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Monthly Archive for June, 2011

10 Easy Steps To Teaching Your Personal Training Clients About Nutrition – Part 9: Stress & Sleep

It doesn’t matter how much you exercise, how well you eat, or how strictly you control your caloric intake – your body is constantly stressed or your sleep is inadequate, you will constantly fail in pursuing your health, wellness, or performance goals.

But if these barriers are removed, you will vastly improve your ability to gain maximum benefits from a good nutrition plan.

As you explain the importance of stress and sleep to your clients, here is what to tell them:

The body has several neurotransmitters that are actively involved in control of appetite and mental motivation. Dopamine, one neurotransmitter, is your body’s pleasure molecule, acting to significantly affect desire for activity, eating satisfaction and food cravings. Inadequate dopamine increases the chances that you will have a decreased drive to exercise and be less effective at regulating your nutritional intake.

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How To Turn An E-Book Into A Facebook App

Facebook is taking the world by storm.

Half a billion people use it, for crying out loud.

So are your products on Facebook?

And can people buy those products using Facebook credits?

I asked myself the same question last month, and decided to do something about it. Turns out, it can be done…

So to see how I turned an E-book into a Facebook app, and how you can do it too, go check out the Shape21 App on Facebook. Leave your questions below.

10 Easy Steps To Teaching Your Personal Training Clients About Nutrition – Part 7: Supplements

So if your clients eat their fruits and vegetables, expose themselves to adequate sunlight, get plenty of sleep, and stay well hydrated, their body shouldn’t really need a supplemental source of vitamins and minerals, right?

Wrong.

Here are 5 powerful reasons that you explain to your clients about why they need to take a multi-vitamin, no matter how healthy their lifestyle may be.

1. Nutrient depletion in the soil. Modern farming techniques utilize fertilizers that actually deplete the soil of essential nutrients. Agriculture relies on the elements in the soil for absorption of proper amounts of minerals, and when this process is interrupted, the plant does not contain essential minerals and cannot form essential vitamins. And if the plant doesn’t have it then you’re not going to get it from eating the plant!

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