Modern Body Fitness

By: Charlie Dannelly Personal Trainer Recently, some of my clients have been asking about a ketogenic diet.  Should they do it? Would I do It?  Leave it to Hollywood to push a “medical diet” to popularity. The ketogenic diet has been used to treat drug-resistant epilepsy for nearly 100 years, mainly in children. In 1972, Dr. Atkins Branded this type of diet calling it the “Atkins diet”. Over the years, other fad diets incorporated a similar approach for weight loss. How does the ketogenic diet work for weight loss? The ketogenic diet causes the body to release ketones into the blood for energy. This happens when there is an absence of blood sugar from carbohydrates, your main source of cellular energy.  When blood sugar is missing, your body starts breaking down stored fat into molecules called ketone bodies. The process is called ketosis. Once you reach ketosis, most cells will use ketone bodies to generate energy until we start eating carbohydrates again. The shift, from using

By: Charlie Dannelly Personal Trainer You’ve been working out the same way for years and you like your workout. But is it good for your body now? Let’s look at some things you might need to do to safeguard against injury. Your body has aged, So what’s different? • We lose muscle and strength as we age. • Loss of flexibility is prominent. • Staying hydrated is harder. • Our neurological system is more sensitive. • Cartilage wear and joint pain comes into play. • And our balance may be compromised as we develop hearing loss. • High blood pressure and cardiovascular disease can make exercise down right dangerous if you haven’t talked to your doctor first. Getting back into a workout routine alone is risky because you could do too much in the beginning. You should have an experienced trainer guide you and keep their trained eye on your condition. The following are some of the things doctors see when people start back training. • Rotator cuff tears • Bone spurs •

By: Charlie Dannelly Personal Trainer Lately people have been coming to me and asking questions about gut bacteria and weight loss. And quit frankly I didn’t have a clue if there was a correlation. So, I decided to look around to see what was out there and here is what I found. Scientist have known for a century that bacteria live in our intestines, but they assumed that they did little to affect our health. They thought that they were just freeloaders living off us — taking advantage of the warmth and nutrients in our gut. In the past decade, however, remarkable breakthroughs have allowed scientists to count and characterize the genes in our gut bacteria. The results have been astonishing. Our gut bacteria have 250 to 800 times more genes than we have human genes. Even more remarkable, these bacterial genes make substances that get into the human bloodstream, affecting our body chemistry. That means it is entirely plausible that the bacteria in our gut could be affecting o

Changing workouts, being more open with your partner, and altering your routine sex life could reignite your passion and thus heal your body and your relationship. By: Charlie Dannelly Personal Trainer It's never to late for fitness and it's never to late for SEX . Mentally your sex-drive can stay active late in life, but physically your body just doesn't have enough energy which can lead to frustration and depression, causing a rift in your relationship. Low levels of sexual performance can affect other areas of your life. When your brain wants sex and your body doesn't your negative feelings can start to grow. Depression, apathy, low self-esteem, irritability, along with the growing desire to become reclusive can start to take over your life. But just as losing weight gives you more energy there are also ways to turn you back into a sexual tyrannosaurus. Find your energy sappers Energy sappers are either physical or mental. Here are the most common. H

By:Charlie Dannelly Personal Trainer People who would like to become physically stronger should start with weight training and add protein to their diets, according to a comprehensive scientific review of research. The review finds that eating more protein, well past the amounts currently recommended, can significantly augment the effects of lifting weights, especially for people past the age of 40. But there is an upper limit to the benefits of protein, the review cautions. On the other hand, any form of protein is likely to be effective, it concludes, not merely high-protein shakes and supplements. Beef, chicken, yogurt and even protein from peas or quinoa could help us to build larger and stronger muscles. It makes intuitive sense that protein in our diets should aid in bulking up muscles in our bodies, since muscles consist mostly of protein. When we lift weights, we stress the muscles and cause minute damage to muscle tissue, which then makes new proteins to heal. But muscles