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Jul 29, 2020
5 min

Quarantine Bounce Back!

Did you pack on some pounds during quarantine? Have you been emotionally eating and avoiding exercise? I’ve got a step-by-step plan to help you bounce back from those quarantine pounds and get you into your best body ever… Step #1: Program Your Mind Your mind is your number one ally when it comes to achieving your goals. However, until your mind has been programmed for success, it will do more to derail your efforts than to help you. Take a few moments each day to visualize y

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Marc Ouellette

Jul 16, 2020
3 min

Bye-Bye Belly Fat

Want to make your belly fat vanish before your eyes? Uncomfortable fat around the stomach is one of the most common body frustrations that my new clients complain about. What’s tough is that losing body fat is a slow and steady process, rather than an instantaneous fix. However…after years of working at it, I have an extremely effective method for losing belly fat faster than ever, and I’d like to share it with you today… Simple 2-Step Fat Loss. This deadly, fat-incinerating

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Marc Ouellette

Jul 6, 2020
3 min

Do You Eat Too Much?

Are you larger today than ever before? It’s no secret that the size of the average adult has expanded over the last forty years…and studies show that potion sizes have grown right along with us. Researchers from New York University found that average portion sizes started to grow in the 1970’s, rising quickly in the 1980’s, and this phenomenon hasn’t shown signs of slowing. And it doesn’t stop there. Check out these eye-opening figures, provided by the National Institutes of

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Marc Ouellette

Jun 19, 2020
3 min

Want To Be More Flexible?

Ready to get started building a more flexible you? Here’s how… 1) Use a Foam Roller For many years, it was common practice to stretch before working out. In recent years, folks have ditched that advice for something better: lightly performing whatever you plan to do. Going to run? Walk and then jog before getting into a run. For those who want to take their routines to the stretchy limit, it’s time to use a foam roller. With a foam roller, you work to gently stretch your musc

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Let's Update Your Boring Exercise Routine

Marc Ouellette

Jun 13, 2020
2 min

Let's Update Your Boring Exercise Routine

Have you ever wondered if those minutes you spend working out at home or in the gym are burning fat or just time? Unfortunately if you are like 80% of the people training, time is the primary thing you're burning. I find it shocking that so many well-meaning folks are still exercising with such outdated notions of what constitutes an effective workout. I Don't Want That To Be You. Here are the top 3 outdated, time-burning exercise techniques to NOT DO: 1) Slow and Steady Card

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Marc Ouellette

Mar 8, 2020
4 min

Eating Fattening Restaurant Foods?

Your diet has a huge impact on your weight loss results. There’s no way around it! And if you’re eating many of your meals out at restaurants, or ordering takeout, then you’re going to want to keep reading because the average restaurant meal contains more than 1,200 calories. The truth is that most people have no idea just how many calories are in restaurant entrées, and this contributes to frustrating weight gain. In fact, the following information may shock you. Here are 5

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Marc Ouellette

Feb 27, 2020
3 min

9 Benefits of Strength Training

There used to be a time when very few adults included strength training in their fitness routine. It was thought of as extreme, unnecessary and even dangerous. Strength training is when resistance is used to challenge your muscles in order to gain strength and endurance. It can be performed with traditional weights, exercise bands, medicine balls, cable machines, sandbags, kettlebells or even just using your own body weight. Times have certainly changed as a multitude of stre

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Marc Ouellette

Feb 17, 2020
3 min

Basic Fat Loss Math

Would you like to be 50 pounds lighter just 12 months from now? Can you image how you would look? You’d look like a whole new, younger person. It’s actually much easier than you think, and I’m not talking about invasive, costly surgery, or grueling routines. All it takes is losing one pound each week. One single pound. Let’s break it down mathematically. A pound is 3,500 calories—spread that over 7 days and you need a 500-calorie deficit each day to lose 1 pound in a week. Yo

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Marc Ouellette

Feb 9, 2020
4 min

Ready For The Next Decade?

You are at the starting line of a brand new decade. The air is charged with possibility. Opportunity is all around you… This decade will inevitably pass quickly. In a flash, it will be gone, and you will be 10 years older than you are today. Other than 10 more trips around the sun, what do you want to claim at the end of this decade? It’s time for you to stick your neck out and to go to the next level. You know exactly what that means, you’ve thought about it. You feel the

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Marc Ouellette

Feb 3, 2020
3 min

#1 Fitness Habit You’re Not Doing

Start the new year off with this easy yet effective fitness habit, something that I can almost guarantee you’re not doing. By making this small change to your daily routine you’ll quickly find those unwanted pounds coming off quickly and easily. ***Warning: This fitness habit is going to sound so easy that you may be inclined to simply dismiss it. My advice is to try it out before writing it off as too easy.*** The simple fitness habit that you’re not doing is to drink a mini

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Marc Ouellette

Jan 19, 2020
2 min

Read...New Year’s Resolutions?

Happy New Year! Before you move forward to set new resolutions for 2020, let’s take a moment to look back and reflect on your results in 2019. Did you accomplish your goals this past year? (YES or NO)  If “NO” then answer these 5 Questions for insight into your failure. 1️. Were your goals clearly written down and reviewed regularly? If you’re ambiguous about what you are setting off to achieve then it will never culminate in anything concrete. By writing down your goals in s

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Marc Ouellette

Dec 31, 2019
3 min

Fitness Goals... Did You Forget?

Just because it’s the holidays doesn’t mean that your fitness goals no longer matter. In fact, if you lose sight of your fat loss goals entirely this month, you’ll have a seriously rude awakening come January 1st. I have a better idea for you…let’s keep you focused on your fitness goals while still making room for some fun this holiday season. This means that you’ll need to learn how to indulge with control. While that may sound like an oxymoron, it IS possible to let loose a

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Marc Ouellette

Dec 29, 2019
2 min

Is This Blocking Your Fitness Success?

Getting fit and healthy can be a challenge for a number of complex reasons that go deeper than simply calories-in versus calories-out. What you associate with “pain” and “pleasure” may be blocking your fitness success. You’re avoiding the WRONG pain. We are programmed to avoid pain and to seek out pleasure. Unfortunately, this can block your fitness success if you view healthy diet and exercise as pain to be avoided. Do you cringe at the thought of exercise? Does the idea of

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Marc Ouellette

Dec 14, 2019
4 min

Holiday Party Survival Guide

The time is here for parties, family dinners, and goodies around the house. This is a recipe for disaster, and if you’re not careful it could reverse your fat loss results quicker than you can say Happy Holidays! I’d like to make it easy for you to stay on track with your healthy eating, even while being tempted by all kinds of holiday foods during this festive time of year, so keep reading for 5 Holiday Party Survival Guide Tips… Holiday Party Survival Guide Tip #1: Don’t Ea

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Marc Ouellette

Dec 10, 2019
2 min

Choosing Hard Now or Hard Later?

Let’s face it, getting and staying fit and healthy is hard work. There’s all the effort that you have to put out in making wholesome meals. There’s the will power that you must muster in avoiding unhealthy (TASTY!) foods. There’s the energy that it takes to get out of bed early to get in a workout before the day begins. There’s the struggle to lace up your shoes at the end of a long day to head out and be active rather than diving into the comfort of the couch. To be fit and

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Marc Ouellette

Oct 29, 2019
4 min

Will You Ever Lose Weight?

If you get fat are you doomed to stay fat? According to a study conducted in the UK in 2015, less than 1% of the formerly obese will maintain weight loss for more than a year. Specifically, this broke down to just 1 man out of 210 and 1 woman out of 124. Participants in the study were told to eat less and move more, a method that failed to deliver long-term results. Clearly this sound bite advice wasn’t enough. Now I could launch into a debate over whether or not this study p

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Marc Ouellette

Jul 5, 2019
3 min

This Ever Happen To You?

That moment when you realize that it’s time to do something about your weight. It may happen when you’re looking in the mirror or standing on the scale. Your first thought is to go on a ‘diet’ but as quickly as that enters your mind the ghosts of a hundred diets past return…along with all the frustration. Then you wonder, why bother? The weight will come back, as it always has. Then you’ll be back in front of the mirror as discouraged as ever. The answer is not to go on anoth

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Marc Ouellette

Jun 11, 2019
3 min

Habits Give You Everything

Want proof that the habits you keep make all of the difference? Confucius said, “Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.” John Dryden famously said, “We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.” And Aristotle noticed that, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” It’s pretty clear that the habits you adopt will shape who you are. What are your habits? Do you eat the same thing for lunch, go through the sam

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Marc Ouellette

May 19, 2019
3 min

Let’s Get Ready For Bathing Suit Season

Spring break has come and gone and summer now looms on the horizon…and with it that dreaded moment when you’ll find yourself shopping for a bathing suit. Don’t fret, if you act now there’s still time to tighten up before hitting the beach. Do these 5 things NOW to quickly get yourself into bikini shape… 1. Eat more Veggies: Your mom was right, eating vegetables really is a good idea, especially when preparing to shimmy into a bathing suit. Why? There are a couple of reasons.

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Marc Ouellette

May 14, 2019
4 min

Better Than Crunches?

Your basic ab crunch is good, but isn’t the only effective way to get toned abs. It simply doesn’t activate your core muscles to the extent that other exercises do, it can sometimes hurt your back, and the small motion doesn’t do much by way of calorie burning. So why are you still just doing crunches? What the basic ab crunch does have going for it is its no-equipment, on-the-go nature. You could plop down onto the ground in a park, a hotel room, at the beach or at the gym

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Following CDC Guidelines

Quarantine Bounce Back!

Bye-Bye Belly Fat

Do You Eat Too Much?

Want To Be More Flexible?

Let's Update Your Boring Exercise Routine

Eating Fattening Restaurant Foods?

9 Benefits of Strength Training

Basic Fat Loss Math

Ready For The Next Decade?

#1 Fitness Habit You’re Not Doing

Read...New Year’s Resolutions?

Fitness Goals... Did You Forget?

Is This Blocking Your Fitness Success?

Holiday Party Survival Guide

Choosing Hard Now or Hard Later?

Will You Ever Lose Weight?

This Ever Happen To You?

Habits Give You Everything

Let’s Get Ready For Bathing Suit Season

Better Than Crunches?