Roller Derby Performance Workout

This is a video I put together for my roller derby teammates. However, it is workout that anyone can perform with very little equipment. For each of the exercises involved perform around 2-3 sets of 10-15 repetitions. Also for anyone interested in the St Louis Gatekeepers check out www.stlgatekeepers.com We can always use extra bodies!

Losing Weight Is Easy!

I've admitted my addiction of watching incredibly bad fitness infomercials to a few of you. Seriously, every time a fitness infomercial comes on I watch for just a few minutes and sometimes get sucked into the whole thing. Why, you ask? Simply because they are that good at convincing people to buy those products(most of which are junk). The people selling these are masters of marketing and advertising and have no interest in what it takes to get healthy.

Most of these infomercials simply tell you what you want to hear - that it's easy to lose weight and get fit. Or that you can spend 4 minutes every other day doing the hottest new aerobics workout and look like the HIRED MODEL teaching the class. Now wouldn't you think, that if it was that simple and all you had to do was buy that product or DVD, then we'd have a nation of beautiful bodies instead of fighting an epidemic of obesity.

In order to get realistic, sustainable results you have to work out a minimum of 3 times a week (more is better). For best results, you need to combine some sort of resistance or weight training with cardio. Now that you've got that part down, don't let that be a license to eat freely. You have to complement what you are doing in the gym with a good, healthy diet full of lean protein sources, healthy fats, and minimal processed carbohydrates.

So the take home here is you have to work hard in the gym and eat healthy in order to lose weight or get fit. You've more than likely heard the adage that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. That is more true in fitness than anything else. So don't let the fly-by-night claims influence you.