Spring Exercise: Simple Ways To Build A Fitness Habit for Sprin
If you are ready to kickstart your spring fitness routine there are several things you can do to make sure you stick to your plan and get the results you want.
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Health and Savings: 6 Tricks For Saving Money and Getting Healthier At the Same Time
Though not often spoken of together, physical and fiscal fitness are highly related. This means improving your physical fitness can positively impact your financial fitness and vice versa. Read on for ways to get physically and fiscally stronger and more resilient.
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After Vaccination, Can I Go Back to Normal? Questions You Might Have About Life After Your Shots
While the state of things is changing rapidly as time goes on, it’s definitely becoming safer to go back out than it has been this past year. Slowly, things are in process to getting back to normal life. But this brings up a lot of questions.
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Running After 50: How to Run Strong Into Your 60s and Beyond
Francis Marzec is a Health Hero and thoughtful athlete who’s running career spans 4 decades. He began his running career in the early days of triathlon completing several ½ IRONMAN’s and marathons. Wanting to give back to the community that gave him so much, he has been volunteering at the Kona IRONMAN triathlon every year since 2006.
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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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