Take the time to look at your relationship with food and fitness. Do you do negative self-talk when you are confronted with food (especially food that you love)? Does the very mention of exercise get you down? It’s time to cast off a sedentary lifestyle and embrace food choices that nourish you [...]
“I don’t have time to exercise!” That’s why I don’t like to call fitness exercise. The “E” word may turn you off, but being sedentary should be what scares you. A sedentary lifestyle will shorten your life, a fitness lifestyle will lengthen it - you choose. You can be fit at any age and any [...]
Okay, now we are going to go on the floor. I recommend an exercise mat from spriproducts.com. (They don’t pay me for that plug.) They have a 1/2 inch foam exercise mat that is very knee friendly. Everyone I’ve tried it with has been able to be on their knees without discomfort. It is also [...]
Okay, you can sit down now!
The next sit of exercises should be done in a firm chair without arms. A kitchen chair, or a folding chair (the kind we use with card tables) will be sufficient.
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You are going to loop your stretchy band through something or wrap it around something. You can use a door [...]
If you are a person of size, you are accustomed to the obsession with your weight and no one will assume that someone your size is concerned about fitness. In this installment, we are going to focus on building strength. All of you have muscles. Let me repeat that, all of you have muscles. If [...]