Last week it was the debt ceiling, sky falling… Then it was the reaction to it by the Dow, NASDAQ and S&P 500, sky falling… Then it was the S&P lowering our bond rating from AAA to AA, sky falling. Now Moody’s is “downbeat” and has assigned a negative outlook on some of the most affluent towns in Massachusetts, sky falling. Anything else?
Many of us are bombarded by the daily news. Some of it is good and more of it is not so good. The negative information thrown at us by the media sells but it can become a stressor for some.
With all of this information you need to know what it does to your body. Some may get stressed due to news, travel, lack of sleep, work and family issues and that causes an increase in many chemicals (hormones) in the body; the most well known ones are Cortisol, Adrenaline, and Noradrenaline (Norepinephrine). They play a major part in our “fight or flight response” and are released when we get stressed.
Now for the good news; Cortisol increases belly fat in the body and makes it hard to remember things. What a one-two punch! The best example of Cortisol buildup I can think of is – you are in a rush and you cannot find your keys no matter where you look? They could be right in your hand, pocket or in the ignition. That is what Cortisol does and it adds belly fat too, great.
Along with Cortisol, Adrenaline and Noradrenaline (Norepinephrine) are another part of the flight or fight response and are released during stressful events. An example (I am sure you can think of plenty) - you are driving and someone cuts you off; you want to lash out but cannot or a sales clerk will not give you a refund for the moldy strawberries you just bought. Here comes Adrenaline and Noradrenaline! Your blood pressure and heart rate increase quickly! Your muscles tense! You want to yell or lash out but you do neither.
It takes time for the hormones to be re-absorbed into the blood stream and you are left feeling blah. The effects of stress on the body after flight/fight are varied. You can be left feeling irritable, angry and impatient which is your body’s way to tell you it has been through quite an ordeal with out you knowing it.
Thank you for the information Mr. What Stress can do to us. Now, what can I do about it?
If you look on a search engine like Google you would find that there are 33,000,000 different ways to handle stress or you can do one simple thing to lessen the effects of these hormones and what they do to the body. You doctor has been telling you for years what to do. You could move! It really goes a long way to lessen the effects of stress.
Many of our clients want to reduce their midsections so they think they can just do sit ups. To reduce belly fat all of the sit ups in the world will not do it. You need to move and that will help reduce the fat and negate the effects of stress, too. It takes a while to reduce fat but in the long run you have found an easy way to get healthier and live a longer life.
You may be thinking, “What should I do when you say, just move, right”?
Walking is a start if you are able. If not riding one of the 8 gazillion exercise bikes sold in this country every year is another way. If you do not have one, you could buy one in your local Pennysaver. You could walk up and down a flight of stairs a few times per day. Once you start moving a little you could even lift a weight or two to strengthen one of the 650 muscles in your body. Then you could try to stretch out one of them too. Imagine how good it would feel and how you body might repay you? You might even start moving better?
They are just a few thoughts because many go through stressful situations everyday and do not know how to lessen the effects. So, the next time you get moldy strawberries or get cut off on the Sagamore Rotary, think of this information.
If the most experienced group of wellness specialists (personal trainers) in the Boston, Metro West, South Shore and Cape Cod are telling you this; maybe you should listen.
If you want more information, you can log onto our website - www.satinwellness.com or email us at info@satinwellness.com or call us at 978-369-3492 and we can send you some information that just might help us all lessen the effects of stress. It all starts with you.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
So the debt deal has been signed. Now how about taking care of you?
It has taken months of wrangling for the inevitable to happen. We all knew the debt ceiling bill would be signed. It had to be and our country is running at such a deficit that our children will be paying for this if we are not careful.
As a husband, parent and business owner if we all ran our family and businesses the way the country is run our kids would be in jail and we would be bankrupt. Let's look at what we can and should control - ourselves!
While writing this a group of children are running around at camp on Cape Cod (lucky place to work), what happened to that being the norm anyway? Each of us has to get our physical house in order because Medicaid will not be able to afford the rush of health issues the baby boomers will require. It sounds scary and is frightening to think of.
A few minutes a day to move is not asking a lot. The average adult watches 48 hours of TV a week and sits about 23 hours a day. That is not healthy and there is little balance in many of our lives.
Many doctors tell you to walk to get exercise. You need more than just some walking to stay healthy but it does not take hours a day.
If the most experienced group of personal trainers in the Boston, Metro West, South Shore and Cape Cod is telling you this you should listen.
If you want more information, you can log onto our website - www.satinwellness.com or email us info@satinwellness.com and we can send you some information that just might help us all balance the budget. It all starts with one.
As a husband, parent and business owner if we all ran our family and businesses the way the country is run our kids would be in jail and we would be bankrupt. Let's look at what we can and should control - ourselves!
While writing this a group of children are running around at camp on Cape Cod (lucky place to work), what happened to that being the norm anyway? Each of us has to get our physical house in order because Medicaid will not be able to afford the rush of health issues the baby boomers will require. It sounds scary and is frightening to think of.
A few minutes a day to move is not asking a lot. The average adult watches 48 hours of TV a week and sits about 23 hours a day. That is not healthy and there is little balance in many of our lives.
Many doctors tell you to walk to get exercise. You need more than just some walking to stay healthy but it does not take hours a day.
If the most experienced group of personal trainers in the Boston, Metro West, South Shore and Cape Cod is telling you this you should listen.
If you want more information, you can log onto our website - www.satinwellness.com or email us info@satinwellness.com and we can send you some information that just might help us all balance the budget. It all starts with one.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Strength to Live
You can achieve your health and wellness goals in 6 Strength to Live steps!
Step 1: Your Strength to Live Wellness Assessment
Our comprehensive health and wellness screening is complimentary! You’ll define personal goals and uncover potential challenges. We’ll match you with a Wellness Specialist who is just right for you. Take the first step toward optimal health and well being!
Step 2: Your Strength to Live Workout
Our team of experts will develop an individualized strength (abdominals too), flexibility, and cardiovascular program, based on your current level and needs. You’ll move at your own pace, in your own home (or office). As you gain confidence in your abilities, you’ll develop wellness habits to last a lifetime!
Step 3: Your Strength to Live Nutrition
Why does it take so long to lose weight? Why don’t diets work? What is “proper nutrition?” You’ll learn that healthy eating is not as hard as you think. Often small modifications make a big difference. If you need additional support, we’ll refer you to our network of Registered Dietitians.
Step 4: Your Strength to Live Tools
You’ll receive a photo manual, personalized videos, and a daily training log. We’ll track your activity and monitor your results. These innovative tools keep you focused, give you visual support of correct technique, and provide continuous reassurance that you are on the right track!
Step 5: Your Strength to Live Coach
We’ll provide continuous in–home and online Coaching and Wellness support. Your happiness, comfort, and success are essential to us. We are always just a phone call, text or email away!
Step 6: Your Strength to Live Equipment
We’ll provide the exercise equipment for you, eliminating the need to buy expensive machines or travel to a gym. Wellness is a lifestyle and owning affordable, accessible, easy-to-use equipment is convenient and time saving!
Join Strength to Live because You Deserve It!
Step 1: Your Strength to Live Wellness Assessment
Our comprehensive health and wellness screening is complimentary! You’ll define personal goals and uncover potential challenges. We’ll match you with a Wellness Specialist who is just right for you. Take the first step toward optimal health and well being!
Step 2: Your Strength to Live Workout
Our team of experts will develop an individualized strength (abdominals too), flexibility, and cardiovascular program, based on your current level and needs. You’ll move at your own pace, in your own home (or office). As you gain confidence in your abilities, you’ll develop wellness habits to last a lifetime!
Step 3: Your Strength to Live Nutrition
Why does it take so long to lose weight? Why don’t diets work? What is “proper nutrition?” You’ll learn that healthy eating is not as hard as you think. Often small modifications make a big difference. If you need additional support, we’ll refer you to our network of Registered Dietitians.
Step 4: Your Strength to Live Tools
You’ll receive a photo manual, personalized videos, and a daily training log. We’ll track your activity and monitor your results. These innovative tools keep you focused, give you visual support of correct technique, and provide continuous reassurance that you are on the right track!
Step 5: Your Strength to Live Coach
We’ll provide continuous in–home and online Coaching and Wellness support. Your happiness, comfort, and success are essential to us. We are always just a phone call, text or email away!
Step 6: Your Strength to Live Equipment
We’ll provide the exercise equipment for you, eliminating the need to buy expensive machines or travel to a gym. Wellness is a lifestyle and owning affordable, accessible, easy-to-use equipment is convenient and time saving!
Join Strength to Live because You Deserve It!
Monday, May 30, 2011
Cosmetic Training by Steve Satin
As a personal trainer and exercise physiologist I often speak to groups of business leaders and a common question is, “Can I reduce a specific area of my body”? We wish there was a way but unfortunately you cannot spot reduce a specific area of your body.
But there is hope! Our expertise in the fields of exercise physiology and personal training for over 21 years helped us identify a group of proven exercises that spot strengthen specific areas of the body. This means you can finally change those troublesome areas that tend to be gender specific. Women can lift their chest, rear, tighten arms and inner thigh. Men can increase the width and mass of their chest, tighten arms and widen their back. Even if you are over 50!
How is this done? Our program, Cosmetic Training was developed to meet a demand from our aging clients on a quest to combat gravity. Cosmetic Training uses specific exercises that develop those stubborn areas that only seem to get saggier as we age.
Approximate 85% of us exercise very little if at all, only 15% hold memberships at heath clubs and roughly 6-7% actually use the clubs! Since these figures rarely change we decided we needed to help those that want to exercise on their own time, in their own way and, in an environment they can control – their home. 21 years ago we founded Satin Wellness (www.satinwellness.com) to help that underserved market. Our clients range in age from 40 – 80 and do not want to be body-builders, they just want their bodies to match how they feel on the inside while increasing their overall health and well-being.
The questions we are asked most often are:
1. My body has changed and looks differently so can I tighten up those areas again?
2. Can I tighten areas to get rid of some wrinkles and loose skin around my arms, chest and legs?
3. I’m over 40, is it too late to firm up my challenging areas?
The answer to these questions is yes. It can be done and it does work. Listen to some of the many clients that have seen changes from Cosmetic Training:
“I cannot believe as a 60 year old woman I got my chest back to where it used to be! Thank you Cosmetic Training.” Helen S., Newton & Cape Cod
“My arms look better now than they did when I was 22 and I am 63! I had to admit, I was skeptical…” James C., Boston & Naples, FL
“I love being able to wear a sun dress and not worry about the skin under my arm waving anymore! That Cosmetic Training is unbelievable.” MaryAnne M., Natick
“I was not happy with the way my chest and butt sagged. It has taken a lot of work but you really can see a difference...” Deborah D., Carlisle
Simply put, Cosmetic training is a group of exercises that develop the muscles that we all want to tighten as we age. Let’s name them and it should not take too long:
• Women
o Neck
o Front of arm pit - chest
o Back of arm pit - back
o Lift chest
o Back of arms
o Abdominals
o Rear
o Inner thigh
o Outer hip
• Men
o Neck
o Wide chest
o Wide back
o Arms
o Abdominals
The common complaints for most people deal with areas around joints because as we age skin, muscle and fat are pulled down by gravity. We have to realize the changes that occur with aging and how to counteract them.
It does not matter what age, you can still replace muscle mass! The increase in muscle mass fills in the loose skin thus tightening of those specific areas.
If you want to see the specific exercises email us at: info@satinwellness.com and add “Cosmetic Training” in the subject area.
Boston MA USA
8 Fanueil Hall Marketplace
Boston, MA 02109
(Cell) 508-341-6697
(Office) 978-369-3492
(Toll free) 1-877-728-4634
info@SatinWellness.com
http://www.SatinWellness.com
Ask about Strength to Lead
See our latest videos at: Satin Wellness YouTube
Become a fan Face Book
See our latest tweet Twitter
But there is hope! Our expertise in the fields of exercise physiology and personal training for over 21 years helped us identify a group of proven exercises that spot strengthen specific areas of the body. This means you can finally change those troublesome areas that tend to be gender specific. Women can lift their chest, rear, tighten arms and inner thigh. Men can increase the width and mass of their chest, tighten arms and widen their back. Even if you are over 50!
How is this done? Our program, Cosmetic Training was developed to meet a demand from our aging clients on a quest to combat gravity. Cosmetic Training uses specific exercises that develop those stubborn areas that only seem to get saggier as we age.
Approximate 85% of us exercise very little if at all, only 15% hold memberships at heath clubs and roughly 6-7% actually use the clubs! Since these figures rarely change we decided we needed to help those that want to exercise on their own time, in their own way and, in an environment they can control – their home. 21 years ago we founded Satin Wellness (www.satinwellness.com) to help that underserved market. Our clients range in age from 40 – 80 and do not want to be body-builders, they just want their bodies to match how they feel on the inside while increasing their overall health and well-being.
The questions we are asked most often are:
1. My body has changed and looks differently so can I tighten up those areas again?
2. Can I tighten areas to get rid of some wrinkles and loose skin around my arms, chest and legs?
3. I’m over 40, is it too late to firm up my challenging areas?
The answer to these questions is yes. It can be done and it does work. Listen to some of the many clients that have seen changes from Cosmetic Training:
“I cannot believe as a 60 year old woman I got my chest back to where it used to be! Thank you Cosmetic Training.” Helen S., Newton & Cape Cod
“My arms look better now than they did when I was 22 and I am 63! I had to admit, I was skeptical…” James C., Boston & Naples, FL
“I love being able to wear a sun dress and not worry about the skin under my arm waving anymore! That Cosmetic Training is unbelievable.” MaryAnne M., Natick
“I was not happy with the way my chest and butt sagged. It has taken a lot of work but you really can see a difference...” Deborah D., Carlisle
Simply put, Cosmetic training is a group of exercises that develop the muscles that we all want to tighten as we age. Let’s name them and it should not take too long:
• Women
o Neck
o Front of arm pit - chest
o Back of arm pit - back
o Lift chest
o Back of arms
o Abdominals
o Rear
o Inner thigh
o Outer hip
• Men
o Neck
o Wide chest
o Wide back
o Arms
o Abdominals
The common complaints for most people deal with areas around joints because as we age skin, muscle and fat are pulled down by gravity. We have to realize the changes that occur with aging and how to counteract them.
It does not matter what age, you can still replace muscle mass! The increase in muscle mass fills in the loose skin thus tightening of those specific areas.
If you want to see the specific exercises email us at: info@satinwellness.com and add “Cosmetic Training” in the subject area.
Boston MA USA
8 Fanueil Hall Marketplace
Boston, MA 02109
(Cell) 508-341-6697
(Office) 978-369-3492
(Toll free) 1-877-728-4634
info@SatinWellness.com
http://www.SatinWellness.com
Ask about Strength to Lead
See our latest videos at: Satin Wellness YouTube
Become a fan Face Book
See our latest tweet Twitter
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Maintaining Fitness
Healthy tips to help keep you fit
Megan Gates is an outreach representative for Gym Source - a leading retailer of home gyms and various other exercise and fitness equipment. Megan contributes written work to the blogosphere related to health and fitness.
With the start of the New Year many are feeling a bit of anxiety about maintaining their New Year’s resolution. If increased health is on your radar, you don't need to purchase a BowFlex and commit yourself to a daily gym routine. There are many smaller choices you are able to make on a daily basis that will work toward bettering your overall health and diet without radically altering your already jam packed life. It has been proven that smaller changes are able to be sustained for a longer period of time, and are most easily able to be integrated into daily routines. Here are some suggestions for subtle changes that can be made to your daily routine, which if maintained, can yield positive results.
Take the Stairs. This is a cliche, yet cliches are what they are for a reason. According to the Bethesda Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, taking the stairs burns more calories per minute than any other form of exercise. Taking the stairs, parking not so close in a parking lot, and walking with a friend on your lunch break are small steps toward increasing your daily activity and burning calories. As soon as you begin to turn these actions into habits, the sooner they will be a permanent part of your daily routine and life.
Focus on Food. Cut out all of the unnecessary. You can do your wallet and waist a favor by reducing or cutting out the number of times you eat out during the week. During the workweek, grabbing a quick bite might be easy, but it is a serious drain on your finances and health. A lot of the food people grab on the go is processed and over priced. It takes a bit of forethought; however, you can make healthy and filling lunches for yourself the night before. Also, many people do not realize that eating breakfast in the morning gets your metabolism working. Breakfast provides fuel for your body to work off of. Many people neglect to eat breakfast and then crave large amounts of food at lunchtime, putting anything they can find in their mouths. Prevent this from happening by eating breakfast and in the process you will be healthier and save money.
Read while you Run. This has truly become a world of multi-taskers. So why not put your abilities to good use in an effort to keep your New Year’s resolution by staying in shape. After a long day at work, it is understandable that many people do not feel up to braving the crowded gyms. So, while watching the news or reading your favorite magazine or book, try walking or running on the treadmill or elliptical at home. If you do not have exercise equipment at home, you can purchase inexpensive free weights and use them to tone and strengthen your back and arm muscles, all in the comfort of your home.
Megan Gates is an outreach representative for Gym Source - a leading retailer of home gyms and various other exercise and fitness equipment. Megan contributes written work to the blogosphere related to health and fitness.
With the start of the New Year many are feeling a bit of anxiety about maintaining their New Year’s resolution. If increased health is on your radar, you don't need to purchase a BowFlex and commit yourself to a daily gym routine. There are many smaller choices you are able to make on a daily basis that will work toward bettering your overall health and diet without radically altering your already jam packed life. It has been proven that smaller changes are able to be sustained for a longer period of time, and are most easily able to be integrated into daily routines. Here are some suggestions for subtle changes that can be made to your daily routine, which if maintained, can yield positive results.
Take the Stairs. This is a cliche, yet cliches are what they are for a reason. According to the Bethesda Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, taking the stairs burns more calories per minute than any other form of exercise. Taking the stairs, parking not so close in a parking lot, and walking with a friend on your lunch break are small steps toward increasing your daily activity and burning calories. As soon as you begin to turn these actions into habits, the sooner they will be a permanent part of your daily routine and life.
Focus on Food. Cut out all of the unnecessary. You can do your wallet and waist a favor by reducing or cutting out the number of times you eat out during the week. During the workweek, grabbing a quick bite might be easy, but it is a serious drain on your finances and health. A lot of the food people grab on the go is processed and over priced. It takes a bit of forethought; however, you can make healthy and filling lunches for yourself the night before. Also, many people do not realize that eating breakfast in the morning gets your metabolism working. Breakfast provides fuel for your body to work off of. Many people neglect to eat breakfast and then crave large amounts of food at lunchtime, putting anything they can find in their mouths. Prevent this from happening by eating breakfast and in the process you will be healthier and save money.
Read while you Run. This has truly become a world of multi-taskers. So why not put your abilities to good use in an effort to keep your New Year’s resolution by staying in shape. After a long day at work, it is understandable that many people do not feel up to braving the crowded gyms. So, while watching the news or reading your favorite magazine or book, try walking or running on the treadmill or elliptical at home. If you do not have exercise equipment at home, you can purchase inexpensive free weights and use them to tone and strengthen your back and arm muscles, all in the comfort of your home.
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