Today, I’ve carefully curated a list of gifts for your favorite health nut. All these gifts can be purchased online while you’re curled up on your couch with your favorite hot beverage. I don’t know about you, but that’s my favorite way to avoid the crowds at the mall. 🙂
Fitness
My Quickest Recovery From Back Spasms: Did A Strong Back Help?
Two Saturdays ago, I was bending down to put something into my freezer when a severe pain shot through my lower back. In the words of Forrest Gump, it felt like something jumped up and bit me. I knew what it was right away. Every one to two years my lower back goes into spasm….
Pomegranate And Berry Blast Green Smoothie (Weekly Workouts)
The last few weeks after our workout sessions, I’ve loved whipping up this nutritious smoothie for Barbara and me. It really seems to give us the boost of energy we need after working our muscles hard. I’m excited to share the recipe with you. Whether you’re recovering
How To Optimize Your Sleep Cycles For A Restorative Night’s Sleep (Weekly Workouts)
Whenever your body experiences any kind of stress, it goes through a series of hormonal and physiological processes that allow each part to adapt in a way that makes it better prepared to meet that stressor the next time it appears. This recovery process is the same whether the body is stressed by lifting a heavy…
My Experience With Chronic Fatigue And Strength Training (Weekly Workouts)
It was a beautiful October day in 1986. The air was fresh, the leaves were just starting to announce a new season, and the Mets were in the playoffs. It was a perfect day to go for a run. So I geared up and was off. After finishing two miles, I noticed a strange feeling…
Why Barbell Squats Might Be The Most Important Exercise You Can Do (Weekly Workouts)
Barbell squats are the most important exercise for developing overall strength and fitness. There is no other exercise that compares with them for gaining strength and making you a physically better functioning human being. If you’re not doing squats, then you’re missing out on an exercise that can have a tremendous impact on your future…
4 Important Motivations for a Successful Workout Routine (Weekly Workouts)
I am starting a new series on the blog where I will be sharing Barbara’s and my weekly workouts. Today, I also wanted to share with you the four motivations that I believe are important for a successful workout routine. I’ve now been working out for about 18 months. During that time, I have missed…
How I’m Beating Sarcopenia With Weight Training
Did you know that if you’re over 30 years old you’ll start losing muscle mass every year? It’s true, you will. The normal human aging process dictates that everyone, at some point, in their thirties will begin losing muscle and that loss will continue through out your life. If you’re an especially active person or someone…
Getting Healthy: My Fitness Routine
My husband, John, is visiting the blog today with an article about his fitness routine ~ Barbara Three years ago I wouldn’t have believed it was possible. Even a year ago I didn’t think it was possible. At 58 years old, I’m back in the gym lifting weights. WOW! After being unable to do any strength training…
6 Ways Resistance Training Makes You Healthier
My husband, John, is visiting the blog today with an article about the many benefits of resistance training. ~ Barbara “I don’t want to feel sick anymore. I want to feel better!” That was my constant lament during the years of suffering with non-celiac gluten sensitivity (NCGS) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Those of you who…
10 Reasons Why Walking Is So Healthy
“If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong. The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is best. I have known some great walkers and had particular accounts of many more; and I never knew or heard of one who was not healthy and long lived.”…