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How Brain Neurotransmitters Make It Easier or Harder to Control Your Appetite

What is it that motivates you to eat – or to overeat? Your appetite is regulated by a complex group of peptides including appetite hormones like leptin, produced by fat cells. Leptin turns off your appetite and reduces the desire to eat. Ghrelin, a hormone produced by the lining of your stomach has the opposite effect – it strongly stimulates the desire to eat. Think mad rush to the refrigerator! These hormones exert their effects on a portion of your brain called the hypothalamus.

July 7, 2013

What Role Do Free Radicals Play in Aging?

Is aging a product of oxidative stress and free radicals – or IS it? This article discusses the evidence for and against the free radical theory of aging and the role free radicals play in health, aging and longevity.

July 7, 2013

Lemony Kale Spaghetti

Add this superfood to your next Spaghetti dinner

July 7, 2013

Party Rockin Step Workout Times

These are just rough estimates, but it looks like Party Rockin Step (Dancy) will have a running time of about 55 mins. and Party Rockin Step (Non-Dancy) will have a running time of about 53 mins. We won’t know the exact time of each workout until we’re completely done editing.

July 6, 2013

FlexTrain is a Low Impact Workout

This is a picture from the filming of FlexTrain of an exercise that uses a firewalker loop called “traveling band walks”. FlexTrain is an all low impact total body workout with almost zero rest between sets. So it’s also a metabolic workout too! * To learn more about our 8 new 2013 workouts or to

July 4, 2013

Cathe’s FlexTrain Workout

FlexTrain is a non-stop total body workout mixes metabolic exercises with high rep strength training. It’s perfect for when you want to feel like you’ve thoroughly worked everything from head to toe without using a lot of equipment to do it. Minimal equipment along with body weight exercises will be used to unleash your strength

July 2, 2013

Are You Tough Enough? the Role Mindset and Mental Toughness Plays in Fitness Gains

What is mental toughness and how does it impact your ability to make fitness gains? Read on and discover why mental toughness is important for achieving exercise goals and how you can develop the ability to push through the burn.

June 30, 2013

Tips for Making the Transition to Morning Exercise

There are advantages to working out first thing in the morning. There’s less chance you’ll “skip” if you get it done first thing. But what if you’re not a morning person? Here are some tips for making the transition to morning exercise – and loving it.

June 30, 2013

Hand Grip Strength: What It Says About Your Overall Fitness

Do you have a strong hand grip or a weak one? The answer to this question is more important than you think. The strength of your hand grip says something about how strong you are and how much muscle mass you carry on your frame. It even says something about your overall health. Find out more.

June 30, 2013

How Much Can You Improve Your V02 Max?

One of the benefits of aerobic exercise is it improves aerobic capacity or the ability of muscles to use oxygen to make energy. An indirect measure of this is called V02 max. Have you ever wondered how much you can improve your aerobic capacity or V02 max? Find out more about maximizing aerobic capacity.

June 30, 2013

Does Exercise Turn White Fat Into Brown Fat?

Can high-intensity exercise change bad white fat to good brown fat? That’s what a new study shows. There’s a certain type of fat that’s less efficient than the fat you store on your hips and tummy. Instead of storing the calories you take in – it converts them to heat. Would you like more of this type of fat and less of the other? Exercise may be one way to get it. Find out why and how you can get the benefits.

June 30, 2013

Cathe’s Lean Legs & Abs Workout

This action packed lower body workout focuses on the front and outer thigh muscles of the leg with both innovative and traditional exercises. I’ve designed this workout to keep the heart rate up while you incinerate your thighs. Although all parts of the thighs are used in this workout, most of the emphasis is placed

June 29, 2013

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