Five Fitness and Nutrition Tips You Can Use Today

1. If you want the most effective and efficient fitness program you can have, you need to manage your body like a business. More on that here.

2. Eating the right breakfast is the best start to establish a foundation for a healthful lifestyle. My take on eggs and oatmeal is a delicious, nutritious option. See what I do and two of my other favorite morning meals here.

3. One way to avoid over-training and reduce risk of injury is to continually change exercise segment lengths, intensity levels and movement patterns. Here are four more and why it’s important.

4. What’s one of the cheapest, most versatile and healthy vegetables you can have? Frozen spinach. Here’s why.

5. Weight loss marketing frequently preys on unrealistic expectations with quick-fix, radical (and often unsustainable) short-term, restrictive behavior changes. But like building a career, raising a child or developing life-long personal effectiveness skills, you want your rewards to last a lifetime. That’s why building a framework of simple, sound, and synergistic lifestyle changes that work and are self-perpetuating is the only real answer to reaching a life-long healthy body composition. More on this here. This is a recent quote from the woman in the video.

Dan Taylor, ACE, NASM-CPT, is owner and head trainer at Pleasanton-based Tri Valley Trainer. They offer personal training and small group fitness solutions and an innovative, medically endorsed web-based group healthy eating coaching program.