Double Eagle Fitness: Making Marin County Safer One Person at a Time
Double Eagle Fitness shows how to be safe in 2012 by Shelley Klaner A perfect resolution for the new year is to take care of yourself — not just by losing weight or giving up sugar or smoking — but learning how to protect yourself through basic self-defense. Sometimes when living in a small town, […]
Read MoreMotivational Monday: How Bad do You Want it?
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do. – Thomas Edison “Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.” – John F. Kennedy Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to […]
Read MoreFresh Friday: Fast Fall Comfort Food
The leaves are changing, the air is chilly crisp, and I can’t get enough soup! I absolutely have to share my method for the most amazing, nutritious, filling, comforting, soup ever. It’s so easy to make: 15 minutes without broth. 75 minutes with homemade broth. Here’s how the magic happens: Step 1) Make your broth. […]
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Workout Wednesday: The Power of Breath
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svl-1XEU28s&w=420&h=315] Did you know that at rest, we only use 10-15% of our lung capacity? Muscles at work demand more oxygen than muscles at rest. Breathing properly during exercise improves strength, prevents dizziness, and can burn more calories. Watch Coach Beqir’s demonstration video below. Oxygen plus water equals weight loss. For a detailed explanation […]
Read MoreMotivational Monday: Handling the Holidays
Let me just get through the holidays and then I’ll start my fitness and nutrition regimen. How many times have you made this excuse? How many times have you succumbed to cultural procrastination in order to pig out from Halloween to New Year’s Eve and then attempt to go extreme come New Year’s Day? Here are three simple […]
Read MoreFresh Friday: I Don’t Have Time to Cook
Nutrition is 70% of a weight loss and weight maintenance battle. If you fail to plan you plan to fail. If you don’t have time to cook here are two strategies to plan ahead on Sunday and assemble healthy balanced meals and snacks that will keep your metabolism burning fat and building muscle. Post your favorite go-to meals and […]
Read MoreWeight Loss Wednesday: Robin in Onederland!!
On June 24, 2011, 55 years-young, 238 pound Robin Schaefer was vacationing in Hawaii reading this Patch.com article about Double Eagle Fitness: http://novato.patch.com/articles/novatos-double-eagle-fitness-a-match-made-in-mosul Five days later she was back in Novato sitting in our Hamilton office letting Beqir pinch her with red skin-fold calipers. She let us measure her. She let us conduct the standard […]
Read MoreHappy Halloween: Caesar & Cleopatra
We all know the story: the dashing Julius Caesar takes control of Alexandria to resolve a dispute between Cleopatra and her brother, Ptolemy. While in Alexandria, Caesar develops an intense relationship with Cleopatra as he instructs her how to wield her power-motivation. In honor of Beqir’s first American Halloween, we dressed up as Caesar and […]
Read MoreFresh Friday: Trick or Treat
Halloween is my all time favorite holiday. For those of you in the process of losing weight and maintaining weight, guess what? HALLOWEEN IS NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF!!! For those of you following our program then you have saved up for this special sugar-infused day, haven’t you? After immaculate eating from October 1-30, now […]
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