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Health Expert Coach Dave Weiss shares health management news and commentary at HealthCentral.com. HealthCentral.com is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties.

Give Me a Real Meal, Or Give Me…
In this blog, I usually try to dispense some vaguely helpful piece of advice based on a lesson learned from a borderline disastrous, self-inflicted episode from my life. Today, however I’m fighting back. Or, rather, I guess I’m just venting. See, for some time, one of the greatest incentives for me for completing grueling workouts has been the meal afterward. My life of extremes is far from an anarchical miscellany of unpredictable...
Performance Anxiety - Is It Really a Syndrome?
Working in the health industry, I find myself reading frequently about an assortment of diseases. Thanks to my neurotic tendencies, I have achieved an all too great aptitude at convincing myself that I actually have more than a few unpalatable conditions. At times, my faux self-diagnoses have been borderline ridiculous. Thank goodness for the far greater sensibility of the rowers of my former high school team who, on many an occasion, found...
Gym Class, the Tooth Fairy, and the Benefits of Accountability
The requisite weekly hazing incident aside, I miss high school gym class. Heck, for that matter, I miss grade school recess. Not unlike my relationship with the tooth fairy back in the day, I knew that gym class or recess was going to be terrifying and painful once in a while, but there were always good parts, too. For most of us, it has been a while since anyone ordered us to run around on a field kicking a soccer ball for forty-five...
The Many Powers of Preparation
In the world of fitness, peer pressure can be a very effective and positive force. It typically presents itself in the form of a friend or family member using all means short of violence to persuade you to trade your favorite house slippers for running shoes or your seat on the couch for one on the bike. Usually, your ornery resistance to your friend’s nagging gives way to gratitude after you have finished the workout: almost invariably, you...
Setting the Right Fitness Goals
A common and often debilitating flaw in our design of fitness goals lies in the identification of our underlying motivations for desiring to improve our fitness. Fundamentally, most of us don’t train to be able to finish a triathlon or jog a few miles because we want to lose ten pounds or have more toned abs. We follow through on the training regimen because we want to feel better about ourselves, and our minds associate more toned abs with...

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