We’ve all been told at some point to “trust our gut,” but now may be the ideal time to start thinking about your gut health. Your gastrointestinal health impacts nearly every other critical system in your body.  Your gut is responsible for removing toxins from your body, regulati

We all know that consistency is the key to achieving any fitness goal.  What you do consistently is far more important than what you do sometimes.  Lack of consistency is why a hard one hour workout once each week will never undo a consistently poor diet or why eating healthy onc

Often we think of summer as the time that we spend being more active, eating more fresh produce and living a healthier life, but fall may be the perfect season to get fit and start working towards new goals.  FitClub has four reasons fall is the best season for fitness.

How could something widely considered a stable of all three meals worldwide (and delicious) get such a bad reputation? Bread is often the first food many people give up or cut back on when they are trying to lose weight, but widely used by elite athletes when they are preparing f

You probably already know that to lose weight in a healthy and sustainable fashion, you need both cardiovascular and strength training in your routine.  But do you need both aerobic and anaerobic workouts to hit your goal?  FitClub breaks down the science and explains why both wo

Why does it seem that some people are natural born goal-achievers and others struggle to achieve any of their life goals?  If you think you might fall into the last category, you’re not alone and it doesn’t have to be this way.  FitClub has broken down two main reasons people fai

Sometimes you absolutely need a workout more for your mental and emotional health than for your physical health.  Like our physical health, our mental health can fluctuate from time to time and occasionally, all of us suffer from a feeling of malaise, whether it’s from grief, anx

If you’re trying to lose weight, you’re already aware that it’s calories in versus calories out, right?  So with that equation in mind, it might seem tempting from time to time to try to get ahead of the math by skipping a meal or two during a week.  Maybe you ate too many calori

First, if you feel the need to overindulge on anything from time to time, fruits and vegetables are still your best choice.  But is it possible to gain weight from eating too much of anything, even fruits and vegetables?  When you’re counting calories in and out each day, the tot

As we enter the dog days of summer, we still have many weeks left before the temperature drops and fall begins.  Fortunately, FitClub members workout inside where the high temperatures and higher humidity doesn’t raise the same concerns as might exist if you exercised outside in