Heart Rate for Exercise
Most of us know one of the purposes of cardio exercise is to raise the heart rate. Cardio exercises the heart and lungs and is the fat...
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Karen Marcouiller
- Feb 10, 2020
- 2 min
Aging and Osteoporosis
Are you a women over 50? Did you know half of all women over age 50 will break a bone due to osteoporosis? If you’re a man, the odds are...
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Karen Marcouiller
- Feb 3, 2020
- 2 min
Build Endurance to Feel Like You Did 10 Years Ago
Have you noticed as you’ve gotten older how much harder it is to climb stairs? Walk longer distances? Keep up with the grandkids? Or even...
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Karen Marcouiller
- Jan 27, 2020
- 3 min
Emotional Eating. Understanding and changing habits.
Does reaching for a pint of Haagen Dazs or a bag of chips when you’re stressed sound familiar? If so, you may be an emotional eater....
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Karen Marcouiller
- Jan 21, 2020
- 1 min
Stretch and Strengthen
I was on a local afternoon show here in the Twin Cities last week. They asked me to come on to talk about strength exercises that can...
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Karen Marcouiller
- Jan 13, 2020
- 2 min
Six Tips for Safe Weight Training (especially as we age!)
Weight training as we get older is not optional. It’s necessary to prevent and/or reverse the loss of both muscle and bone loss that...
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Karen Marcouiller
- Jan 6, 2020
- 2 min
Top 12 Tips to Meet Your Exercise Goals
Yep, it’s that time of year. We’re done eating and drinking with abandon over the holidays and we want to get on the straight and narrow...
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Karen Marcouiller
- Dec 16, 2019
- 2 min
Why Diets Don’t Work (and What Does!)
Just the thought of a ‘diet’ makes many of us feel dread and overwhelm. To most of us it means highly restrictive calories, tasteless,...
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Karen Marcouiller
- Dec 10, 2019
- 4 min
10 Common Weight Loss Mistakes
Losing weight can be so hard. We feel like we’re doing everything right, yet still not getting results. There’s so much information out...
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Karen Marcouiller
- Dec 2, 2019
- 1 min
How Does Strength Training Help Me Burn Calories?
By now you’ve heard me talk (a lot) about the importance of strength training for a variety of reasons. One of those many reasons is to...
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Karen Marcouiller
- Nov 25, 2019
- 2 min
Want to Live Longer and Stronger? Â You Can Make That Happen with Strength Training.
Most of us have noticed the change is our body composition, strength and appearance as we’ve gotten older. We gain weight, we lose our...
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Karen Marcouiller
- Nov 18, 2019
- 1 min
Exercise for Brain Health
Many of the benefits of exercise are well known – it helps prevent heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Exercise helps with weight...
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Karen Marcouiller
- Nov 11, 2019
- 3 min
Ten Mistakes I See In the Gym
Skipping the warm up Warming up prepares our muscle and nervous system for exercise. It increases the blood flow to our extremities and...
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Karen Marcouiller
- Nov 4, 2019
- 2 min
Strong, Stable and Balanced
It’s safe to say we’ve all lost our balance at one time or another. Most of the time, if we’re lucky, we’re able to catch ourselves...
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Karen Marcouiller
- Oct 28, 2019
- 2 min
Protein Pro Tips
Protein is an important component of muscle and bone strength and weight loss and it’s important to make sure you’re getting enough. But...
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Karen Marcouiller
- Oct 14, 2019
- 2 min
Cardio for Weight Loss
Are you trying to lose weight? Most of us know the trick is to consume less calories than we burn. This can be accomplished by either...
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Karen Marcouiller
- Oct 7, 2019
- 2 min
Looking for Motivation?
Motivation Frustration This is a huge problem for so many people. I see it and hear about it aaaallll the time from my clients! Even as a...
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Karen Marcouiller
- Sep 30, 2019
- 2 min
Portion Distortion
My clients often tell me that they are eating all the right foods and exercising regularly, yet they’re still not losing weight. It’s so...
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Karen Marcouiller
- Sep 24, 2019
- 1 min
Walk for Health!
With cooler weather on its way (for most of the country) now is a great time to get outside and walk. Walking can be done anywhere,...
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Karen Marcouiller
- Sep 5, 2019
- 2 min
Strength Training 101
Have you ever thought about adding strength training to your exercise routine or simply starting an exercise routine with weights? Many...
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Karen Marcouiller
Personal Trainer and Health Coach
National Sports and Conditioning Association (NSCA)
American Council on Exercise (ACE)
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Serving Minneapolis and western suburbs clients in person or online, and clients nationwide online.
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