The Fitness Factory
338 South Broad St.
Brevard, NC 28712
(828) 883-9832
HOURS:
| Mon - Thurs: | 6a-9p |
| Friday: | 6a-8p |
| Saturday: | 9a-5p |
| Sunday: | closed |
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To help fight the nation’s obesity epidemic, elected officials around the U.S. are getting into the business of legislating that restaurants post calorie and sodium content along with their menus. California enacted a law in July of 2009 mandating that fast food restaurants post calorie charts, following New York City’s lead for some [...]
How much would your life improve if you could literally put your behaviors on “auto-pilot” and eliminate the need for “teeth-gnashing,” “gut-it out” willpower?
What would it mean to you if you could automatically just eat the right foods and automatically carry out your workouts every day, without straining… without even having to think about it?
How [...]
Ingredients for Success
By Paige Waehner, About.com Guide
You already know how to lose weight…At it’s simplest, you need to burn more calories than you eat, right? And exercising and eating healthy is the healthiest way to do that, right? But, successful weight loss doesn’t start with your body–it starts with your mind.
As we’ve all discovered, the mind [...]
Use these little-known trainer tips to bust plateaus and make instant progress.
This article is all about strategy—the best methods for busting plateaus and making new size and strength gains. Tripple Sets: ”The key to building big muscles is to recruit as many muscle fibers as possible,” says Chad Waterbury, a strength and conditioning coach in Los [...]
Women who lift weights will be stronger and more capable in their everyday lives.
Weight lifting helps women to burn fat efficiently. The more lean muscle a female has, the higher your
resting metabolic rate will be. Someone with a fast metabolism will burn more calories than someone
with a slow metabolism doing the same amount of work.
When [...]
Follow these 10 rules for immediate and long-lasting muscle and strength
Strength is the foundation of nearly all physique and performance goals. When you’re strong, you more easily gain muscle size, lose fat, run faster, hit harder, play longer, and move more living room furniture for your wife. We’ve rounded up 10 no-questions-asked tips to help [...]
Tweak your current routine to drop more fat
Shorten Rest Periods.
Progressively shaving seconds off your rest period can help to raise your metabolism. Just don’t go too low. You need a minimum of 30 seconds’ rest or you risk burning out. The one exception: circuit training, which requires no rest between sets.
Train the Whole Body.
If you’ve [...]
Is no pain, no gain really true when it comes to exercise? Does the amount you sweat really correlate to the amount of fat you’re losing? Experts take a look at these and other fitness fables.
The world of fitness abounds with fables, from no pain, no gain, to drinking water before exercising can give you [...]
Diabetes care can be time-consuming. Here are some tips to help you keep up.
Sometimes, living with diabetes can seem like a full-time job — trying to keep up with everything you need to do for proper diabetes care.
“Diabetes is a very time-consuming disease to manage well,” says Karmeen Kulkarni, MS, RD, CDE, and former president [...]
Count down the absolute best foods you can pile on your plate!
It’s true. You really are what you eat. And that’s why some days you end up feeling more like a cream-filled Twinkie than the lean cut of beef you aspire to.
But you probably already know that. That’s why, like all of us, you’re most [...]
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“A Bank Unlike Any Other.”
Brevard, NC
(828) 884-6861
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