All The Small Things: Overlooked Ways to Optimize Performance & Beat Injury
Getting the most out of your health and fitness habits isn’t always about blog-length principles or the most perfect way to do things. Often, some of the advice you need to hear is hidden behind the cool, sexy stuff. The best ways to beat aging, injury, and maximize your return from the effort you put into your lifestyle are hidden behind the noise of other things. Today we’re going to go through 12 of the small things...
Sitting: A Public Health Disaster?
One of the interesting things that we’ve seen in the modern world is that sitting is everywhere, and it seems to be affecting us at the physical level. Today, we’re discussing sitting , and we promise it’s more interesting than it sounds. We’re going over what sitting does to your body, how you can deal with these new problems, and how you make sure that you age in a strong, healthy way. Sitting in the 21st Century How...
Correcting Tight Hip Flexors Once and For All
Tight Hip Flexors seems to be today’s buzz word in gyms around the country. Yoga & pilates studios are busier than ever, filled with people just like you, trying to stretch their hip flexors to reduce pain … but with no lasting benefit. And if you really don’t know what it means to have tight hip flexors, then you are wasting your time with the stretching you have been doing. Yes, stretching is good … it’s GREAT actually! But...
The Best Ways to Naturally Reduce Stress
I really do not believe there are many of us out there who never experience stress and anxiety in our day to day living. Let’s be honest . . . life is busy and so many of us are racing to keep up and juggling a multitude of tasks at one time. WHEW! I’m getting stressed just writing that! But here is a little fact for you . . . our body is actually built and designed to take on stress. Not only to take it on but to take huge...
The Benefits of Coconut OIl
It’s said to help with weight loss, hair health, heart health and even brain health . . . could this possible be THE wonder food of our lifetime?! Well, you know the saying that if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. Well, let me clear up some things for you about the ever popular coconut oil. For starters, there are two main ways we use coconut oil, internally and externally. It can be consumed/eaten and it can be...
