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A Navy SEAL’s 4 tips to boost mental toughness
Mental Strength – Amazing post on mindbodygreen, an absolute must-read: I’ve had a 20-year career as a Navy SEAL, 30 years of martial arts training and more than 15 years of yoga practice and teaching to warriors. If there is anything I can teach you, it’s how important your mental strength is, over any physical ability…
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A way to get fit and also have… fun?
Love this idea and agree with the philosophy behind it. Change up your routine and give this fitness approach a try! Can exercise that is intense also be fun? Researchers in Denmark recently began delving into that issue and in the process developed a new approach to intense interval training that could appeal even to…
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We’re clean eating our way to new eating disorders
Discussions about what we “can and cannot eat” come up in almost every conversation on fitness. Found this post on Salon interesting. Is orthorexia about to join the DSM? Because overdoing it is the American way, we’ve now managed to warp even healthy habits into a new form of eating disorders. Welcome to the era…
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Trainer Cassey Ho Photoshops Herself To Send Message About Body Shaming
Hadn’t seen a fitness post that caught my attention lately, until this: You’d think that, if someone was a fitness instructor, committed to helping others get in shape, he or she would not be a target for body shaming or cyber-bullying. You’d think that. It’s actually quite the opposite. Blogilates founder Cassey Ho, who posts uplifting and inspirational…
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Starting out with interval running
After reading my usual 5k runs weren’t doing much for me anymore, I looked into interval training –which a LOT of fitness experts like Workout Anywhere swear by- that spoke to my short attention span. There’s a load of convoluted articles on the subject out there, trust me. But I found one that’s easy to implement –…