Are YOU Exhausted?? Well you are among many who feel trapped in the endless cycle of never feeling awake. Here's how to take hold of your workout, your fatigue and your life.

I once trained a woman who taught me a very valuable lesson. During one of our training sessions, she walked over to the dumbbell rack and picked up one 75LB dumbbell (which she needed to carry with 2 hands because it was so heavy) and handed it to me. She looked me in the eye and said," That's how much weight I lost and I carried it around with me for 15 years. Now I know why I was tired all those years." It put weight loss and fatigue into a whole new perspective:  it made it tangible. Thus it made me realize that weight loss is much more than making you look great and feel happier, it makes you feel alert, awake, and focused. Many exercisers comment that this is one of the first benefits of working out. Find out how in home personal training can wake up your home workout and get you results!

So how do YOU get started feeling more awake?

For starters it might seem obvious, but receiving 8-10 hours of sleep a night helps you fight cravings, gets your day started rested, and generally doesn't make you hate your alarm clock. The benefits of getting enough sleep include: helps fight depression, helps prevent against heart disease, keeps your hormones balanced to help lose weight, gives the body time to repair itself (ie: when weight lifting it creates tears in the muscles), boosts your memory, increases your alertness, and reduces stress are just a few.

Start moving more, I know some of these seem simple, BUT that should make it all the more easy for you to implement them into your routine! Even if you choose a couple, you will feel a difference! You can park your car at the end of the parking lot, take the stairs instead on the elevator, ride your bike to work instead of drive, go for a walk on your lunch break, set up an exercise date with a friend to catch up instead of doing it over lunch, promise your dog 15 minutes a day of walking around the block, when commercials come on get on the floor and do crunches....whatever you decide on, moving just 15 minutes extra a day to get your heart rate up, will help you focus, and generally feel better.

Getting enough exercise 3-5 days of at least 30 minutes of exercise. There is truth to the runners high. The runner's high is a phrase that is used often with distance runners when they feel like they can "run forever". So how do you go beyond being an average fitness level to reaching this place of exercising endurance? It comes with being in better shape. Persistence my friend, and you too will experience it. An exercise that used to be hard suddenly feels easy. For starters getting the basic amount of exercise will help you sleep better and more soundly, maintain muscle tone, build muscle, burn more fat, over time lower your resting heart rate, increase cardiovascular endurance (so your not winded going up stairs), and so much more. Take your exercises to the next level and contact us!

Eating a Timed Low Sugar Diet. Making sure to regulate sugar in your diet, keeping it at a minimum will help prevent spikes that cause cravings and "highs and lows" in respect to tiredness. Keeping meals evenly spaced and trying not to wait longer than 3 hours between munching will help your blood sugar levels remain in check and ward off cravings. Check out the glycemic index on foods. This is a rating that determines how long a food takes to digest into the blood stream, and its affect on your blood sugar. By following a low glycemic index, you can help control hunger, feel full longer, fend off diabetes, reduce cholesterol, increase exercise and cardiovascular endurance, lowered risk of heart disease, helps you lose weight, and get to a "healthy" weight safely.The reasons behind a low GI diet are straight forward and can be easily implemented into any diet, start by adding in 2-3 low GI foods a day and try to keep your GI rating in the low rating between the low GI (55 AND UNDER) Medium GI (56-69) and keep high GI foods to a minimum (above 70).Learn more about our home workout programs.