Fitzone Prince Edward Island

Midlife emotions and weight gain Are you a woman in your 40s or 50s?  The physical and psychological changes that occur during these midlife years can cause emotional stress, which may lead to unwanted weight gain.  What’s going on, and how can you navigate more easily through your middle years? Get insights below from Cathy Cohen, MA, a nutrition counselor at a hospital-affiliated wellness center and a certified personal trainer and fitness instructor at a rehabilitation hospital adult fitness facility, [...]

What better benefits a busy life than the word “twenty-four?” It’s not just the word itself, but the probabilities it introduces: privacy and limitless convenience. 24 hour gyms are good for the business man who can’t find the time between business meetings or after lunch to work on their physique. 24 hour gyms focus on convenience more than anything else, and this fact is true both for the business owner and the patron. For the average Joe looking for privacy, you will [...]

Iron Haven Gym has teamed up with the CBC to bring you LIVE RIGHT NOW – your chance to make 2011 your slimmest ever year! Join the Iron Haven Gym group by clicking here and make your pledge – 5lbs is all it will take to kick start your healthy lifestyle.  Who knows, maybe you want to pledge to lose 10lbs, 20lbs or even 30lbs.  We will be with you the whole way.  Our group offers support and encouragement to [...]

A popular myth is that there is a specific range of heart rates in which you must exercise to burn fat. Even many cardio machines display a “fat-burning zone” on their panels, encouraging people to exercise in a specific heart rate range. Have you ever wondered if you really have to exercise in a specific heart rate zone to lose fat? And what happens if you venture out of that zone? Jason R. Karp, PhD, a nationally recognized speaker, writer [...]

Excited about going on vacation? Many people will be traveling to visit loved ones this holiday season and while traveling is fun, simply getting to a vacation destination—whether by plane, train, bus or car—often involves extended periods of immobility. Hours of inactivity associated with air travel—first in the airport waiting lounge and then on the plane—may leave you achy and sore before your vacation has even begun! To help combat potential problems associated with traveling, try these suggestions below from [...]

The holiday season, now upon us, is a time of celebration and abundance. Teeming with tasty temptations (not to mention tons of stress!), the holidays can present challenges to clients trying to maintain healthy habits. Each festivity or social function can create anxiety for the calorie-conscious struggling to maintain weight as co-workers serve sugary treats at the office and hectic schedules make it difficult for clients to uphold physical activity routines. While it’s estimated that the average American puts on [...]

Does drinking alcohol help your health or is it better to just say no? For some people the benefits outweigh the risks; for others the risks are far greater than the potential benefits. So, who exactly is a candidate for safe, moderate drinking, and who is not? To find out, read information below from Victoria Shanta Retelny, RD, LD, president of LivingWell Communications, a Chicago-based nutrition consulting practice, which focuses on the importance of proper diet to overall health and [...]

Have you experienced back pain at one time or another? Have you been told to strengthen your abdominal muscles to fix a back problem? While traditional crunches strengthen the outer layers of the abdominal musculature, they bypass the deep support structures of your back. This can place the lumbar spine in too much flexion and may even worsen your back pain, depending on what your original physical problem was. By training the deep stabilizers of the lumbar spine, pain can [...]

One of the best ways to improve your body composition, by increasing lean muscle mass and decreasing body fat, is to engage in heavy weight lifting. It’s well-known that people who challenge their bodies with heavy resistance exercises have more muscle than those who only use light weights and easy exercises. And, depending on the diet and other daily activities, these people often have less body fat. Challenging resistance exercises, like front squats, deadlifts, and Olympic lifts, can improve your [...]

Some studies show that regular intake of dark cocoa containing foods is actually linked to lower cardiovascular mortality in observational studies.  Short term studies of as little as 2 weeks seem to show that high doses of dark cocoa can improve and reduce blood pressure due to the action of the polyphenols in dark chocolate. What a recent study wanted to look at was can we get these beneficial positive effects with a low dose of polyphenol rich dark chocolate. [...]