When learning a new exercise, activity, or fitness skill, it’s helpful to understand the stages of learning. Unconsciously Incompetent When you’re a beginner, often you don’t possess the kinesthetic awareness that enables you to execute a new skill well. You may lack muscle strength and endurance, balance, flexibility, and/or mobility that is preventing you from…
Women in their 40s and 50s can often experience weight gain, muscle loss, hot flashes, insomnia, bone loss, fatigue, emotional swings among many other symptoms. The average age of menopause is 51 years old, but the entire process can take up to 20 years for some women. It’s important to understand what can be done…
Most people despise exercise, find it a chore and struggle sticking with it. Here are 15 simple things you could do everyday that will dramatically improve your health without exercising: 1 – Stand on one leg while brushing your teeth. Balance is critical to reduce the risk of falling. 2 – Lightly tap your arms,…
“When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —C. Benetto Mother’s Day is just around the corner. How about stepping outside of a traditional gift like flowers and instead, giving a gift that will improve her overall health, increase her energy, reduce her pain, improve…
Hiking is a wonderful low impact activity that burns a ton of calories and is good for our lower body, heart, and lungs. There’s nothing like fresh mountain air and beautiful terrain. Research indicates that hiking outdoors is not just good for our physical body, but it is also a great way to keep our…
As we get older, we tend to lose muscle – approximately 7 pounds of lean tissue lost per decade with this loss accelerating after the age of 40. As a result, our strength and endurance is reduced, our metabolism drops resulting in weight gain, our bone density is lowered, our posture and alignment deteriorates, our…
Sugar may be the new smoking! In a large review of 73 meta-analyses — which included 8,601 studies — high consumption of added sugar was associated with significantly higher risks of 45 negative health outcomes, including diabetes, gout, obesity, high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, cancer, asthma, tooth decay, depression and early death. Sugar addiction…
One of the best actions you can take for your overall health is to avoid sitting for extended periods of time. Research has shown that regularly getting up out of your seat can burn 32% more calories than remaining seated and studies confirm people who gain weight, move 2.25 less hours per day. Another study…
It’s spring break for the kids, spring cleaning of our households and baseball spring training is in full swing. It’s common to feel more energized and motivated to reset and ramp up our health and fitness in the spring as well. Some people will tackle a 2-week focused effort, others get dialed in for a…
Low impact does not mean low intensity. Some bodies just can’t tolerate high impact movements, so it’s important to understand that there are many ways to achieve health and fitness results and give yourself an incredible workout without exposing your body to high impact forces. Low Impact Exercises Cardio There are plenty of activities, such…
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