Fitness Notes: How Do You See Yourself?

I was reading Kaye’s blog Confessions of an Avid Exerciser: My Deep Dark Secrets yesterday and I found myself grinning. I couldn’t fault the reason why she loves her daily exercise and what keeps her motivated. I like to eat too – in fact, I hate dieting with a raging passion. I hate being told I can’t have something to eat that I like a lot. It’s probably a psychological problem, but I don’t see myself that way. I just see myself as someone who enjoys life and so I look at my exercise as a way that I get … Continue reading

Your Week in Fitness – Things We Have Learned and Discussed Sept 4-9

Welcome to a new feature that I plan to deliver every week here in the Fitness blog. Saturdays are a time where we can recoup from the week, but also to see where we’ve been before moving on to where we are going. With that in mind, every Saturday, I’ll provide you with your fitness week in review and discuss some of the highlights of our previous week here in the Fitness blog. Please let me know what you think of these reviews so I can help tailor them to your needs! September 4 Labor Day was a day for … Continue reading

Mirror, Mirror: Reinventing Your Own Self-Image

It’s easy enough to say that you love yourself and that you find yourself beautiful. It’s easy enough to say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but many times we use these platitudes with only a wishy-washy sense of personal belief. This is one of those instances where you need to truly focus on yourself and see yourself not through the murky lens of negativity. Remember, as I have said many times that fitness is about a wholeness between the mind, the body and the spirit. Fitness success in exercise is because you not only reap the … Continue reading