Tips for Setting Fitness Goals During the Holidays
It happens every New Year's Eve without fail. Surrounded by a crowd of your friends, you hold your champagne high and announce that this year will be the year you kick off your fitness plan - for real, this time. In past years, you've either spent a couple short weeks...
5 Reasons to Start Exercising This Fall
Who doesn’t love fall? It’s the season of sweaters and cider; of changing leaves and Halloween. Autumn is the best season for enjoying an evening in with a book and a cup of warm cocoa – but it’s also the best season to get off of the couch and go for a run! Most people promise to begin their exercise regimens sometime after the ball drops on New Year’s, but I firmly believe that fall is the best time to build a lasting fitness program.
Blowing Off Steam: The Dangers of Running Angry
Who doesn’t have a bad day now and again? Maybe your boss decides to take a company loss out on you, or a family member decides to take your car out for an ill-advised spin and not tell you until they need to file an accident report. Sometimes, a promising day can turn into a trainwreck with no more than a bad conversation. The question is, how will you handle the added stress when it lands in your lap? Many people opt to turn to exercise as a way to burn off the anger and re-center themselves. However, this strategy may not be as helpful as it appears at the outset.
Do You Believe These 5 Fitness Myths?
Stay wary of friendly advice; some fitness tips are based on nothing but myth! A lot of fitness misinformation circulates by word of mouth and via the Internet – and while some of it is benign, a few tips could potentially lead you to injury. Below, I’ve listed a few of the false fitness ‘facts’ I commonly hear at the gym.
Fitness Bloggers Against Body Shaming
Instagram is a great place to go to feel terrible about yourself, according to a few studies. Especially among teens and young adults, Instagram has proven a black hole for users to compare their entire lives, warts and all, against someone’s perfectly-manicured Instagram feed. As the platform has proven little more than a gigantic popularity contest, users can start to feel down about themselves as they compare their life’s progress and accomplishments against those of users with thousands and thousands of followers.
Get Fitbit: How Technology is Shaping the Fitness World
It’s hard to deny that wearable fitness tech has served as a positive motivating force for otherwise unenthused and unengaged users; but are all of its effects beneficial?
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