Get Out of Your Head and Get Outside
I’ve spent a lot of time inside lately, like more and more of us are…inside and a lot of time in front of a computer. The days are shorter, the weather is definitely winterish, so I can think of every...
View ArticleProprioWHAT?
© Rolb | Stock Free Images & Dreamstime Stock Photos Proprioception. Kinesthetic awareness. What is proprioception? What is kinesthetic awareness? These are probably...
View ArticleStrike a Pose (standing on one foot)
So now that you know what proprioception and kinesthetic awareness are, what can you do to improve them? (If you need a refresher or didn’t read the last post: ProprioWHAT? Good exercises for...
View ArticleInstead of New Year’s Resolutions, How About New Year’s Inspirations?
(This is an update of a piece I wrote in 2003) There is always a lot of information about the basic tenets of fitness at the beginning of the new year – motivation, goal setting, how to choose an...
View ArticleBe Where You Are
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow hasn’t happened. Be present where you are right now and cherish the people you are with. Sending healing and loving thoughts to the families and people of Newtown,...
View ArticleThe Ubiquitous Green Drink and Happy New Year!
We were out of town for the December holidays and my schedule got totally out of whack. Now I’m back home and definitely busy! (Translation: When you’re a fitness trainer, January is a busy month.)...
View ArticleScared, but gotta do it anyway
I wish I could say I haven’t been posting because I’ve been busy. There is some truth in that, but it’s not like I couldn’t make the time. Truth is, I’ve been scared. Scared of being in my 50s and...
View ArticleHints of Spring Bring on Thoughts of Summer Adventure
Map from Let’s Climb a Mountain Unbelievable, but the other day it was warm enough out that people were in light jackets and smiling as they walked around out in the sun! I know the official start of...
View ArticleIntervals, a Love/Hate Relationship
Interval training is nothing new…it gets dusted off, repackaged and made to look sexy every few years and you have to love the people who come up with some new diabolical way of doing it. A simple way...
View ArticleCould Be Better Dietary Choices and Happy Yodeling
On the day I did the Sprint 8s I wrote about in the last post, afterwards I was in a “I-want-to-eat-what-I-want-to-eat” kind of mood – chemicals, fats, sodium and sugar be damned. I wanted Teriyaki...
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