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Get Rid of the Scales

Get Rid of the Scales

It seems these days that there are so many issues surrounding weight and weight loss. If you don’t weigh a certain number of pounds, you may consider yourself overweight or even fat (I don’t like using that word, but let’s be real). Further, if you view yourself as...

Heavy Weight Training (the Safe Way)

If you’re like most Americans, when you hear terms like ‘heavy weight lifting,’ you may have images of veins-rippling muscle-bounds freaks who pose in magazines or bikini shows! Fortunately this is NOT what heavy weight lifting is all about. After...

How to Experience Peace In the Midst of Chaos

Life has been anything but a piece of cake.  I receive responses regarding my presentations, sermons, tweets, and blogs that seem to hold the theme that I, Mark Sherwood, seem to have it ALL together and have no problems in which to handle.  Do you really believe...

Increase Your Life Span With These Two Things

I recently saw a cartoon depicting a doctor speaking with a slightly overweight patient.  The caption of the doctor speaking read, “Would you rather exercise one hour per day or be dead 24 hours a day?” To me, the correct option seemed obvious.  To others, I believe...

Eating for a High Intensity Event

In today’s world, a lot of our activity tends to be crammed into our weekends. Though we may not be “weekend warriors” per say, we may try to be extremely active on the weekends by participating in recreational sports or completing 3 day’s worth of house projects in...

5 Foundational Principles for Every Exercise Plan

In the world of fitness, I see this “lack of planning” as the norm rather than the exception.  The reason for this is actually very simple…we don’t understand the extreme importance of the plan. Just like house plans, there are many fitness/exercise plans.  When...