Health & Fitness

Short-term sacrifice

Posted: April 12th, 2013 | Communities, Featured, Health & Fitness, Hillcrest, Lifestyle |

By Brian White | Fitness The number-one reason you don’t look or feel your best may be what’s happening in the short term.

Kaizen: a new way to look at health

Posted: March 15th, 2013 | Communities, Featured, Health & Fitness, Hillcrest, Lifestyle |

Brian White | Fitness Kaizen is basically defined as “continuous improvement.” It is a Japanese business philosophy and a key to steady innovation found at successful companies like Toyota. The philosophy of kaizen is about continual improvement each day,

15 things I learned in 15 years of being a personal trainer

Posted: February 15th, 2013 | Communities, Featured, Health & Fitness, Hillcrest, Lifestyle | 1 Comment

Brian White | Fitness Helping people lose weight, get healthier and live a more vibrant life is something I am very passionate about. This list comprises of some the best advice I can give to anyone who is trying to achieve those goals.

Tips from an Olympian: visualize your success

Posted: January 19th, 2013 | Featured, Health & Fitness, Lifestyle |

Visualization is one of the most powerful tools you can use to help keep you focused on attaining your individual goals, no matter how big or small that they are.

Habit hacks: A personal trainer’s guide to conquering your New Year’s resolution

Posted: January 4th, 2013 | Communities, Featured, Health & Fitness, Hillcrest, Lifestyle | 1 Comment

Brian White | Fitness When you make a New Year’s resolution, what you are really saying is that you want to make a change in your lifestyle. At one point or another, each one of us has attempted to make a change. I would venture to guess that you realize making a worthwhile change is difficult.

6 tips to guarantee you don’t gain a pound this holiday (and 1 to guarantee you do!)

Posted: December 21st, 2012 | Featured, Health & Fitness, Hillcrest, Lifestyle |

Brian White | Fitness A quick online search on holiday weight gain will bring up about 700,000 search results that all say the same thing: If you aren’t careful you will gain 8 – 15 pounds during the holidays.

7 exercise mistakes you don’t know you’re making

Posted: November 23rd, 2012 | Communities, Featured, Health & Fitness, Hillcrest, Lifestyle |

Brian White | Fitness Most of us are exercising to make a change in our body. Whether that is to lose fat, build muscle, get healthy or all of the above, there are seven mistakes that may be holding you back from getting the results you want. 1. You equate time with work. Yes, showing up is half the battle, but flipping through People Magazine and chatting with friends is not going to change your ... Read More

Exercise is overrated

Posted: October 26th, 2012 | Featured, Health & Fitness, Hillcrest, Lifestyle |

Brian White | Fitness
Exercise by itself is not going to be an effective weight-loss strategy for an individual. You really need to combine exercise with better nutrition. In fact, a healthy diet will actually do more to promote weight loss than exercise.

Your computer is trying to kill you

Posted: September 28th, 2012 | Featured, Health & Fitness, Lifestyle |

Brian White | Fitness You are probably going to live towards 100 years old. Our living conditions are better, our food is better – if we make the right choices – and most diseases that used to kill us with regularity, like cardiovascular disease and heart attacks, are now just speed bumps in our long road to 100. The scary part isn’t necessarily the ever-increasing longevity of our lives, but rather it is how we ... Read More

Seven habits skinny people live by

Posted: August 31st, 2012 | Featured, Health & Fitness, Lifestyle |

Brian White | Fitness They at a some-what boring diet. The novelty of new foods all the time will make the average person want to eat more. If you eat things you are familiar with, you will feel fuller faster. I’m not suggesting eating the same exact thing all the time, but if you have a problem meal, try finding a healthy meal and stick to that for a while to help you curb cravings ... Read More