Fitness tools to help you reach your goals

Hello there.  As I was contemplating a topic for this post, I thought about what I could write about to help you in the realm of health and fitness. 


Here are some tools that you can use on your own, with your trainer, or your doctor:


I hear a lot of people ask about heart rate.  Do you know what your Resting Heart Rate is?  What about Max Heart Rate?  This tool from the American Heart Association teaches you how to find your heart rate.  It then shows you where you should be training for your age.


Heart Rate Tool


This one is mainly for competitive lifters.  However, this is also good for everyone just to see where your at at different stages of life.  This isn't to hard when you have a crew that your working out with.  I usually don't, so it wouldn't be sound for me to attempt on my own.  This tool allows you to do what you are comfortable with and use that to determine what your 1 Rep Max is.  1 Rep Max is the total amount of weight you can lift one time.  This is courtesy of Bodybuilding.com.


1 Rep Max Tool


This one is for determining your Lean Body Weight.  This is your total body weight less body fat.  This is also from bodybuilding.com


Lean Body Mass


Have you ever wondered how many calories you are burning mowing the yard?  What about painting the kids rooms?  Here is a tool that helps you figure out how many calories are burned with different activities.


Amount of Calories Burned

Aricle worth sharing

Hello,


I recently read an article regarding weightloss, especially for women over 40.  The author is a trainer from California named Jill Brown.  I don't know her.  Since I am still learning some of the intricacies of weight loss, and I don't quite fell like the expert I want to be, I figured I'd just share this article.  A lot of what the author writes makes sense.  Thank you Jill for sharing your knowledge.  Enjoy.


http://www.jillbrownfitness.com/site/2017/04/how-women-can-lose-weight-after-40-especially-around-the-middle/

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In the News: Legislation

I read last night that  back in April, legislation was introduced in both the Senate and Congress.  This legislation is called The Treat and Reduce Obesity Act of 2017.  The purpose of this legislation is to provide healthcare professionals with more funding and better options for treating obesity.

What this means if it passes is that there would be better counseling, better interventions, and better drug treatments for the patients.  According to Representative Ron Kind from Wisconsin, "Obesity accounts for nearly 10% of all annual medical spending here in the U.S."  He continued, "Unless we doe something to address the obesity epidemic, the costs and harm to public health will only continue to rise.  This legislation is a step toward controlling out of control healthcare spending and to improve health outcomes of the patients".