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Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals

When it comes to weight loss goals, you shouldn’t emulate celebrities. Recently on the fan page for Core Fitness and Nutrition on Facebook, I posted a comment that stated, “I cannot ‘out train’ bad nutrition. If your diet is horrible, we can work out all the time and you still won’t see results.”  The reason…

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How to Lose Weight: Balancing Diet & Exercise

Learning how to lose weight and where to begin can be difficult. Do you focus on your diet, or start exercising? The truth is to how to lose weight is a balanced approach to weight loss is the best program. Modifying your diet while also making sure you’re engaging in a well-rounded exercise program, which…

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Exercise Equipment: When Treadmills Act Like Clothes Hangers

Don't let your treadmill or any other type of exercise equipment become your clothes hanger!

Have you ever gone to the store and bought a piece of home exercise equipment? When’s the last time you’ve seen a TV commercial that shows the latest and greatest contraption to get “a flat stomach, toned body and muscular arms?” Did you feel the urge to join the other millions of satisfied customers who…

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Start an Exercise Routine that’s Sustainable

Learning how to start an exercise routine is more doable with these 4 helpful tips!

Learning how to start an exercise routine that’s sustainable involves following through with several steps in order to reach your desired fitness goal. Many people’s fitness goals fail due to not following through with them. They either fail to even start a fitness program, or they start a routine and become discouraged or distracted. The…

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Valerie’s Weight Loss Success!

When it comes to weight loss success, it’s all about determination and persistence. Last week, I sent my weekly newsletter to my email subscribers. In the email, I included a new photo of my recent success story. The response was phenomenal. I got multiple emails and texts asking who that person was. They were so…

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How Your Kitchen Sabotages Your Fitness and Weight Loss Goals

What you have in your kitchen may sabotage your fitness and weight loss goals. Here are some tips to avoid this.

As a personal fitness trainer in Fort Collins, I see plenty of well-intentioned folks take the right steps toward achieving their fitness and weight loss goals. Some start biking to work, join a gym or find a new more physically challenging hobby. Others avoid fried foods, lay off the sugar, or even make big life…

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Working with a Workout Partner

Find a workout partner to keep things interesting in your routine!

As I work with my personal fitness training clients in Fort Collins, I hear things-a lot of things, actually about my clients and their lives. I hear about their kids, their neighbors’ barking dogs, and their work. I also hear them ask about workout partners while they are training with me. They ask, “Do you…

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