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Here is a guaranteed great start to your day Get up! (count to 10) Stand up! (slowly count to 10) Reach Your Arms Up And STRETCH (count to 10) Hang Over Your Legs (like a rag doll & count to 10) Roll Back UP, REACH & STRETCH (count to 10) Repeat numbers 3, 4 & [...]
A common concern about exercise is that if you don’t do it almost every day, you won’t achieve much health benefit. But a commendable new study suggests otherwise, showing that a fairly leisurely approach to scheduling workouts may actually be more beneficial than working out almost daily. For the new study, published this month in [...]
Ladies, you know the feeling. That slow, heavenly buildup of warmth and comfort that shortens your breath and explodes like a million tiny fireworks throughout your body, nearly paralyzing you with pleasure. Now, imagine that during your yoga or fitness class. A recent question from an anonymous reader goes something like this: Hi Allison. Recently, [...]
“To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” – Buddha When you don’t have enough time in the morning for your yoga practice or daily fitness routine, but still want to prepare your mind and body for the day, I [...]
Muhammad Ali once said: “I don’t count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count”. Do more and overcome your strength and abilities; give it all and you will be rewarded. Yogi Bhajan said: “Keep up and you will be kept up” I say: “When we [...]
We’ve entered 2013, and yet most of us think of exercise like it’s 1991. Let’s toss out the old and welcome the new. The old: long sessions of jogging, or marathon sessions on the elliptical machine or treadmill, or working every bodypart individually on a dozen different weight machines and dumbbell stations, doing circuits in [...]
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. - Goethe Excuses, excuses, and more excuses! (Not on my watch!) Making a commitment to stay focused on your health and fitness during the holiday season is the best way to avoid the extra five to ten pounds that many of us [...]
Just as we were all settling in front of the television to watch the baseball playoffs, two new studies about the perils of sitting have spoiled our viewing pleasure. The research, published in separate medical journals this month, adds to a growing scientific consensus that the more time someone spends sitting, especially in front of [...]
“Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states.” Carole Welch (This post was written a year and a half ago, at a time when I was feeling low and unsure of myself. But there was a sense that my spirit was rising again, following a long period of what felt [...]
My fantasy of living in a busseling downtown area where the streets are lined with buildings with tall stairway entrances and I meet them each morning to imprint my feet upon them most likely will never be a reality.. But this will not keep me from searching out staircases across the country in my travels [...]
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