Fitness & Wellness

How To Find The Right Trainer

Published by superadmin on December 15, 2021 | Leave a response

There’s a reason they’re called “personal” trainers. Trainers work specifically to create programs based on you, your needs, goals and present level of fitness. In Louisville, KY, we think we make it easy to find the right trainer by offering a week of free group training or a free personal training consultation. Finding the right trainer can make the difference between being successful and falling short of your goals. There are some things to look for in a trainer.

Personal trainers need to talk to you and ask a lot of questions.

If you want to create a program designed specifically for someone’s needs, goals and fitness level, you have to ask them questions. If a trainer doesn’t spend time learning about you, identifying your fitness level, learning about your dietary needs and even doing a fat analysis, maybe they’re not a personal trainer, but just a trainer who does cookie cutter programs. While everyone has similar needs, to get the best results, you need a program designed specifically for you.

Exercise isn’t enough.

Is weight loss your goal? You also need to change your eating habits. You can’t out-exercise a bad diet. The same is true for building muscles or achieving other fitness goals. You need the raw material for your body to be healthiest, learning to eat healthier is the way to do it. It’s not a diet, but learning how to make smarter choices. Some of those choices can be as easy as choosing fruit over a candy bar, while others may be substituting brown rice for white rice to boost nutrition and save calories.

The workout program shouldn’t be static.

You make progress and get fitter as you workout and your workout program should reflect it. Good trainers not only track your progress, they constantly reevaluate your program to ensure you’re working your hardest. You’ll also get a variety of workouts to avoid plateauing. The body weight plateaus because your body becomes efficient at doing a specific workout and burns fewer calories. With a trainer, you’ll never be bored and always work toward maximum potential.

Good trainers spend time ensuring you know how to do each exercise right. Doing it improperly can cause injury or minimize the benefit.
Eating healthy is a lifestyle change that never ends. It doesn’t mean you’ll never be able to eat your favorite high calorie food, but will eat it less often, keeping portion control in mind.
Trainers ensure you work on all types of fitness, strength, flexibility, endurance and balance. You need all types of fitness to be your healthiest.
A good trainer will help you create goals that are realistic and attainable. He or she will help you break them down to ones that can be achieved more quickly, to provide more motivation.

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Reasons To Document Your Fitness Journey

Published by superadmin on December 5, 2021 | Leave a response

Why would you want to document your fitness journey? There are a lot of reasons. First, when you track or document your journey, you’ll be able to see what works and what doesn’t easier. When you track what you eat and your caloric intake, plus track your workout, you can see whether you’re eating too much or not working out hard enough or doing things right.

Documenting your fitness journey doesn’t mean just weighing in weekly.

While weight is one measurement of progress, there are many others. For instance, taking body measurements can help show how you’ve lost weight or turned fat to muscle. You’ll lose inches when you do that, even if you don’t lose weight. Muscle tissue weighs more per cubic inch than fat tissue does. That means you may weigh the same, but if you have more muscle tissue, you’ll have smaller measurements. Taking a picture of yourself in the same location and clothing can also help learn the change.

Tracking your workout does two things.

When you track your workout, you can see where you started and how much more you can do. Whether it’s doing more reps or lifting more weight, it gives you an idea of progress. It also helps to have your workout written out and ready so you don’t have to stop and try to remember how many you did or what comes next.

Tracking what you eat can also help.

While the old way to journal your food intake was to have a notebook, where you wrote everything. Today many people use their cell phones to track their food intake. If you’re working with Body Sculptors, we have a registered dietitian who can help you find the easiest way to track your progress and ensure you’ll stick with a healthy plan of eating that’s designed specifically for your special needs and preferences. You can use your cell phone to track your exercise or go the old fashioned route and write it out.

When you document your progress, you’ll also learn a lot about yourself. For instance, if you find you have stomach problems, check your diet and make a note. You may see a pattern and eliminate the problem.
Documenting your progress can also help motivate you. Taking a picture every month allows you to see the difference that occurs slowly on a daily basis. It’s rewarding. Winners keep score.
Documenting your workout and diet is a start, but if you want to feel better and have more energy, document your energy level. How many steps on the stairs can you take without getting winded? Are you exhausted at the end of the day or do you have energy? Track what’s important to you.
You can also document other important numbers besides your weight, like your blood pressure or sugar levels. Exercise and a healthy diet can help normalize both blood sugar and blood pressure.

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Get Vitamin D Without Excessive Sun

Published by superadmin on November 25, 2021 | Leave a response

If you’ve heard that you need vitamin D to help boost your immune system, you heard right. Not only do you need vitamin D, studies show about half of Americans are deficient in Vitamin D. The body produces its own vitamin D when the skin is exposed to the sun. In areas like Louisville, it’s impossible to get adequate sun to produce vitamin D in the winter. That means you have to find alternatives get vitamin D another way,

What is vitamin D?

While vitamin D is essential to a healthy body, it’s not really structured like a vitamin and isn’t an essential nutrient. The nutritional definition of essential means the body needs it, but can’t produce it so it must come from food. Our bodies actually make it from sunlight reacting with cholesterol. Unlike vitamins, its chemical structure is more like a steroid hormone—-such as sex or adrenal hormones. Like hormones, it affects the functions of the body and binds to receptors, which triggers specific reactions. Hormones are messengers. All cells of the body react from vitamin D.

Start with the easiest method of boosting your vitamin D, safe sunning.

Safe sunning means getting about 12 minutes of body exposure to the sun at midday in the summer, when the sun is highest in the sky. Do this three times a week if you’re at a latitude above 33 degrees (the same latitude as Atlanta, GA). The further north you are, the more sun you need. If you’re fair skinned, start with less time and for those darker skinned do more, since melanin blocks the sun. The further north you are, the more sun time you need.

Consume food with vitamin D.

Organ meat like liver, contain higher amounts of vitamin D. If you have the opportunity to choose between farmed and wild salmon or other fatty fish, choose wild for it’s higher vitamin D content. The same is true of choosing meat from grass-fed or free-range over factory farm meat and animal products. They also contain higher sources of other nutrients, such as vitamin A, CLA and omega-3 fatty acids. Fortified products like milk, cereal and orange juice are good sources of vitamin D, as are fish roe, eel, cod liver oil and eggs.

Vitamin D not only boosts your immune system, it protects the brain, helps maintain a healthy insulin level and is necessary to absorb calcium properly. It’s important for healthy lungs and heart.
A study of 216 covid patients showed that 80% were vitamin D deficient. Another study showed that people who had dark skin and those who were obese had the largest population deficient in vitamin D. They were also more susceptible to complications of covid.
Safe sunning does not mean completely eliminating sunscreen. It simply means exposing as much skin as possible to the sun for a short time before applying it. The color of your skin and location determines the amount of exposure time.
As you age, your need for vitamin D increases. If you’re under 70, you need 600 IU a day. For those over 70 the amount increases to 800 IU a day.

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The Link Between Sleep And Weight Loss

Published by superadmin on November 15, 2021 | Leave a response

It’s almost a badge of honor to say you’re getting too little sleep. It’s as though you’re working harder, but that’s not always true. In fact, lack of sleep, can affect your productivity at work or at school. It also can make weight loss harder. You burn calories as you sleep and getting adequate sleep can help you burn even more calories.

Too little sleep can cause an imbalance of hunger/satiety hormones.

When you don’t get enough sleep, your body starts producing less of the satiety hormone, leptin, which makes you feel full. It also boosts the production of ghrelin, the hormone that makes you hungry. It’s pretty hard to control your appetite when your hormones that are sending messages to your body are out of whack. Too little sleep can also cause a craving for sugar and sugary treats, to give you a boost of energy.

You’ll slow your metabolism when you don’t get enough sleep.

Your metabolism helps burn the calories you consume, even when you’re not working out or simply sleeping. That can cause weight loss to be even more difficult. One mega study that reviewed a large group of studies showed that those who lacked adequate sleep increased their potential to be obese by 55% if they were an adult and by 89% if they were a child.

What you eat at bedtime may make a difference, too.

Sometimes, it’s hard to sleep and you need a little snack to sleep better. It’s built into our DNA from early man, who kept hunting until he ate. If insomnia that’s keeping you awake, try eating a high protein food, such as cottage cheese. Cottage cheese contains casein protein, which also increases the number of calories you burn as you slumber. You’ve probably heard about drinking a glass of warm milk before bedtime, it’s based on the same principle. It also takes about seven hours to digest, so your digestion will be working throughout the night, while providing protein during the night for muscle repair.

Room temperature can make a difference. A cooler room helps you sleep better, but also help you burn more belly fat. Studies show a room temperature of 66 degrees is ideal for shedding visceral fat.
If you sleep well at night and get enough sleep, you’ll have more energy throughout the day. That can help you stay more active and burn more calories.
There are several degrees of sleep, with deep sleep being the time when you burn the most calories. Creating a sleep schedule and sticking with it, even on weekends, can boost your deep sleep time.
Avoid hitting the snooze button if you want the best type of sleep. When the alarm goes off, get up. You’ll get more uninterrupted sleep that way.

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What Foods Boost Your Immunity?

Published by superadmin on November 5, 2021 | Leave a response

Whether your goal is just to build your immunity to stay fit or ward exposure to an exposure to a virus or bacterial infection, clients at Body Sculptors in Louisville, KY, ask for help finding foods that build immunity.
It takes more than just exercise to be healthy, you need to eat healthy, too. It’s why we offer nutritional advice and help at Body Sculptors in Louisville, KY. If you want to provide the nutrients you need for immunity, you need to eat the foods that provide it. Whether you’re worried about catching the latest variant of Covid-19 or simply want to boost your immunity to stay healthier and avoid the common cold, eating healthier and focusing on immune building foods can help.

Food that contain vitamin D can be a big benefit to your overall immunity.

Studies on patients hospitalized with covid deduced a large percentage had vitamin D deficiencies. Safe sunning is one suggestion, but you can also eat food higher in vitamin D. Milk products and juices are often fortified. Egg yolk, salmon, red meat and organ meat like liver are also higher in vitamin D. Since Louisville is above the 33 degree latitude line, you can’t get adequate vitamin D from the sun year around. Older people, the obese and those with darker skin can also have a problem getting it from the sun.

Fresh fruits and vegetables can provide most the phytonutrients, vitamins and minerals you need.

Eating citrus fruit can provide vitamin C, which is an immune booster. If citrus fruit upsets your stomach, red bell peppers are also high in vitamin C. Foods with bioflavonoids, like anthocyanin, the substance that make purple and deep red fruits and vegetables that color, like blueberries, grapes, blue/purple corn and eggplant are examples. Other foods that help boost immunity provide vitamin A and include cantaloupe, Brussels sprouts, carrots and strawberries.

Sometimes, what you don’t eat is just as important.

Start by cutting out highly processed food and sugary treats. Not only are they absent of nutrients, they contain ingredients that can cause inflammation. Inflammation is the cause of many serious conditions and have few or no antioxidants that can fight free radicals, which can lower your immunity. Conditions caused by chronic inflammation include Alzheimer’s, cancer and heart disease. Sugar and highly processed foods also can destroy your body’s microbiome. Having adequate beneficial microbes actually boosts your immunity.

Add soluble fiber to your diet to increase the healthy microbes that aid in digestion and boost your immunity. Apples, black beans, avocados, broccoli and pears are high in soluble fiber.
Zinc can boost your immune system. Foods that contain zinc include crab, whole grain foods, lobster, red meat, dairy and oysters.
Spicing up your diet with herbs and spices like cinnamon, garlic, cayenne pepper, black pepper, saffron, turmeric and ginger. Turmeric, for instance, contains curcumin to boost immunity and garlic contains allicin.
You can improve your gut bacteria with probiotic foods like kefir, yogurt, sauerkraut and kim chi. Be careful when you choose yogurt. Make sure it doesn’t contain added sugar.

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The Easiest Way To Get Ripped In 3 Months

Published by superadmin on November 5, 2021 | Leave a response

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How To Create The Ultimate At Home Gym

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The Perfect Steak Keto Recipe

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Are There Specific Diets For Each Skin Type?

Published by superadmin on October 25, 2021 | Leave a response

At Body Sculptors in Louisville, KY, we help you become your healthiest. That includes both your diet and an exercise program. Both of these are personalized just for you. Making adjustments in diets for each skin type further personalizes the meals. Diets can help you lose weight and build muscle. They can improve your overall health to make your body operate perfectly. Your skin is your biggest organ, so feeding it properly is important.

Learn what type of skin you have.

Slathering on the creams and apply magic lotions won’t help if you’re not healthy from within. That’s why the right diet is important. You need a clean face to identify your skin type. Wash it thoroughly and don’t follow up with any product. Wait for an hour or two. If it’s red, tight with flaky patches, it’s dry skin. If there’s oil in the T-zone, around the nose and above the brow, but dry everywhere else, it’s a combination. If you can place a tissue on your face anywhere it collects oil, with visible pores, then you have oily skin.

Hydrate dry skin by drinking more water.

While it’s not just dehydration or the lack of water causing dry skin, it’s one of the causes. Increasing the amount of juicy fruit in your diet, like oranges, grapes and water melon can also help by increasing the fluid and adding vitamin A and/or C. Add healthy oil to your diet with foods like avocado or salmon. Red bell peppers, broccoli and spinach also increase vitamin A and C. Avoid alcohol, sine it dries the skin and cut out caffeine.

Oily skin doesn’t mean you have to eliminate oils.

Oil isn’t always the cause of oily skin. Healthy oil can actually provide anti-inflammatory benefits. Good choices are nuts, avocado, salmon and flaxseed. Cut out refined carbs, replacing them with whole grains. Cut out food with added sugar and keep fried food to a minimum or eliminate them completely. Red meat can be the enemy if you have oily skin, so reduce it significantly in your diet.

People with combination skin face the problems of both dry and oily skin. Eating healthy options from both types of diets can be beneficial, such as including healthy fats like salmon and nuts. Avoiding process carbs that cause inflammation is important.
Acne prone skin can be different from oily skin. It’s caused by inflammation and bacteria. Ensuring you have enough vitamin C and zinc in your diet is important. Citrus fruit is a source of C and pumpkin seeds can provide zinc.
As with all skin types, eliminating added sugar and unhealthy fat can be beneficial for the acne prone. So can eliminating most dairy, although Greek yogurt may actually help. Experiment, since everyone is different.
Dull skin can be caused by oxidation, so boosting antioxidants like lycopene helps. It’s found in tomatoes. Foods rich in collagen can help prevent wrinkles and you’ll get that from bone broth.

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