Remember to Stretch
A part of overall fitness is maintaining flexible. When your muscles are tight, you are more likely to sustain an injury than when you are stretched out, so logically it is beneficial to keep your muscles limber and supple.
Finding the Right Mix
I often encounter women who are scared of lifting weights for fear that they will put on “too much muscle”. They are usually middle-aged, new to exercise, and have picked up a lot of misconceptions here and there along the way.
Keep It Consistent
I know first hand just difficult it can be to fit exercise into a busy schedule, but if you don’t do it regularly, it will be very hard to see results.
Inner Strength Keeps Us Going
Last week at the post office I ran into someone who expressed to me how much she enjoyed reading my columns. She went on to explain some of the difficulties she and her family had been going through in her personal life, and after listening to her I realized just how fortunate I am.
Exercising the Buddy System
How many of you reading this finds it difficult to adhere to a fitness regime? If you’re like most Americans, you probably find it at least challenging, some may even go so far as to say impossible.
Internal Motivation
As you may have discovered for yourself, sticking with an exercise program long enough to make it an actual habit can be difficult, to say the least. While hopefully most of you reading this are either currently exercising or planning to start doing so in the near future, almost all of you will at one time or another grow tired of your current fitness program.
Fitness into the Office
Many long hours in front of my laptop, along with some advice from a good friend, inspired my column for this edition—how to incorporate fitness into your office job and break up the hours spent on your computer.
Benefits of Exercise
While the obvious benefits of exercise are well known by most, many people are still unaware of the not so obvious. Let’s start with the heart—our body’s greatest muscle.
Breathe Some Life into Your Workouts
When meeting new clients for the first time, they often tell me that they have tried working out on their own in the past, but find it very difficult to adhere to a regular program. Although I have always been an advocate of scheduled workouts until you are at least past the initial dropout phase (the first 6 months), I am going to change my philosophy.
Managing Stress
I was inclined to focus this edition’s column on stress after some friends inspired the idea. It happened during band practice (yes, I play in a band for fun) when we were attempting a new song, and we didn’t all quite see things eye to eye.