Healthspan- Quality of life workouts
This is how we should think about fitness. Healthspan workouts (from Peter Attia’s book Outlive), focused on increasing your quality of life. This workout isnt designed to crush you; rather it’s purpose is to vitalize.
Although a quality of life workout looks completely different for just about everyone, common threads undoubtedly exist.
Boston’s Best Female Trainers
These are Boston’s best female Trainers: Megan Beck and Marcy Tillman.
Wait a second? Why do you have to qualify them by gender? Why Boston’s best Female Trainers? Can’t they just be two of Boston’s best Trainers? Period.
You’re right. They are two of the best trainers, regardless of sex. Their gender recommends them further, however, because let’s face it: trainers are dealing with the body. There’s certain things about being male or female that can’t be explained. They have to be experienced.
Mental Health Workouts
Tough week. How about a pick me up?
I subscribe to something called Notes from the Universe (TUT). Every morning they deliver a quick note (see above) to get your mind moving in the right direction.
Some days they are trite.
While some days they land in my consciousness like a sack of bricks.
1 key to safe Prenatal workouts
There are so many things to think about when one becomes pregnant. Should I workout is probably pretty low on that list. However, when you consider that Prenatal workouts may prevent gestational diabetes, relieve stress, and build more stamina needed for labor and delivery, suddenly safe prenatal workouts become a priority.
Increase your Mind power
How do we increase mind power? Let’s look at 2 experiments. In the first experiment school children were given two plants. They were told to compliment the first plant and to insult the second. A month later the compliment plant thrived, and the insulted plant was dying.
Embracing Failure: a love story (about yoga)
This is a blog about yoga.
It is also about failure.
Injury.
Learning to enjoy things you’re bad at.
And finally, this is about love: A love story.
Just not the kind you expect.
What kind of strong are you?
What kind of “strong” are you?
Strength is relative.
Distance runners talk a lot about feeling “strong” in the last mile of a race.
While weightlifters laugh. ‘You call that strength, huh?’
All the while I’ve referred to people I practice yoga alongside as having a “strong” practice.
But wouldn’t precisely label some of them as being strong.
Where does it hurt?
Where does it hurt?
Rack up enough gym time and you’re gonna get injured.
Sure as the sun’ll come up.
And when that injury happens someone (Doc, Trainer, Mom) is gonna ask, ‘where does it hurt?’. Surely the cure for what ails you lies right there beneath the pain.
Like X marks the spot.
If only our bodies were that direct.