Improving Your Sleep Hygiene to Reduce Stress
by Marnie Bii February 13th, 2019
When you're having a difficult week, it's likely that you start deeply ruminating about past and upcoming events as soon as your head hits the pillow. Unfortunately, disruptions in your quantity and quality of sleep can worsen stress, landing you in a never-ending cycle of worry. You can keep
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No Cooking Required: Exploring the Raw Food Diet
by Marnie Bii February 6th, 2019
Proponents of the raw food diet go a step beyond the whole, unprocessed foods movement with their eating plan. In addition to avoiding processed food, dieters following this plan consume nearly all of their natural foods uncooked.
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The idea behind this diet plan focuses on the way heat destroys essential nutrients in food. Raw food dieters believe that they consume more of the vitamins and minerals in each ingredient by foregoing the cooking process. The way heat changes food's protein
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The idea behind this diet plan focuses on the way heat destroys essential nutrients in food. Raw food dieters believe that they consume more of the vitamins and minerals in each ingredient by foregoing the cooking process. The way heat changes food's protein
Create a Year’s Worth of Improvement Goals
by Marnie Bii January 30th, 2019
The urge to follow a list of resolutions for the new year often fizzles out by the end of January. You can motivate yourself to continue with the resolutions by making monthly goals for the entire year. Make a specific goal (or two!) for each month throughout the year in areas you feel need improvement. The goals can stand on their own or build on each other. Plan to reassess your goals in June in case you find yourself
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Do Not Quit – Get Back to the Basics!
by Joe Lawrence January 23rd, 20192015 is a brand new year, and so far all is good. There is something about the changing of the calendar that motivates us to re-invent ourselves. Instead of fighting this instinct, let’s embrace it and turn up the fitness to make this the year we got our body back on track.Read More
In my last article, It is Never Too Late for Fitness, I talked about it never being -
New Beginnings: 3 Cardio Exercises For A Toned Bodye
by Marnie Bii January 16th, 2019When done right, cardio exercises burn calories while toning up muscles throughout the body. To maximize your results, you must pick the right equipment and moves to challenge your body to work its hardest. Focusing on the same exercises all of the time only trains a particular area of your body and leaves the rest lacking. Furthermore, repeating the same movements each session will make your workout feel stagnantRead More -
It is Never Too Late for Fitness
by Joe Lawrence January 9th, 2019The expression, “too little, too late” is applicable to many situations in life, just not for fitness. When it comes to fitness, forward motion of any kind is never too little. 2015 marks a new year and a great starting point to make this true.Read More
The biggest mistake made in fitness is trying to do too much, too soon. Our bodies are amazing machines that actually become more efficient the
