All Entries in the "Workin’ Out" Category
Great Tips to Improve Work Life Fitness Balance
A balanced life creates contentment and satisfaction in professional and personal areas. Obtaining balance is an ongoing process that continually evolves as your professional life and home life develop. When your life is unbalanced, an unmanageable schedule and a conflicted home life may ensue. Prevent overwhelming feelings and conflict by implementing basic work-life balance tips. [...]
Why you Might Want to Consider Becoming a Runner
A fitness program should include the basics of aerobic exercise, strength training, and stretching or flexibility, according to MayoClinic.com. For many people, running is the preferred form of aerobic exercise, offering physical, emotional and financial advantages. Before you start a running program, consult your doctor to be sure you don’t have any medical issues that [...]
Who Else Wants to Have an Athletic Body?
An athletic body, with its strong, lean physique, is often sought after by individuals who wish to improve their outward appearance and overall health. Athletes have various body types depending on the individual and their sport of choice. However, most athletes develop a large amount of muscle mass during training and usually have a low [...]
6 Core Truths
There’s much more to your belly than meets the eye. Most people target the six-pack surface muscles but neglect the deep abdominal ones, namely the transversus abdominis, iliopsoas, and diaphragm. Not only do these key players cinch your waist, they enhance crucial functions of your body — breathing, digestion, and relaxation — and help you [...]
The New Yoga on a PaddleBoard
Paddle boarding, an ancient form of surfing, is gaining popularity as a high-intensity, low-impact platform for group fitness classes from calisthenics to yoga. Experts say it may feel like walking on water because paddle boarding works on the flat water of a lake or pond and doesn’t involve waves. “Paddle boarding is a form of surfing. [...]
The Secret to Overcome a Fitness Plateau
What do you do when your tried and true workout routine stops working for you? A fitness plateau can be your body’s signal that it’s time for a change, experts say, or a sign that you’ve been looking for progress in all the wrong places. ”A plateau is a period where you stop making progress,” said Marshall [...]
You can Be aTriathlete: A Super Easy 12 week Triathlon Training
Tackling a triathlon can be daunting, even for fitness buffs, but this training plan for swimming, biking, and running a sprint-length race, you’ll earn bragging rights (not to mention a lean, hot body) in just 12 weeks. Triathlons used to be the domain of elite athletes. Not anymore. More than 1 million people stepped up [...]
What to look for in a Hotel/ Resort to make your stay as Healthy as Possible
My family and I spent Spring Break in Maui. It was so nice to take my two kids there. I have never been any where in Hawaii before so I was super excited to get my behind on some Maui sand. My husband has been to Hawaii many times as a child but this was his [...]
Best Apps to Turn Your Smartphone into a Personal Trainer
Use that fancy data plan to get fit Your smartphone and other gadgets can be a major hindrance to your fitness goals—with social networking, time-wasters, and an endless supply of distractions, they can crowd out more than just your workout routine—but if you take charge and make your smartphone work for you, it can be [...]
Stretching 101 – Know the Basics
If you work out, you’ve likely made stretching part of your warming up and cooling down routines. It improves range of motion, flexibility, circulation and the overall success of your workout. Different kinds of training call for different types of stretching. Knowing them will help determine the appropriate type for your particular fitness program. Static [...]
Ready to take on a new Challenge? Its called the Spartan Race
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Spartan Race for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. Spartan Race Have you heard of the Spartan Race ? Well, neither have I until now. I really need to change my workout, every few months to keep me motivated and this race looks like [...]
The Secret to Fitness when Time is Tight
Fitness is a commitment, but then again so is going to work and spending time with your family. So how can you master the work-fitness balance when your life is crazy busy? Here are some ways to get fit at even the busiest times of your life. Schedule exercise into your day “Basically, what I [...]
Does Running at Night make you Faster?
Blanketed by darkness and zipping past streetlamps, night runners may feel as though their nocturnal hours award swifter speeds. But does logging midnight miles actually inspire greater speeds, or is the quickened pace merely a mind trick? A Run On The Dark Side — Why It Matters Donning sneakers at sunrise rarely seems more appealing [...]
Why Crunches don’t Work and Here is What Does
Imagine your spine is a credit card. In the same way that repeatedly flexing and extending a credit card will eventually lead to wearing out of the plastic, repeatedly doing crunches can put damaging strain on your back. Here’s why: Each of your spinal discs is only able to support a limited number of bending [...]
Can you get Stronger in your Sleep? Why..yes you CAN!
Sipping some milk before turning in for the night may do more than ensure a good night’s sleep. According to new research from the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, consuming protein right before you go to bed may help your body better recover from a workout. For the experiment, 16 participants followed [...]
Running Tips: How do you get Started?
Anyone can run and you can, too. Really. But it will be a lot more enjoyable if you start runningthe right way. Here’s how NOT to do it. Growing up, I didn’t play sports, thereby I didn’t run. In eighth grade, I wanted to play field hockey and I agreed to go for a run [...]
