By: Adam Pounds, EIM Owner Starting a healthy living journey can look different for everyone, including spouses and partners, but for many reasons, it’s important to have your partner alongside for the ride. A study published in Journal of Internal Medicine found that...
By: Heather Gruber, EIM Master Personal Trainer You’ve heard of yoga, but like many, you don’t know exactly what it is or how it can benefit you. As a part of a regular exercise routine, yoga can bring inner peace, emotional stability and physical health to the body....
By: Adam Pounds, EIM Owner One of the most common myths of exercise is that weight training makes you super bulky, especially if you’re a woman. While it is true that weight training and exercise builds muscle mass, the truth is that women, unless fully devoted to...
By: Adam Pounds, EIM Owner It’s hard enough to find time to exercise. But finding time to exercise during the holidays is even more difficult! Shopping for presents, holiday parties, family events and all the other things that get us into the holiday spirit seem to...
By: Adam Pounds, EIM Owner For many, losing fat and building muscle are top priorities when it comes to their fitness goals. They want to lose fat and get healthy while also building the lean muscle mass that will leave them looking trim and toned. But as they get...
By: Adam Pounds, EIM Owner If you ask most healthy people why they exercise every morning, carry around a bottle of water, or why they pull out the bag of carrots instead of chips, it’s likely that many of them will tell you, “It’s just a habit.” Habits aren’t created...
By: Adam Pounds, EIM Owner Often, when people try to lose weight and get in shape, they focus on either their diet or their exercise routine while dismissing the fact that the two go hand-in-hand. I’ve seen it many times. A person starts working out every day, and...
By: Adam Pounds, EIM Owner It seems that recently more and more research has come out regarding the benefits of working out while fasted. That’s probably why clients are always asking me whether or not they should eat prior to their training session. But the answer...
By: Adam Pounds, EIM Owner Body Composition and BMI (Body Mass Index) are two things that you hear a lot about in the fitness world and just in general when talking about a person’s weight. But what do they actually mean and what’s the difference? ...
By: Adam Pounds, EIM Owner HIIT training has been a popular form of exercise in the fitness industry for decades. The exercise was popular amongst cyclists and runners, before being used by athletes of all sports and skill levels. HIIT training is the act of...