Haddonfield Personal Trainer Reveals Best Spinach Salad Ever!

The first thing that you’ll notice about this salad is that it tastes amazing. It also doesn’t hurt that spinach is an extremely nutrient-dense food. The recipe calls for raspberry vinegar, which is a flavorful and refreshing alternative to traditional, oily dressing. The fruit and nuts add flavor, fiber and healthy fat.
Servings: 8

Here’s what you need:

•8 cups cleaned spinach leaves
•3 oranges, peeled, sliced and quartered
•2 cucumbers, peeled sliced and quartered
•1/8 cup macadamia nuts, coarsely chopped
•1/8 cup sunflower seeds
•2 Tablespoons poppy seeds
•1 cup strawberries, sliced or whole raspberries
•1/2 cup white balsamic raspberry blush vinegar
1.Combined the spinach, oranges, cucumbers, macadamia nuts, sunflower seeds, poppy seeds and strawberries in a bowl.
2.Add the vinegar and toss well.
Nutritional Analysis: One serving equals: 99 calories, 3g fat, 14g carbohydrate, 2.6g fiber, and 3.5g protein.

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Four Tactics for Faster Success Reveals Haddonfield Personal Trainer

Have you ever been frustrated over a lack of results from your workout routine?

If so, you are in good company. Even the most seasoned athletes experience times when their results plateau.

When you continue to put in the same effort day after day with little or no results it is safe to say that you’ve hit your own fitness plateau.

Your body adapts quickly to any repetitive routine. The definition of ‘insanity’ is to do the same thing over and over while expecting different results. This holds true for your workouts. When your results stop then it’s time to do something new.

I have good news – the following 4 tactics are guaranteed to crank your workouts up to the next level and to deliver the fast results you want.

Tactic #1: Focus on Negatives

Each time that you do a weight lifting repetition you are utilizing three types of strength. These are:

1. Positive strength: the motion of lifting the weight.
2. Static strength: holding weight in a contracted position.
3. Negative strength: the motion of lowering the weight.

Most people completely miss the benefit of the negative in each repetition by allowing the weight to drop quickly with little control. It is understood that the negative portion of a repetition is just as important as the positive portion, and possibly more important.

Focus on the negative portion of each repetition by lowering the weight very slowly. Concentrate on the negative contraction, and make each repetition count.

If you are advanced, then use a training partner to assist you in moving heavier-than-normal weight into a contracted position, then lower it very slowly.

Another way to utilize negative repetitions on a machine is to lift the weight using two limbs but then lower it with just one. For example, use both legs to lift the weight on a leg extension machine, but then lower it back down slowly using only one leg.

Tactic #2: Do a Drop Set

Drop sets have long been used to fight off exercise plateaus. This technique is great for adding muscle strength, endurance and for increasing the cardiovascular benefit of your workout – resulting in more fat burn.

Here, in a nutshell, is how to do a drop set: When you perform an exercise to exhaustion, don’t stop there. Drop the weight by 80% and do another set.

You could take it a step further by dropping the weight twice, making it a double drop. Or drop the weight three times for a descending drop set.

Use this technique only once or twice per workout, on the final set of the exercise.

Tactic #3: Modify the Exercise

There are certain exercises that are considered ‘staples’ in the gym.

The squat. The lunge. The chest press. The shoulder press. The bicep curl. You get the idea…

While you shouldn’t throw these exercises out the window, find creative ways to modify the familiar motion in order to challenge your muscles. Try these exercise modifications:

• Squat on a Bosu ball or balance board.
• Place a weighted bar across your shoulders and do walking lunges.
• Use an exercise ball for chest presses instead of the bench.
• Do a full squat between each repetition of shoulder presses.
• Do a shoulder press between each repetition of bicep curls.

Tactic #4: Use Active Rest to turn each workout into High Intensity Interval Training

Every minute of your workout is an opportunity to increase intensity and to burn more fat. Don’t waste precious minutes with long rest periods between exercises.

While it is important to catch your breath if you feel winded, most of the time you would benefit more from an active rest than a passive one. Perform one of the following activities for 30 seconds between exercises and turn your regular workout into High Intensity Interval Training.

• High Knees with Alternating Punches: Alternately bring each knee high to your chest in a quick jumping movement while alternating forward punches at shoulder level.
• Burpees: Start in a sanding position and bend at the waist. Once your hands hit the floor, push your entire body back, extending your legs until they’re straight and you’re in the push-up position. Go down for a push-up, and when you push yourself up, jump slightly to bring your feet back near your hands. Finally, jump in the air with your arms fully extended over your head.
• Side-to-Side Jumps on Bench: Stand on one side of an exercise bench. Place the foot closest up onto the bench, jump up and switch feet, then land on the opposite side of the bench.
• Mountain Climbers: Place your hands wider than shoulder-width apart on the ground in a push-up position. Bring one knee to your chest and then back to the starting position, alternate each leg quickly.
• Side-to-Side Ab Twists: With feet close together, jump and twist your legs left to right – holding your abs tight. Keep a bend in your knees and swing your upper arms with each twist.
• Jump Lunges with Pop Squat: Start in a lunge position, lunge down then quickly jump up, switching your leg position in midair, land in an opposite leg lunge. Once you’ve done both legs, jump straight into a squat.
• Medicine Ball Squat Jumps: With feet wider than shoulder-width apart hold a medicine ball at chest level. Squat down until your knees are at a 90 degree angle. Explosively jump up, raising the medicine ball straight over your head.

If you’d like a sure-fire way to break through your fitness plateau and to melt away unwanted fat, then contact me for a fitness consultation – Haddonfield Personal Trainer

Drink This Not That Haddonfield Personal Trainer Tells All

Changing what you drink just may be the magic weight loss bullet you’ve been looking for.

David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding sure think so. But then they did write the book on it: Drink This Not That. They’ve even gone so far as to claim that you could lose up to 32 pounds in a year just by changing what you drink.

What most people don’t know is that it’s a lot easier to drink extra calories than to eat it. So you really need to pay attention to what you’re sipping on.

Here is a sampling of what their book has to offer. The following are 5 of the worst things to drink, followed by 5 slimming alternatives.

Breakfast
While a cup of hot coffee or a glass of lowfat milk are both great ways to start your day, beware of the smoothie trap. More often than not smoothies are closer to milkshakes than protein shakes.

Worst beverage: Smoothie King Peanut Power Plus Grape (40oz)

• 1,498 calories / 44g fat / 214g sugar

Drink This Instead: Smoothie King High Protein Banana (20oz)

• 322 calories / 9g fat / 23g sugar

Lunch
A study done at Virginia Polytechnic Institute showed that people who drink 17oz of water before sitting down for a meal ended up eating 9 percent fewer calories. Those calories can really add up over time.

Worst beverage:

SoBe Green Tea (20oz)

• 240 calories / 0g fat / 61g sugar

Drink This Instead: Honest Tea Organic Honey Green Tea (16oz)

• 74 calories / 0g fat / 18g sugar

Afternoon
When the afternoon rolls around most of us are ready for a pick-me-up. Too often these caffeinated drinks are loaded with waist-expanding calories.

Worst beverage: Starbucks Venti Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha with whipped cream

• 660 calories / 22g fat / 95g sugar

Drink This Instead: Starbucks Venti Caramel Cappuccino

• 170 calories / 6g fat / 18g sugar

Postworkout
There’s no good reason to follow up a great workout with a sugar-filled beverage, even if it makes claims for quick recovery and muscle growth. After exercise your body is in need of protein, carbohydrates and potassium, so choose a beverage filled with these three.

Worst beverage: Naked Protein Juice Smoothie (15.2oz)

• 418 calories / 4g fat / 53g sugar

Drink This Instead: Horizon Organic Chocolate Reduced Fat Milk (8oz)

• 180 calories / 5g fat / 27g sugar

Alcoholic beverages
There are known benefits to drinking alcohol in moderation (one or two drinks per day) such as raised HDL (good) cholesterol, boost in bloodflow, and improved sugar metabolism. A recent study in the journal BMC Public Health reported that people who have a daily drink were 54 percent less likely to be obese. However, it’s called a beer belly for good reason, since many alcoholic beverages are loaded with calories.

Worst beverage: Red Lobster Traditional Lobsterita

• 890 calories / 183g carbohydrates

Drink This Instead: Red Lobster Classic Martini with Gin

• 140 calories / 0g carbohydrates

Recent studies are reporting that most of us drink 21 percent of our daily calories. That adds up to an average of 460 calories each day. It’s easy to see how these calories quickly add up into unwanted pounds.

Pay extra attention to what you drink throughout each day. Make it a habit to pass on the calorie-packed drinks and to focus on drinking lots of water.

Remember that small changes to your lifestyle over time will make the difference.

I’m always available to help – call or reply to this email to set up your free consultation.

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Haddonfield Personal Trainer Solves Healthy Weeknight Cooking

Personal Chef Christina Dimacali Revealed Her Healthy Cooking Secrets

 

Healthy, delicious food doesn’t have to take forever to prepare and you don’t have to be a chef to prepare it.  Try these scrumptous recipes for busy weeknight cooking (my personal favorites are the Veggie Fried Rice – who knew vegetarian could taste so good – I like it with chicken too)..  Christina provides invaluable cooking hints and tips to make cook time even faster in the video.  Enjoy!!  Who thought cooking healthy could be so easy?

Let’s face it, you simply can’t lose weight eating out all the time (it’s just not possible).  You have to learn how to be proficient in the kitchen.  You don’t have to become a chef you just need to know the basics.  Chef  Christina takes out all the guesswork she provides private and group cooking lessons and if you’re just too busy to cook she’ll even custom create a menu just for you and prepare the meals for you at your home.  Check out all the details on her website at www.cyplate.com .

Check out all the recipes and directions by clicking here

Simple Braised Bok Choy

Marinated Balsamic Strawberries

Healthy Take Out – Veggie Fried Rice

Haddonfield Personal Trainer Success Story 20

In a little over 3 months, Dan Frischberg has lost 43 lbs, over 8% bodyfat, and 33 inches (10 inches off his waist).  Dan has been kicking some serious butt!!  To be perfectly honest I wasn’t so sure he’d be so successful when he started.  He had 0 motivation and no real confidence that he’d succeed.  Finances were a little tight so we had to figure out a payment plan.

      Dan has really flat feet and his hip was a real mess so we had to take care of few muscular imbalances first.  Now Dan is a complete cardio madman.  He workouts with us 3 times per week and now comes in on his off days to come and do the elliptical stepper another 2-3 days per week.  He’d struggled to do 3-4 minutes on the elliptical when he started, now he’s cranking out 20 minutes.  He stopped skipping meals and always eats breakfast.  “I’m actually losing weight and eating more.  Best of all I’m not even hungry,” Dan says. 

Listen to Dan’s secrets to success in his own words.  Watch out Dan Dychtwald, Fit-4-Life’s current biggest loser 115 lbs – Dan F is going to give you a run for your money!!

 You could be our next success story.  Call today 856-751-0033 or click on the link below to schedule your FREE Fitness Consultation

Haddonfield Personal Training Studio Located in Cherry Hill, NJ.  Just minutes from Haddonfield.

10 Ways To Cure Late Night Eating, Haddonfield Personal Trainer Reveals

Late night eating is the kiss of death to any weight loss program.  Many people maintain good diets during the day only to blow it late at night out of boredom or insatiable cravings. Below are 10 tips to curb late night eating.  Click here for the quickest way to stop late night eating.

1. Skipping meals and snacks is one of the single biggest reasons for late night binging.  Be sure to eat 3 good meals during the day with 2 between meal snacks. Most people try to eat too few calories during the day only to binge late at night. If you skip your late afternoon snack 2PM – 4PM you’ll get home totally starved, then you’ll binge for dinner.  A few hours later when your sugar levels crash at around 8PM-9PM you’ll get crazy sugar cravings which is only going to lead to binging on evil processed carbs and sugar.  Don’t skip your snacks especially your late afternoon snack (Aim for a 150-250 calorie snack with 10+grams of protein eg. apple and 20 raw almonds or 1 cup of greek yogurt and blueberries!!) Click here for must have pantry list.
2. When you feel the urge to eat late at night, try drinking 2 or more cups of water. You can also make a cup of herbal tea sweetened with honey or agave nectar (natural sweetener – low on the glycemic index). Hot liquids have a soothing effect on emotions and appetite.
    
3. Remind yourself that it’s normal to feel hungry late at night due to habitually eating late. Breaking this habit is like learning to quit smoking.   Remind yourself of your goal to lose 20 or 30 pounds and the key to losing this weight is to STOP late night eating.  Write your fitness goals for the month on an index card and attach it to your refrigerator.  It’s a constant reminder that you are sabotaging yourself - believe me it works!!
    
4. Much of late night eating after dinner can be avoided by hiding the junk food. Put foods that you’re prone to eat late at night out of sight. Better yet, don’t buy junk food at all, though this may not be possible if you have kids.  If you need a snack, don’t eat out of the bag or container.  You are 80% more likely to overeat if you eat out of the food container.  Put a single serving in a bowl or small plate (small plates make your portions look bigger – believe me these mind games work) then put the rest of it away out of sight (Make it annoying to get another serving – store it in a high cupboard or behind healthier options in the pantry). 
    
5. Suck on hard candy – I recommend Ricola sugar free the menthol makes everything you eat afterwards taste really funky. Most hard candy have only a few calories and they give you the satisfaction of snacking.  You can also chew on gum which will satisfy your oral craving for a few hours- try sugar free gum.
    
6. Keep a written copy of your diet plan and food journal in view, which will keep your goal of losing weight firmly fixed in your mind. The temptation to snack late at night will not be as great if you don’t give into the urge for several weeks.  Keep your food journal on the kitchen table or close to your pantry.
    
7. Some people have great success by simply brushing their teeth late at night when you know your snacking is going to go to the bad place. This method has been known to curb late night eating for many people.
    
8. The most vulnerable time for eating late is 1 hour after dinner right up to bedtime. Keep your life interesting by working on a favorite hobby and NOT watching TV. The ads on TV can subconsciously trigger the impulse to eat. Boredom is your biggest danger to late night eating.  Read a book or read all of my emails – I’m sure you have enough of them to create a novel.  Here are some great books to really curb your late night eating “Eat This Not That” series, ”Omnivore’s Dilema”, ”Eat Smart, Play Hard”, or watch “Fast Food Nation” or “Food Inc” – you won’t want to eat for awhile after these.
    
9. Psyche yourself for the battle. You know that you will feel tempted to snack late at night. It’s an artificial feeling that will go away when you go to bed. The next morning, you probably won’t be hungry …. eat breakfast anyway within the first hour of waking up…. it’s the most important meal of the day.
10. Have dessert.  Late night carbs do have a sedative effect – so give in and treat yourself.  Here are some great ideas that are extremely tasty and low in calorie.  I totally love the Skinny Cow Ice Cream Desserts -they’re only 140 calories.  JUST EAT ONE!!  I prefer to make a protein smoothie.  Make it taste like a chocolate milkshake.  I love Chocolate Shaklee Cinch Meal Replacement Powder 1 scoop with 1 cup of skim milk (soy milk),  1/4 cup of plain greek yogurt (adds a great amount of extra protein and it really gives it a great milkshake consistency), and to make it extra frothy add 4-5 ice cubes.  I also add a tablespoon of all natural peanut butter (Crazy Richards is my favorite) for an extra treat to make it taste like a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup.  It packs about 30 grams of protein and it really does taste like a milkshake.  The fiber and protein will really fill you up.

Changing your eating habits is extremely difficult.  The best cure for late night eating is stabilizing your blood sugar levels.  Stable blood sugar levels curb hunger and cravings.  Click here to find out how you can stabilize your blood sugar levels and get rid of your late night cravings in just 7 days.  Click here

Haddonfield Personal Trainer Tuna & Salad Pocket Recipe

Stop drowning your tuna in mayo, instead try this light recipe. Fresh carrot, tomato and lettuce combined with a touch of red wine vinegar, give this tuna pocket a burst of refreshing flavor. Use an herb salad mix for an even better flavor.
 

Yield: 2 servings

Here’s what you need…

• 1 medium tomato, diced
• 1 small carrot, peeled and shredded
• 5oz can white albacore tuna, in water
• 1 cup mixed lettuce
• 2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
• Dash of pepper
• 2 whole wheat tortillas

1. In a medium bowl mix together the tomato, carrot and tuna. Add the lettuce and drizzle with vinegar. Mix well and add dash of pepper.
2. Serve half of the tuna mixture in each tortilla.

Nutritional Analysis: One serving equals: 188 calories, 3g fat, 16g carbohydrate, 9 g fiber, and 23g protein.

 

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