Having recently completed Fitness Magazine’s 30-day Burpee Challenge, I am feeling an especially strong love/hate sensation toward burpees. This was a 30-day challenge. The first week was 10 burpees per day, with each day offering a different burpee variation. The second week was 20 per day. Third week, 30. Fourth week, 40 per day. And the […]
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5 Fitness Resolutions You Should Make This Year
Every year, thousands of New Year’s fitness resolutions get made and forgotten, often within a couple of days. There are a variety of reasons why these resolutions fail, and it’s sad every time, because each one represents someone’s hope for a healthier future. You can make a change. You can live a healthier lifestyle. If […]
12 Days of Yoga
If you’re getting stressed this holiday season, and especially if you’re letting your exercise or yoga routine slide, get yourself back into the groove with these 12 Days of Yoga! Starting today and finishing up on December 25, practice each day’s “assignment” just like the song–so on the first day, you do the pose from […]
Ultimate Gift Guide for Fitness Lovers
It’s that time of year: we’re stressing out (get to the yoga mat!) and scrambling around, trying to find the perfect gifts for all the wonderful people in our lives. Great news: if someone you know is a fitness enthusiast, shopping for him or her is super easy. And this gift guide for fitness lovers, […]
Giving Thanks for Fitness
When we’re not where we want to be or when we have a particularly rough day at the gym, it’s easy to get frustrated with and even angry at our bodies. Have you ever stood in front of the mirror and cursed your belly, wrinkled your face at the sight of a jiggly thigh, sighed […]
2016 Fitness Trends
Back in January, I compared my personal fitness trends to the projected 2015 fitness trends: I listed mine as: Rumba, which I’m still doing at the gym three times per week, Running–I completed a marathon in June, Yoga on a daily basis, CrossFit, which I loved, but I never went back because running took up […]
What I Learned From Being Out of Shape
About five years ago, I moved from Denver (where I made a living teaching 21 fitness classes every week, and made a life by doing my own workouts on top of that for fun) to Chile, South America (where it was cold and rainy and, due to some strange circumstances, we were super stressed out). […]
What Happened to Me After I Started Doing Yoga
I didn’t fall in love with yoga right away. In fact, I had to make myself go back again and again before it finally started to resonate with me and become something I enjoyed. That happened, in part, because of these eight things I noticed about myself after I started doing yoga–none of which had anything to […]
Bad Reasons for Avoiding Exercise
When it comes to exercise, everyone’s got an reason to skip it. The vast majority of those excuses sound something like this, and none of them are good enough reasons for avoiding exercise: “I’m not strong enough.” No kidding. That’s why you need to exercise. Yes, the start will be rough, but that’s the way it […]
Yoga Poses You Can Do Before You Even Get Up
Do you lie in bed for a few minutes after you wake up and before you get up? Then you have time to do yoga. These gentle yoga poses are a great way to start your day, and you can do them all while lying comfortably in your bed. Breathing Hands to Lap and Overhead […]