Tag: exercise
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Fitness Accountability: The Secret to Achieving your Fitness Goals This Year.
Yesterday was officially the first real day of the New Year. Sure we’ve technically already had 5 other days, but given that our holidays fell in the middle of the week this year most of us were probably still on Holiday until Jan 6th. So here’s a question for you. Did you work out?…
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The Secret to Fitness is to Establish a Routine
As the New Year approaches, I thought as a personal trainer/yoga instructor it would be important to take some time to send a message to everyone looking to make health and fitness part of their New Year’s Resolution. So often at the beginning of a New Year, we look back on the past year and…
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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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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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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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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…
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4 Tips to Improving Your Eagle Pose Garurasana
Eagle Pose Garurasana is the first twist in the bikram yoga series. By the time you get to this pose, you should be sweating! In Eagle Pose Garurasana you cut off blood flow to the right side of the body and then the left. It is the first time in class that you begin to…
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Running Drills to Improve Your Running Form
You know it is important to have good running form, but often it is developing that good running form that is hard. The 3 main keys to good running form is: Mid Foot Strike Angles: Dorsiflexed foot and knee to 90 degrees Forward Tilt Here are some running drills to improve running form: [leadplayer_vid…