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A Healthy Holiday Balance
When the Holiday’s come around I tend to get thrown off balance. In effort to not go crazy in the Holiday season I try and plan the best I can. I have said it so many times, but I believe it with all my heart planning is the key to a well balanced life and even [...]
How Having Your Workouts on Your Calendar Will Get You Out the Door!
The Holiday Calendar!!
Christmas season is upon us and in come the requests for parties, special events, class performances, work parties, shopping, gift wrapping, and all the things that go along with the holidays.
How many of us can say, “No, I never get stressed out at during this time of year?” I have all my ducks [...]
CrossFit and Motherhood. It works.
Have you heard of CrossFit? Picture this: Beautiful park, two beautiful level 1 Cross Fit trainers (husband and wife) offering free workouts in the park for “all levels and all ages”. The flyer said “a high intensity boot camp style workout” and guess who showed up?!
Yes, that’s right me.
First order of business was to prepare [...]
Use Instability for Faster Results
An easy way to get more results from your workouts without adding minutes to your routine is to add a little instability. Performing exercises that challenge your balance, or doing your regular exercises on an unstable surface, will engage more muscle groups to get you faster results.
Stabilizing muscles are the muscles in your body that [...]
Vegging Out
There is an epiphanal moment in our adult lives that I’ll call the “Nutritional Awakening.” For some, it’s a dire situation brought on by health concerns or first-time pregnancy. For others, it’s inspired by a book like Skinny Bitch, read at precisely the right time.
For me, it was Joe, a personal trainer in über-fit Boulder, [...]
