The Great World Race & the Remarkable 7-Day Journey of Ellen Hunter Gans
The waiver for Antarctica was not especially comforting. In fact, according to Ellen Hunter Gans, it essentially boiled down to a simple message: if something goes wrong on the frozen continent, you're on your own. For many people, such a warning would serve as a compelling reason to stay home. For Gans, a lifelong traveler, writer, mother, and increasingly ambitious…
Why This Exercise Deserves a Spot in Your Workout
The Dumbbell Lateral Lunge Most people train in straight lines. We squat up and down, lunge forward, walk forward, run forward, and for a lot of us, lean forward at a desk during our work day. But everyday life—and most sports—require us to move through multiple planes of movement. That’s why I’m a big fan of the dumbbell lateral lunge.…
Tech Life with Taino: Why You Need to Stop Multitasking
The Hype of Multitasking Going to my first job interviews 15 years ago, I often got the question “Can you juggle multiple tasks at once?” I enthusiastically answered “Yes!” Hiring my first employees 10 years ago, I often asked the question “Can you juggle multiple tasks at once?” I enthusiastically got the answer “Yes!” Multitasking has been a trait to…
Boxing to Help with Parkinson’s
Experts have long had clear evidence that exercise helps slow the progression of Parkinson's disease. This means that exercise holds great promise for people like me. When I was diagnosed with Parkinson's a few years ago, I learned that one form of exercise – non-contact boxing – throws a particularly powerful punch. It sounds counterintuitive to put a person with…
How to Better Keep Resolutions
A short step-by-step guide to turn your ambitions into healthy habits! I've been there too. I've stood on the 31st of December thinking - this is the year. This is the year when I finally start the new habit I've failed to maintain over and over again. Often the resolutions are around health in some shape or form: starting to…
How to Reframe Compliments
There is a true grace to accepting compliments. Whether it is a kind word about your appearance or a colleague praising a job well done, most of us struggle to accept positive acknowledgments. Some of us even bat them away suspiciously, like skilled goalies, never allowing ourselves the opportunity to soak in the praise. What is it about compliments that…
6 Indicators for Healthy Relationships
When your situation is difficult or downright painful, your life will be better if you turn your attention to caring about others instead of waiting for and hoping that someone will care about you. When you feel sad or depressed, don’t wait for someone to be kind to you. Instead, find someone to be kind to, even if it’s simply…
3 Swimming Interval Workouts to Try
One of the most challenging parts of being a self-coached swimmer is figuring out what to do in your workouts. Because most people don’t have a background in coaching and set design, they revert to the simplest thing they know how to do, that is steady, low-intensity swimming for a set amount of time, e.g., swimming for 20 minutes straight,…
Can Alzheimer’s Disease be Caused by Bacterial Infection?
When most people hear the word chlamydia, they are likely to think of the sexually transmitted disease caused by chlamydia trachomatis. But two other species of chlamydia bacteria are pathogenic to humans: C. psittaci and C. pneumoniae. Chlamydia pneumoniae (CPn) is a respiratory tract pathogen that causes pneumonia and can be transmitted from person to person through inhalation of airborne…
How to Prepare for Open Water Swimming
Even though I have been teaching the art of swimming to children, teens, and adults for over 30 years, I still derive enormous satisfaction from seeing the look of enlightenment when one of my athletes accomplishes something in swimming that they didn’t think they could. This happens most often when it comes to moving from the controlled environment of the…
5 Steps to Take Charge of Your Future
The future is an interesting, unavoidable, inevitable and yet, highly influential time in all of our lives. It is something that is sure to happen but that we have a key role in influencing. Particularly in the area of goal setting and visual imagery planning, there is a lot of power in influencing our future by taking healthy steps now…
