Michael Phelps makes us proud to be an American.

Nobody recently HAS BROUGHT SO MUCH JOY INTO OUR LIVES like US swimmers.

Dara Torress - my inspiration

Dara Torres is the fastest female American swimmer on the U.S. Olympic team -- she's also the oldest swimmer on the squad. At 41 years old, Torres has won nine Olympic medals and looks to increase her career haul in Beijing starting with the 4x400m free.


Take a look how she is rocking the world.

Her innovative training techniques and fitness are keeping her ahead from competition.
I am impressed, moved and inspired as a former professional swimmer and I have to say that Dara Torres is my hero.

I want to congratulate to her personal trainer and coach Micahel Lohberg.

Two weeks after Torres made the Olympic team, the man who helped her get there, personal coach and friend Michael Lohberg, was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia-a rare and potentially fatal blood disorder.

"I feel like I'm going out there to Beijing and doing this for Michael and making Michael proud," Torres says. "And hopefully putting a smile on his face.

No one could pull off this without personal trainers, coaches, nutritionists, personal masseuses, personal stretchers, and the list continues.

I love you guys!

Hamptons Magazine published the pretty people list

Hamptons Magazine (August 1-7 2008) published the list of the pretty people on the beach. I am on that list :)

Thank you Hamptons Magazine.

Another way to use sauna at your local gym

A manager at a New York Sports Club was walking through the women's locker room a few years ago when she smelled cheese. Puzzled, she opened the door to the sauna, where a woman had placed bread and cheese on the hot rocks to make a postworkout grilled cheese sandwich. "Not only was it a health code violation, it was not really respectful to the other people in the sauna," says NYSC PR director Linda Hufcut. "She said, 'I do this all the time.' That was, obviously, the last time she ever did it.'"


This is not a joke. It is a true story

Are you complaining?

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas and taking actions.

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Too old for working out? When your body really starts going downhill

Working as a personal trainer here in NYC I get always questions like Am I too old to start working out or when am I starting to lose muscle mass?


MUSCLES start ageing at 30.

Muscle is constantly being built up and broken down, a process which is well balanced in young adults.

However, by the time we're 30, breakdown is greater than buildup, explains Professor Robert Moots.

Once adults reach 40, they start to lose between 0.5 and 2 per cent of their muscle each year. Regular exercise can help prevent this. That's why it is very important to exercise on a regular basis.

French doctors have found that the quality of sperm starts to deteriorate by 35, so that by the time a man is 45 a third of pregnancies end in miscarriage. But good news is that with working out and good diet you can reverse that process.

HEART starts ageing at 40.
The heart pumps blood less effectively around the body as we get older.
This is because blood vessels become less elastic, while arteries can harden or become blocked because of fatty deposits forming on the coronary arteries - caused by eating too much saturated fat. The blood supply to the heart is then reduced, resulting in painful
angina. Men over 45 and women over 55 are at greater risk of a heart attack.


Good news here again is that you do not need to eat crap to block your arteries, so you can have a healthy heart for a long time.


BONES start ageing at 35.

'Throughout our life, old bone is broken down by cells called osteoclasts and replaced by bone-building cells called osteoblasts - a process called bone turnover,' explains Robert Moots, professor of rheumatology at Aintree University Hospital in Liverpool.

Children's bone growth is rapid - the skeleton takes just two years to renew itself completely. In adults, this can take ten years.

Until our mid-20s, bone density is still increasing. But at 35 bone loss begins as part of the natural ageing process.

This becomes more rapid in post-menopausal women and can cause the bone-thinning condition osteoporosis.

The shrinking in size and density of bones can lead to loss of height. Bones in the back shrivel up or crumble between the vertebrae. We lose two inches in height by the time we're 80.

No Matter How Old are you, you can get great benefits from weight training. Some people start weight training first in 5o's and end up looking great.
Let's list some of weight training benefits:

1. Weight training tones your muscles which looks great and raises your basal metabolism... which causes you to burn more calories 24 hours-a-day. You'll even burn more calories while you're sleeping.
2. Weight training can *reverse* the natural decline in your metabolism which begins around age 30.
3. Weight training energizes you.
4. Weight training has a positive affect on almost all of your 650+ muscles.
5. Weight training strengthens your bones reducing your risk of developing osteoporosis.
6. Weight training improves your muscular endurance.
7. Weight training will NOT develop big muscles on women....just toned muscles!
8. Weight training makes you strong. Strength gives you confidence and makes daily activities easier.
9. Weight training makes you less prone to low-back injuries.
10. Weight training decreases your resting blood pressure.
11. Weight training decreases your risk of developing adult onset diabetes.
12. Weight training decreases your gastrointestinal transit time, reducing your risk for developing colon cancer.
13. Weight training increases your blood level of HDL cholesterol (the good type).
14. Weight training improves your posture.
15. Weight training improves the functioning of your immune system.
16. Weight training lowers your resting heart rate, a sign of a more efficient heart.
17. Weight training improves your balance and coordination.
18. Weight training elevates your mood.