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New this year! Challenge yourself and your friends by trying one of these workouts! Keep track of your fitness and nutrition progress with our new log sheets.
Pound Plunge Weekly Workout Log
Daily Workout and Exercise Log
Food and Nutrition Diary
Advanced 7-days Challenge
Intermediate 7-days Challenge
Beginner 7-days Challenge
Exercising in the Cold
The biggest concern for exercising in the cold is hypothermia, or too much heat loss. When you exercise in a cold environment you must consider one primary factor: How much heat will your body lose during exercise?
Heat loss is controlled in two ways:
- Insulation, consisting of body fat plus clothing
- Environmental factors, including temperature, wind and whether you’re exercising in the air or in the water. Each of these factors plays a role in the body’s ability to maintain a comfortable temperature during exercise.
Reducing Workplace Stress
Do you have a demanding boss or difficult co-workers? Stacks of work to get done and not enough time? Everyone encounters job stress sooner or later — but that doesn’t make it easier. There are many aspects of your work environment that you have no control over — but you can take action to manage stress so that work doesn’t take a toll on your well-being.
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Exercise and Type 2 Diabetes
The incidence of type 2 diabetes is on the rise, which experts largely attribute to the rise in obesity. Type 2 diabetes, which is responsible for 90 to 95% of all diabetes cases, is more common in adults, but as rates of childhood obesity increase, more young children are being diagnosed with the disease. The good news is that simple lifestyle changes can prevent and, in some cases, counter the course of this disease.
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Exercise Can Help Control Stress
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