Health and Wellness

How Alcohol Can Affect Your Body Composition

How Alcohol Can Affect Your Body Composition

If you begin a conversation about alcohol, you’re likely to get a chorus of varied opinions.

Your one friend swears that her daily glass of red wine will ward off cardiovascular disease, even if it’s at the expense of her six pack abs. Meanwhile, your gym buddy has a zero-alcohol policy in an effort to remain as lean as possible and avoid the dreaded “beer belly”.

Is it really possible to consume alcohol and still maintain a healthy body weight and composition?

The answer is somewhat complicated and likely depends on your ultimate goals.

Let’s delve a little deeper into the relationship between alcohol and body composition.

Functional Movement and Physical Therapy

Functional Movement and Physical Therapy

"Functional" is a trendy word in all things health related of late and it's no surprise why, especially for busy and driven New Yorkers. Functional is the basis of optimization and when it comes to health this makes the difference between making and breaking your goals. If you haven't taken a look at how to make your life more functional, then now is the time and the best place to start is with your body and how you move day in and day out. 

Movement Monday: Stretching 101

Movement Monday: Stretching 101

Movement and mobility are an integral part of a full, healthy lifestyle. Consistent stretching is often overlooked in the pursuit of physical wellness, but one of the most important parts of training your body and avoiding injury are consistent mobility exercises. Here are three mobility exercises that can easily fit into any New Yorker's busy schedule. Integrate these regularly into your routine and reap the benefits of mobility in your life!

Tackling Childhood Obesity: Help from InBody

Tackling Childhood Obesity: Help from InBody

According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention, the percentage of children with obesity in the United States has more than tripled since the 1970s. Today, about one in five school-aged children (ages 6–19) has obesity.

There's a big difference among the options of being big boned, overweight, and being considered obese, but most Americans don't really know the defining differences. It can be hard to tell by looking, or even by standard measurements, if someone is teetering on the edge of being overweight into the realm of obesity. This is where InBody comes to the rescue. 

Fitness and Fun Facts Newsletter

Fitness and Fun Facts Newsletter

Want to be on the inside track when it comes to your health and wellness? Join our newsletter mailing list and once a month we'll send you news from our office as well as from experts around the world regarding your health and wellness. 

InBody Explained: The Secret to Your Body Composition

InBody Explained: The Secret to Your Body Composition

Health and fitness goals require a certain amount of knowledge to really be successful. Most of the time people focus purely on the knowledge required around diet, nutrition, and physical conditioning but put little attention on their personal body composition.

Your Body and You: A Guide To Body Fat

Your Body and You: A Guide To Body Fat

From InBody, a company whose products we love to use in both of our New York offices. You can find InBody 570 in our Upper West Side and Westchester physical therapy offices

The mere mention of body fat conjures images of overweight, beer-bellied men or women with their jelly bellies and thunder thighs.

This is why you’ll find thousands of articles about losing body fat, or magazines loaded with front cover headlines that promise to get rid of x amount of body fat in x days.

Tone Your Thighs in Only Twenty-Five Minutes

Tone Your Thighs in Only Twenty-Five Minutes

The time has come.......

to finally destroy those last few pounds clinging to your thighs with SculpSure!

This pioneering body sculpting laser has been trimming waist lines for years and has now been cleared by the FDA as a body contouring procedure to tackle unwanted fatty areas on the thighs and buttocks. 

AlterG, Noraxon, and Those New York City Views

AlterG, Noraxon, and Those New York City Views

We're still running high from last week's National Running Day. 

And to celebrate, we're giving everyone with that running bug 50% off our world class machines in our New York City and Westchester offices. 

Monday Motivation: Fitness Hacks for the Week

Monday Motivation: Fitness Hacks for the Week

Mondays are important in setting the tone for your health goals.  Helping people create a healthy lifestyle is one of our missions as physical therapists in New York City. Whether you're getting back to sport after an injury or surgery, are an amateur athlete looking to push yourselves to the next level, or just need to get back on your fitness routine after falling off the wagon, we have the hack for your fitness success. Monday motivation, here we come. 

SculpSure in the News

SculpSure in the News

It's that time of the year again- beaches are getting crowded and the Hamptons are waiting for New Yorkers to get up and out of the heat. Maybe you didn't have time to get your laps in around the Central Park loop or log your running miles with your training group like you'd planned, but that doesn't mean you can't confidently work your way into your swimsuit. Body Sculpting to the rescue!

Jennifer Aniston's Secret Fitness Weapon

Jennifer Aniston's Secret Fitness Weapon

For the past twenty-two years Jennifer Aniston has been stunning and wowing audiences with her sleek physique. Part of Aniston's appeal is her "girl next door" beauty and the impression that her long legs can be achieved without the glitz and glam (or big bucks) of the rich and famous. 

Jennifer has always credited her fitness routine of yoga, pilates, and cardio to her timeless beauty, but her newest fitness secret is taking Hollywood by storm: Physical Therapy

Speed Drills

Speed Drills

New York City is alive with the sights and sounds (and heat....) of Spring and it's proving why this is the best time of the year to take running drills to the next level. The days are longer and warmer and they're leaving just about everyone with more energy and joie de vivre. After a long winter inside, there's not much that's better than stretching your legs for a long run through Manhattan's Upper West Side or along the river in Westchester. 

Monday Motivation: That Surfer's Six Pack

Monday Motivation: That Surfer's Six Pack

It's that time of the week again........

Monday Motivation!!

Get that six pack without taking a beating from the waves at Rockaway or train to get stoked for the weekend!

Either way, our SurfSet workouts will have you starting your week off on the right foot and give you that head-start on the rapidly approaching bikini season. 

Know Your Fats: The Impact of Dietary Fats on Body Composition

Know Your Fats: The Impact of Dietary Fats on Body Composition

In 1980, the USDA released the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which labeled fat as bad and ultimately gave credence to the idiom “you can’t unring a bell.” Have you noticed the abundance of low-fat or fat-free options on the shelves? Do your friends refuse to eat a particular food because it has “just too much fat?” Despite current popular opinion, since the release of those guidelines, national obesity rates have skyrocketed from approximately 15% to 35% of the population today.

What You Need to Know About Running and Body Composition

What You Need to Know About Running and Body Composition

Running has long been a popular sport due to its accessibility and cardiovascular benefits. The styles of running are as varied and diverse as the individuals who take part in the sport; from sprinting to marathoning to even a light jog at the park after work, running is a sport in which almost anyone can partake in.

Why Your Body Composition Isn’t Improving When You’re Doing Everything Right

Why Your Body Composition Isn’t Improving When You’re Doing Everything Right

I lift, do cardio, and eat clean-- but I can’t seem to build more muscle. 

I dropped a few pounds for the first few weeks, but nothing has changed since then.

I’ve been running three times a week; yet my body looks the same! 

If any of these statements sound like you and you’re frustrated by the lack of body composition progress, you might be wondering if you’ve been doing everything wrong.  

What is really going on?