Just because the weather is cold, miserable and wet doesn't mean you can't do a great workout right inside your own home. Actually most of the bodyweight exercises are the hardest to do and you can have lots of fun with the different combinations. Bodyweight exercise got its name because your own body provides all the resistance needed to help you get fit. You can address every muscle in your body with hundreds of exercises that can be performed in a small space and adapted for your fitness level. It’s a simple answer to the challenges of weather, time constraints, finances, or just plain boredom.

In this article, I am going to share with you a snapshot of one of my lessons from my Metabolic Typing Nutrition Program I teach each week. This would be the MOST IMPORTANT lesson I go through in my 6 lesson course and basically is something you never cease to do. Like anything the more often you practice, the better you get. Or should I say, the better you get at listening to your body’s needs and therefor better equipped to make the right choices. All too often people say to me “just give me a plan to lose weight and I will follow it”. This is impossible for anyone to know exactly what foods YOU are going to need each and every day, as we all so completely different. You can give you a basic plan to work from but the real art of getting the results you are looking come from having a great understanding of your body's needs in with vitamins and minerals needed to sustain life.

In all of my years training clients in rehabilitation, usually the simplest methods are the most effective, but are also the methods often overlooked by many when searching for answers to their injury. And when it comes to chronic back pain this is often the case. Don't get me wrong there is a lot of things that will need to be addressed and looked at in order to effectively treat the problem for a long term success. But we are so often blinded by symptoms and looking for ways to get out of pain and asking what you can do to "fix me", we forget to ask the better question being, WHY am I in pain? What is the cause of this problem? What are the things I keep doing to aggravate my condition? When you find the answers to these questions you are halfway towards the road of full rehabilitation and never suffering with your problem again. This article is not to diagnose you or put a label on your pain but show you a very simple methods of narrowing down the focus on WHY you have pain in the first place. This then narrows down your choice of corrective strategies to use.