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Five Ways to Boost Your Metabolism

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“Metabolism” is the name of the bodily system that converts food calories to energy needed to perform various tasks, like pumping oxygen to muscles during a long walk. Many variables contribute to your metabolism, including heredity, gender and age. But you can quicken yours; here’s how.

Exercise more. When you walk, run, or lift weights, you increase the energy required of your body, which raises your metabolism then, and for hours afterward.

“It’s not a huge spike, but it makes a difference,” says Gary Miller, PhD, associate professor of health and exercise science at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. [Read more…]

10 Best Foods for Your Heart

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Simple food choices go a long way when it comes to your heart’s health. Focusing on fresh foods full of heart-healthy fats and antioxidants can decrease your risk of developing heart disease and cut your chances of a heart attack. These 10 foods will help keep your ticker in top shape.

Oatmeal
Start your day with a steaming bowl of oats, which are full of omega-3 fatty acids, folate, and potassium. This fiber-rich superfood can lower levels of LDL (or bad) cholesterol and help keep arteries clear.

Opt for coarse or steel-cut oats over instant varieties — the coarse and steel-cut contain more fiber — and top your bowl off with a banana for another four grams of fiber.

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What’s your Favorite Post-Workout Meal?

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We all know it’s best to have a healthy snack after working out. Studies have shown that eating a small meal of protein and healthy carbs helps increase the benefits of your workout and speeds up the fat loss process. So what’s your favorite post workout meal? Share your story by clicking the comments section and telling us all about it.

What Is Your Favorite Post-Workout Meal?

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We all know it’s best to have a healthy snack after working out. Studies have shown that eating a small meal of protein and healthy carbs helps increase the benefits of your workout and speeds up the fat loss process.

So what’s your favorite post workout meal?

Leave a comment below and tell us your favorite healthy after-workout snack.

What Is Your Favorite Exercise?

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I was talking with a training client today and we got into an interesting conversation about his favorite exercise.  It was kind of neat learning about his preferences, likes and dislikes.  So I wanted to open this up a bit and ask you… what’s your favorite exercise and why?

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Push-ups For Charity

We are excited to be participating in Push-ups for Charity.  This event will raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project.  It’s quick and easy and there are 2 ways to participate:

  1. Be a participant: Complete as many push-ups as you can in 90 seconds, get sponsored…$0.50 – $1.00 per push-up.   That’s it…doesn’t matter if you do them on your knees or on your toes, doesn’t matter if you do 3, 30 or 300.  Just come out, bring friends and help raise money for our wounded heroes.
  2. Be a sponsor:  Not up to doing push-ups on your own?  You can sponsor someone who is doing push-ups or make a flat donation.

We are putting up a website…www.AnchoragePushupsforCharity.com.  We’ll e-mail you as soon as the site is up.  In the meantime, mark your calendar…our event is Saturday, April 10 at the Dome.