Posts Tagged ‘International Sports Sciences Association’

Tasty Homemade Protein Bars

By Becca Melton; ISSA Certified Personal Trainer; Piedmont, Oklahoma Personal Trainer. Enjoy these great-tasting, easy-to-make protein-rich treats! Ingredients 5 TBLSP Natural peanut butter (crunchy or creamy) 1/2 cup oats 1/2 cup oat flour (if you don’t have oat flour, use another 1/2 cup of oats) 6 scoops chocolate or vanilla whey protein 1 tsp vanilla 2 [...]

To Achieve Your Fitness Goals You Must First Create the Habit

By Robert Moffett; ISSA Certified Personal Trainer; Ocala, Florida Personal Trainer. It’s now the time of year when companies explode with convincing claims of new and improved ways to quickly lose weight and gain muscle.  They range from diet pills to exercise video’s guaranteeing miraculous results. The reality is, we all want to have the [...]

How To Gain Control Of Your Mind To Live A Healthier Life

By Gabrielle LeBlanc; Personal Training and Sports Conditioning; New Orleans Personal Trainer. Most people believe that, as we age, it is inevitable that we become frail and sedentary.  The main reason the majority of people become frail and sedentary as they become older is because they believe they will.  Don’t accept this conditioned mindset of [...]

The Aspirations of Ardour

By Gabrielle LeBlanc; Personal Training and Sports Conditioning; New Orleans Personal Trainer. Have you ever wondered what makes an athlete go through such harsh conditions for rewards that just don’t seem worth it? A marathon runner, for example, on the last mile who falls to the ground simply from muscle fatigue, who lifts her head [...]

The Beauty of Balance & Nutrition

By Gabrielle LeBlanc; Personal Training and Sports Conditioning; New Orleans Personal Trainer. Eating with the flow of the universe. The philosophy of balance is far more complex than we may believe.  In this article, I’d like to introduce to you how I incorporate balance into nutrition and eating for your body and with the flow [...]

Know Yourself. Control Yourself. Be Yourself.

By Gabrielle LeBlanc; Personal Training and Sports Conditioning; New Orleans Personal Trainer. Overtime humans have lost the sense of their nature.  They’ve become so caught up in the media and how everyone else wants them to be, and lost who they truly are.  Believe it or not, we are not our careers, partners, friends, kids, [...]

Microperiodization of Speed, Strength, and Muscle; The Ultimate Bench Workout

By Justin Negrete; Madison, Wisconsin Personal Trainer. We all know in order to get strong you need to lift heavy weights. This type of lower repetition, heavy weight sets can increase myofibrillated hypertrophy, which makes muscle more dense . We have also heard of a method popularized by powerlifters in which you lift lighter weights [...]

Why Do Older Adults Fall Down?

By James Lanza; Northridge, CA Personal Training. I wrote an article a while back about balance. How we lose it as we get older. Because of the loss of muscle tissue we pretty much spend our adult life as if we were living inside of a pinball machine. We bang into the furniture, we bump [...]

Study Finds Older Adults Can Live Better Through Exercise

By Brian Danley; Cupertino, California Personal Training. The Effect Of Exercise Training On Performance Of Activities Of Daily Living In Older Adults. Exercise training programs improve the cognitive and physical performance of the activities of daily living (ADLs) in older adults. This article reviews two studies which support the concept that the efficacy of a [...]

Food Nutrition Labels – A Real Life Comparison

By Linda Okwor; Marina Del Rey, CA Personal Training. A Deeper Look into the Realities of an Everyday Food label. Here are some things to visualize when you are looking at a food label: Every 5 grams of fat is a teaspoon of fat (or a pat of butter). In the example above, each cup [...]