So you’re 40 years old and you’re in the gym hitting the weights hard and eating right. A few months goes by and you’re not seeing results. You feel tired, weak, you have no energy and the last time you saw your “soldier solute” was when you had to go to the bathroom in the [Read More ...]

Pelvic pain, for most of us we have no idea what it means and if so be glad. It’s excruciating pain deep in the pelvis area that can be unbearable with almost no hope in sight. There are some new procedures and techniques out there that have been great at helping people with this problem [Read More ...]

I’ve been a personal trainer in Chicago and surrounding suburbs for well over thirty years and it never ceases to amaze me how some of the mainstream media and public still believe certain myths about diet and exercise as fact. So what I will try to do here is “debunk the funk” about some of [Read More ...]

The alarm clock goes off: You hit the snooze knowing you have to go to the gym and throw around weights and move your body in ways that makes you want to hit the snooze again. Now it’s raining out, cold and you’re nice and warm in your bed… so… you hit the snooze again. [Read More ...]

Over the years as a Personal Trainer in Chicago, I have noticed a large majority of my female clients tend to complain of lower back and knee problems. Besides the obvious anatomical reasons such as wider hips, I always felt other factors contributed to the aches and pains. Having wider hips forces the femur to [Read More ...]

Having been a personal trainer in Chicago for over 20 years I’ve been asked this question many times. There are a lot of personal trainers out there and many are down right dangerous and can sometimes hurt an unsuspecting client. Do a Google search of “Chicago Personal Trainer” and you will turn up hundreds. So [Read More ...]

We workout with a personal trainer, we eat right and see our doctor routinely to make sure everything is working properly. However not all people are so diligent when it comes to their health. A much larger percent of the population takes better care of their car, boat or motorcycle as if that is what’s [Read More ...]

So you decided to lose weight and you think you’re doing pretty good job eating right and exercising. You lose a few pounds but can’t seem to “shake” losing that belly fat. Beware, there may be an underlying problem and all that time and effort could be futile if you don’t get checked out by [Read More ...]

With summer time right around the corner, there’s an endless number of outdoor activities to keep even the slowest metabolism busy. Roller bladding, kayaking, tennis, softball, volleyball, basketball, baseball, soccer, swimming, hiking, jogging, walking, ( sorry I refuse to include golf ) and last but not least, biking. Biking has become very popular especially after [Read More ...]

Most of us are familiar with training our abs. We do sit ups, crunches, leg lifts along with a multitude of other exercises that work the “Beach Muscles”; however there is an overlooked muscle in the abdominal cavity called the “Transversus Abdominis” and it acts like a natural weight belt, by keeping the stomach from [Read More ...]