Transitions Lifestyle System™
By Lisa DeCoste MS, DPT, OCS
A new healthy lifestyle and a new you! Transitions is a comprehensive lifestyle system designed to help you achieve your weight loss goals and be healthy!
Transitions is an extensive plan that covers everything you'll need to get fit and trim, not just a set of foods you can or cannot eat. In fact, a big part of the Transitions Lifestyle System™ is helping you make healthy choices while still eating a normal, diverse diet!
The Transitions Lifestyle System™ includes: low-gylcemic index (GI) meal plans, a daily journal to guide you, weight-management supplements to accelerate weight loss, entrees, bars and shakes to keep you on track, behavior modification and support materials to ensure your success, an interactive Web site to track your progress and more!
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Here we are in round three, approaching the midpoint of the competition and School St. continues to hold the lead. Not far behind, our Seekonk St.office jumped two spots to take second place in both the pedometer steps and exercise minute's portion of the competition. Holding on to second place in the weight loss portion is our Barrington office. If you would like to share your fitness success stories to help motivate our newsletter subscribers, please e-mail them to Adam Ware .
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Balance;
The Missing Link in Your Exercise Routine
By Michelle Collie, PT, DPT, MS, OCS
For most people, when they think about physical health and exercise they think about strength, flexibility and cardiovascular fitness. There is however, a missing link! The component that decreases the incidence of an elderly person falling and fracturing a hip or a young female athlete from a dreaded ACL injury.Ensuring optimal balance may assist in preventing a life changing injury.
Part 1: Balance and Fall Prevention
Falls among older people are common, costly and debilitating. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for people age 65 and older, every 18 seconds someone is treated in a hospital emergency room for a fall-related injury.
Incorporate balance activities into your day on a daily basis. This will allow you to maintain safe balance abilities, and to assess changes in your ability to balance (in which case you would follow up with your physician.) Try these anytime, anywhere balance exercise.
Single Leg Stand
Stand beside a wall or a sturdy chair and lightly hold the support. Raise one foot off the ground. Maintain your balance while standing on one leg. Hold for a count of ten seconds. Repeat with other leg.
*Take the challenge: Let go of the support and stand on 1 leg for 10 seconds, next, close your eyes. Incorporate this into your daily life by standing on 1 leg when brushing your teeth, or waiting in line at the grocery store.
Tight-Rope Walk
Walk heel-to-toe by placing your heel just in front of the toes of the opposite foot each time you take a step. Take 20 steps forward then walk backwards along the imaginary line.
*Take the challenge: Try doing the walk with a paper plate on your head or alternatively turn your head to the left and right as walking.
Brian Hay, MSPT, DPT, OCS provides guidance to Mrs. Keough as she walks heel-toe
For the complete Balance for All resource please click here |
Based on latest studies, it has been found that it doesn't matter if you go running every morning, or you're a regular at the gym, sitting for long periods is bad for you. If you spend most of the day sitting - in your car, your office chair, on your sofa at home- you are putting yourself at increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, a variety of cancers and an early death. To read more 
