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Using Exercise to Beat Osteoarthritis
The best chance you have for preventing arthritis or reducing its effects is regular exercise. This helps improve your range of motion and also strengthens the muscles around your joints, which can ease the load on sensitive areas.
Experiencing Lower Body Pain After a Workout? You May Need New Shoes
While warming up and proper form when exercising will help reduce lower back pain, another aspect you may not have considered is wearing the right pair of shoes. The shoes you choose can have a significant impact on your lower back when exercising.
Oops, I missed my scheduled activities last week. What can I do differently next time?
Getting healthy, being active, sticking with it day-in, day-out… It's hard! Something always seems to come up when you’re just about ready for your scheduled activity.
How to Choose a Personal Trainer
When you decide to take control of your wellness journey, you sometimes realize you can’t do it alone. As a result, you seek out help, support, and guidance from a personal trainer… But how do you choose a personal trainer that’s the right fit?
Ending Menopause Stigma: Building Understanding and Awareness
Menopause stigma continues to affect women across the world. Inequalities in the supports available, poor education on the changes it causes in the body, and lack of awareness by men all contribute to making this a challenging time in the lives of the 25 million women who experience menopause every year.
Shifting Trajectories: Being Active as Adults Starts with Being Active in Youth
Inactivity that starts in youth stays for life. Here’s how we change that.
Exercise Snacks: A Quick Guide to Being Active When You Don’t Have Time
Feeling like you don’t have time for exercise is one of the main things that holds people back from being active, even when they are highly motivated.
The thing is, the more active you are, the more time you can actually save. It’s hard to “carve out” time for running, biking - whatever it may be - when you feel like you can still get active when you are a bit older and still get the same benefits.
Consistency: The Road to Results
You know what your goals are. You’ve started exercising or eating healthy. But, you’ve started all this before. How do you make this time different?
Consistency, plain and simple.
The Negative Side Effects of Fitness Trackers
Sure, there are benefits to these devices, but what’s rarely talked about are the unintended and significant negative side effects. There are reasons why 30% of trackers are in the drawer in the first month and over 80% are set aside 9 months after purchase.
Layering Habits into Goals
Living a healthier life is effectively, a trialing of processes while layering behaviors and mental strategies that will see you participate in the changes necessary…
Reclaim your Life with Physical Activity
Sure, everyone knows that exercise is good for health, but it is within your mind where the battle really begins. Where the emotions reside and how they impact your choices.
Exercise Intensity Levels
Generally, as we age we perform lower to moderate-intensity exercise for many reasons such as the current level of fitness, injury prevention/rehabilitation/management and current level of health…