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Where Food Comes From: Spotlight on California Dairy
Like you, my career passions are promoting wellness, fitness and nutrition to athletes. Outside of work, my passion is traveling. Combining my career and personal passions, I went on a journey to...
View ArticleSelf-Care for Fitness Professionals
We’re in that calm space between holidays when it’s critical to stay on track with self-care and good nutrition. Fitness pros show up like champions to help clients improve their holistic health, but...
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Dietary Defenses and Nutrition for Immunity
Nutrition has a significant impact on immunity throughout the lifespan. In the womb, a child acquires passive immunity by getting antibodies through the placenta and, after birth, through nursing...
View ArticleHave a Ball This Holiday Season
As health enthusiasts around the world sprint to the end of year, it’s important to take the time to enjoy the foods and activities that make you feel good this holiday season. Sunsweet is encouraging...
View ArticleFix Your Posture to Improve Your Performance
Poor posture is a modern-day issue that develops as a result of spending too much time rounded forward in front of computers and looking down at smartphones. But people’s posture isn’t magically...
View ArticleMagnesium and Diabetes Risk
Diet surveys suggest that only about half of Americans consume the recommended amount of magnesium from their diets—a trend that may play a role in the escalating diabetes rates. Adults in China who...
View ArticleCoaching Clients Based on Attachment Styles
For centuries, exercise has been prescribed to improve mental health outcomes. Interestingly, mental health theories used in psychology—like those involving attachment styles—can be used to improve...
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Degrees of Functional Abilities, Demystified
If there is one word to describe the functional abilities of older adults, it’s “heterogenous.” Chronological age is only a rough guideline as to functional age (i.e., a person’s capabilities)....
View ArticleProgramming for Exercise and Medications
As a fit pro, chances are good that you have exercise clients who take prescription medications. According to the CDC (2021), 48.6% of people have taken at least one prescription drug in the past 30...
View ArticleStrength Training, Veganism and Bone Fractures
Plant-based diets are becoming more popular, and it’s been reported that people who follow a vegan diet have an increased bone fracture risk. A new study offers good news to address the risk of...
View ArticleCaffeine and Athletes
While most athletes will claim they don’t do drugs, they may overlook the fact that caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive drug in the fitness world! Athletes of all stripes will turn to...
View ArticleMuscle Strengthening for Longevity
Research shows some benefits of using muscle strengthening for longevity. Muscle-strengthening activities are linked with a 10%–17% lower risk of heart disease, total cancer, diabetes, lung cancer and...
View ArticleWalking With Wearable Activity Trackers
Do your clients swear by their wearable activity trackers? Do you encourage them to keep track? It turns out you have an ally that you could use in your program design. Activity trackers encourage...
View ArticleIDEA History Timeline: 40 Years of IDEA Highlights!
As we close IDEA’s epic 40th anniversary year, let us pause for a few moments of nostalgia and enjoy the IDEA History Timeline. Updated every 5 years on major anniversaries, this much-anticipated dip...
View ArticleInclusive, Thoughtful Engagement
Happy Friday! During this busy season of parties and celebrations, it can be easy to overlook that there may be folks on your team or in your client community who may not feel the same holiday...
View ArticleThe Truth Behind Long Term Behavior Change
Behavior-change apps, health coaching systems or other approaches that are based on assumptions that few people can meet thwart achieving your client health and well-being goals. So, I’ll get right to...
View ArticleIDEA’s 2023 Resolutions!
Your clients—and potential new clients—probably share many of the most common New Year’s resolutions: Get in shape. Lose weight. Eat more healthfully. And your resolutions are most likely focused on...
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Mental Health and Wellness for the New Year
The pandemic has taken its toll on many people’s mental health. The American Psychological Association’s Stress in America poll revealed that parents, essential workers and people from communities of...
View ArticleCognitive Benefits of HIIT
A new study supports the cognitive benefits of HIIT: a 20-minute bout of high-intensity interval training on information processing. Researchers from multiple U.S. universities compared reaction time...
View ArticleBrain-Breath Connection
Science and technology confirm what yogis have understood for centuries—breathing patterns are linked with emotions, cognition and perception. Aarhus University researchers in Aarhus, Denmark,...
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