Category Archives: Weight Training

Taking the Guess Work out of Choosing the Right Trainer

It’s time for new year resolutions and time start or re-start your fitness routine.  Some of you may be hiring trainers, some of you will be taking group classes at a gym or studio near you, and some of you may be doing both.  There’s more to finding the right fit than simply hiring any [...]
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A Weighty Issue

Here’s the same blog on Huffington Post.  Feel free to post comments there and pass the article on to your friends who work out!
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A Weighty Issue: to lift light weight with high reps or heavy weight with low reps?

It’s probably the weightiest question in the gym world.  What’s better for you?  Lifting light weight and doing high reps or lifting heavy weight and doing low reps?  Body builders and power lifters aside, there seems to be an all too common dividing line between men and women when it comes to weight training.  Women [...]
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Special Event Coming Up? Fast and cost effective ways to firm up!

My new friend and editor of L.A. Parent magazine, Christina Elston has come to me for a bit of fitness a fitness advice for a reader.  How can you get in bikini-ready shape for a special event (i.e. a second honeymoon) without going to a gym or buying costly exercise equipment?  The answers are many… [...]
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Are Informerical workout DVD’s worth the Benjamin’s?

I am featured in this KABC-7 news segment discussing some of the best home workout DVD’s on the market.  They’re not very cheap, but if you can’t get to the gym, they’re a great alternative.  Here’s the break down:http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=7601882&pid=7601879
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Mommies, do you need to flatten your tummy after a C-section?

The editor of L.A. Parent magazine sent me a question from a reader who wanted to know why she couldn’t get rid of that little bulge below the belly button a couple of years after a C-Section.Check out my response and what you can do to pull in that little annoying pooch.
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Got Cellulite? What you should do and what you could do for treating cellulite.

Summer is around the corner.  You’re trying on swimsuits and wondering, does anything really work for treating cellulite?  Here’s my latest blog on the Huffington Post with what may be worth investigating if you really can’t stand the sight of cellulite. See you at the beach!
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Are You a Fitness Junkie?

Four workouts you have to try to see if you fit the bill! Read my latest blog on the Huffington Post.
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10 Kick in the Pants Resolution Tips for 2010

See my latest post on the Huffington Post. How to stick to your resolutions this year … and always! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
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