| A personal fitness and nutrition trainer can help | | | | and vegetables. Other diseases eventually take |
| you change your unhealthy lifestyle. | | | | root. For example, lack of exercise increases the |
| A personal fitness and nutrition trainer can help | | | | chances of developing osteoporosis. |
| you enter a race where there's no engraved cup | | | | Finding Your Stride |
| or money award at the finish line. Unlike the | | | | A personal fitness and nutrition trainer can assist |
| Thoroughbreds racing at the local park, you will be | | | | you in a number of ways beginning with an |
| running for your very life instead. Fitness and | | | | assessment of your current fitness level. A |
| nutrition are the keys to a quality long life. | | | | personal trainer will work with to establish mutual |
| Racing for Fitness | | | | goals including measures of progress such as |
| Almost 60% of people in the United States are | | | | weight loss or inches loss. |
| overweight or obese. The consequences of | | | | Personal fitness and nutrition includes the following: |
| having too much fat on your body can be severe. | | | | Evaluating current dietary habits and making |
| Obesity is a major cause of many serious | | | | necessary changes |
| illnesses including Type 2 diabetes, coronary heart | | | | Calculating the body mass index (BMI) |
| disease, high blood pressure and even certain | | | | Establishing an exercise routine that fits your |
| forms of cancer. | | | | lifestyle |
| It's hard to maintain a fitness routine on your | | | | Develop a strength training program |
| own. On top of that you are bombarded with | | | | Tracking progress and making necessary |
| advertisements selling unhealthy food and gadgets | | | | adjustments as you progress |
| and inventions that actually result in less physical | | | | Using a personal fitness and nutrition trainer can |
| activity. The perfect examples are kids playing | | | | help you stay motivated as you begin the race |
| electronic games for hours instead of baseball or | | | | for your life. The quality of your life in your senior |
| soccer. There are bigger and better computers | | | | years is directly related to the level of fitness you |
| and TVs promoting lifestyles with little exercise | | | | maintain in your younger years. It becomes |
| time included. | | | | clearer with each medical study that problems |
| Sedentary lifestyles are not good for the body, | | | | associated with aging are as much a consequence |
| and neither is junk food. But everyone lives | | | | of poor nutrition as they are of the aging process |
| extremely busy lives and fitness and nutrition | | | | itself. |
| often take a low priority. A personal fitness and | | | | Utilizing the services of a personal fitness and |
| nutrition trainer can help you rearrange your | | | | nutrition trainer only makes sense if you're ready |
| priorities so you place your health top of the list. | | | | to get serious about your health. Racing for the |
| When you are young, it's easy to believe good | | | | grand prize of good health means finding your |
| health is forever. But as you age, the truth is | | | | "fitness stride". |
| slowly revealed. Metabolisms slow naturally. Fat | | | | You don't have to work out 8 hours a day to |
| accumulates after years of eating meals with little | | | | stay fit and healthy. You do have to exercise |
| nutritional value. | | | | regularly and watch what you eat. A personal |
| Free radicals form unimpeded because the diet | | | | fitness and nutrition trainer can be the key to |
| has consistently lack antioxidants found in fruits | | | | your success. |