Source: http://www.theptdc.com/2016/06/9-ways-to-make-clients-workout-set-harder-more-intense/

Selecting the appropriate resistance for your clients is a very important part of personal training.  If you go too light, the client will not make the necessary physiological adaptations to respond to the training.  If you go too heavy, the workout might be too hard, frustrate them, or worse, hurt them.

Trainers should have some readily available tools in their toolbox to crank those working sets to the proper intensity for their clients.

Sometimes we may choose a weight we believe to be a challenge for our desired rep range, but it turns out to be a little too easy for the client. In most cases, we could simply add more reps, but it’d be more useful to keep the same weight, yet just incorporate some techniques that make your client’s workout set harder and more intense.

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There are nine techniques I want to share, but before I get to them, a couple of notes:

If you cue your client during a set, keep them short and concise. If you need to provide a long, detailed explanation of what he should do, instruct while your client is resting in-between sets. Otherwise, give them the necessary instruction of what you expect before they begin.

For example, you might say, “I want you to complete 10 reps of …

Source: http://summertomato.com/wisdom-wednesday-stop-checking-nutrition-facts

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Most people don’t believe me when I say I remember learning about mitosis in 5th grade, but I do.

And I’m not talking about the kind of remembering where I vaguely recollect learning *of* it. I was fascinated by the stages of prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telephase, and couldn’t believe that our chromosomes did such a beautiful dance every time a cell would divide.

I mean, have you seen it?

In high school, biology was always my favorite subject. I even took an extra class in physiology just for funsies.

And after dicking around as an English major for a few years at Berkeley I ultimately graduated with a degree in molecular and cell biology. (I won’t tell you the kinds of grades I got in my MCB classes, because you’d hate me.)

That’s how much I love biology.

As you can imagine, this kind of devotion to the microscopic secrets of the human body added plenty of fuel to the fire of my dieting obsession.

Calories, carbs and fat counts? Couldn’t get enough of ’em. I had piles of notebooks filled with each sinful and virtuous molecule I consumed, and took an embarrassing number of nutritional supplements.

Had the Quantified Self movement been around back then, I would …

Source: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/02/480192692/solved-the-mystery-of-the-bearded-chickens?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=thesalt

When you’ve got it, flaunt it: Beards can occur in various chicken breeds. The birds in the middle have them, the ones on the far left and right don’t.

Courtesy of Ying Guo

Move over, human hipsters, you’re not the only ones growing outrageous facial hair.

For years, farmers have noticed that some chickens have tufts of elongated feathers around their face and beak, making it appear like they had grown a beard. The cause of the feather beards was a mystery. Now, thanks to scientists in China, the mystery of the bearded chicken has been solved.

The answer appears in a study published in PLOS genetics on Thursday. Chinese scientists compared the DNA of bearded chickens to non-bearded chickens. The results led them to investigate a gene, HOXB8. Bearded chickens had multiple copies of HOXB8 and surrounding genes. Non-bearded chickens only had one copy of HOXB8.

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Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tinybuddha/~3/GzlZBSjbCBw/

“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” ~C.S. Lewis

Have you ever been cruising down the highway of life only to unexpectedly hit a major pothole that completely threw you off? Maybe you lost a job, ended a relationship, or were betrayed by a friend.

It’s easy to wonder “why did this happen to me?” and stay buried in the pothole. It’s up to us to break free and regain our cruising speed on our life journey. Easier said than done, right?

I hit a major pothole in my professional life that blindsided me and left me feeling alone and unsure of what to do. Through this experience, I learned a lot about getting out of the pothole and getting back to living my fullest life. Let me start by telling you a little about my journey to the pothole.

The Rise

I grew up very much an academic, excelling in school all the way through the ranks of getting a Ph.D. in Operations Research (which is essentially applied math).

After that final graduation, I went off into the work force to put all of my newly learned skills, tools, and techniques to work. I worked as an analyst directly for two US federal agencies and also at a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC)…

Source: http://www.foodpolitics.com/2016/06/open-for-comment-the-fdas-new-guidance-for-voluntary-salt-reduction/

Yesterday, the FDA opened for public comment its long-awaited guidance for industry about reducing salt in processed food products.  The guidance affects about 150 products.  It gives baseline data for those products and sets targets for salt reduction.

Please note that I am using the word salt, not sodium.  The targets are for sodium reduction.  Most dietary sodium comes from salt added to processed foods and pre-prepared foods.  Salt is 40% sodium.  The target dietary intake of 2300 mg sodium comes to just under 6 grams of salt a day, which is not particularly low.  It is, however, lower than current intake levels.

In a blog post, FDA official Susan Mayne said the link between sodium intake and blood pressure is “strong and well documented,” but

In fact, it’s very difficult in the current marketplace NOT to consume too much sodium. The average intake today is over 3,400 milligrams—significantly more than the 2,300 milligram limit recommended by federal guidelines. And it’s not just adults who are eating too much sodium: Children and teens consume more than is recommended.

Vox, for example, provides a terrific chart on the amounts of sodium in foods.  It starts with this:

Susan Mayne goes on to explain that

the FDA assessed the sodium con…

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tinybuddha/~3/4FQcMY6YIVI/

“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear” ~Greg Kincaid

How is it that some people can breeze through physical and emotional pain, whereas others wince at the mere thought of it?

Is it their genes? Their individual circumstances? Their support network?

Or is it a certain strength of character, something each and every one of us can develop with the right tools and training?

Two years ago I found myself needing to answer these questions.

I was sitting in a cafe in East London wiping the tears from my cheeks with a napkin. To my boss who’d just informed me she no longer needed me, it would’ve looked a little overdramatic. But at least an hour had passed since she’d left.

It was uncertain whether or not I’d be paid the previous month’s wages. I needed it to cover last month’s rent, to buy food for the following weeks, and now to call my mom. I’d moved to London only a month prior, giving up a good job and a bright future in a good company to work on a new, small but promising community project.

Despite the words of warning and concern from my family, I believed this was going to be the start of something great. Those tears were not for losing the position or even a month’s worth of har…

Source: http://zenrockfitness.com/2016/05/thank-nova-zen-rock/

I can’t believe that I have become a cliché-yet time and again I find myself saying things like “I have never felt better” or “I haven’t looked this good since college”.  College-that was a husband and two kids ago and over the years since college, between work, carting the kids around everywhere, and all the other millions of things that take up our time, I found myself having changed dramatically and not for the better.

Then-to get back to the clichés-I had that “aha moment” where I was looking at some family photos from a barbecue we had over the weekend and came to a picture of me sitting at the table.  I wasn’t doing anything, wasn’t gorging on cake or eating ribs, I was just sitting there.  Yet I was shocked at how little the person in the picture matched the picture of myself in my mind. That is when I decided I had to do something.  But what?  I had joined gyms in the past, but always had excuses not to go or not to stick with it.  I had never been one for dieting, I didn’t think my eating habits were that bad.  So what to do?

I had passed the Zen Rock sign many times on my way into Redmond and that line “personal training” always stuck with me so I decided to check them out.  I was immediately impressed both with the facility and the staff.  From the first day of my training, I have never been the same!  I met with Nova and we discussed my goals, plans, and how to get me to where I wanted to be.  She didn’t pu…

Source: http://www.karpfitness.com/summer-activities-for-families/

The kids are rounding down another school year and that means summer vacation is upon us. It also means that many of us will start to hear “I’m bored!” for the next three months. Fortunately, you can easily cultivate a boredom-free summer with a little forward thinking and a bit of imagination. All you need is the right activities, which … Read More

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Source: http://www.sonima.com/meditation/mindful-living/monthly-horoscope-june-2016/

With May behind us, this June is a period for new hope and optimism. With most of the retrograde planets now moving direct, you will see things more clearly and you are willing to take a fresh jump. Retrograde Saturn and Mars still pose some challenges, however if you take this in a positive way, you will see difficulties getting converted into opportunities. There is lot of positive energy and you should use it to your advantage. Follow your passion and let this energy guide you toward success.

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This June, we see planet of communication Mercury in the lagan and Sun and Venus transit your second house. This planetary position influences you to improve mental compatibility with your …

Source: http://www.thefitbits.com/2016/06/this-girl-cant-lesson-learned-in.html

Well that wasn’t in the plan.  
Never in a million years did I see it happening, not even when I rode as fast as I could, on my brand new bike, trying for the first time ever, to pump nice and hard into the fast and flowy descent on Forest of Dean’s signature blue trail. 
Me and my trusty hardtail have ridden the Verderer’s numerous times and never parted company, not once. Even on the more technical, rocky descents at Bike Park Wales and Afan, when I was hanging on for dear life with borderline carpal tunnel syndrome, I never came off. 
But the new wheels in my life – my beautiful, silky smooth Specialized Rhyme full sus – is an absolute beauty and boy does she fly. 

The thing is, I don’t, do I?

 
Van life rules, ok.
You have no idea how excited I was to see what this bike could do. After a couple of years…