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Running, Coaching, and Living with an Autoimmune Disease โ TEST
Read More: Running, Coaching, and Living with an Autoimmune Disease โ TESTOne day while waiting for the bus, Mireille Sinรฉ noticed her hands were freezing. This was strange because she happened to be holding a thermos of hot coffee, and it was a warm summer day in Southern California. Sinรฉ, who at the time was 21, shrugged it offโa weird one-off occurrence. But this incident was…
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Running, Coaching, and Living with an Autoimmune Disease
Read More: Running, Coaching, and Living with an Autoimmune DiseaseOne day while waiting for the bus, Mireille Sinรฉ noticed her hands were freezing. This was strange because she happened to be holding a thermos of hot coffee, and it was a warm summer day in Southern California. Sinรฉ, who at the time was 21, shrugged it offโa weird one-off occurrence. But this incident was…
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This Versatile Running Shoe Just Got Better
Read More: This Versatile Running Shoe Just Got BetterOne run in the Under Armour HOVR Phantom 3 is all it takes to confirm Under Armour has done it again. The running shoe design team at Under Armour loves to innovateโas evidenced by the entire HOVR line, built on the brandโs trademarked HOVR cushioning technology. Thatโs why every new feature of the third iteration…
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Test Your Fitness Knowledge: How Healthy Is Your Score?
Read More: Test Your Fitness Knowledge: How Healthy Is Your Score?Are you a Fitness Fanatic or a Fat-Blasting Fledgling? Take the test and see! The following is a list of fitness facts and falsehoods. Are the statements true or false? See below for answers. ย 1. Surfing provides a great cardio workout. ย 2. For well-rounded fitness, itโs best to stick to one type of…
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Setting a Pace for Black Women Distance Runners
Read More: Setting a Pace for Black Women Distance RunnersWhen Ashlee Green was at a running race and sheโd see another Black woman on the course, the two would often exchange a knowing look: I see you.ย That mutual feeling of familiarity, understanding, and camaraderieโthat feeling of being seenโwas a feeling she hoped to โbottleโ when she and Jasmine Nesi began creating a space…
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Love your body
Read More: Love your bodyWe all have insecurities. In a world with so much pressure to be perfect, itโs no wonder so many of us are self-conscious about the way we look. I believe that when you accept and love your body, you have a greater tendency to nourish it more with healthier foods, proper rest and exercise. Thus,…
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How to Stay Fit and Healthy as You Age
Read More: How to Stay Fit and Healthy as You AgeThere is no Benjamin Button secret to staying forever young, and every minute of every day youโre getting older, whether you like it or not. The good news is that many aspects of aging well are within your control, and if you exercise regularly, nourish your skin and fuel your body properly, you can defy…
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6 Things Your Bathroom Habits Say About Your Health
Read More: 6 Things Your Bathroom Habits Say About Your HealthIf thereโs one thing we can all relate to as human beings, itโs going to the bathroom. Itโs one of the basic bodily functions, next to breathing and sleeping, and something we all experience every day. In fact, going to the bathroom is one of the healthiest things we can do for our body because…
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How to Improve Spine Health and Boost Performance
Read More: How to Improve Spine Health and Boost PerformanceMaintaining spinal integrity during exercise is paramount, but keeping your spine safe goes beyond the simple directive of maintaining good posture when performing big or heavy movements. It also expands into programming, workout timing and more. Hereโs how to keep your spine safe and healthy from top to bottom and improve your results in the…
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How to Use Self-Hypnosis to Chill Out
Read More: How to Use Self-Hypnosis to Chill OutWhen you think of hypnosis, you probably picture a mustachioed magician with a swinging pocket watch who compels his subjects to cluck like a chicken upon awakening. But in antithesis to this Hollywood typecast, hypnosis actually is a valuable, research-supported tool used to harness the power of the brain. For athletes, it can be used…
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8 Tips for Keeping Your Mental Health in Check This Winter
Read More: 8 Tips for Keeping Your Mental Health in Check This WinterTo live our healthiest life, most of us try to eat a nutritious diet and fit in exercise several times a week. While these are undoubtedly effective ways to care for your physical health, itโs mental health that we seem to be neglecting. In fact, millions of people are affected by a mental health condition…
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How Exercise Boosts Mental Health
Read More: How Exercise Boosts Mental HealthMolly Kujawski has a family history of mental illness. In college she became depressed and took medication to fight the blues. At the same time, in an effort to counteract her genetics, she started working out regularly and eating better โ and everything changed, including her mental health. โOnce I got consistent with exercising and…
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7 Dangerous Gym and Exercise Practices to Avoid
Read More: 7 Dangerous Gym and Exercise Practices to AvoidAlthough itโs unnerving to see paramedics rush into a exercise facility, it does happen on occasion. Exercisers who pass out from not eating enough or who insist on โworking through the painโ with an injury that hasnโt quite healed โ among other dangerous gym practices โ may find themselves taking the quick route to the…
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Why 30 Minutes of Physical Activity a Day Isnโt Enough
Read More: Why 30 Minutes of Physical Activity a Day Isnโt EnoughWeโve all heard this classic fitness guideline before: Exercise 30 minutes a day, and youโre the picture of health! Yes, just 30 minutes of movement is all it takes. But have you ever stopped to think about what 30 minutes is compared with your entire day?ย Two percent. Just two percent of your whole day.…
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How to Summerproof Your Body
Read More: How to Summerproof Your BodyBy now, slathering on sunscreen before steppingย out the door should be a year-round habit, but yourย epidermis is not the only thing being affected byย el sol. Other parts of your body can be negativelyย affected by the sun, sounds and soaring heat ofย the summer months. Hereโs how to protect fiveย of them from harm. Kidneys Summer Hazard: Heat…
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Health News Roundup: Spring 2021
Read More: Health News Roundup: Spring 2021Toasted, Inside and Out According to a study from the University of Arizona, tanning beds might increase your risk for endometriosis, a chronic inflammatory disease affecting 10 percent of women worldwide. Endometriosis is understudied and not well-understood, says Leslie McFarland, ScD, assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the universityโs Mel & Enid Zuckerman College…
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Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy: 5 Exercises to Ease Symptoms
Read More: Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy: 5 Exercises to Ease SymptomsPelvic floor disorder (PFD) affects roughly a quarter of all U.S. women, yet the overwhelming silence that accompanies living with it is deafening. PFD is any condition that affects your ability to contract or relax your pelvic floor muscles, which can contribute to urinary incontinence, constipation, pain during intercourse, sexual dysfunction and even lower-back pain.…
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How to Harness Female Physiology for Peak Training Performance
Read More: How to Harness Female Physiology for Peak Training PerformanceIron isnโt sexist. Neither is sweat. More and more stereotypes get shattered daily as women join the elite ranks of Spartan races, American Ninja Warrior and CrossFit competitions. Yet that ever-progressing equality does not necessarily extend to the weight room, and sometimes it flat-out does not make sense to train like a man. Distinct gender…
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6 Common Sun Mistakes to Avoid All Year-Long
Read More: 6 Common Sun Mistakes to Avoid All Year-LongGone are the days when youโd lie out like an iguana and soak in the sun. Now that youโre older and wiser, youโre trying to be smarter about protecting your skin. Good thing, too, because melanoma, the second most common form of skin cancer in women aged 15 to 29, has increased 6.1 percent annually…
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Learn How โGroundingโ Can Benefit Your Health
Read More: Learn How โGroundingโ Can Benefit Your HealthImagine walking barefoot in the cool grass or submerging in a peaceful lake or digging your toes into the sand. How do you feel? Chances are this kind of intimate connection with the earth makes you smile and elevates your mood, and while you may chalk that up to memories of your last Maui vacation,…
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The Connection Between Sleep and DNA
Read More: The Connection Between Sleep and DNALack of sleep and sleep disturbances have been linked to decreased cognitive performance, premature aging and other brain disorders โ and scientists are just discovering why. According to research published in the journal Nature Communications, every day your DNA is damaged by things like radiation and oxidative stress, and this damage accumulates faster than your…
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How to Keep Your Vital Organs Healthy
Read More: How to Keep Your Vital Organs HealthyThe leg boneโs connected to the knee bone. And the knee boneโs connected to the thighbone. Remember back when you learned this ditty as a kid to help understand how your skeleton fits together? Well, similar sentiments could be sung about your organs and how they, too, are interconnected. โEvery organ depends on the other…
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Self-Diagnosis: โDr. Googleโ is Inaccurate
Read More: Self-Diagnosis: โDr. Googleโ is InaccurateGoogle only provides an accurate medical diagnosis 36% of the time, according to research published in the Medical Journal of Australia. Mobile- and web-based symptom checkers are algorithm-based programs that provide potential diagnoses and triage advice, and even though they receive an estimated 70,000 health-related searches every minute, the results they provide are highly inaccurate.…
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The Five Doctors I Proved Wrong
Read More: The Five Doctors I Proved WrongTrigger warning: This piece makes mention of attempted suicide. Itโs fairly easy to find naysayers who donโt believe in your potential. From birth to now, Iโve come face to face with many who have placed limitations on my abilities. More than three decades later, my challenges have yet to slow down, but Iโm now able…
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Oxygenโs Guide to Biohacking: 5 Biohacks That Work
Read More: Oxygenโs Guide to Biohacking: 5 Biohacks That WorkEvery decade or so, the fitness world evolves and new buzzwords are created in the name of looking better, performing better, being healthier and living longer. Forty years ago, aerobics was the revolution du jour, followed closely by resistance training done on commercial-grade machines such as Nautilus. The early 2000s were dominated by high-intensity training…
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Stop the Self-Sabotage
Read More: Stop the Self-SabotageNew year or not, making a goal and seeing it through is tricky business, and in some instances, you are your own worst enemy when it comes to success. โWhen your unconscious patterns hold you back from having an appropriate emotional response, you sabotage your own success,โ says Rock Thomas, motivational speaker and author of…
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3 Hormones That Impact Your Health and Body Shape
Read More: 3 Hormones That Impact Your Health and Body ShapeLearn about the triple threat that could be impacting your appetite, weight, mood and more. Unless you’re a medical professional, when hormones are brought up in conversation, most people initially think of estrogen, progesterone, testosterone and occasionally thyroid — those typically associated with puberty, common medical conditions, menopause and hypothyroidism. However, there are many other…
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How to Upgrade Your Health As You Age
Read More: How to Upgrade Your Health As You AgeHere’s how to care for your body — inside and out — as you work your way through this thing called life. There is no Benjamin Button secret to staying forever young, and every minute of every day you’re getting older, whether you like it or not. The good news is that many aspects of aging well are…
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Hit the Sack for Heart Health
Read More: Hit the Sack for Heart HealthMaintain a regular bedtime to keep your heart happy. The next time you’re considering an all-night Netflix binge, take this to heart: Numerous heart-related health risks are linked to sleep deprivation, including weight gain, insulin resistance, Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. Protect your heart by going to bed at a consistent time. What’s…
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Get Moving to Manage Stress
Read More: Get Moving to Manage StressStress is a fact of life — but it’s also controllable if you attack it with exercise and diet. Follow these simple guidelines to help keep anxiety in check. Stress is everywhere in our lives, hitting us from all directions on a regular basis. Its sources are endless: a demanding job, a troubled relationship, lingering…
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8-Step Stress Prevention Plan
Read More: 8-Step Stress Prevention PlanProtect your mind and body from wear and tear and reduce your stress with these strategies. Life can be intense, and the past six or so months have been exceptionally disquieting on many levels. Whether it’s been the pandemic itself or the taxing fallout of illness, quarantine, financial uncertainty or isolation, it’s fair to say…
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7 Habits that Age You
Read More: 7 Habits that Age YouSneaky things you’re doing regularly could be making you age faster. Find out what they are and learn how to tweak your habits to be more age-friendly. Nobody wants to age any faster than they have to. Surprisingly, though, things you do, perhaps even daily, could be adding years to your life, even making you…
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Five Ways to Recover Mentally
Read More: Five Ways to Recover MentallyRecovery days should be as mental as they are physical. Here are five ways to recharge your brain — as well as your body — and redirect your fitness compass toward success. For athletes, days off are important for physical recovery and muscle repair, but they are also imperative for mental wellness. If your motivation…
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The Fit Woman’s Guide to Vaginal Health
Read More: The Fit Woman’s Guide to Vaginal HealthLearn the causes and symptoms of five vaginal infections, as well as measures to prevent them. The vagina — a wonderland and a mystery all at once. But metaphors aside, you probably don’t give your vagina much thought when you’re about to get your workout on. But vaginal care is more than just a few Kegels now…
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5 Surprising Ways to Live Longer
Read More: 5 Surprising Ways to Live LongerThere’s more to living a longer life than working out and eating clean! You already know that wearing out your dumbbells and stocking your fridge with clean foods equals a longer, healthier life. Chances are you’re already hitting the gym, piling on the veggies and spending all your time outside the office wearing leggings. You’ve…
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Slaying PMS Symptoms
Read More: Slaying PMS SymptomsTry this routine to kick butt during that time of the month. Shark week. Surfing the crimson wave. A visit from Aunt Flo. Riding the cotton pony. No matter how many cute euphemisms we assign to our menstrual cycle, it doesn’t take away the bloating, cramps, fatigue or heightened emotions. Learn how to combat period…
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Six Tips for Exercising Effectively While Pregnant
Read More: Six Tips for Exercising Effectively While PregnantFollow these simple safety guidelines to reap the benefits of exercising while pregnant. Becoming a mom was the best thing that ever happened to me, but it didn’t come without a cost. My body changed. My hormones went crazy. And some of the changes were permanent. Lisa Maximus while pregnant. The entire time I was…
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New Research: Don’t Combine Carbs and Artificial Sweeteners
Read More: New Research: Don’t Combine Carbs and Artificial SweetenersConsuming carbs and artificially sweetened drinks together can cause metabolic dysfunction, researchers find. Energy bars and drinks containing artificial sweeteners instead of sugar might not be a healthy trade after all, suggests research published in Cell Metabolism. Scientists wanted to see whether repeated use of artificial sweeteners might erode your ability to taste sweet things, which…
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Healthy Eating for Women, Life, Nutrition for Women, Training Advice for Women, Training Tips for Women, Women’s Health
12 Tips for Better Fitness and Health
Read More: 12 Tips for Better Fitness and HealthWhen it comes to improving your fitness, nutrition and health, we’ve chosen a dozen of the simplest ways to eat better, perform better and boost your entire well-being. Going to the Gym Without Eating First? Here’s a new incentive: Eat protein before you go and you can peel off 15 pounds a year. A study…
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5 Yoga Moves to Ease Pain
Read More: 5 Yoga Moves to Ease PainFind relief in these quick and easy yet effective yoga practices. Instead of reaching for that bottle of painkillers in your medicine cabinet the next time you experience a headache or back pain, try channeling your inner yogi. Why? While 11.5 million Americans living with chronic pain misuse prescription opioids, there are alternative treatment options…
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Why Women Should Lift Weights
Read More: Why Women Should Lift WeightsOn a regular basis, clients tell me that they are afraid to strength train because they are afraid of getting “bulky.” When paired up with cardio and the right nutrition, strength training will NOT make you bulky. Fit, firm and tone is not bulky. In fact, you will more than likely drop a few sizes as your…
