Rewire Your Life with Self-Care

Rewire Your Life with Self-Care

It seems like everyone is talking about self-care lately — but how many of us know what self care actually means? It’s such a broad concept, and that can make it hard to pinpoint exactly what it means to practice self care.

During this time of year when people are setting resolutions and intentions for the next year, I’d love to make 2019 the year when we resolve to embrace and practice self-care. I believe that in caring for ourselves, we open up a new world of love and possibilities. But to practice self-care we have to really understand what it means and how it affects and involves all aspects of our lives. Continue reading →

Renew your Health with the Vegan Challenge

Renew your Health with the Vegan Challenge

Whether to improve your diet, lose weight, or increase your health baseline, a great way to make sure you implement your New Year’s resolution is with The Vegan Challenge.

In The Vegan Challenge you will discover delicious ways to incorporate raw and cooked vegan options into your daily diet. For those of you who aren’t cooks, you will also learn how to and where to find prepared healthy food options. Continue reading →

7 Tips for Brain Health

7 Tips for Brain Health

One of the best things you can do for your brain and for your future health is to feed your brain the nutrients it desperately needs. When you feed your brain only what you most desire, fast food, baked goods and other nutritionally deficient foodstuffs, you fail to fulfill the nutritional requirements of the brain. The brain requires specific nutrients for the regeneration of brain tissue and maintenance, as well as foods and substances that positively impact neurotransmitters, the brain’s chemical messengers. Continue reading →

5 Keys for Tactical Fitness Success

5 Keys for Tactical Fitness Success

In the world of Tactical Athletics, many mistakes are made by members of the military, police, and firefighting communities on both ends of the fitness spectrum. There are a few different segments within the community that tend to mirror society’s issues.

There are those who quit training after boot camp or police/fire academies and start to gain weight and get injured on the job.  There are those who go hardcore everyday with little to no recovery cycles. And there are those find the right balance of workouts to help with job performance, mobility, recovery, longevity, and probably most important – stress mitigation.  With the later being the optimal goal for the tactical athlete, here is a list of ways to ensure better tactical fitness success: Continue reading →

Fit as a Navy SEAL – Warrior Workouts

Fit as a Navy SEAL - Warrior Workouts

Ultimate Collection of Military and Tactical Fitness Workouts

Setting the new benchmark for challenging yet rewarding workout collections, Warrior Workouts, Volume 3 takes full advantage of the exercise expertise of legendary fitness expert and former Navy SEAL Stewart “Stew” Smith. Don’t settle for second-best when it comes to your fitness—push yourself to turn your everyday workouts into warrior workouts. Continue reading →

Bike Your Way to Fitness

Bike Your Way to Fitness

Low impact, time efficient, and adjustable to any fitness plan—cycling is one of the easiest and most effective ways to build cardiovascular strength, increase conditioning and improve overall health. Whether you ride a few times a week, or you’re training for competitive events or organized group rides, The Cycling Workout Handbook is perfect guide for you.

Expert and multi-sport coach Terri Schneider combines skill development with variations in speed, distance, resistance and technique for an effective and easy-to-follow series of cycling workouts designed to make you stronger, faster, and more proficient. Continue reading →

Why You Should Keep Up with Exercise as You Age

Why You Should Keep Up with Exercise as You Age

As humans age and their bodies change, people often find themselves getting less exercise than they did when they were younger. There are a variety of reasons for this, including decreased mobility, disability, safety concerns, or lack of motivation. However, exercising can actually become more important as you age.

Keeping up an active lifestyle can help increase your energy, independence, and heart health, not to mention the benefits to your mood and memory. If you’ve been avoiding exercise because of foot pain, for example, consider investing in a pair of supportive sandals or sneakers before getting started.

Below you’ll find just some of the many benefits to exercising in your senior years, as well as how to overcome some of the common obstacles.   Continue reading →

Stairs: A Great Workout

Stairs: A Great Workout

Nationally recognized fitness expert, Michael Wood, CSCS, author of the new book TBC30: 6 Steps to a Stronger, Healthier You published by Wicked Whale Publishing, talks about one of the best and easiest workouts you, and anyone, can do.

 

Running, walking or bounding up the cement stairs at Harvard University stadium for many people, including myself, never seems to get old. All you need to do is to visit the city with the world famous zip code (02138). On any given morning, especially the weekend, you’ll see all types of people, male and female, athlete non-athlete, young and old, moving through their workout routines at the nations second oldest stadium built-in 1903. The oldest stadium, by the way, can be found on the campus at the University of Pennsylvania, built-in 1895. Continue reading →