You know the saying you can’t run away from your problems? Maybe you can. Or at least reduce the impact. Exercise, and particularly running, may erase the long-term effects of stress on your brain health. Exercise can prevent your brain from suffering the negative side-effects of chronic stress. We can’t always control our stress, but we can control how much we exercise. A …
Little by little, then all at once.
Has this ever happened to you? You have a small window to exercise and it keeps shrinking. Do you go? Even for a short workout? Or skip it? That was my choice. I had to be out the door for my run by 10:00 and it was 10:20, realistically I wouldn’t be ready for another 20 minutes. My window of …
12 Days of Fitness
Tis the season It is the month of eating and entertaining. Winter is almost here with dark days, cold weather and all the holiday season has to offer. Often this means less exercise and more calories, but it doesn’t have to be this way. You can stay active, maintain your fitness, your weight and your sanity with a plan to …
Strength training or cardio?
Cardio or weights? If you ask me a question about your fitness routine, you might have heard my standard answer, “It depends.” That is the best I can do without more information. Do you exercise for your health, or are you training for a specific event? Do you do only what you like, and the results are irrelevant? Are …
Five Fitness Benefits of a Vegan Diet
It is World Vegan Month For World Vegan month here are 5 ways eating a vegan diet improves your fitness. 1. Faster recovery from intense exercise. Exercise is good for us mostly because of the recovery process. Exercise improves our anti-oxidant defence system, a little muscle damage increases our resistance and makes us stronger. We can enhance this process with …
Exercise causes heart disease.
Did you know that physically active, middle aged, white, men are more likely to have plaque in their arteries? That doesn’t really seem to make any sense. According to researchers at the University of Illinois studying the physical activity levels of a group of men for 25 years it is. They found that the white males were more likely to …
Fitspiration
Fitspiration happens. I have been promoting the benefits of strength training for a long time and this weekend a miracle happened. My sister is going to start using her weight room! And she is not the only one. Women are interested in being stronger, not lighter. Getting fit has become a lot more than a weight management system. Being stronger …
Muscle = Health
Muscle means health. It is really that simple. Keep your muscles healthy and you will be healthy. That keeps me exercising even on days when I don’t really feel like it. I was at the gym the other morning and I started thinking about why other people might want to go to the gym. There was a team doing …
Bod Pod
You have 14 weeks until 2018. What? What is this all about? If you had a goal or a resolution for 2017 you still have some time to take action. You may remember my fall theme was to improve my fitness and prove that older doesn’t necessarily mean decline. I have started and I have taken action. I also set …
Invest in yourself at Canyon Ranch
When you make an investment what sort of return are you expecting? You may have invested in your education, career, portfolio, house, children, there are so many considerations. What is the long term vision that comes with these different investments? Do you expect modest, incremental changes to a successful future? Or are you more the get in/get out quick and …
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