Top Ten Fit Facts of 2011

Happy Holidays! Here are the Top 10 Fit Facts of 2011 based on your responses. Take care and Fit Facts will return in 2012.

1. Happy New Year! 40-50% of people who make New Year’s resolutions are still working toward their goals 6 months later.

2. Weight training increases your metabolism. Without strength training Men lose 7 pounds of muscle per decade and women 5 pounds per decade.  Causing your resting metabolism to decrease 3% per decade and leading to premature aging.

3. People who exercise regularly are more likely to vote.

4. It is often the first sign of of vascular disease and doubles the risk of heart disease. It is more than a lifestyle disease. Erectile Dysfunction is a better predictor of the risk of heart disease than high blood pressure or high cholesterol.

5. Beet juice. Beet juice. Beet juice. A completely legal way to increase your speed and shave seconds off performance times. Beet root juice is a natural source of nitrate an active ingredient in affecting athletic performance.

6. Reebok’s butt toning EasyTone and RunTone shoes are costing them $25 million.  Reebok promised a “better butt with every step” with 28% better workout for your glutes, unfortunately it wasn’t the truth and now they are paying the price.

7. You can probably last longer than you think. New research finds that muscle fatigue starts in your head, your brain starts to reduce muscle performance during endurance activities. Continuing to activate your muscles depends on motivation, will power, physical condition, fuel and fatigue levels. In other words “you’ll be fine”.

8. Trying to strengthen your core? Stand on the ground. Performing total body exercises while standing on an unstable surface results in less muscle activation.

9. Using a bike for commuting on half all short trips, even for only the warmest 6 months of the year, could save over $3.8 billion US in health care costs from conditions including obesity and heart disease.

10. Years ahead of his time fitness guru Jack Lalanne died this week (Jan 2011) at 96. He said this to a reporter when he was 90 years old
“To leave a hot bed and a hot woman to go into a cold gym at five in the morning — that takes discipline. But I like the results.’’

And the two most controversial Fat Facts of 2011

#5. Diet drinks increase your belly fat. Two or more diet drinks a day can increase your waistline by 500%.
Congratulations Ava, Fraser and Scott!

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7. Marriage affects your weight. Women gain more weight after marriage, men gain more weight after a divorce.
Congratulations Kathy, David, Mandy, Morgan and Kristy

Choose your prize (body composition analysis or one health coaching session) you can redeem it anytime between Jan 2 – March 1, 2012!

In case you are curious the most talked about Fit Fact was #3. People who exercise are more likely to vote.

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