You know the old adage, all that matters is calories in versus calories out. If you eat the exact same number of calories that you expend, you won't gain or lose weight. Well you know as they say at the Oscar Mayer plant, boloney! Hopefully, the notion that all calories are created equally will be squashed quicker than a Sumo wrestler eats a California roll.

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Cardio Only? Welcome to Temporary Results

Ever have that friend that loses impressionable amounts of weight throughout their gym crazes and seem to gain it all back within seconds of quitting the gym? Ok, well maybe not seconds, but perhaps weeks. Cardio increases your basal metabolic rate and increases your heart rate, burning up those unwanted calories, but primarily for the time being; that time being your time on the cardio machine!

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If you answered yes then that's kind of gross and I'm sorry to hear that. It's probably hard to find a workout partner (and a boyfriend) that way. All kidding aside, this is actually a natural occurrence among many women who regularly workout. It appears Scandinavian researchers are quite concerned with "young women leaking urine during exercise" and this concern has driven them to conduct a study finding a direct correlation between strenuous exercise and pelvic floor muscle fatigue.[1]

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It seems everybody's a personal trainer and a nutritionist nowadays. Sure, they wear nice attire, look fit and can probably stand on a balance ball while doing a shoulder press; but are they legitimate? It's a job title that's being thrown around so loosely nowadays. Unfortunately, for the unknowing and unsuspecting, there are too many half-ass personal trainers and nutritionists.

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