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Don’t let Thanksgiving feasts and travel derail you from your goals. Follow these tips to help you stay on track during this Holiday of Thanks!

1. Have workout will travel! Pack some dumbbells, a resistance band, or simply use your body weight to get a good workout while traveling. Need a traveling workout? Click here_

2. Preserve all your hard work by working out at least every third day. Don’t go two days in a row without breaking a sweat.

3. Workout first thing in the morning before everyone else wakes up and tries to talk you out of it!

4. Go for a walk after the Thanksgiving feast. Grab some company and make it a family affair.

5. Offer to cook and bring a dish that you control the ingredients.

6. Avoid calorie bombs like casseroles. They’re loaded with cream, cheese, and butter. You will still be satisfied and will save a lot of calories by also avoiding the skin of the turkey, buttery rolls, gravy, and topping your already fatty/sugary pie with whip cream.

7. Pack a healthy protein shake in case you need a quick & healthy go to meal.

8. Portion control! Don’t deprive yourself of your favorite Thanksgiving treats, but be mindful of your portions.

9. Don’t skip a meal before the Thanksgiving meal to try and ‘save’ calories. This will trigger you to overeat instead of treating the meal like a normal meal with moderate portions.

10. Don’t become a victim of excuses like, “Thanksgiving only comes around once a year”, “I’ll skip training just this week”, “I’ll eat better tomorrow”….stick to your plan!

In the end, you’ll enjoy Thanksgiving much better if you don’t feel guilty when the day is done!

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This exercise is utilized in Mike Davies, LEG DAY workout video.  Click here to download the workout.

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Coaches spend their careers trying to tap into their athletes’ mental toughness. Coaches know that they have to train the mind just as they train your body. Being psychologically strong and mentally tough can be a more important characteristic than being physically strong. Personal trainers realize this, too and practice a lot of the same techniques that coaches use. Your mind can push your body to perform beyond the physical actions you ‘think’ you can do. Have you ever had a personal trainer say, “Last set.” Then you pump out fifteen reps, not sure that you’re going to complete the last three only to hear your trainer say, “Give me five more!”? Of course you have! And I’ll bet that you finished those extra five reps, even when you thought you couldn’t, right? This is mental toughness.

Mental toughness is difficult to explain, but we all know what it is. It’s a powerful combination of will, determination, focus, confidence, conviction, and passion. It’s the unwavering self belief that, “I can do it.”

Many people believe that this quality cannot be taught, that you’re either born with mental toughness or you’re not. I, on the other hand, believe that you can be taught mental toughness. All you have to do is watch one episode of The Biggest Loser and see trainer Jillian Michaels hammer “You Can Do It!” into the minds of those contestants who have lost the ability to push themselves.

So what can you do if you don’t have a personal trainer or a coach to pull this toughness out of you?

Here are some tips for ways you can improve your own mental toughness so that you can achieve your physical or athletic goals. (Although some of these can be applied to help you reach just about any goal.)

Challenge yourself with your workout
When you ‘think’ you can’t do any more or go any further, do it anyways.

• Add another set.
• Increase the reps in your last set by five, even when your last few reps were difficult.
• Run just one more mile.
• Run as far as you ‘think’ you can in one direction without thinking of the way back.
• Just when the timer on your ‘thirty minutes’ on the elliptical ends, increase your time by ten more minutes.
• Quit counting reps all together. Try doing as many reps of an exercise as possible in a given amount of time. For example; do as many bicep curls as your can in two minutes or as many crunches as possible for the length of a song.

Find What Motivates You
Motivation is at the core of mental toughness. To stay motivated, you must first find out what personally motivates you. Are you motivated by winning or being the best? Enter a competition or a race. Or get a training partner and have mini competitions for who can push out the most reps or lift the most weights. Are you motivated by the fear of failure? Tell your friends and family about your goal and ask them to hold you accountable. Find your motivation and let it drive you.

Give Yourself Pep Talks
Coaches give pep talks it before games. Trainers pep you up to complete your reps. Be your own pep rally. Remind yourself why your training so hard, tell yourself to pull it together, push through, get your fat but off the coach…whatever brings out your second wind. Repeat this in mantras to yourself. It may feel awkward at first, but talking to yourself will pay off.

Acceptance
Accepting that there will be people who won’t believe in you, that there may be set backs, there may be activities you won’t be able to perform, parties you may miss, and deserts you won’t taste. Accepting these things and move on. Don’t dwell on things that will harvest negative energy.

Focus
Focus on your goals and focus on the steps you need to take to achieve those goals. Visualize achieving your goals and don’t let anything stand in your way or distract you.

Prepare
Unexpected and uncontrollable events will occur. Anticipate problems and know the solutions ahead of time. How you handle unexpected events could break your focus. And you need to remain focused at all times. Fitness and bodybuilders could prepare by making a back up of their routine music, preparing meals ahead of time, and bringing an extra posing suit. Triathletes could prepare for blisters, a hold in the bike tire, or extreme temperatures. Team sport athletes should be prepared to play without their star player. The point is; when you know you’ve prepared for all the possibilities, your mind will be more at ease so your body can perform at it’s best.

Stay Positive & Keep Positive People Around You
A positive attitude and positive thoughts will energize you and carry you through those tough training sessions, early wake up calls, and meal plans. You can’t expect to perform your best if you’re filling your head with negative thoughts and surrounding yourself with negative people.

Some lucky people will go their entire lives without experiencing a fitness or sports related injury. But there are many more who will be struck with injuries that will put their goals and sometimes, even careers, on hold. Some athletes switch sports all together. How many bodybuilders or fighters do you know who used to be football players with pro potential?

The threat of injury is always present. Of course, there are many precautions you can take to help prevent injury, but once the injury occurs….what next? Here are some tips to a speedy recovery:

Get Your Mind Right:

• Don’t lose yourself. Remember that you are not just an athlete, you are a person who enjoys a training and participating in a particular sport.
• Stay focused on what you can do after recovery, no what you can’t do because of your injury.
• Stay positive. Studies show that people who internalize their pain and suffering, instead of complaining about it, tend to heal much faster.
• Channel your discouragement into commitment. Fight for your goal to recover as hard as you would fight for your goals to win.
• Visualize your body healing. The mind is a powerful healer.
• Stay connected with your training partners or team mates. Volunteer during their races, games or competitions and keep them motivated during their training.

Get Your Nutrition Right:

• Adjust your caloric intake to reflect the changes in your activity levels during recovery. Don’t get caught in a self-image slump.
• Eat whole, nutrient rich foods, such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins. Avoid processed foods and refined carbohydrates. This will keep you lean and supply your body with optimal nutrition.
• Consider supplementing vital nutrients like vitamins/minerals/antioxidants/anti-inflammatories/enzymes. A balanced and healthy diet usually doesn’t provide athletes or those who train with intensity, enough of the basic nutrients for optimum recovery. Clinical studies show that the right combination and the right amount of these supplements can shorten the recovery time for sports related injuries by up to 50 percent.

Get Your Body Right:

• Make sure you fully understand your injury and your rehab. Follow doctors orders!
• Maintain your level of fitness by cross-training. Train opposite muscle groups while the injured muscles recover, develop new muscular behaviors, avoid boredom and after recovery, you may find your skills, balance, and agility have improved!

A Danish study out of Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark found that people with thinner thighs have anywhere from 50% to 100% higher chances of developing heart disease and premature death than those who have larger thighs. Out of 2,800 people, those whose thighs measured about 23.6 inches in circumference were at risk and those with stick thin gams, 18 inches around, were at the greatest risk.

There are numerous health risk factors with being overweight, so this is not an excuse to go eat a cheeseburger and settle with your thunder thighs. But if skinny thighs are a health risk and fat thighs are a risk; what is the answer?

The research team suggests skinny thighs could mean there is too little muscle mass on the thighs. Lack of muscle mass can cause your body to not process insulin properly and increase your risk for type 2 diabetes, which raises your risk for developing heart disease. Lack of muscles on your legs may also be an indication that you’re not exercising enough or properly. And if you’re reading this blog, you know how important exercising is for overall health.

I’m curious as to how genetics plays a role in this study? Every woman knows that there are those of us who naturally have thicker thighs and smaller upper bodies and others who are bigger around the middle, which skinny legs and arms. I think the best thing we can all do is eat clean and lead an active, healthy lifestyle. Avoid being too skinny by building muscle, exercising, and eating a healthy diet and avoid obesity by doing the same.

This move does double duty, targeting both your upper and lower abdominal muscles all at once. So it’s a great move when you’re trying to blast away at your abs in a hurry! It’s a challenging exercise, so start out with low reps to ensure proper form.

How to do a V-Up: Lie flat on the ground. Your toes should be pointed and your arms should be extended over your head. Both your arms and legs should be slightly off the ground, with your back flat against the floor. (A) Raise your legs and upper body at the same time, using your core abdominal muscles to pull your body together for form the ‘V’ shape. (B) Keep your abs tight through out the exercise, even as you lower slowly back to start position. Don’t allow your arms or legs to touch the ground. Continue the move without bouncing or using your body’s momentum to get you through the move.

V-Ups

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