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Tips to make your spin® class great (and lose some weight!)

 1Cool visualization can help!  Imagine you are training for the Winter Olympics.....really imagine it.  It is 6 weeks before you meet your toughest rivals on the global stage.  Whoever trains harder and smarter wins.  GO FOR THE GOLD!  

2) Review the benefits of exercise in your mind (yes, looking good -- but there are some other amazing ones)  From Women's Health Magazine    

"Cardiovascular health is more important than any other single factor in preserving and improving learning and memory," says Thomas Crook, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and memory researcher. "You're working out your brain at the same time as your heart."

3) Don't forget calories in!  Here are 4 Easy Tips to help you control eating.  A) Slow down when you eat.  B) Don't eat while you open mail, read magazines or work on the computer  C) Don't eat when bored, D) Don't clean your plate.    

Keep an eye on the schedule for a new series of "Theme classes"  Monday nights in Wellesley.  This Monday Feb 22nd "Vintage Jams and Live Music" with Bill.....a 70 minute "trip".

100 Nutrition Tips for a Longer, Better life

We don't believe in diets, especially fad diets, but January is certainly a convenient time to look at the way you eat and to make some decisions about how your eating affects your fitness (and longevity!)There's a whole buncha tips here --- categorized even.  We went through and picked some of the more interesting ones, but if you have a moment read all 100, it's a good exercise:

• # 13  try dark chocolate.  Not ideal, but has antioxidants and much better than milk
• Fill up on the good foods first, when you are craving the junk
• Eat Half (or even 3/4) when out at restaurants.  They usually serve too much.  It adds up!
• Be careful on the beverages, lots have many calories
• Whole grain foods keep you fuller longer
• Eat foods with color in them in variety
• Shop the perimeter of the store, avoid the packaged, canned and frozen stuff in the middle
• Hair and skin look better when you eat proteing

Full List of 100 Tips Click Here

30 Worst Foods in Amercia - do you have nominees?

Just read a really fun article in Men's Health magazine if you are watching what you eat.  The good news is, even on your worst binging, trash food splurge, you probably didn't eat most of what you will see on this list.  A few of my favorites:  Worst Adult Drink ("Lobsterita" from Red Lobster), Worst gas station treat (hostess chocolate pudding pie), Worst supermaket lunch pack, Worst frozen pizza,  Worst Mall treat (Cinnabun Caramel Pecanbun),  Worst sliders.  Just reading the list makes you feel better----once the wave of nausea from looking at the pictures passes.  
Click here to look through the full list of 30 from Men's Health magazine.  Please feel free to comment here if you think there is worse food than the stuff in this article.  What are your own "Worst Foods in America"   My own nominee?  The Bear Claw at Bess Eaton donuts.

Spynergy Workshop: Weight loss and Nutrition...a practical approach

We want to help you lose weight (if you need to).......without a typical "diet".  Instead let's learn how different kinds of food impact our metabolism and therefore our weight.  Everyone knows what bad eating habits look like, but how many of us know the best combinations of foods?  Fad diets come and go, but learning solid principles around food and eating can change the way we eat and the way we look.....and most imporant, the way we feel.

 

The Spynergy Nutrition and Weight Loss Workshop is 5 Tuesdays starting January 12th at the Wellesley studio. Learn about your metabolism and losing weight from registered dietitian and nutritionist Lyn Schwartz, MS, RD.  
 
Lyn has an innovative, personalized approach to help you boost energy, control food cravings and rev up your metabolism.  She has taught classes at Newton Wellesley hospital and numerous other settings.  She will run workshops with us at Spynergy and will develop personalized eating plans.  Several Spynergy riders have taken her classes and she comes highly recommended!
 
Join Spynergy and learn a practical and effective way to complement your exercise with a healthy and thoughtful approach to eating right.
 
$149 for the course. Purchase by clicking "workshops" at  www.spynergywellesley.com

for more information email us at info@spynergywellesley.com

 

 

 

 

 

Younger Next Year

In 2004 an excellent book was published called “Younger Next Year”. If you were a Spynergy rider back then, you may recall we talked about it quite a bit. The book was written by a retired Manhattan attorney, Chirs Crowley, and his doctor, Henry Lodge M.D. It is a realistic, humourous and insightful look at aging — something we can all relate to. There are no exceptions.

It’s loaded with great stuff, but the essence of the book comes down to one simple notion that the authors create a powerful case for: Your body responds to the signals you give it — when you signal you need it (through activity), it grows and thrives. When you signal you don’t need it (through inacitivity), it decays and ages. Sound simple? It is.

Here are a few excerpts:

“…aging is not optional, but decaying is. How do we keep ourselves from decaying? By changing the signals we send to our body. The keys are daily exercise, emotional commitment, reasonable nutrition…..but it starts with exercise…”

“…being sedentary is the most important signal for decay…your body watches you like a hawk and when you don’t use it……you’re telling your body it’s time to get old. To rot…”

“…Everything you do physically, everything you eat, everything you think and feel….changes your body and brain in physical ways…exercise and involvement in life trigger great waves of “grow messages…”

“…Exercise is the best way to engage your body and your physical brain, and if you do it, you will get “younger”. Not completely, but to an astonishing degree…”

The book goes on to illustrate these concepts and to provide very interesting medical and scientific data around them. It makes fascinating and motivational reading, and it makes sense.