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Walking Artfully: Doing It Right
You may not notice it, but you take hundreds of steps a day. Those steps provide you with numerous benefits — the health benefits from physical activity, the social benefits from walking with friends, and the mental benefits from taking time for yourself, to name a few. But if your feet don’t hit the ground properly, you could be missing out on the full potential exercise benefits of walking, AND you may ultimately be setting yourself up for unnecessary pain. Walking for exercise can help you maintain a healthy weight and prevent medical conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease. It’s less stress on your body than…
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Spring Exercise Routine
Spring is here, and it’s time to get moving! No more hibernating under thick blankets and bundling up in layers and layers of clothes. We have more extended daylight hours and warmer weather ahead, so let’s get ready to spring into fitness. At this time of year, when the weather is nicer, we have more options to be active. Whether you choose running, walking, swimming, or cycling, you’ll benefit greatly from incorporating more exercise into your daily routine. No, it doesn’t have to be a grueling session at the gym. A vigorous walk or a hike on a gorgeous trail is just as good. And variety is good, so mix…
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17 Essentials for a Healthy Lifestyle
In a previous article, we covered 6 Simple Ways to Kick-Start a Healthy Mind and Body. Here we’ll take it a step further and share recommendations on things you can use to support your new habits for a healthy mind and body. From books to bottles to cute yoga duds, you’ll have everything you need to make sure your self-care time is productive and enjoyable. 1. Essentials for a “Mindful” Morning Routine The highly-rated book Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World (Audio CD Version) by Mark Williams, Danny Penman, et al. provides an easy to follow, practical course to introduce you to the world of…
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Why People Fail with Their Fitness Goals
During the first couple of weeks of each year, gym memberships surge. Have you joined a gym at the beginning of a new year? How did that work for you? As part of resolutions to the New Year, many people decide they want to get in better shape. In those first two weeks, those gyms are crowded and hardly anyone can get time on the equipment. By the end of the month, the equipment is suddenly available. Most of those new members have stopped showing up. Fitness Goal Fail: What’s Your End Game? Why do people fail at their fitness goals? The first reason is that they don’t know what…
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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…
