don’t do additional exercise…
By Nicole Zaybak Drepaniotis, MS RD CDN Achieving and maintaining a healthy lifestyle takes some thought and effort in today’s society. Our lifestyle habits which include our eating, sleeping and activity levels are well entrenched and take time to change. While you are creating new habits you need to be diligent to prevent yourself from…
By Nicole Zaybak Drepaniotis, MS RD CDN Seems like there’s always a new fitness class or workout routine that is popular at the local health club or for workouts in your home. Here are some of the fitness trends for 2016: