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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Picking a Personal Trainer in West LA - Lots of Choices. Not All Good!

You've decided to live healthier and better, lose some fat and finally get washboard abs while you're at it. You have also decided that you need one-on-one help from a qualified personal trainer.  How do you select a great personal trainer in West LA.  No doubt there are hundreds of people holding themselves out as personal trainers from the beaches of Santa Monica to the Hills of Beverly. What are the most important criteria that separate the amazing from the average or the downright bad?

In an earlier blog post I gave a detailed advice for getting it right the first time. 

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING – EDUCATION and CREDENTIALS

Read the rest of the story about choosing a great personal trainer here

Home Remedy for What Ails You? Exercise as Medicine!

 As a personal trainer, my clients are commonly asking me what to do about this ache or pain or other medical issue.  We would all like to have a free, painless, no hassle way to cure what ails us.  What about exercise as the medicine of choice?

Did you know that in 2005 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that 365,000 deaths in the US occur annually from poor diet and lack of physical activity? Two-thirds of US adults are either overweight or obese. More than half of US adults do not meet the recommended levels of physical activity. Almost one-fourth of US adults have no leisure-time physical activity at all (1). Maybe it’s time to think about prevention.

What do YOU think about exercise? Is it fun and play or pain and suffering? Simple discomfort that needs to be endured or the necessary evil? Something boring you just go through mechanically or something you look forward to? But have you ever thought of exercise as medicine? Well, maybe you should.

To read the rest of the story and a detailed examination of the reality that exercise is a type of medicine, follow this link to my previous article on the subject.