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Women’s Fitness: A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed

Helping your friends can really help you as well. Recent studies have shown that women who regularly support their friends have lower blood pressure and experience less stress. Does that make you more inclined to answer the phone the next time one of your friends call needing a shoulder to cry on? If not, then perhaps the other findings of the study will. Not only can helping your friends help you to maintain lower blood pressure and even reduce your own stress, it can help you build confidence as well as cultivating the types of interpersonal and intrapersonal skills that … Continue reading →

10,000 Steps and Counting: My Fitness Book Is Not Interactive Enough. . .

I want to note here that the idea to average your steps, increase your daily average by 2,000 and then increase by 500 thereafter was not my original idea. Have you read the book The Step Diet? It is a great book explaining the power of walking to help lose weight. But again, weight loss is only a side effect of my real goal: to get back into shape. However, I now have a problem with my wonderful book. It’s not interactive enough. I have been religiously wearing my pedometer for awhile now. I have been very good about increasing … Continue reading →

Top Ten Best Fitness Goals You Can Set for Yourself

In an earlier article, we talked about the Top Ten Best Fitness Gifts You Can Give Yourself, let’s talk about the best fitness goals you can set for yourself as we approach the new year and a time for new year’s resolutions – this might help you clarify the resolutions you want to set for yourself and build your resolution plan. Don’t worry if you’re not sure what a resolution plan is, we’re going to talk more about that here over the next week as January 1st approaches. In the meanwhile, here are the top ten best fitness goals you … Continue reading →

The Fitness Week in Review October 21-27

Welcome to our last Fitness Week in Review for October. It’s been a busy week and month here at the Fitness blog. Don’t forget that we turn back our clocks an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday morning, October 29. So we all get an extra hour tomorrow and that’s always something to cheer about! So without further ado, here is our Fitness Week in Review: Saturday, October 21 When Is My Child Old Enough to Go Skiing? sought to answer a question that many parents have especially now that winter is approaching and many areas are starting to see snow. … Continue reading →

Fitness Essentials: Your Mindset

Of all the fitness equipment, doodads, gadgets, videos and more that are available out there to us to use, the greatest of our fitness essentials is our mindset. Our mindset helps to determine our success, our perseverance and our ability to adapt ourselves to our fitness programs. You can meet your fitness goals without all the expensive toys in the fitness industries as long as you have the right mindset. What are the important components of a good mindset? Honesty – You need the ability to be honest with yourself about your fitness program and about yourself. You need to … Continue reading →

The Classic Objections to Yoga

Last week we talked about whether or not being Christian makes yoga a questionable activity. Luckily, the answer was ‘no’ across the board. What about some other concerns that you may have about giving that yoga class a try? Here is my chance to debunk some of your possible objections. 1. “I’m not flexible.” I hear this one at least once a week. I understand that some of the poses may look intimidating. The crazy thing is that no one goes into other group fitness classes expecting to do what the instructor can do right away. Absolutely none of us … Continue reading →

Every One Needs a Day Off

As a good friend reminded me yesterday, working hard is great and it makes you dependable and reliable. These are fantastic qualities in the people in our lives – when we know we can rely on them and we can depend on them. But those who work hard and who populate the hours of their life with commitments and things to be done forget that along with working hard – taking down time is of equal importance. It’s important that our families can depend on us to not be so overworked and stressed that we forget what it is like … Continue reading →

Resolving to Exercise & Eat Right

Yes, it’s the day after New Year’s and for many of us that means heading back to work and the regular day-to-day activities that may have slipped over the last couple of weeks of the year. That means taking along your new year’s resolutions and putting them into practice as you get the kids back off to school, you return to work and other activities begin again. Consider the Following Ladies, consider the following as you try to blend your new resolutions in with your regular activities and you begin to change your shopping and activity habits – a new … Continue reading →

How to … Practice the Correct Technique

We discussed the fact that boredom is a factor in maintaining your workout program and not falling into a trap. There is another danger that can make you give up your workout before you have achieved your goals or felt any measured success. This trap is performing a workout incorrectly. Correct Form Every form of exercise has a correct form from walking to running to weight lifting to dancing in an aerobic class. You need to understand how to perform the exercises correctly so that you can maximize your results and minimize your risk of injury. While new exercises are … Continue reading →

New Year’s Resolutions – Where Do You Rank?

Are you ready with your New Year’s Resolutions? In just three short days, we bid farewell to 2006 and welcome 2007 into our lives. It seems like just yesterday we were facing the Y2K crisis as we prepared to roll the calendars over from 1999 to 2000 and now, we are just three years shy of turning it to 2010. I remember reading an article in 1999 that described the fact that we were living in an age when science fiction was no longer a fairytale, but becoming fact. No, we don’t have bases on the moon, but we are … Continue reading →