Do You Want to Lose Weight or Live Longer

Welcome to the GH School for Healthy Living where we do things differently. Our Chicago Personal Trainer team and experts develop individualized custom health and nutrition plans for EVERY client based uniquely on your health, lifestyle, and personal habits. We are educators who help our clients tak...

The Cardio Commitment

Like whales preparing for their continental migration, many Chicagoans bulk up to get through the winter freeze—be it through a few extra layers of clothing or a few extra pounds of fat. Now that the warm days of summer are coming, more and more of us are hopping on our tread mills, exercise ...

Why Cardio is Counter Productive

You see them everywhere, no not taxi cabs, Starbucks, or CTA’s, runners. Chicago must be one of the fittest cities with all of the cardiovascular fit people literally, running around. This may come as a surprise but Chicago isn’t in the Top 10 of 2009 Health Living’s Fittest Citi...

If It Was Easy, Oprah Would Be Thin

The majority of America is overweight, including one of the richest women in the world Oprah, last name need not to be mentioned because she’s that famous. If one of the wealthiest women in the world can’t take a magic pill or buy a machine to make her thin, then you can’t either! ...

How to Feel Young Again

Starting at the tender age of 30, adults will lose 6.5lbs of muscle tissue on average every 10 years. Do the math – that means by the age of 60 most adults have lost nearly 20 lbs of muscle mass. Why does that matter, you might ask? Well, the loss of muscle mass (the medical term is sarcope...

The Older You Get - The More You Should Lift Weights

  Vanity and athletic performance aside, adults of all ages, especially older adults need to be involved in routine resistance training exercise. You may think the idea is ludicrous, but 1 out of 5 older adults are affected by Sarcopenia. Sarcopenia is the degenerative loss of strength an...