Category: Workouts
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Sweet Potato Fries
One of the best parts about having a kitchen again is being able to make my own food. There are so many awesome healthy recipes out there for foods most of would think of as vices. For Tom’s birthday this month, he requested sweet potato fries. I scoured the internet and found some great options,…
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Yoga For Athletes: 6 Reasons Why You Should Do Yoga to Enhance your Athletic Preformance
One of my favorite viral images was this one to the right that started getting passed around about a year ago. “I can’t do yoga because I’m not flexible enough.”-The Many Athletes out there not doing yoga. Athletes can do amazing physical feats but it’s so funny how often they shy away from the things…
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Working to Avoid the Skinny Fat
For those that follow me on my and my husband’s blog Far Away Reasons, you know that we’ve hit New Zealand and were immediately shocked to discover how ridiculously high the cost of living in Aucklund is. Keeping with the theme of my post last week, I have since become my own worst client having every…
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Health and Fitness While Traveling
One of the hardest things about personally training is countering my clients excuses. Now, it must be said some people just don’t have the intention to EVER get healthy and fit. They find eating a pizza they saw on the way to the check out with their lean steak and veggies, after canceling their session…
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Fitness Lessons You Can Learn from a Traveling Bikram Yoga Instructor/Personal Trainer
I’ve officially been in the road now for over a week now. So far my quest to maintain a healthy fit lifestyle is working out pretty well. I’ve gone on some awesome runs. I’ve run around the Marina with views of the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco. I’ve run along rolling hills of vineyards…
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The Psychology of Personality: How Knowing Yourself Better Can Keep Your Fitness Goals On Track
I recently attended The World Domination Summit (WDS) in Portland, Oregon. The conference was 3 days jam-packed, full of lectures and workshops all led by entrepreneurs, writers, and artists. One of the of the many great speakers I heard was Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project. In her lecture, Gretchen pointed out that in…
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8 Ways to Get Outside and Use Summer for Your Health Benefit
Summer has arrived. Here in Tennessee, the heat is in full swing and I’ve noticed all my friends around the country have begun posting pictures of their adventures in the sun. Hop on the summer train and join in the fun with these 8 ways to get outside and use summer for your health benefit!…
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To Sit or Not to Sit? What Sitting in Bikram Yoga Says About You
Ok, you are no longer a beginner to this yoga thing. Or, maybe you are, but you struggle every day to continue pushing through every posture. My question to you is, “Why are you struggling?” The second you begin to struggle, you are forgetting the first step of every posture, which is normal breathing.…
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Waterfall Workout (cross fit style workout) – Dynamax Ball Style
All you need for this cross fit style workout workout is a Dynamax Ball! Pyramid Workouts work by doing 10 reps of everything 1x through. Then 9, 8, etc. and so on until you hit 1 rep of each exercise. 1. Ball Squats: Squat all the way down until your bottom touches the ball 2.…
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Beat Your Time Cross Fit Style Workout
Ok, here’s how this Beat Your Time Cross Fit Style Workout Works: Do the following exercises below as fast as possible performing each rep with the best form possible. In between exercises do 10 pushups and 10 squat jumps (or 20 squats if you have knee issues) After you complete the 7 exercises, record your…