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This article helps you decide whether or not you need a cheat day.
Cheat days are good for mental health. Being very restrictive and not allowing oneself to enjoy the foods that make life worth living (read: bread and chocolate) can be really challenging. Having a cheat day can be a light at the end of the tunnel. |
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This article shares my take on whether or not you should work out while your sick.
"So you finally find your stride with working out. You’re consistent, seeing progress, and finally starting to get excited about working out instead of that feeling of existential dread. Then BAM! You’re sick. You go to bed excited for your workout the next morning, and wake up feeling like you got hit with a Mack Truck. And then you wonder…“should I still try to work out?” |
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In this article, we discuss if you really need to monitor your heart rate during your workouts.
"By maximizing the fat burn, we are working smarter, but not necessarily harder. Even if weight loss is not the primary goal, burning fat stores will allow the body to work longer than burning through the sugar stores." |
This article shares my frustrations about new year's resolutions and why they are bad and you should stop making them.
"We have made another revolution around the sun. Woot! That is about as arbitrary a starting point as any other. So this year, you have decided you are going to “eat better, exercise every day, and walk the dog every night after dinner.” That’s ambitious. Not that those are bad resolutions, but what is your plan? How are you going to overcome challenges? What happens when you just don’t feel like it?"
"We have made another revolution around the sun. Woot! That is about as arbitrary a starting point as any other. So this year, you have decided you are going to “eat better, exercise every day, and walk the dog every night after dinner.” That’s ambitious. Not that those are bad resolutions, but what is your plan? How are you going to overcome challenges? What happens when you just don’t feel like it?"
This article shares my thoughts on the lies and conspiracies around the exercise PLANK!
"Every single one of my in-person clients gets a complimentary session. Most of these sessions go about the same way. I need to know how strong you are, so we do bicep curls. I need to know how your form looks when you do squats and lunges. And I need to know how much endurance you have so of course, we do the dreaded PLANKS!
"Every single one of my in-person clients gets a complimentary session. Most of these sessions go about the same way. I need to know how strong you are, so we do bicep curls. I need to know how your form looks when you do squats and lunges. And I need to know how much endurance you have so of course, we do the dreaded PLANKS!
This article is about why the number on the scale is not the full story.
"A long time ago, humans decided that everyone, but women in particular, should judge their worth by how much their body weighs. Weight, an arbitrary model depicting the strength of the attraction between any object and the Earth, was used to decide whether or not women were permitted to be flight attendants, it is still used to decide which men can competitively fight other men, and it is used for the objectification of women on fashion runways all over the world."
"A long time ago, humans decided that everyone, but women in particular, should judge their worth by how much their body weighs. Weight, an arbitrary model depicting the strength of the attraction between any object and the Earth, was used to decide whether or not women were permitted to be flight attendants, it is still used to decide which men can competitively fight other men, and it is used for the objectification of women on fashion runways all over the world."
This article is about the common misconception that yoga is only for people who are already flexible.
"This is the lie you repeat to yourself because somewhere along the way, you saw an advanced level yogi doing some crazy pose balancing on their hands while both legs were up over their head and at that point, you wrote off yoga as something that only flexible people do. Afterward, these people all sit around, drinking organic kombucha and congratulating themselves on how flexible they all are."
"This is the lie you repeat to yourself because somewhere along the way, you saw an advanced level yogi doing some crazy pose balancing on their hands while both legs were up over their head and at that point, you wrote off yoga as something that only flexible people do. Afterward, these people all sit around, drinking organic kombucha and congratulating themselves on how flexible they all are."
This article shares my thoughts about loving your body.
“Loving yourself doesn’t mean letting yourself be unhealthy because you’re accepting yourself for how you are.”
We hear it everywhere these days. “Love your body. Love yourself. Self-acceptance.” And while I agree with this, I disagree with the lengths to which some people take it. Yes, you should absolutely love your body for what it is, for how it looks, and for what it does for you every single day. But that doesn’t mean that you don’t also want and try to make changes to it.
“Loving yourself doesn’t mean letting yourself be unhealthy because you’re accepting yourself for how you are.”
We hear it everywhere these days. “Love your body. Love yourself. Self-acceptance.” And while I agree with this, I disagree with the lengths to which some people take it. Yes, you should absolutely love your body for what it is, for how it looks, and for what it does for you every single day. But that doesn’t mean that you don’t also want and try to make changes to it.