Tag Archives: research
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What’s Organic About Organic?
Posted on June 6, 2012 by FitYoginiRunner in Eating healthyShare If you are at all interested in eating well, I’m sure you’ve asked yourself at some point if you should buy organic. If you’re like me, you’ve read conflicting statements about whether or not organic produce is more nutrient-dense than conventional, whether or not the pesticide residues are harmful, in fact, whether or not [...]
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How changing habits really works
Posted on February 28, 2012 by FitYoginiRunner in Making it happenShare I was reading a New York Times article called How Companies Learn Your Secrets, when I realized that the very interesting information about habits and changing them in it applies 100% to health. Since changing habits is key to changing your lifestyle, this is very useful information in a health context as well! Here’s the [...]
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Golden Gate Canyon Half Marathon 2011
Posted on September 26, 2011 by FitYoginiRunner in My fitness journeyShare Yesterday, I ran and finished the Golden Gate Canyon Half Marathon. It was a tough race, much tougher than I had realized. Looking back, all the information was there on the website. I just didn’t take the time to compare all the relevant numbers to what I usually run to be clear on what [...]
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How to become a person that exercises
Posted on August 21, 2011 by FitYoginiRunner in Coaching, Making it happen, My fitness journeyShare 50% of people who start an exercise program quit within the first six months. That’s not exactly reassuring if you’re thinking about starting one. The good news about statistical numbers like these (well, the best news you can wrangle out of them anyway) is that even if the odds aren’t in your favor, there [...]
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P90X2 is coming! And P90X2 is serious!
Posted on August 1, 2011 by FitYoginiRunner in Coaching, My fitness journeyShare As you may have heard, the second P90X program, called Power 90 Extreme 2, or P90X2 for short is coming this fall. (If you see the name P90X: Muscle Confusion (or MC) 2, that was the working title earlier.) Update (Dec 11, 2011): P90X2 is available on Team Beachbody! Steve Edwards has been sharing [...]
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Research studies are not done in order to give you personal advice
Posted on June 15, 2011 by FitYoginiRunner in Coaching, Eating healthyShare My client Julie told me recently that a friend of hers had said that soy was bad for women and asked me what I thought. I ended up sending her a long email that was really more about what to do with media reports on nutrition than soy in particular, and I wanted to [...]
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More on the difference between trail running and road running
Posted on April 19, 2011 by FitYoginiRunner in My fitness journey, PerformanceShare Interestingly, yesterday a trail-running special edition of Runner’s World was waiting for me in the mailbox. Among other things, it contained a one-month training plan for racing a 10k on trails. Lo and behold, the structure is very similar to how I structure my training weeks. In the trail training program, Mondays are easy [...]
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Why fat loss through diet and exercise, rather than magic, is so important
Posted on February 4, 2011 by FitYoginiRunner in Coaching, Eating healthy, Online resourcesShare Attrice at Exceptionally Fat provided a link to an article on Obesity Panacea (then part of ScienceBlogs) in May of last year. (Yeah, I’m slow on the uptake.) I’ve seen her blog before and I really liked it then too, but my digital resource organization wasn’t very good then and I frankly forgot about [...]
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Getting support if you need it
Posted on September 8, 2010 by FitYoginiRunner in Eating healthy, Online resources, Research paper reviewsShare You will probably get compliments and encouragement when you start losing weight. But don’t be surprised if friends and acquaintances don’t stand by you all the way. Other people’s perception of your weight can depend on their own weight. Margareta discovered this on her way down through the sizes. “When I was getting close [...]
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The brain wins when you’re in better shape
Posted on September 8, 2010 by FitYoginiRunner in Coaching, Eating healthy, Online resources, Research paper reviewsShare Ingvar and Eldh give some very interesting facts about how exercise enhances your brain! But they start, not surprisingly, by linking your urge to exercise (or lack thereof) to the brain’s reward system: You know everything would be better if you exercised. So why do you sit still so many hours of the day, [...]
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