Author: Becky Wenner

As a fitness trainer – I KNOW that one of the most common reasons a person strays from their fitness regimen is time! Today people work long hours, have family commitments, and all too often can’t find enough time to get fit! We also live in a society where people travel constantly for work, business and leisure. This takes them away from their gyms, normal routine and is all too often plagued with restaurant food! As a result of these emerging lifestyle trends, the demand for portable workouts has increased dramatically! Portable workouts are great for when there is no…

Jump Rope is an awesome form of exercise. It offers an excellent form of cardiovascular training as well as full body strength training, resulting in fat loss and muscle growth for a nice healthy sculpted body. What’s more is, it is cheap, easily transportable, is easy to do and can be done anywhere! I typically like to create HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) workouts using the jump rope; combining jump rope intervals with strength training moves to ensure a full body blast in minimal time. These workouts provide clients with an intense full body routine that is portable and efficient.…

Nutritional experts have referred to breakfast as the most important meal of the day. It is the first meal of the day and is used to break the extended fast from the last meal of the previous day. It is the meal that jump starts your body including your metabolism! In recent studies it has been found that people who skip breakfast tend to eat more calories throughout the day. And those who eat fat and sugar laden breakfast meals, they tend to crave more sugar and fat throughout the day. So, it is important to eat a good healthy…

Healthy snacks are the key to any health and wellness plan! Remember kindergarten? You would get fed breakfast before school, mid morning snack, then lunch, then after school snack and dinner! Wasn’t life grand? When trying to control your weight, eat proper portions and make better food choices, healthy snacks are essential. People tend to believe that eating less is better! Quite to the contrary! Eating constantly throughout the day ensures your metabolism continues to function, and prevents extreme hunger at meal times. Extreme hunger at meal times can be dangerous to your healthy eating plan for several reasons. First,…

A common complaint I hear from clients I train is FOOD sabotages their health and fitness goals. Most often I hear about the inability to control food choices and cravings which leads to unhealthy late night snacking, over eating, and overindulgence in processed and sugar laden foods. The truth is, we are all human, and by our very nature we are drawn to fatty sweet foods as a form of our most basic instinct of survival! However, we no longer live in the harsh environments we used to and unfortunately, food, fat and sweets are in abundant supply! Clients often…

Becky Wenner has been a fitness enthusiast all her life. She began participating in competitive sports as a young child and has competed in events such as soccer, track and field, and swimming as a young girl. Becky is a practicing attorney who rediscovered her love of competitive sports as an adult while trying to better her health and well-being. This new-found discovery led her to participate in 5 fitness/figure competitions, a sprint triathlon and an Adventure Race! Becky attended the State University of New York at Albany for her undergraduate studies where she majored in Political Science and German.…