Do you have experts you would recommend? Leave it in the comments below! Since many of you may set new goals in the new year for health and fitness, I wanted to talk about health and exercise gurus that you may find online. Anyone these days can call themselves anything they want without much consequence. [...]
Category: Fitness
Slow and steady wins the race when it comes to weight loss
I am acting in my husbands movie project this week, so I won't be cooking. I actually made Hoppin' John and Polish Bigos for my mom and the other actor ahead of time. That way I wasn't responsible for dinner every night and we had something healthy and homemade. This week I decided to talk [...]
Menopause and weight loss
My stash of meals has gotten a bit full this week, so I am not cooking to try to pare them down. I figured it would be a good time to talk about menopause and weight loss. I believe there are a lot of women out there who think once you start the process towards [...]
Happy New Year! Why regular gym-goers despise New Year’s resolution folks at the gym.
Happy New Year! Hopefully by now you know to skip the resolutions. I know when someone makes a resolution at New Years, they will be over it by February. That's why I wanted to extend the conversation from last year. I talked about skipping a gym membership and the benefits of working out at home. [...]
My cardiovascular system is finally improving
I was getting pretty worried about my progress last week. One of the things I typically do in the morning on the weekend is walk three miles per hour on the treadmill for 3000 steps. I couldn't handle it last weekend. I felt like my week was going to be very slow on improvement. However, [...]
Getting better…progress
I've been getting better, slowly but surely. I'm now back to doing 10,000 steps (Slowly, not at my usual pace). I'm also doing some gentle yoga. Here's the routine if you ever need one: I keep lots of different yoga routines in a playlist on YouTube. Five Parks Yoga and Fightmaster Yoga are my two favorites. [...]
Extended Illness and Maintaining Weight
It looks like I won't be up to full strength for a while. The setback I am experiencing will take a month or more to heal. It's pretty discouraging since I now face a very low level of activity for an extended period. I don't want to gain weight while I'm resting. I know my [...]
Overtraining syndrome never leaves you.
Today I am not doing so well. I skipped my usual Monday workout. Today is the day I usually go balls out. I got winded yesterday vacuuming (I have a heavy Kirby vacuum which doesn't help). I got on the treadmill this morning and felt out of breath. Last weekend I fell into a deep [...]
Don’t buy that gym membership! Save money by buying a few workout staples.
STOP! Put down the credit card and pen! Don't get a gym membership! A lot of people this time of year buy gym memberships as part of a new years resolution. I GUARANTEE you're wasting your money. Gym owners love people who sign up for the gym and only use their membership for the month [...]
Intro to Self Defense for Older People
I taught martial arts/self-defense for 8 years through my early to late 20s. I also boxed and kick boxed, during that time. It seems like a life time ago. And, really, it was. But, the thing I remember the most? The idea that any person could defend themselves, if the situation arose, by several different [...]