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22 Nov 06:04

The cold and flu season is moving right along. Here are some tips to boost your immunity. You can put your body into defense mode with a number of strategies based on recent research.

Strengthen Your Diet
We have heard that we should eat more veggies, fruits, whole grains, omega-3 foods, etc. to improve our overall health. Did you know that these foods also help boost your immunity? When your body is healthier, your illness fighting cells are also stronger.

In addition to your fruits and veggies, try to by meats that are organic or at least antibiotic-free. Many experts feel that all of these drugs being poured into the food supply could be a reason for more resistant bacteria popping up.

Make Time for Intimacy
Apparently, people who have intercourse once or twice a week create the important T cells for fighting off infection as well. It is about moderation though because if you go over this threshold, you could actually lose the benefits. So, its a good excuse for some loving, but also a good excuse to have a headache if your partner wants it too often.

Make Exercise a Top Priority
People who exercise 5 times a week (for about 45 minutes per session) get one third as many colds as their sedentary counterparts. Power walking, or a good house cleaning session count as well.

Focus on Rest and Relaxation
Make sure you take time to relax. Try meditation, yoga or Tai Chi. Stress depletes the body of cold and flu fighters in the body.

Getting enough sleep is also very important. Research shows that the most important REM sleep occurs between 7-9 hours so try your best to get that many hours per night.

Dont forget the basics like hand washing, covering a cough, etc., but these extra tips are great to keep in mind. Have a save, happy and healthy week ahead.

- Coach Jenn
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22 Nov 06:04



"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten"

How long have you been doing the same workout routine?

Feeling stuck with your results? It may be due to the fact that your body has hit a plateau.

If you do not change up your workouts often enough, your body get used to it which leads to zero progress on your fat loss goals - not to mention the same routine can quickly become quite boring or even lead to burn out.

Fabulous Fat Loss Results are achieved by adding variety to your fat loss workout plan by adjusting one or more workout program variables, such as....


- Exercises
- Repetitions
- Intensity
- Rest Periods

It's Going To Happen: Your body will eventually adapt to your fat loss workout plan.

The average person adapts to a workout after 4 to 6 exposures. This is due to the fact that your body does not like change so your body fights this by adapting to your workout.

As your body adapts....you get stronger.... your workout no longer feels challenging...your results begin to taper off.

To keep getting results and avoid a plateau you must find a way to force your body to change and apply new demands to your body.

So you look for ways to change up your workout plan - but...



"Why Can't I Just Do The Same Exercises And Just Add More Weight?"

Take this approach and you will eventually hit a plateau for you are only focusing on changing 1 variable - and remember, your body is smart and will figure out a way to adapt.

Plus, each exercise has benefits and drawbacks - in order to balance the positives and negatives ALL variables must be tracked and changed accordingly - not just 1.



"Why Can't I Change EVERY Single Workout - The More Variety, The Better My Results, Right?"

The best exercises are the best exercises. If you can do an exercise that gives you great results for 4 weeks - why only use it for one?

Your body needs repeated exposure to certain movements in order to improve. Therefore changing your workouts up too much removes the opportunity to get stronger in order to make progress.


How Do You Know If You Are Doing It Right?

Change up your workout too much - miss out on results.
Fail to change it up enough - hit a plateau.

Since there are many different approaches to designing an effective fat loss workout plan, there is no one Right answer. That being said, you can still check to see if you are on track or not by answering these 3 questions.

1. Are you cutting and pasting a handful of exercises together?
Maybe what you saw in a magazine, in the gym, online or just a collage of exercises that look good from a few different exercise programs.

2. Are you completing each workout each time striving to change up one or more variables to keep your body challenged?


3. Are the workouts you do trackable?

As you complete your workouts, are you able to make note of the variables changed and the progress you are making? Tracking your progress workout to workout is one of the fastest and easier ways to get results. Not only do you stay focused to get the most out of each and every workout, you have the information you need to make adjustments so you never hit that wall of Zero Results!


<center>Take the guess workout out of your fat loss workout routine and Get Results!

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