Body by Margo

by Margo  Belton NSCA/NASM CPT 4/10/2008 (From My columns at the Brooklyn Excelsior) “I just want to lose weight before I go on vacation!!!!”  Well if its spring vacation- you might lose a pound between now and Friday.  Eat some soup for dinner and get to bed early  i.e.  9pm  between Monday and Saturday. But seriously – if you are aiming for the summer beach body it is time to pull out all the stops. You have 6 weeks till Memorial Day.  Your theme should be:I like to move it, move it!!!because the activities pursued out of the gym will be just as important as the activities pursued in the gym. You did not sign up for Body Conditioning 17.35 with Professor Lysniak. You are burning calories reading this sentence. How  many calories can we burn to lose 500 calories a day or 1 pound a week?    3500 calories going, going – gone if you go grab a calculator as you read this article. Calories burned during sex: (1) ...

By Margo Belton (From my columns in the Brooklyn Excelsior) May 2008                                                                                                                                           Photo by  Jermaine Ulinwa  from  Pexels You got the brutal truth about cravings in the last column (April 28th) see sugarscience.wordpress.com  Is there any hope in controlling the toughest craving of all- sugar craving? The food industry created artificial sugar but it is no substitute. Recent studies show that fake sugar does not fake out the brain and you will eventually seek out those very calories you ...

Family Ties & ( how your weight is a traditional sore point with your parents ) From my columns at the Brooklyn College  Excelsior By Fitness Fanatic  (Margo Belton) 4/1/2008 Did you enjoy the time off? I for one have a lot of reading to do, which means like you, I am sitting and storing calories with every a flip of the page. The client-(a BC student ) and I have not started yet.  I am looking at her  list of ethnic foods and trying to  determine their  nutrient content on some software  that does not  recognize ethnic foods unless  I turn it into recipes.           Ekaterina Bolovtsova  from  Pexels It is making me hungry. For once, I do not want to eat    what is in my neighborhood- Chinese, Vietnamese or Mexican. I did not go home for Easter so I am missing the breakfast my Dad makes every Sunday. I can shovel the whole driveway on it. The plan is to get the Clie...

The client asked and the trainer- who studied Physiology - answered   A GOOD WORKOUT DESERVES A GOOD RECOVERY    ... Says Margo - Your trainer Contrary to popular opinion, lactate or, as it is often called, lactic acidbuildup isnotresponsible for the muscle soreness felt in the days followingstrenuous exercise.(1) The muscle soreness aka DOMS or Delayed Muscle Soreness is a result of “damage” on a cellular level that is physical , much like shredded velcro. Muscles actually produce force using a catch and release method like real velcro and it puts a strain on the entire connection from bone covered tendon to the belly of the muscle (widest part) to the other attachment of muscle to bone. The force needs energy. You burn calories to produce this force and even use up more calories repairing the muscle system post workout. You can roughly measure the shape you are in by when the onset of soreness starts. ONSET OF SORENESS...