Fitness Standards: A Place For All Types
I’ve wrestled with this post for about 2 years. Do I write it? How do I write it? When should I write it? The reason for the wait was that I never really understood how to frame it. I didn’t want to…
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How To: Tackle The Farmers Market
The Neighborhood Farmer’s Market. It has become a Saturday morning ritual for many of health minded people all over this country. In the Virginia Beach area alone, I can think of 5 markets off the top of my head. I…
Forget Balance
Try not to think of your life so much as a balance scale. Opt for an outlook more in terms of a pie chart, one that ebbs and flows as needed.
May: Plant Based Eating
Welcome to May! I have long referred to this month as the countdown. We are weeks away from warmer temps, longer days, less clothing, and the official kickoff of summer…Memorial Day Weekend! Something seems to motivate us more when the…
Crunchy Carrot Review: 3 Ways To Integrate Juice
Juicing! A buzz word that is trending these days. Should I, shouldn’t I ? How should I? Where should I? I get these questions often. When Jason and I travel, we always are on the hunt for the locals favorite…
Invest In Yourself: 5 Things I Recommend
I write a lot about feeling better and doing better. What that feels like and look like have changed for me over the years. What it means for me today is to feel and look the best for myself, whether…
From HIIT to STILL: life might be less sweaty, but it is still sweet at a slow pace
Besides running, HIIT (high intensity interval training) is my favorite way to exercise. Training this way raises the heart rate, then brings it down using exercise combinations like burpees to squats or jacks to planks. When it is sustained for…