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Take These Four Steps to Reach your Health Goals in the New Year

Take These Four Steps to Reach your Health Goals in the New Year

As we usher in 2024, many of us set our sights on self-improvement, with one of the most common resolutions being to prioritize health and fitness. However, more often than not, lofty goals are set aside by the time February hits. Why do health plans fall off? While...

How A Fitness Challenge Can Propel You Towards Your Health Goals

How A Fitness Challenge Can Propel You Towards Your Health Goals

Embarking on a journey towards improved health and fitness requires dedication, perseverance, and the willingness to step outside of your comfort zone. Among the many motivational tools available, fitness challenges have gained popularity for their ability to push...

How to Prevent an Afternoon Energy Crash

How to Prevent an Afternoon Energy Crash

Does it feel rare to have a day when your energy feels high and stays high? An afternoon slump is a common phenomenon that most adults experience, especially with age. While that second or third cup of coffee is typically the answer for most, there are ways to prevent...

Use These 3 Mindset Tools to Improve your Health

Use These 3 Mindset Tools to Improve your Health

It is a longstanding myth that motivation alone can power our every decision. Motivation is often fleeting and quite honestly, exhausting, when it’s the only strategy for pushing you towards your goal. The brain needs more than a pep-talk to create healthy,...

Short on Time? How to Build in Exercise Throughout the Day

Short on Time? How to Build in Exercise Throughout the Day

What usually gets in the way of healthy habits? Many would say lack of motivation, but more often than not, time turns out to be a make-or-break element in keeping a routine alive. This is especially true with exercise. Carving out time each and every day for exercise...

Why DEXA Scans are Important for Long-term Health

Why DEXA Scans are Important for Long-term Health

It’s been far established that weight is not a true indicator of overall health. One single number on a conventional scale does not tell a larger story of what’s going on inside the body. However, it is very important to know what your body is “made of” in terms of...

How to Lose Body Fat and Retain Muscle Mass

How to Lose Body Fat and Retain Muscle Mass

We’re in the business of body composition (obviously) and while every person we see in our office has unique and specific goals, a majority of our work involves helping clients gain muscle mass and lose body fat. This is very difficult, but absolutely possible with...

How Does Dehydration Affect Body Composition?

How Does Dehydration Affect Body Composition?

We are made of up to 60% water. You read that correctly: close to two-thirds of our body is comprised of H2O. It’s no surprise that water is one of the most important compounds in the body, with essential functions that keep us alive and healthy. When it comes to body...

Why You Should Start on Your Summer Goals in the Winter

Why You Should Start on Your Summer Goals in the Winter

We have some bad news: only 8% of people actually stick to their “New Year, New Me” goals they’ve set in January. That means 92% of us revert back to old, unhealthy habits. When warmer weather finally comes around, we are cued with new motivation to get back on track....