My “just one thing” recommendation today is actually a challenge.
For those of you who constantly count calories (and fat grams, and sodium content, etc.) in order to determine whether or not you’ll eat a certain food, or whether that food is “healthy”, my challenge is for you to STOP!
Instead, even if only for ONE DAY, [...]
Whew! Back on track today… didn’t feel “old as dirt”!
Today was full body resistance/strength training day (and also “obstacle course” day, as I needed to avoid being run over by or running into my daughter who was simultaneously doing gymnastics in the same room!).
Again, only one set of everything… no “repeat sequence”.
90 seconds wall squat
90 [...]
Remember back when you were a kid, and you thought that the people who were the age you are NOW were as old as dirt?
As an adult, I’ve always thought that’s so funny… odd. I’ve never (ok, rarely) felt my “age”! I stopped counting years ago. The math just doesn’t add up in my head!
Then [...]
I was just reminded by my kids that one of our favorite healthy, quick and easy snacks around here is carrot sticks dipped in almond butter.
Obviously, the raw organic carrots are chock full of nutrients. So is the almond butter… especially if you can get it from “raw” (not roasted) almonds, and organic. But even [...]
I love summer!
I love the casual gatherings, the spontaneous get-togethers with neighbors and friends, the relatives and friends from out of state that visit us each summer, the boat rides, the coolers loaded with snacks for a day on the boat… ahhh… it’s all good!
Then again, it’s not necessarily ALL good, in a literal sense! [...]
Yesterday was a day “off” from formal exercise. Instead, we enjoyed several hours out in the lake with our visiting family and the kids… swimming, running, playing catch and making vitamin D!
It was a day full of movement, just none of it “formal”!
Today, I went out for a 5 mile run. It was mostly a [...]
I was thinking about a casual chat I had with my neighbor yesterday as we spontaneously gathered out on our dock, munching munchies and sharing a cold beverage on a hot day…
I was commenting that I have a deep-seated affection for organic tortilla chips, especially when they’re seasoned with sea salt. Mmmmmm!
My neighbor friend said, [...]
Today, I went out for a run bright and early… FINALLY, beat the heat!
It was gorgeous! I went as soon as it was light enough for drivers to see me… caught a spectacular sunrise, deer playing, birds waking up… SO nice.
I did 4.5 miles, then had to head back so that hubby could get to [...]
Sometimes, the plan just doesn’t unfold as originally intended and you just have to get creative!
Today was going to be my running day… a longer run. BUT, I got caught up with some other things that took over the top priority spot on my to-do list this morning, and by the time I could have [...]
Yesterday’s work out was a high-intensity, short duration session. The kind that burns the most fat! (Raises your Resting Metabolic Rate for longer periods of time after your work out than traditional low-to-moderate intensity, steady state cardio.)
I did a series of wind sprints – 16 to be exact. Each sprint was probably in the neighborhood [...]
Wouldn’t it be great if there were one, simple formula to simplify your nutritional choices, your exercise choices, your mindset and stress reduction choices, your weight loss choices, even seemingly unrelated things like your parenting, environmental and financial choices?
For me, there is.
I call it “The Wellness Formula”.
It’s the one formula that I use to assess [...]
Yesterday’s work out was a really cool one!
I was still SO sore from my work out two days earlier, so I knew that I didn’t want to repeat any of those same moves just yet!
I didn’t use a single weight. I only did one “rep” and one “set” of each exercise (well, almost). The entire [...]
Every once in awhile, I find some twisted pleasure in proving to myself that I still have SOME level of control over my children. It’s so wrong, I know. I’ll start saving for therapy!
Call it bribery, call it brain washing… I don’t really care! I call it getting my kids to do what I want, [...]
Yes, that’s MY vegetable garden I’m talking about! Trust me, it’s not “low maintenance” due to some great, master plan I discovered deep within a gardening bible somewhere! No… it’s low maintenance simply because that’s how its farmer likes to do things!
While I was out there tending to my little veggies today, I had to [...]
Saturday was a BIG resistance training day – big work out. I’m not sure where that ‘wild hair’ came from, but I pushed it pretty darn hard!
150 lunges with a twist – onto BOSU ball, holding medicine ball
30 squat jumps with medicine ball
12 slow motion pull-ups
25 push-ups – feet up on exercise ball
25 deep squats [...]
I’ve been spending some time today thinking about the two dads in my life ~ MY dad and my children’s dad.
They’re so different, yet possess similar core qualities – like dedication to family – that make them such great men.
I’m just feeling exceptionally fortunate today to have such solid fathers in my life!
My dad has [...]
Thursday was a running day. I went out for a fairly uneventful 5 mile, steady state run. Not too fast, not too slow! Juuuuust right! Felt really good!
Yesterday was an “off” day, which means I just did the usual daily stretching, postural and proprioceptive exercises for about 10-15 minutes in the morning.
Today will be a [...]
Today’s “Just One Thing” simple recommendation is to perform the “right” kind of movements on a daily basis to fire up proprioception.
Proprioception is like neurological super food for your brain! In fact, your brain essentially runs on proprioception (mechanoreception) – learning, memory, emotion, attention, physiological function, you name it! Without proprioceptive input, we approach a [...]
Since returning from our seminar over the weekend something about my food/drink choices seems a little bit ‘off’!
I think it’s that there’s a new level of stress in the last week… nothing bad… just more demands to meet in the same amount of time! Lots of rushing around and meeting the needs of everyone ELSE!
For [...]
It was another full body strength training/resistance training day. I’m having fun really mixing things up lately with these work outs. No really… I mean it! It’s fun!
I decided to do another “one set only” of each exercise, and to keep the work out extremely short and intense. I set the timer again for 15 [...]
