As you know Body Designs West is LA’s Personal Training Studio that offers fitness programs tailored to your goals and abilities. Tracy and I are so committed to help you achieve success, we offer this blog in order to educate, encourage and entertain you on your fitness journey. Today’s installment…Health and Fitness Benefits of Flowers […]
Good Morning and a Belated Welcome to 2018 You Nuts! If you are wondering why I have waited until the last weekend of January to write a fitness article when most other fitness “journalists” would opt to seize the opportunity to motivate current, past and potential new clients on the first day of 2018 in […]
Good Morning You Non-Smokers (and others): Now that we are down to the last six installments of Body Designs, I want to address the same group of readers that got us started on this journey in the first place. Who, you may ask, got this party started? Well, without naming names, and you know who […]
And a Bloody Good Morning to you too! As tomorrow (Memorial Day) marks the official celebration/observance of those who have fallen in service to our country, today’s Installment focuses on how each of us can do our part to help others in times of need. At one time or another in each of our pasts, […]
Good Morning Potential Patients: For years I have been avoiding getting a Seasonal Flu Shot because the one time I did (1999), I came down with the worst case of it in my life. I really thought I was gonna die! This year, the Flu has already claimed the life of three people in California […]
Good Morning Designers and Good-Bye 2012: Well, another year is about to end and I for one can’t believe it has gone by so fast. In some senses 2012 has come and gone faster than others of recent memory. But now, as we all are about to turn yet another year older – thankfully I […]
No matter what the goal or gender of a trainee, resistance training is one of the “must have” components of a fitness routine which provides countless health benefits. Unlike doing aerobics, yoga or Pilates, lifting weights on a re-gu-lar basis causes muscles to hypertrophy, aka grow. And when muscles hypertrophy, the body experiences an increase […]
Now that school is out for the summer, there are many kids that are very, very happy. And while you might be thinking that I am overstating the obvious…I’m not. Because while every kid is glad summer means no more school; others are ecstatic because no more school also means no more bullying – at […]
Many experts in my field credit Jack LaLanne, Joe Weider and “Arnold” as being the forefathers of the Health and Fitness Industry. But over the past 15 years of training clients who live on the Westside of Los Angeles, I’ve come to a different conclusion. Believe it or not, the people originally responsible for developing […]
Good Morning Friends (and Foes), Happy Seis De Mayo! Huh? I know, humor me… Anyway, due to my overwhelming female client base, I believe it behooves me (and them) to provide some information on Exercise and Menopause. ALSO, (yes my dear male trainees) I will be covering ways you can combat your aging process as […]
