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What Should I Eat After A Workout - West LA Personal Trainer Exposes the Facts

 THE POST-WORKOUT MEAL DILEMMA

DO YOU REALLY NEED A PROTEIN SHAKE?

By Monika Tarkowska-Carter, CPT, LWMC, HLC 2

You eat well. You exercise regularly. You are trying to lose weight, get leaner or gain some muscle. Actually, you have just finished a grueling workout at the gym and you’re starving, but by the time you drive home, take a shower and prepare something to eat, at least another hour is going to go by. You think that since your goal is body fat loss, you shouldn’t eat too much, especially since you have just worked so hard to burn off all these unwanted calories. So you just wait until your next meal, right? WRONG!

So many exercisers are faced with this dilemma: should I eat something right after the workout? Should I have regular food or a shake? If yes, what kind of shake? When exactly should I have it? The supplement industry has been trying to sell us all sorts of various formulas for muscle growth, fat loss, weight loss, etc. for years. Is it just the money or are these potions actually backed up by solid scientific research? 

To read the answers to all of these questions, go to the original post, here. 
http://fitness-science.blogspot.com/2011/07/post-workout-meal-dilemma.html

For a free consultation with Los Angeles Personal Trainer, Monika Tarkowska-Carter of Fitness-Science, Inc., call 310-471-6786

Best Personal Trainer Videos in 2012 - Biceps and Butt Workouts

Fitness-Scince, Inc. has now created 24 Personal training and holistic health videos to help you get fit, firm, lean, mean, and healthy. Below is a list of the most popular for 2012. You can view these and all the rest by visiting our channel at www.youtube.com/user/PersonalTrainer90049

1. West Los Angeles Personal Trainer Biceps Toning Exercise Series 
2. West Los Angeles Personal Trainer Glute (Butt) Toning Exercise Series Part 1 
3. West Los Angeles Personal Trainer Glute (Butt) Toning Exercise Series Part 2 
4. West Los Angeles Personal Trainer Abdominal Exercise Series Part 1 
5. West Los Angeles Personal Trainer Presents Chest/Total Core Workout 
6. West Los Angeles Personal Trainer Triceps Toning Exercise Series Part 1 
7. West Los Angeles Personal Trainer Shoulder Toning Exercise Series 
8. West Los Angeles Personal Trainer Back Toning Exercise Series 
9. Why Can't I Lose Weight? Learn the Secrets from Monika Tarkowska-Carter 
10. West Los Angeles Personal Trainer Triceps Toning Exercise Series Part 2

For your convenience, here is an embed of the number 1 personal trainer video for 2012.

Workout Video - Instruction on Chest and Total Core Workout by West LA Personal Trainer

CHEST/TOTAL CORE WORKOUT

FROM EASY TO SUPER CHALLENGING EXERCISES FOR CHEST AND CORE MUSCLES

By Monika Tarkowska-Carter, CPT, LWMC, HLC 2

In this video I am showing many options for chest exercises that involve most of the core muscles and use minimal equipment. You will get an amazing workout and get the benefit of using a lot more muscles than you would with typical isolation exercises.  See the details and the video on Chest and Total Core Workout here

How the Amount of Sleep You Get Affects Your Hormones and Your Pant Size

THE SLEEP-WEIGHT CONNECTION

SLEEP LESS – GAIN WEIGHT: HOW THE AMOUNT OF SLEEP AFFECTS YOUR HORMONES AND YOUR PANT SIZE

By Monika Tarkowska-Carter, CPT, LWMC, HLC 2

Every day we are faced with troubling statistics about the health of Americans. We are the fattest nation on Earth, with 65% of us being either obese or overweight. We all know that this very fact increases our susceptibility to so many diseases: heart attacks, strokes, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and insulin resistance, asthma, high cholesterol, metabolic syndrome, cancer, etc., etc. The list goes on and on.

We take more medications than ever in our history, yet we struggle more, not less, not only with diseases, but also depression and, as recent statistics show us, insomnia, or just plain lack of sleep.

Could this fact somehow contribute to our ever-expending waistlines? Could we become slimmer just by sleeping more?  

Learn all about the details of the sleep connection to weight loss here.

Los Angeles Personal Trainer Lists 33 Cures To Your Health Woes Found in the Kitchen -

If you are thinking about making a resolution to seek better health in 2012, and you are thinking of hiring a personal trainer to help direct you, be sure that the personal trainer you select is qualified to help you with all aspects of fitness, including the nutritional component.  Below are some guidelines that will help you make certain that your diet is helping, not hurting, your healthy living goals.

THE CURE IS IN THE KITCHEN

“LET NOTHING WHICH CAN BE TREATED BY DIET BE TREATED BY ANY OTHER MEANS”

                                                                   (Maimonides)

By Monika Tarkowska-Carter CPT, LWMC, HLC                                                          

We often forget that clean water and healthy food are not only the foundation of health but have more power than medicines to keep us healthy. But the quality of what we put into our bodies is also of prime importance. If you build a healthy foundation with simple things like nutrition and exercise, your body will thrive.

HEALTHY NUTRITION TIPS:

 1. The most important yet cheapest thing you can do for your body every day is drink good quality pure water, ideally with a ph of at least 7.0.

For the rest of the list of Healthy Nutritional Tips, go to this blog post.

Los Angeles Personal Trainer Offers Weight Loss Resolutions

As 2011 winds down, my post from last year on top ways to lose weight still has everything you need to get started, whether immediately or in January 2012.  Read #1 below or go straight to the whole list of weight loss tips here.

 TOP 12 WAYS TO LOSE WEIGHT IN 2011

SMALL CHANGES BIG RESULTS: THE BEST WAYS TO MAKE YOU LIGHTER, LEANER, HEALTHIER AND LESS DEPRIVED – A HOLISTIC NUTRITIONIST’S PERSPECTIVE

By Monika Tarkowska-Carter, CPT, LWMC, HLC 2

1. Stop dieting and start eating. Diets don’t work and you know it. It’s time to start eating healthy for life. No more deprivation. No more starvation. If you don’t get this basic truth right you will always fail because you will never learn how to maintain a proper way of eating.

Here's the rest of the list.

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