Why This Exercise Professional Is Telling More Midlife Clients to Exercise Less 1. Heal Your Hormones During times of big hormone fluctuation lifestyle habits catch up with you. If you’ve been getting by on too little sleep, frozen dinners, or long hours at work you’re going to find you can’t get by any longer. […]
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Exercise is Fourth I am reminded as I write this blog of the book by Gail Sayers. He wrote, I am Third. He was, in case you don’t remember the teammate of football player Brian Piccolo. Sayer’s book was the inspiration for the tear-jerker Brian’s Song. “Exercise is fourth” when it comes to getting you to your
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How I Spend 10 or 20 Minutes When It’s All I Have Last weekend I spent an amazing three days with a small group of health experts. This mastermind group works as hard on saving the world, spreading their message as they do on their own health. What’s that mean? It means we start early,
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Putting the Puzzle Together for Weight Loss Over Sushi There is something about sushi. It makes you eat slower. First, there’s the chopsticks. I now handle them better. Yet inevitably there is concern from plate to plate and then to my mouth that you will drop food. That could mean just embarrassment. It could mean
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RUNNING THROUGH LIFE…. …has been a way to find a deeper connection with my surroundings. I’ve run through streets of Madrid, Spain at an hour many were still coming home from the night before… and on isolated beaches on the island of Molokai where the only other person aside from my husband and I was
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ZONE TRAINING: ARE YOU GOING THE SPEED LIMIT? High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is the favorite of instructors, trainers, and even many Boomers. It’s exercise done at 85% and more of your maximum. If you put that in terms of breathing, you’re breathless. In terms of talking, you’re down to one word or hand gestures. You’re
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Pack Your Bags and Leave the Weight Behind Believe it or not some of us lose weight when we travel. There are probably several factors at play there. 1. You left day-to-day stressors behind. 2. You sleep better. 3. You may have the chance to cleanse. Pack protein powder. Bring individual packets of steel
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Want to Strengthen Your After 50 Relationships? Testosterone gets squeezed out of the hormone picture. You may just want to get a girl crush going on this male hormone. True, males have more but having less doesn’t make it less important. It’s one of the sex hormones, so you can be sure if you’re sensitive to
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When You’re Ready To Change Don’t Just Paint Over the Old Layer of Paint I used to hand paint furniture. Actually, I still pretend I will. I have had the primed unpainted rocking chair from a couple great nephews ago and they’re practically ready for kindergarten. I have made progress recently, though. I bought brushes
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Call it the Menopausal Makeover You’re at that age. You’re going through it or have been. You wake damp. You have a few flashes. You’ve put on a few pounds. You’re assuming that’s normal based on what you’ve heard. It is normal? Or is it your normal because you’re not making changes to save yourself.
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Shoulder
Circumference outside of both arms, at the armpit
Right Triceps
Halfway btwn shoulder & elbow, arm extended.
Hips
Find the widest point of girth at the hips
Right Thigh
Standing with weight on both legs, measure halfway between knee cap and hip flexor
Right Calf
Standing with weight on both legs, find the largest point of calf.
Chest
Measure from the rib cage just under breasts at bra line
Waist
At the belly button/umbilicus
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