Category: Fitness/Exercise

  • Zella Day of Movement Event at Montgomery Mall

    Sounds like a fun event to help you get moving… Nordstrom at Montgomery Mall is hosting a Ballet Bar class Saturday May 5 in the morning to help celebrate the second annual Zella Day of Movement event. You’re invited! Join us for a day filled with high-energy workouts and serious fun across the country. If you’re…

  • Benefits of Being Friendly and Outgoing

    I have been told that I’m so friendly that I could make friends with a rock. I also have been told that I’m a good party guest because even if I don’t know anyone, I will get along with people… I take great pride in both of those comments and for being friendly and outgoing.…

  • Guest Post: Finding Your Thing

    Written by Jason Kitchens, an inspirational guy I know… Sometimes you are going to have days where you just don’t want to.  Perhaps the nite before you had to work late, stayed up that extra hour to catch a flick, or decided to have that one extra drink.  Now it’s the next day and you couldn’t care…

  • Research Proves A Beneficial Relationship Between Exercise and Brainpower.

    How Exercise Could Lead to a Better Brain The value of mental-training games may be speculative, as Dan Hurley writes in his article on the quest to make ourselves smarter, but there is another, easy-to-achieve, scientifically proven way to make yourself smarter. Go for a walk or a swim. For more than a decade, neuroscientists and…

  • Be Better Today Than Yesterday…

    This weekend I am busy again attending a CrossFit Kids Trainer Course, so I can begin to help shape some kids in their healthy and fit life. What a great feeling that is — being able to help lay the foundation that will hopefully stick with them as they grow up and out. I didn’t…

  • Add More Spice to Your Life!

    Two times a year, I run a Whole Life Challenge for my CrossFit gym. It’s a way to really help people make amazing changes in their life, like I did almost four years ago. I love being able to directly have a hand in improving someone’s life. Someone who may have never even considered changing…

  • Get out there and Exercise!

    Exercise Could Lower Fatigue And Depression In Breast Cancer Patients: Study Exercise could be the secret weapon to help breast cancer patients combat common side effects of cancer and cancer treatments. A new study that was presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine shows that physical activity could help women being…

  • Skateboard Fitness

    This is kinda a fun exercise: Try This! Skateboard pike Still got a skateboard buried somewhere in a corner of the garage? Celebrity personal trainer Mike Donavanik —http://www.mikedfitness.com — suggests you drag it out and repurpose it for this simple and effective fitness move, the skateboard pike. Why you should try it: These assisted pikes work your…

  • The Truth About Heart Disease

    As a family recovering from Cancer – I am very interested in looking at what chronic inflammation can do to our bodies and how it sets up a perfect environment for cancer and other diseases to thrive.  We are all so conditioned to believe what we are told in terms of proper nutrition and what…

  • Excuses for NOT making ideas happen

    I ran across this blog post the other day that really resonated with me — and they used a Yiddish proverb, so how could I not love it! 99 Excuses For NOT Making Ideas Happen There’s an old Yiddish proverb that goes, “If you don’t want to do something, one excuse is as good as…