Healthy body, happy life!
You want to lose weight and “get healthy” but do you understand the importance of knowing your “why” for wanting those things? I know it seems like an obvious question but it’s one you need to be able to answer with great clarity and insight. Because knowing your why is what will help sustain you through all the hard work ahead. Continue reading “The importance of knowing your “why””
The core of our body is its foundation. Just like the foundation of a house, it’s what holds it all together. For that reason, I think it’s the most important area to strengthen right away. So I’ve come up with 6 easy core exercises you can do at home with (or without) a stability ball for variety.
If you want to lose weight and get healthy then you have to adopt new behaviors in order to do that. But that’s just one part of the puzzle. You also need motivational tools to maintain that weight loss and health long-term. That’s obviously the harder part since most people who lose weight end up gaining it all back.
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Desk jobs are not known to be good for our health. Too much sitting combined with a calorie-rich, nutrient-poor diet is making us sicker with each decade. And the number one excuse for not exercising is “not enough time”. We all know we need to move more but how do we do it with such busy lives? Well, we can exercise at work for starters!
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Good question! As a personal trainer and health coach, I specialize in working with women over 40. Like me! And so far they’ve all come to me because they want to lose weight with exercise. This isn’t surprising considering the fact that over 73% of Americans are now overweight or obese. But how hard is it to lose weight with exercise alone? Let me tell you about that. Continue reading “Can you lose weight with exercise alone?”
Any good workout program should include three elements: cardio, strength training, and stretching. I’ve already talked about why each one is important in previous posts. But it can be confusing to know how to put them all together into a fully balanced workout program for the week so you get results. Continue reading “How to set up a balanced workout program”
In this post, I want to discuss the importance of stretching in an exercise program. Stretching is the component of a program that is most often skipped or taken for granted. It’s also talked about the least so it’s easy to forget. But if you’re not stretching then you won’t have good flexibility which negatively affects your mobility. When your mobility suffers you’ll struggle through daily activities and be more prone to pain and injuries. All things that make life more difficult, and that’s not what we want. Continue reading “The importance of stretching”
Strength training is a must for women when it comes to weight loss and maintenance. Especially as we’re aging. Yet most older women don’t even think about adding strength training to their exercise routines, if they even exercise at all! This is a big mistake because that “toned” look and higher metabolism we all want comes from having muscle.
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Body shaming is the act of negatively judging or humiliating someone based on the shape or size of their physical body. We all know what that means, right? We should never make someone feel bad about being overweight. Well, that’s certainly one part of it but I think it’s a bit short-sighted. Let me explain this a little better.
Cardio, or aerobic activity, is one of the three main types of exercise that we all need in order to be healthy. The other two are strength training and flexibility. But why exactly is cardio so important for exercise? The number one answer is that it helps us to live longer! But there are other important benefits too. Continue reading “Why do cardio for exercise?”