If you’re focused on wellness, you know how important nutritious and healthy eating is. Proper nutrition is the foundation of a healthy lifestyle and critical to personal performance – whether in the gym or in day-to-day life. Meeting your wellness goals means consuming whole foods with high nutrient density, and avoiding fast foods and processed or pre-packaged-high preservative foods is …
How to Create a Great Home Gym on a Budget
When it comes to working out, there’s no doubt that consistency is key to feeling results and hitting your desired goals. But if you’re always wondering where you’re going to hit your workout – whether it’s a gym, a yoga studio, or your living room – that can be a hindrance to maintaining a regular exercise schedule. So if you’re …
How to Get Back on Track after Falling off the Exercise & Healthy Eating Wagon
You’ve been crushing your workouts, making those green smoothies, and getting 8 hours of sleep every night. But slowly, you start to miss a workout here and there and find yourself eating dessert with every meal. Next thing you know, you’ve completely fallen off your exercise and healthy eating wagon. If this scenario sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Busy schedules, …
5 Simple Steps to Healthy Eating
An integral part of any wellness program is eating. The old age “you are what you eat” rings very true, and whether you’re trying to lose weight, build muscle, or just feel more energized, your diet plays a critical role. But in a society with abundant food choices at every turn and eating advice coming out of the woodwork, it …
Break the Sugar Cycle: Learn How Sugar Affects You and How to Embrace a Low Sugar Lifestyle
What you eat is a critical part of any wellness journey (in addition to consistent physical activity) and can help you achieve goals such as weight loss or avoid chronic illnesses and medical conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. While we all know about eating fruits and veggies and lean proteins to stay healthy, it’s just as important to …
Low Impact Workout Benefits: Yoga, Pilates, and Mind-Body Studios
The success of a wellness journey can be dependent upon choosing what works best for you and your lifestyle. Whether it’s picking healthy food that you like or finding the right workout environment, tailoring your choices can increase the odds of you sticking with it. Fortunately, we live in a culture that offers countless options for getting healthy – especially …
Clean Eating 101: Your Guide to Cultivating a Healthier Kitchen
Cultivating a healthy lifestyle and working toward wellness goals can seem like a daunting journey. It can be hard to know where to start and confusing to parse out fads from truth to determine what will really work for you. But one of the best places to start for your wellness journey is closer than you think – your kitchen. …
Motivation as a Fitness Misnomer
There is an overwhelming amount of advice, guidance, and marketing plans on how to get, and stay, “fit.” For many, the idea of achieving a toned and sculpted body with minimal effort in the least amount of time is the goal to aspire to. And while physical appearance is important, fitness is more about total well-being than aesthetics. And that …
Hard Truths from a Personal Trainer
On a daily basis we’re inundated with wellness advice and tips: how to eat healthy, lose weight, exercise the “right way,” keep the weight off, and more. But the (hard) truth is that much of that advice does not work and won’t help you achieve your wellness goals. As a fitness professional who has seen and heard it all over …
3 Ways Food Can Boost Your Mood
Most of us are always looking for ways to feel better – physically, mentally, and emotionally. And as we all feel the lingering effects of the pandemic and unrest around the globe, it can be easy to slide into anxiety or sadness. Some individuals may need medication for relief, while others may seek out temporary (and unhealthy) reprieves such as …
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