Snacks After Workout: What’s the Best Snack After Exercising?
Having a strong post-workout snack game will ensure you get the most out of the effort you put into your workout. Research also shows that your body is uniquely primed to accept fuel and nutrients are an exercise session, which makes this window especially important.
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How Happy Are You? Americans Compared to the Rest of the Globe
Every year the Global Happiness Survey tries to answer this question by surveying nearly 20,000 people from 27 countries around the world. The results of the 2020 survey showed that happiness is an amazingly resilient human resource which did not significantly decline from the previous year, despite the tremendous COVID-19 related challenges most people faced.
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Mobility Training: Why You Should Be Incorporating Mobility Into Your Workout
Mobility is your body’s ability to move freely and easily. Adding mobility training to your routine will help you move better, decrease your risk of injury and increase your potential for greater strength. As an added bonus, mobility training can add fun and play to your fitness life, helping to keep you engaged and excited to move.
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Women’s Fitness: The Busy Woman’s Guide to Reinvigorating her Fitness Life
Today we will be exploring more specific techniques you can use to successfully structure your exercise life in order to maximize your enjoyment, success and longevity. It’s important to keep in mind that there is no one-size-fits-all fitness prescription and an approach that is perfect for you might not work at all for someone else. The goal here is exploration, increasing self-awareness and continual evolution.
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Healthy Choices: Understanding and Improving Your Health Literacy
You may have heard the term “health literacy” and wondered what it meant. Health literacy is an umbrella term that refers to the knowledge, learning, skills and attitudes a person uses to advocate for their own health. Knowing your level of health literacy—and how to improve it—matters because research shows that having higher levels is strongly associated with living a longer, healthier and more independent life.
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Breakfast Smoothie: Creating the Best Cold Weather Smoothie
Smoothies are a fantastic breakfast option. They are quick to prepare, easy to pack with healthy nutrients and convenient to drink on the go. Unfortunately, during the winter this chilly breakfast option can be a lot less appealing. But just as there are ways to winterize your workouts, there are ways to winterize your smoothies too.
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COVID Fitness: Opportunities and Obstacles to Staying Healthy
Keeping up with a COVID fitness routine isn’t easy. Most people have had their daily lives and healthy habits at least somewhat disrupted due to ongoing restrictions and precautions. The good news is that while the current reality has made being healthy more difficult in some ways, it has also created unique opportunities in others.
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Mental Health: 7 Reasons To Start a Gratitude Practice Today
Substantial research demonstrates that being proactively thankful for the good things we already have—as opposed to focusing on what we lack or have lost—can improve your health, career, relationships and daily moods. Being grateful could even make you more successful and able to achieve your…
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Improvements to African American Health: Celebrating Gains During African American History Month
As we observe African American History Month—also known as Black History Month—it is important to celebrate the gains and improvements African Americans have made regarding access to healthcare and overall health. Many Black Americans have overcome challenging obstacles to improve their health and positively impact the wellbeing of generations to come.
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Winter Workouts: 6 Tips for Being a Winter Workout Champion
Shorter days and colder temperatures make outdoor exercise less tempting and in some harsher climates downright impossible. Add in COVID based restrictions on indoor exercise options and the challenges are even greater. To help you out along the way we have compiled some of the best tips and tools for staying fit during the colder months.
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