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August 20, 2019

Dear Trainer: Are the Calories on Cardio Machines Accurate?

- August 20, 2019

Trainers get asked all kinds of questions, which makes sense: The gym can be an intimidating place with trends coming and going by the second. How can a person keep up with it all? We’ve been...

February 18, 2019

19 Simple, Life-Changing Tweaks to Make This Year

by Kevin Gray

- February 18, 2019

If you want to make big changes in your life, make small goals. That might seem counterintuitive, but the fact is, large-scale changes can be intimidating and difficult to accomplish. Small, SMART...

August 21, 2018

Your Secret to Burning More Calories at Rest

by Amy Schlinger

- August 21, 2018

With all the effort we put into our workouts, it would be great if we could also burn extra calories while at rest, too. That’s where something called excess post-exercise oxygen consumption, or...

July 30, 2018

Ask the RD: How Are Serving Sizes Decided?

by Sidney Fry, MS, RD

- July 30, 2018

Glad you asked. Servings and portions are two distinct and separate things. A portion is the amount of food you (or the restaurant you’re dining in) choose to serve yourself at any given...

July 16, 2018

Ask the RD: Can I Trust Calorie Calculators?

by Trinh Le, MPH, RD

- July 16, 2018

Calories matter for weight loss, but what if you’re getting different calorie goals from different online calorie calculators? How do you determine which is correct? Let’s go over how...