Box Jumps Do’s and Don’ts
Box jumps are a bit of a athletic status symbol, with professional athletes or otherwise very fit people posting videos of themselves leaping like gazelles straight up onto chest-high platforms. These flat-footed rocket launches are incredible feats, no doubt. But determining their worth for the average gym-goer is a little harder to nail down. What Box Jumps …
5 Movements You Should Be Able To Do
Written by Angela Silva When you change the way you think about exercise to a matter of functionality rather than physique, you start to realize the importance of some very basic moves you were taught at a young age. Let’s think about it for a minute: what are some regular “exercises” that are part of …
4 Times YouTube Videos Taught Us Important Life Lessons and We Liked It
It’s Not About the Nail Sometimes we know the answer to our problems but can’t admit it. Jamaican Accent Man Be positive, don’t be afraid of doing stuff your own way. Broken Escalator Sometimes we are set in our ways too much. Candy Bar Commercial It is possible to help too much.
Workout Mistakes for Those Trying to Lose Weight
If you’re trying to lose weight, these workout errors can hurt your progress. > Only doing one type of workout. If you do the same exercise a hundred times, you’ll get cardiovascular benefits, assuming you’re exerting yourself. But as the body builds tolerance to the workout, it will learn how to expend fewer calories to perform …
Working Out to Fight Stress
Written by Greg Marshall, Fiture Metamorphosis In today’s high paced world, stress is a serious problem that requires proactive steps to alleviate, so life can be lived at the highest level. What I want to do is share the best ways to work out to reduce stress. #1 Compound Exercises The first strategy to focus …
Extinguishing Job Burnout
Written by Bridget Edwards If you got laid off from your job, would you be sad or relieved? Sure, not having income is worrisome, but this is an important question to ask about something that takes up a tremendous amount of our lives. For most people, jobs provide a standard routine. Odds are the next …
Fruit Sugar Versus Table Sugar: What’s the Difference?
Written by Michael Richardson Sugar is enemy number one in today’s dieting world, and considering our astronomical sugar consumption habits, it’s probably a good place for our animosity. But throwing fruit out of our diet because of its sugar will have some bitter results. First of all, no research ties fruit consumption to obesity or …
When Clothes are a Frenemy
How Many Articles of Clothing Do You Actually Wear On a Regular Basis? Clothes can make the morning more stressful, which is crazy because most of us love clothes. But sometimes we have to many, which is the root of the stress. Ladies, say you have 6 pants/skirts, 12 tops and 5 pairs of shoes …
How Exercise Helps You Look and Feel Younger
Sure, you will have a lot of excuses when it is time for you to do your exercise, you may say, busy schedule, tired, sleepy and other excuses that you can think of, but would you excuse yourself from it after knowing that exercise can help you not just feel but look younger? Exercise can …
Beauty in a Blender: Hot Pink Smoothie Recipe
From Robyn Openshaw, GreenSmoothieGirl.com Robyn’s Famous Hot Pink Smoothie Serves 4 1 1/2 cups coconut water (optional: “ferment” it overnight on the counter with water kefir grains, strain it, and put new coconut water in for tomorrow) 2 tsp vanilla 1/4 cup raw cashews (not roasted) 2–4 large dates, pitted 1 large carrot, cut in …
