FITNESS
Fitness, exercise, and getting in shape are covered here.
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Tips to Maintaining a Healthy Walking Technique
It’s been a while since I wrote about any exercise on this blog. I have started walking more regularly because I have an accountability partner! To make walking even easier, enlist a friend or family member to walk with you. Both of you will reap the benefits of walking when consistently using a healthy walking technique. One of my closest friends and I have started walking 3 times a week. I’m excited about how this will work. In celebration of my new-found exercise plans, this post reviews tips about how to make your walking regimen as successful as possible. Successful Walking Tips Have a Good Technique Walking, as a way…
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6 Ways to Stick to Your Weight Loss Goals
[disclosure] Setting weight loss goals is great, but the hard part is sticking to the plan and reaching your final goal. This entire concept is new for me because I have been a lifelong thin person who never really had to think about her weight and I now want to lose a few pounds – not just tone up. Most of my weight gain is mostly due to the anti-rejection meds and not being able to work out after my transplant. Now that fall is here, the weather is a little less oppressive (Houston) so exercise may be a bit easier. Maybe you want to reset after a fun…
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Make Your Walks Count: How to Improve Your Burn
[disclosure] It’s easy to allow your walk for exercise session become a leisurely stroll around the neighborhood. I’ve been there. But if you’re going to utilize walking as a form of exercise, know that there are some ways to increase your fat burn. How Fast Should You Walk to Burn Fat? It makes sense that to burn fat and ultimately lose weight, you must get your body into fat-burning mode. But just exactly how do you tell your body to burn stored fat instead of pulling from available sugars? By warming up first! First, the Warm Up To wake up your muscles and let them know you’re in this for…
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What Do You Want Out of Life?
[disclosure] I know I have touched on this topic before, but circumstances have brought these questions back to the forefront again… I’m sure many of you have experienced the same thing – you lose someone important (parent, child, spouse, friend) and you start asking questions –which you may have asked and answered in your life—about your purpose and your goals. So here I am –doing a quick deep dive again. Are You Where You Want to Be? It’s hard to set goals when you aren’t even sure what you want out of life. Plenty of people stumble around and wing it. For some of those people, that could work. They…
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You Need a Better Water Bottle
Thanks to my sponsor, Hidrate Spark, for supplying the free product to help me write this post today! [disclosure] Today is all about hydration. It’s a huge mindset shift for me. I didn’t drink much water or at least nowhere as much as I should have when I was younger – even while working out. But since the kidney transplant, I have been drinking up! The doctors told me that transplanted kidneys really didn’t appreciate dehydration – and that was all it took! Since then, I have always had a plastic water bottle in hand and was manually entering my intake into an app to watch my hydration levels.…
