Tag: exercise

Social Media and Your Health: 4 tips to Help You Know if your Health or Wellness Coach is the Real Deal

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I have a real love/hate relationship with social media. I was in graduate school when Facebook first came on the scene, and I don’t think anyone (including me) could have imagined what it would lead to, for better or worse. On one hand, I think social media has created amazing opportunities for our generation that we could have never imagined. Take communication for example – the ease and speed with which we can disseminate information and the reach people and businesses can now have is pretty incredible. On the other hand, I think we all know that social media has a darker side.

As you scroll social media, how often do you see accounts for influencers and coaches that are providing health, wellness, or fitness information? How often do you stop to consider whether the person behind that account really knows what they are talking about?

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Beyond the Physical: The Non-scale Benefits of Exercise

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Stay motivated for your workout by focusing on 5 non-scale benefits of exercise

In the barre class I taught this past week, I closed with a quote on calmness to remind my class of the psychological benefits of exercise. Of course, I now can’t find that exact quote for the life of me, but I did find this one that is as close as I can get:

“You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do, is calm yourself. The storm will pass.”

Timber Hawkeye

After I shared it, I talked a little about how each person in that class had taken a step towards achieving mastery of mental calmness by getting through class that day. I decided to share that both with them and here, because it’s something that people don’t often think about when they think of exercising. People get wrapped up in the number on the scale, the size of their pants, and the number of calories burned on their fitness tracker, and they forget that some of the greatest benefits of exercise happen in the mind.

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My New Favorite Workout App

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My Favorite Workout App for Home, Gym, or Anywhere Workouts www.healthyasheck.com


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***Hey everyone! I posted a more recent update on this post here.  So after you finish reading this, head over there to see what else I had to say about this awesome app!

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No Time for Exercise

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Y’all, when I was a young, naïve, single, twenty something, I could not for the life of me understand it when people said they didn’t have time to exercise.  I mean, I just didn’t get it.  Couldn’t they just get up earlier or go to bed a little later?  What was so hard about that?

Then I had kids.

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