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How To Motivate Yourself To Work Out When You Hate Exercising
Read More: How To Motivate Yourself To Work Out When You Hate ExercisingFor most of my life, stepping into a gym felt like voluntarily strolling into a torture dungeon. I have never been into working out: I was the kid who threw a tantrum of grandeur when my parents tried to force me to play soccer. I gave up on Chloe Ting’s ab challenge about two days in…
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17 Women Share What Finishing The Two Oceans Marathon Really Feels Like
Read More: 17 Women Share What Finishing The Two Oceans Marathon Really Feels LikeThere’s a moment, somewhere in that final stretch, where it all starts to catch up with you. The emotional floodgates open. The early alarms. The long runs. The days you showed up when it would’ve been easier to stay in bed. The sacrifices. EVERYTHING plays out in your head at once. As you run over…
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Feeling Meh? These 6 Athlete-Approved Workout Motivation Tips Will Help
Read More: Feeling Meh? These 6 Athlete-Approved Workout Motivation Tips Will HelpThere are always times in the year when sticking to your training plan feels like more than you’ve got to give. Maybe it’s the darkness of winter, a cold front or a schedule so hectic it squeezes out your favourite step class. Either way, you’re not alone. That’s why we asked athletes and trainers to…
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6 Life Lessons On Staying Motivated – By A Pro Runner Who’s Been Through It All
Read More: 6 Life Lessons On Staying Motivated – By A Pro Runner Who’s Been Through It AllMotivation isn’t always about feeling fired up or smashing goals. Sometimes, it’s about getting out of bed when everything hurts – physically, mentally, emotionally. And few people know that better than South African ultra runner Jenna Challenor. She’s a mom of three, coach and professional athlete whose journey has included international podiums, devastating illnesses, major…
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Failures in Business: The Unseen Stepping Stones to Success
Read More: Failures in Business: The Unseen Stepping Stones to SuccessEqually significant is the need for businesses to remain vigilant about broader shifts in both domestic and global markets. Macro factors, whether they’re economic trends, geopolitical events, or emerging global challenges, can have profound ripple effects, impacting even the most niche industries. By staying abreast of these larger market dynamics, businesses can better anticipate risks,…
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Negativity Is a Losing Mindset
Read More: Negativity Is a Losing MindsetBy Marc Lobliner CMO Tigerfitness.com ‘A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life.’ I coach my son’s U11 football team. I am just the line coach, but the dudes who coach with me are also in the same mindset as I am. Positivity wins. Let’s start off with last weekend’s…
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To Change Your Life, Believe In YOU!
Read More: To Change Your Life, Believe In YOU!By Shannon Dey Although the path may seem tough and the road may seem long, BELIEVE in your ability to do what it takes to succeed. We have all heard the mantras a million times with their cheerful message of success, “Believe and Achieve” or “Believe in Yourself and Anything is Possible.” However, more often…
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5 Steps For Tapping Into Motivation, Direct From The Pros
Read More: 5 Steps For Tapping Into Motivation, Direct From The ProsWe’re meant to start a new year full of beans, dreams and a renewed sense of purpose… At least that’s what Instagram tells us. But, if it feels like you’re in a rut or can’t quite work up the energy to do whatever it is you really want to do, you’re not stuck in neutral…
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10 Tips for Staying Motivated and on Track
Read More: 10 Tips for Staying Motivated and on TrackMotivation is usually at an all-time high at the beginning of the year. New Year’s resolutions are set and after all of the holiday parties – and excess eating and drinking – everyone is ready to make some positive lifestyle changes. For most, the first month is great! You work out consistently, stick to a…
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New Years Resolutions for Women in Midlife
Read More: New Years Resolutions for Women in MidlifeHappy New Year, ladies! It’s time to say goodbye to 2022 (good riddance, amiright?) and hello to a fresh start in 2023. If you’re a midlife woman, you know that time is of the essence, so let’s make this year count. Here are a few New Year’s resolutions that are perfect for us fabulous midlife…
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What to eat for Breakfast
Read More: What to eat for BreakfastWhat to eat for BREAKFAST “I am eating clean but….” That is how many messages I get start. You are eating what you think is “clean” but you are wondering why you feel so hungry so soon later. Here are some things I want you to know: I do not count calories or cut out…
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3 million, nine hundred and ninety seven thousand lbs released
Read More: 3 million, nine hundred and ninety seven thousand lbs releasedI was totally blown away today to realize that I have helped women release over 2.997 MILLION lbs over the last decade. 3 million, nine hundred and ninety seven thousand lbs released I say “release” because losing weight implies that we hope to find it again one day. With that “release?” Confidence returns Passion returns…
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How old is “too old?”
Read More: How old is “too old?”Remember when we thought 50 was “old?” Like when we were just spring chickens at 20 and it seemed SO FAR AWAY? If you still think that it’s OLD or too late here is what I want you to know… I’m just getting STARTED at age 50 You see… At age 32, I moved…
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Passion and Purpose as we age
Read More: Passion and Purpose as we ageDo you feel PASSION and PURPOSE in your life right now? Or, does it feel like “gamble” daily checking things off the list and dealing with whatever comes your way? One thing I’m finding in my 50s is it’s increasingly an important topic amongst my friends and clients my age. Feeling like “is this all…
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24 Motivational Quotes To Help You Push Through The Tough Days On Your Weight Loss Journey
Read More: 24 Motivational Quotes To Help You Push Through The Tough Days On Your Weight Loss JourneyTrying to lose weight is a lot like doing an endurance run – it takes time and effort to get… The post 24 Motivational Quotes To Help You Push Through The Tough Days On Your Weight Loss Journey appeared first on Women’s Health.
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Motivation, Oxygen Challenge, The Oxygen Challenge, The Oxygen Challenge 7, Women’s Fitness Personalities
Oxygen Challenge 7’s Biggest Team Player: Jana Redwine-Landfried
Read More: Oxygen Challenge 7’s Biggest Team Player: Jana Redwine-LandfriedMeet your Oxygen Challenge 7 Biggest Team Player winner: Jana Redwine-Landfried! Age: 41 Location: Lubbock, Texas Occupation: Physician Assistant Team: Venus Lau Redwine-Landfried entered this challenge tired, both mentally and physically. She’s been active her whole life, but was feeling drained from her “all in, all the time” mentality. This challenge came as she’s settling…
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3 Steps to Success With Your New Year’s Resolution
Read More: 3 Steps to Success With Your New Year’s ResolutionHere we are again; a new year and endless opportunities to better ourselves. As we warm up to 2022, it’s the perfect opportunity to refocus priorities and commit to new goals. You may have set resolutions to become healthier, better your nutrition and/or commit to a higher level of fitness. While these are great goals,…
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12 Days of Gains, Ambassadors, Exercise Tips, Fitness Tips, Motivation, Training Techniques for Women
5 Ways to Stay Fit Over the Holidays
Read More: 5 Ways to Stay Fit Over the HolidaysI love the saying, “Failing to plan is planning to fail.” If you don’t want to lose all the hard work you’ve put into your training plan thus far, you must schedule your workouts. Because (unlike Christmas magic) they won’t magically happen on their own. The key to staying fit over the holidays is coming up…
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How Van Lifer Claire P. Thomas Stays Fit and Healthy on the Road
Read More: How Van Lifer Claire P. Thomas Stays Fit and Healthy on the RoadWe chose a location on a random stretch of beach just off the Honoapi‘ilani Highway on Maui — a place where we could pull Claire P. Thomas’ converted Sprinter van through the kiawe trees and onto the sand. The only other people around were a few environmental volunteers taking water samples down the way. We…
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Ellie Manacchio Goes From Bullied to Bikini Model
Read More: Ellie Manacchio Goes From Bullied to Bikini ModelGrowing up, Ellie Marie Manacchio realized that she didn’t look like her peers. “I was always the heavy kid in a room of super-thin friends,” she remembers. “My dad told me I was ‘big boned’ and that it was just our family’s genetics.” Manacchio came from a big Italian family — with big Italian appetites…
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How One Woman Beat Cancer and Resolved to Get Fit
Read More: How One Woman Beat Cancer and Resolved to Get FitAfter her mastectomy in 2019, April Capil was at a weigh-in for reconstructive surgery. She watched in disbelief as she saw the nurse add more weight to the arm of the scale until it read 204. “Here I was having major surgery to reduce my risk of a cancer recurrence, but it turned out that…
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5 Fit Women Who Inspire Us to Keep Pushing
Read More: 5 Fit Women Who Inspire Us to Keep PushingIf you’re familiar with Oxygen, you know that five inspiring women are selected to be featured in the print magazine’s Future of Fitness column. Think you have what it takes? Send us your story. Kimberly Kenney Winston-Salem, North Carolina 44 • 133 lb • 5’5” Certified personal trainer Fettuccine Fiasco. Kimberly Kenney had been on high…
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Will You Make it Past 50?
Read More: Will You Make it Past 50?Will you live past the age of 50? As I write this my heart is racing, my hands are shaking, and my breath is…UNCOMFORTABLE. 27 years ago the course of my life changed forever. My dad, who was my world, died of a heart attack. No warning. No goodbyes. Just gone. He was 49. 2…
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How Competition Can Help You Reach Goals
Read More: How Competition Can Help You Reach GoalsBeing competitive gets a bad rap and is often associated with stress, anxiety and an overly intense focus on winning or being “the best.” But competition is also a powerful motivator and can increase productivity, improve performance and provide accountability. “Competition at its base is what has driven us as a species to survive,” says…
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Take Action, Even When You Do Not Feel Like It
Read More: Take Action, Even When You Do Not Feel Like ItTake Action, Even When You Do Not Feel Like It “Natalie motivate me- I just never FEEL like it”… ok hate to break this to you but PLEASE STOP waiting to “feel like it” because that won’t appear You may never “feel” like working out, eating healthy, starting that new business, leaving that toxic relationship,…
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We Must Change our Relationship with Pain
Read More: We Must Change our Relationship with PainWe Must Change our Relationship with Pain “I am in so much PAIN Natalie, how did you thrive even with your injuries?” 30-40 year old me didn’t understand “pain” like I do now at 49. I used to think: it was not something that would happen to ME and I also believed it was people’s…
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Where Is Your Focus
Read More: Where Is Your FocusWhere Is Your Focus? But I’m too old… But I’m too late… But I’m too injured… But my doctor said… But I tried before… But I don’t have xyz… Lack attracts more lack.We are a result of what we FOCUS ON. What we focus on we find more of. What we talk about we bring…
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Doctors Said This Would Not Happen
Read More: Doctors Said This Would Not HappenDoctors Said This Would Not Happen… I was told I would never do my rings again…. GLAD I DID NOT LISTEN! I’m back! False assumed truths are real… DO NOT LISTEN. Determination is everything If you’ve known me more than a few years, you know that rings were my JAM! I was always posting ring…
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When You Can’t Find The Motivation
Read More: When You Can’t Find The MotivationWhen You Can’t Find The Motivation I have felt like a LOSER before and self beat up is real. What I’m about to share is for you if your current circumstances have you feeling bad and you don’t know where to find the motivation. I’ve failed a LOT. More times than I can count. I’ve…
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You Create What You Focus On
Read More: You Create What You Focus OnYou Create What You Focus On We get what we think about whether we like it or not…. Many times in my life I have had failures and set backs… MANY TIMES. And what got me out of those times and self beat up always was and always is changing my focus. Changing what I…
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Breaking The Pain Cycle
Read More: Breaking The Pain CycleBreaking The Pain Cycle “BUT I can’t I’m in pain”… I get it… I’m the queen of injures and pain. I had 3 major injuries in the last year What did I do when I was injured and in pain? How did I stay fit? How did I get OUT OF PAIN? I still moved…
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Are Your Friends Supportive?
Read More: Are Your Friends Supportive?Are Your Friends Supportive? TELL THEM TO SHOVE IT “But my friends don’t support my goals”…. “but my friends talk me out of…” “but my friends tear me down and make me feel bad” FIND NEW FRIENDS. Seriously. Life’s too short to not surround yourself and spend time with people that LIFT YOU UP ,…
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Are You Stuck in the Pain Cycle?
Read More: Are You Stuck in the Pain Cycle?Are You Stuck in the Pain Cycle? The PAIN cycle…. are you stuck there? It’s brutal when you are IN it… It works like this: You have PAIN: maybe from an injury, imbalance, something else… Thinking about moving your body, doing that workout, etc… makes you think of the pain so you avoid it. You…
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Are You Feeling Anxious?
Read More: Are You Feeling Anxious?Are You Feeling Anxious? BLAME fixes NOTHING. NADA… not a thing. If you find yourself ANGRY, STRESSED, JUDGING OTHERS or living in FEAR and “blaming” this is for you…REAL TALK.. So many divisions, opinions, fears, judgements and hate happening right now. Dagnabbit…it’s divisive, polarizing and scary. It’s happening all over the place. And it’s sucking…
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Change Your Perspective
Read More: Change Your PerspectiveChange Your Perspective PERSPECTIVE SWITCHING… Ya know how you feel totally different getting dressed up, putting makeup up VS. being in leggings and a messy bun all day? It’s kind of the same thing with PERSPECTIVE CHANGE. I was in FULL self beat up the last few days because of a perceived failure. I was…
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Who do you want to BE despite the circumstances?
Read More: Who do you want to BE despite the circumstances?Who do you want to BE despite the circumstances? I do not think I’ve bad a DRESS on since LAST YEAR! Leggings, zooms instead of so much in person, rules, so much has changed… I was scrolling through my camera roll and found this and it got me thinking about everything that has changed so…
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You Won’t Get There By Accident
Read More: You Won’t Get There By AccidentYou Won’t Get There By Accident YOU WILL NOT GET THERE BY ACCIDENT. Are you super laser clear on what you actually WANT to create for yourself? If you are not clear on where you want to go you won’t get there ‘by accident’. Kinda like getting in a car and driving without deciding where…
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60,000 Thoughts A Day
Read More: 60,000 Thoughts A Day60,000 Thoughts A Day YOU are not too old.You are not too late.You ARE smart enoughYou ARE creative. And Capable.You are resourceful, resilient and respected.You ARE amazing.You are strong.You are loveable.You ARE enough.Anything IS possible for you.You are most definitely NOT your current circumstances. We have an average of 60,000 thoughts a day- yup…. 60,000…
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How to Start to THRIVE
Read More: How to Start to THRIVEHow to Start to THRIVE Hey you in your 40s and 50s and beyond. SAVE this post to remind yourself that You are not TOO OLD and it is not TOO LATE. Your time has not past in fact it’s just beginning! The second 1/2 of your life can be more passion filled, confident and…
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Stop the Judgement
Read More: Stop the JudgementStop the Judgement 40 Before you judge and criticize others make sure YOUR life is perfect you see, no matter what we do / say/ post there is judgement. Post an active pictures : Get a dm or comment “must be nice to have time to do that…” Share a food story or pic “You…
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Massive Action Is Overrated
Read More: Massive Action Is OverratedMassive Action Is Overrated YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TAKE MASSIVE ACTION. Massive action is great but it can also feel overwhelming and make us stop or not start at all… there is another way… small steps over time. There are 365 days in a year. One small step forward every day makes a big…
