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Negative Effects of Prolonged Sitting If you have a full-time job, you spend the vast majority of your waking hours at work. The fact of the matter is that most people who work in corporate settings sit at their desks throughout the majority of the day. If you haven’t heard it before, hear it now; sitting is the new smoking. Living a sedentary life does serious damage to your health and wellbeing. • Prolonged sitting will slow your metabolism • Increase your risk of heart disease and certain cancers • Decrease productivity Employers need to understand the negative effects that ...
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RightFit Personal Training is growing and we are delighted to welcome Claudia Diaz to the RightFit team! Claudia joins our team as the Marketing and Operations Coordinator where she’ll help expand our reach on a national level.  As part of her induction we asked her a few questions and here’s what she had to say: What are you most looking forward to about joining the RightFit team? I am looking forward to elevating the RightFit Personal Training brand through creating content that will educate trainees and clients about fitness to coordinating campaigns and events to increase our brand awareness. I am super ...
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We are starting a brand new series in our blog called Behind the RightFit Trainer! This series will feature one of our personal trainers and give you inside look at their experience, passions and guilty pleasures. Get to know this month’s featured trainer, Hope Meyers! Hope has been working with RightFit Personal Training for about 9 months. As one of our top trainers in Chicago, she has demonstrated her dedication for helping clients achieve their fitness goals. Why did you become a personal trainer?  For the last 5 years I have learned so much about what it is that I am passionate ...
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By Chicago Personal Trainer Marlon Ordonez "New Year - New Me!" Heard that before? Sounds lovely, but it's not necessarily good for us. Where did this whole New Year's resolution thing begin anyway? It started in Ancient Babylon where the people made simple, and easily achievable promises to the Gods; simple things like cleaning up after themselves and putting away equipment. However, now we make complicated promises to ourselves. Many people go through the holiday season enjoying themselves and putting on unwanted weight, unnecessary stress, and make their health and wellness a bit more complicated because they just tell themselves ...
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This is an original post written by Chicago Personal Trainer, Cristina Panagopoulos. The holiday season can be such a magical time of year. However, with all the parties, holiday shopping, decorating and food preparation, your fitness and health goals can drop to the bottom of the totem pole, fast. Perhaps the holiday parties make it the hardest to stay on track. There is good (and caloric dense) food all around, what is one to do?! Check out my guidelines on how to bake healthy goods during this time of year (and really any time of year!). TOP 5 WAYS TO ...
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By Chicago Personal Trainer, Ron Munvez Achieving your fitness or performance goals isn’t easy, but if you set or establish your goals, your chances of success is much greater. At Tri-Fitness & Performance we work with general population for weight loss and general fitness and we also work with athletes looking to improve their performance goals. So lets look at goal setting to help you reach your fitness or performance goals. It’s not all about will power and determination. It helps, but more important is having a plan of attack that you can implement. Here are some tips to help ...
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This is an original post written by Chicago Personal Trainer, Cristina Panagopoulos. Tis the season for holiday parties, eggnog, cookie platters and more! Who doesn't love that? It's all great until you realize that the holiday season caused you to gain an extra 5-10lb. It's not uncommon and unfortunately most people do gain a few pounds during the holidays. So how do you avoid it this year?! There are ways to stay fit during the holiday season and NOT gain weight! Here are my top 5 tips on how to avoid the weight gain while still enjoying the season. 1) ...
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By Chicago Personal Trainer, Tia Harrison Most runners believe that in order to perform better as a runner, which often translates to running faster, that they simply need to follow a running program or just run more often. That’s part of the puzzle, but the piece that is often missing for the majority of runners, especially distance runners, is strength training. I’ve learned from personal experience that in order to improve my finish times and run injury free, strength training is not an option, but a requirement. Shortly after I completed my first full marathon in 2008, I decided to ...
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