Mental Health Benefits of Exercise One of the great things about exercise is that it can improve your mental health. Regular exercise can help you feel less stressed, can improve […]

Advancing health… ..through a synergistic, holistic approach to fitness. That’s nationally recognized fitness professional Mike Rickett’s mission, in his professional and personal lives. By combining his years of experience in […]

What is Physical Fitness? A condition or state of being that helps you look, feel and do your best. It is the ability to do tasks full of energy, and […]

  Healthcare, who should be responsible? Experts? I’m not sure who it was that said early screening and self examinations are not effective in detection of breast cancer. But they […]

Exercise the body, exercise the brain.  The two go hand in hand.  I have been trying to research the best exercise to stimulate the brain and have come to the […]

Last Thursday I attended a lecture by the author of Spark, a professor at Harvard by the name of John Ratey.  The lecture and the book expressed what everyone has […]

The Zone Diet’s guru is Dr. Barry Sears, a researcher at M.I.T.  The premise of this diet is that you consume calories in a proportion; 40% Crabs, 30% Protein, and […]

The low fat diet, made popular by Dr. Dean Ornish, a cardiologist, is the opposite of the Atkins diet.  His recommendation is to eat less that 10% of your calories […]