The 6 Questions You MUST Ask Yourself if You Want to Get Fit!!

You often hear me talk about how one thing affects another with exercise and fitness programs.  For instance, if you constantly exercise without warming up, then your chance of injury is enhanced, or if you don’t address nutrition, then your body will eventually break down if you continue to exercise.  I can’t tell you how [...]

Why You Should Add Yoga To Your Boot Camp Routine

I wanted to give you a quick update on how are Yoga classes are going!  I’ve heard some great feedback and just wanted to tell you all about it!  Tricia from Be Happy Live Healthy came again this week and really challenged our ladies in yesterday’s yoga class.  If you haven’t been to one of [...]

To Maximize Your Fat Loss Efforts You MUST be Aware of the “Other Side” of Nutrition

When it comes to nutrition we have all heard how important eating right is to our weight loss efforts.  We know that in order to achieve significant results we must watch our caloric intake (by not eating to many or too few calories) we must watch our sugar intake, not skip meals, etc.  All of [...]

Slow and Steady Does Not Win the Race After All

Over my 16 years in fitness I have seen many different “theories” on how to burn body fat and lose weight.  By far the most common way people try to achieve the body of their dreams is by cutting calories and doing cardio.  They go for 45 minute runs, or jump on the elliptical for an [...]

Be a Guardian of Your Time

A couple of weeks ago I sent out an article to all my boot campers outlining the 11 things you MUST do if you are serious about achieving fat loss and attaining the body that you desire.  I hope you took the time to read it!  If not, dig it back up and read it [...]

BodyBack! Boot Camps + Big Peach Running Co. = Boot Camp, Seminar and Fun!

On April 17th, Big Peach Running Co, in Kennesaw-Ridenour, hosted BodyBack! Boot Camps for a fun filled event which included my informative Synergy presentation, Big Peach’s Fit-Process Seminar and Boot Camp!  To begin, we learned that  Synergy is achieved when you combine resistance training, moderate cardio, and supportive nutrition all at the same time.   When synergy is [...]

Should You Really Take a Break on Spring Break???

As you know spring break is next week  and for many, that means more vacations, bad eating, and less boot camp : (   When spring break rolls around I often get questions from clients about what type of exercise they should do while they are away. Well, there are two different answers to that questions [...]

Healthy Snack Ideas and Kitchen Exorcisms

A couple of weeks ago I sent out a list of my favorite breakfast recipes and I received a lot of requests to make a list of healthy snacks as well.  These are the meals you eat between your main meals (b-fast, lunch, and dinner).  These are extremely important meals and cannot be skipped.  I [...]

Delicious Breakfast Ideas, The Truth about Energy Drinks, Olive Oil Myth

Delicious (and healthy) Breakfast Ideas As most of you know, I teach that to optimize fat burning you must eat 5-6 smaller meals a day.  These meals obviously begin with breakfast.  Breakfast has been touted as the most important meal of the day and for good reason.   Breakfast not only jump starts the metabolism for [...]

Enough is Enough (Do you want to be happy or not?)

Please excuse me…for some reason I am in the mood to rant.  This doesn’t happen often but when it does, watch out : )  I just need to get something off of my chest so here it goes… I began in this industry 16 years ago and let’s just say I have heard every excuse [...]