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Feeling Stressed? Try These 5 Tips
Our lives are so busy, sometimes it can feel hard to breathe. We spend our days running around multi-tasking, doing endless errands, cooking and cleaning, working, and taking care of our families and the household. What Can Stress Cause? Doing all the things all the time without a break in sight can take a toll on both your mental well-being. You may find yourself more emotional, irritable, or depressed and you may struggle to stay focused. Health-wise, stress can trigger chemical reactions in your body and constant stress can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. This can ultimately lead to illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes. Learning…
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What Is Functional Fitness?
Happy Friday! If you have been reading my blog for any amount of time, you may remember that I like to post about different forms of exercise. One, I find them interesting and two, sometimes I learn something and might add an exercise style to the list of things I want to try one day. So what’s the exercise today? Let’s Get Functional Functional training, also referred to as functional exercise, is any workout that adapts or develops exercises that allow individuals to perform activities of everyday life more easily and without risk of injury. The truth is that just because you can lift heavy weights at the gym and…
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Try a No-Equipment Workout
Happy Friday! There are many ways to work on your fitness goals. Last week, I wrote a post about Getting Fit at Home. There were examples of how to set up your workouts at home with equipment or even home items. This post looks at setting up workouts with no equipment which can be done at home or anywhere! I have posted a brief article before about this (Deciding on a Fitness Program: Bodyweight) but this post is a little more detailed. No-equipment workouts are an excellent way to have a little more fun and variation with your exercise, and to not worry about spending any money. Here are some…
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How to Find Your Fitness Motivation
You know that exercising on a regular basis is good for you and have even chosen some great workouts to do, but maintaining your fitness motivation to keep going is another thing altogether. Fitness, like diets and new hobbies, are often easy in the beginning. You’re excited to try something new, you add them to your schedule, and feel ready to finally make it work. You’re determined that this is going to work, even if in the past you gave up after a few days or a few weeks. The problem is motivation. You need to keep pushing yourself and finding the motivation to continue, even on days when you…
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5 Ways Diet and Exercise Link to Happiness
It’s no secret that diet and exercise can affect your wellbeing. However, do you know how they contribute to happiness? Here, you’ll discover 5 ways diet and exercise link to happiness. 1. Releasing More Feel-Good Chemicals It’s a well-known fact that exercise releases feel-good chemicals in the brain. That’s why, when you’ve had a good workout, you often feel much happier. However, did you know your diet can also help you to boost those feel-good chemicals? Chocolate, specifically the dark variety, is known to release feel good chemicals within the brain. Just remember, you’ll want to opt for the purest dark chocolate you can find. You’ll also want to limit…
