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Top Ten Bone-Building Foods and Exercises - National Osteoporosis Prevention month

Posted: 05/21/2012

Did you know that May is National Osteoporosis Prevention Month? Take a minute to learn the best lifestyle strategies you can take to keep your bones healthy and strong. It is possible to eat and exercise your way to stronger bones!

Spring is in the Air: Time to Get Moving and Get Fit!

Posted: 05/10/2012

Spring is here, the flowers are blooming and the birds are singing—the time of year for new beginnings. Now is also the time to shed your winter coat and seize the season as most likely, by now, your New Year’s resolutions have melted away just like the winter snow. Let the beauty of the weather (cool, clear, sunny days, not too cold and not too hot) inspire you to spring forward on your health and fitness commitments.

 

The Benefits of Daily Physical Activity

Posted: 02/29/2012

●      Reduces the risk of heart disease by improving blood circulation throughout the body ●      Keeps weight under control ●      Improves blood cholesterol levels ●      Prevents and manages high blood pressure ●      Prevents bone loss ●     ...

Oatmeal! The Ultimate Power Breakfast.

Posted: 02/18/2012

You’ve heard it before: oatmeal protects the heart. And rest assured, the man on the Quaker oatmeal box isn’t lying — oatmeal is a whole grain, a type of plant food and complex carbohydrate that makes up the backbone of the heart-healthiest Mediterranean style of eating. Choosing whole grains as your main form of carbohydrate nourishment has been scientifically...

Go Outside Your Comfort Zone

Posted: 02/16/2012

Convinced you “can’t” run a marathon, or sprint at level 10 on that treadmill? … Are you sure about that?   Even if you have a physical challenge or condition that limits you in some way, most of us also create false boundaries for ourselves — “no-can-do’s” that are only in our heads. And more and more studies are showing...

Add Strength Training to Your Stretching

Posted: 02/15/2012

Let’s face it: Stretching feels good. It is relaxing, and getting all the kinks out of scrunched-up muscles can be liberating. Unfortunately, improving flexibility through a stretching class is simply not enough, either as a therapeutic approach, or to protect your body from future damage. Strength training is a necessary companion to your stretching class.As we age, the...

Nutrition Tip of the Week

Posted: 02/09/2012

Ode to CHOCOLATE, "food of the gods!" It is well known that Giacomo Casanova was the most insatiable womanizer of all time. It is said that he called chocolate his “elixir of love,” drank it religiously before every love making tryst and used it in his seductions—the  first love pro to tap into the timeless attraction...

Getting older? Get in some S-T-R-E-T-C-H-I-N-G!

Posted: 01/30/2012

Why stretch? Stretching increases flexibility, a key component of physical fitness that is often neglected. A greater degree of flexibility is believed to help prevent injury (and low back pain) and improve sports performance. We lose flexibility as we age, so practicing a regular program of stretching the major muscle groups can help prevent loss of flexibility and its associated...

The 10 Commandments for Losing Weight…and Keeping it Off!

Posted: 01/23/2012

Success breeds success. What exactly, in terms of lifestyle changes, do people who have been highly successful at both losing weight and keeping it off over the long term do? That’s just what researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Colorado set out to determine when they began their on-going study called the National Weight Control Registry (www.nwcr.ws). Currently,...

3 Ways to Kick the Habit of Skipping Workouts

Posted: 01/10/2012

Trying to get into an exercise habit, but finding you’re more in the habit of making excuses? You can break out of that pattern with these tips from fitness experts on staying motivated and sticking to your fitness routine. Our Fitness Together trainers and studio owners recommend these three strategies to help you stay inspired to work out regularly. 1. Keep your...