Your momma was right! Breakfast is the MOST important meal of the day . Eating after 6 or more hours of fasting (which is what is happening when you sleep) is absolutely key to maintaining a healthy body weight. Making breakfast a daily ritual will help...

It's a gorgeous day here in Guleph! And one of the best things about this weather is that it inspires us to get outside and to get moving. Even if you were sluggish, and a bit more lethargic than you should have been over the winter months, this weather...

We all know that the key to losing and maintaining a healthy body weight is your metabolism. The speed of your metabolism will determine how fast your body is able to burn calories. So obviously a faster metabolism has its benefits. The body is like a...

Good Monday morning Fitness Gear 101 readers. I hope you all enjoyed a wonderful weekend, I know I did. Even though it was a gloomy one I still got in a day of shopping in with my favorite girls Michelle and Marlo, which meant a few hours of walking,...

And it's already Friday again folks! It's been a fun and rather quick week. For me, it's been a week of learning, making some amends and a healthy re-evaluation of my lifestyle...am I really doing my best? On that note, I wanted to see the readers of...

Every once in a while we all need a bit of a self-evaluation - even good ol' Anna! As soon as summer hits I make it a point to get outside more, eat more fresh produce and clean up any sluggish winter habits. Over the weekend a friend and I had a discussion...

Welcome back from the long weekend Fitness folks! It goes to figure that it was so cold on the weekend and today is so gone dang beautiful! If you’re going to hit a patio tonight for a well-deserved shot of vitamin D, then please go protected. Everyone...

Good golly it’s Friday – and a long weekend to boot! So I wanted to end this glorious week on a positive note. I have a friend named Jim that I’ve known since I was 6-years-old. Now just to give you an image of our history…this is the boy, who when I...

Your doctor has given you a stern warning – cut down the sodium in your diet! So you start adding just a pinch of salt to your vegetables at dinner time. You think you’ve cut the sodium in your diet in ½ right? Wrong! Unbeknownst to you, the processed...

This should be a no-brainer By Fitness Mike A study reveals that exercise can make people smarter . New nerve cells developed in the brains of subjects after a 3 month aerobic workout plan. Growing new nerve cells in the brain was thought to be impossible...

Good Tuesday morning FitnessGear101 friends! I'm back today - after a day's absence spent fighting the evil flu bug. You'll be happy to know that this morning I'm 40% snotty mess and 60% fitness diva! Must get blog up...sniffle...ok back to business......

Ok fitness folks…as promised here are my Top 5 faves from the Problogger contest! For those of you who are just hearing about this for the first time, these posts came from a writing project sponsored by Darren Rowse at Problogger . Participants were...

My friend and co-worker Mark runs a fantastic finance site called Rock Your Stock . This site is great because it offers readers a daily dose of investment news, tips and, the best, a Rock Your Stock 'Pick of the Day'! The other day he asked if I had...

Happy Thursday fitness freaks! I have some great health and fitness-related posts from the Problogger writing project to share with you today. I will be sharing Problogger submissions with you until tomorrow (Friday), when I will choose my own Top 5 faves....

In yesterday's post I mentioned that I submitted it to the Problogger Top 5 project. In it I promised that I would be keeping my eye out for great posts submitted by the other bloggers. So today I'd like to share a link with you to a great post called...

The similarities between a sweaty workout and a sweaty romp in the bedroom are undeniable! Come on, the heavy breathing, pounding heart rate and the magnificent afterglow. You can’t deny that exercise and sex cause our bodies to respond in very similar...

By Fitness Mike I came across this video a few weeks back and thought it to be somewhat funny, a shrimp running on a treadmill. It combines the cardio of a treadmill workout with the benefit of a water workout, but for shrimps. It seems to have resurfaced...

Your mom has always told you that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Well she was right! Now you don’t have to go fess up if you don’t want to…we can keep it between us – promise. However n utritional expert, Kelli Calabrese , agrees with...

Ah May! It's that wonderful time of year when the weather starts to warm up and the patios open. It's also the month when we're suddenly blinded by the snow white legs of our co-workers in shorts, and the month when we start to notice that everyone in...

WebMD.com recently shared their Top 15 Diet Tips with readers. What I love about these tips is that they are realistic, which means they encourage healthy eating habits (not deprivation) – healthy habits that will encourage gradual, safe weight loss that...

Because my friends and coworkers know that I'm constantly on the lookout for new and unique workout ideas, my good friend Heather, who runs a great site called WorkSafely.com , sent me this photo of a fitness buff using a Nordic Walker in downtown Vienna....

By Fitness Mike Ever since the Nintendo Wii was released, it has been talked about as being the newest way to exercise while still playing video games. Being able to get off the couch and go through the motions like the swinging (Wii Tennis) or punching...

You all know that I’m all over anything that encourages the empowerment of women…Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, that’s right ladies. Loud and proud! Well Chicago will open the very first Flirty Girl Fitness this May 2007 ! Even though I’m not too crazy about...

When you workout – and especially when you weight lift – you're using up your glycogen storage to fuel your workout. It’s vital that glycogen is replenished directly following your workout. This is for muscle recovery and repair, and in order for your...

By Fitness Mike I came across a common sports injury, plantar fasciitis, and couldn’t help but laugh. It sounds like something you would hear about in a show like Star Trek. So I decided to compile a list of sports injuries and planets from all of the...