Dangerous Curves Fitness Blog

PUTTING ON A SWIMSUIT ANYTIME SOON?  I AM HERE TO HELP YOU TO GET YOUR BEACH BODY READY AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE. My past training and experience of figure and bodybuilding competitions along with many years of training with other professionals and clients has given me the knowledge of what really must be done for one great beach body.  My "Fire Up Your Beach Body 1 and 2" videos instruct you through workouts that are fantastic to do at home or when you ...

You just hired a Personal Trainer to begin working with you for three months.  You want to lose 25 lbs and feel good about yourself; BUT, you have doubts in your mental ability to achieve this goal. 1. Create a mental pic of you succeeding and cement in in your mind.  Never disgard it; nurture it with positive words that you write on your vanity mirror and / or pics of "how you are going to look" placed on mirror and refrig. Always visualize yourself succeeding and immediat...

Ok, this quick, awesome vegetarian turkey dressing is a special family recipe I just pulled out of my Mom.  Let's hope she is not so savvy nor curious on her laptop to see this on my blog.  My german side of the family has many tasty and very different recipes but those recipes seem to die with the person who held it.  I am learning to share.  :) Vegetarian Turkey Stuffing 8 lb turkey requires:  1 bunch of celery with leaves and all, 2 large yellow onions 15 lb t...

Ok!  It is the New Year and the Health Clubs are packed!  What is the most disgusting thing you have seen at the GYM? I have been training in many gyms for quite sometime now and the first disgusting thing that comes to mind is seeing a guy pop his zits in the mirror on the training floor.   UGH! YUK      ...

First, how do you know if you have high blood pressure? BLOOD PRESSURE CLASSIFICATION Normal =  <120 over 80 Prehypertension =  120 - 130 over 80 - 89 Stage 1 hypertension =  140 - 150 over 90 - 99 Stage 2 hypertension =  160+ over 100 What is the new research in food plans and physical activity for putting the pressure on high blood pressure? Both reduction of sodium intake and weight loss are the focus of dietary management of blood pressure.  N...

I know we usually associate osteoporosis with the women and the female athlete, moreover, all the drug marketing campaigns seem to focus on calcium supplements labeled in pink to tie-ins with breast cancer and soy protein.  However, this type of osteoporosis  marketing is unfortunate for our men.  U.S. National Osteoporosis Foundation states that 20% of the 10 million Americans with osteoporosis ARE MEN.  in addition, osteoporosis in men is frequently unreported due to less...

In 2000, the American College of Sports Medicine one of the most highly-respected exercise science organizations, published quidelines for healthy adults to "perform a minimum of 1 set of 8 to 12 repetitions of each exercise to the point of fatigue."     In 2006, ACSM's guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription recommended that healthy adults "perform one set of each exercise to the point of fatigue."  In 2010, in the eight edition of ACSM's Guideline...

WHAT IS IN YOUR PROTEIN POWDER / DRINK? Protein powders / drinks are helping fuel the growing sales of sports nutrition products which now top $2.7 billion.  This is happening due to great marketing technique and your lack of knowledge of what to really believe about these products.  Protein powders / drinks attract the experienced and unexperienced person working on enhancing their physical fitness.  We tend to believe and trust the protein supplement&nb...

"Im gonna be forever young; do you wanna be forever young?"  What do you mean when you say, "it is to hard to have exercise in your daily routine and that you just cannot seem to find the time?"  I'm thinking that is not "it" at all; it is really that you lost your mojo; your zest for life.  You have fallen into the ditch of the mass march of drone thinking.  Drone thinking is drudging through life with constant thoughts of all the life obstacles that are thrown i...

DO YOU NEED A SELF-ESTEEM BOOST? Exercise will improve a person's body image whether his/her body changes or not. Researchers at the University of Gainesville, Florida, report the simple act of expending effort trying to get in shape at the gym is enough to make people believe they look better.  Having a good body image and higher self-esteem can boost all areas of your life, such as:  changing your attitude  improving your outlook on life giving you the confidence for a better ...