Harley Pasternak Quotes

Cranberries are an ultra healthy fruit, but cranberry sauces are often so sugared down that it eliminates all their healthy benefits.

I tell all my clients to drink at least six water bottles a day.

If you want great legs, you need to train them all around, not just the front of the thighs. Use multiple joints whenever possible. And running stairs is one of the best things you can possibly do. It has little to no impact on your joints, and you’re working your glutes, hamstrings, and quads all at the same time.

It’s important to train your abs front to back, side to side, and all around to look great all around.

Just remember the letter ‘S’: salads, stir fries, scrambles, soups, smoothies and sushi. You can’t go wrong with the letter ‘S.’

Through my work as a nutritionist and trainer to celebrity clients, I’ve had amazing opportunities to travel the world. In my experience, I made what seemed to be a remarkable discovery: the farther I travel from the U.S., the easier it is to find foods that are both nourishing and slimming.

Dietary fiber provides a whole slew of health benefits when consumed in adequate amounts. It not only promotes ‘regularity,’ it also reduces your risk of several chronic diseases and plays a crucial role in successful weight loss.

Don’t let yourself get stuck without a healthy snack option. If you allow yourself to get famished at work, you’re going to be more likely to get your snack from the vending machine, and when was the last time you saw something fresh and healthy in one of those?

If you wait too long between breakfast and lunch or lunch and dinner, you’re more likely to be ravenous and overeat and/or make poor food choices.

I’ve never seen or heard of a healthy sausage or bacon of any kind.

I’m not a vegan – especially when it comes to protein quality. I stick with the traditional proteins.

All the healthiest countries don’t eat a lot of tropical fruits. They stay away from pineapples, mangos, papayas, and melons and focus on fruits that have edible skin, edible seeds, or are citrus fruits.

Whatever you need to increase the quality of your sleep is really, really important.

For the average person at home, they should know they don’t need a celebrity trainer. It’s all about your habits outside of the gym.

The United States is far too efficient. We’ve lost the ceremony of eating. People don’t eat at home and cook meals at home.

When I was a little kid, I was chunky. My mother would always joke she would have to get me husky jeans for larger kids. My wife reminds me sometimes, if I overdo it with chocolate chip cookies, that I will have to wear husky pants again.

You cannot out-exercise a bad diet.

I grew up in a typical Ashkenazi household. My bubbe actually lived with us. She’d make us the traditional colorless, beige, heavy foods: chicken soup, kreplach, gefilte fish, tzimmes.

Some antiquated diet books will tell you to shun all fats if you want to lose weight, but in reality, it’s not healthy to eliminate fat from our diets altogether.

Our bodies have a finely tuned, built-in detoxifying system: It’s called our liver, and it can detoxify our bodies better than any cleanse or fast without the unpleasantness and danger of muscle cramps, dehydration, and diarrhea associated with artificial cleanses.

Get yourself a pedometer. It’s an inexpensive device that fits in your pocket or clips on your pants and counts your steps.

Lentils, beans, and other legumes, such as chickpeas, are all excellent sources of fiber.

I grew up in a household where both my brothers had Type 1 Diabetes, so I was raised eating healthy food with healthy ingredients.

When you look at the fittest, leanest populations like Japan and Scandinavia, they don’t even go to the gym. The average person in Sydney takes 11,000 steps a day, and the average person in Houston does 4000. Guess who is going to be leaner, regardless of their diet?

There is almost a 60-year age difference between Miley Cyrus and Jane Fonda, and one day I trained them both. I would say I trained Jane in her 70s even harder than I did Miley, who’s a teenager. I think, as you become older, it’s not about working harder: it’s about working smarter.

There is no such thing as a cleanse. Cleanses tell you that you need to get rid of that piece of gum you swallowed in fifth grade that is still stuck to your intestinal lining. That’s not true.

Life is too short. If we’re in Italy, have pizza and pasta. But not every day.

If you don’t own traditional dumbbells, you can also use soup cans or bottles of water.

I got into bodybuilding very young – I was 13.

A lot of the weaknesses we have are based on a lack of lateral movement, which can set you up for injury. When you exercise in multiple planes, you see improvements in balance, mobility, and function.

A lack of electrolytes can make muscles sore.

Strengthening the lower back helps develop that sexy curve everyone wants from your back to your bum.

I hate greens. I hate vegetables, but greens – especially in a smoothie – are a great way for a big kid like me to hide my vegetables into the meal.

I’m a big sweet potato fan.

Pick one exercise a day, a different exercise each day of the week for a different body part. You’re setting yourself up for success because you don’t need to go to the gym, you don’t need any equipment, you don’t need anything.

When the biceps become too strong, it brings the shoulders forward and makes for a gorilla-like posture.

I’ve been a big fan of cottage cheese my whole life.

Some people might sleep eight hours and wake up exhausted because they’re not getting good quality sleep.

You want to try to keep your sleep and meal patterns attached to the time zone that you’re in. It’s important so you don’t feel disoriented. If we take a red-eye and land in Singapore at 8 A.M., we’re not going to bed. Force yourself to stay awake, have breakfast, power through the day.

All fats do not behave the same way in your body, and certain fats, including the omega-3 fats in salmon and other fatty fish and the monounsaturated fats in nuts, virgin olive oil, and avocados, are integral to a healthy diet.

Megan Fox finally listened to me… she is now a salmon fan. She will have salmon at least once a day. She’ll go have a bunch of salmon sashimi, and she’ll have a cucumber salad and miso soup and some edamame.

Cardio-based exercise involves moving at a moderate intensity, using many muscle groups at once. Think: walking, jogging, cycling, etc.

Your levels of cholesterol are primarily dependent on your own body’s production rather than the result of eating animal fats. Moreover, some forms of cholesterol are heart healthy.

Eating breakfast revs our metabolic engines so that they’re ready for prime calorie burn all day.

I review all the riders for my music clients and make sure there’s healthy food and snack options, like strained yogurt, fresh berries, and lean protein.