Category: Exercise
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8- Week Health and Wellness Challenge
How are you doing with your New Year’s resolutions to get healthy and fit? Everyone starts out with such high expectations of succeeding in their New Year’s resolutions but only a few achieve them. If you have been struggling to achieve (or start) your New Year’s resolutions to get healthy in the new year, a… Read more
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5 Tips for Day-Hiking Success
This post is sponsored by Emerald® Nuts How do you stay in shape? What motivates you? If you’re like me, you probably have a gym membership and try to eat a healthy diet. Having an exercise ‘variety-plan’ can help keep workouts fun and fresh and motivation high. A ‘variety-plan’ consists of several, diverse activities that… Read more
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15 Tips for Summer Hiking Success
Summer is almost here, and if you are like me, you want to spend as much time outside as possible. If you have been reading this blog for some time, you know that I am an avid day hiker. I love to hike with my kids and husband. We have been regularly hiking since we… Read more
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Preventing a Fall During Pregnancy: Strength and Balance Exercises
Pregnancy is a time of remarkable physical and emotional changes, from your growing belly and glowing skin to that all-too-common moodiness and forgetfulness. You may have even noticed significant changes in your sense of balance, causing you to trip and stumble more than before. Read more
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Silent Saturday
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Wisdom Wednesday: Hiking
Good morning and Happy Wednesday! I hope that your week is calm and creative so far. Generally on Wednesday’s I reserve this post for writing about virtues in my Wisdom Wednesday segment. This week in keeping with the hiking theme, I have decided to venture from the norm. In preparation for the American Hiking Society’s… Read more
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26 Reasons People Fall In Love With Hiking
I was a kid when I went on my first hike with my mother. We were at a county park that had trails and playgrounds. She decided we needed to take a little walk in the woods. I was not pleased. I thought it would be a real struggle. What I really wanted to do… Read more
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Hiking: Finding the Best Trails
Saturday, June 6 is American Hiking Society’s National Trails Day. Whether you are planning your first hike or you 100th hike, finding the best hiking trails in your area is the first step to a great hiking experience. There are numerous hiking trails that you can choose from, but researching the park and the trails… Read more
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The Essential Day Hiking Checklist
Happy May 1! This is my favorite time of year. The days are getting warmer and longer. The wildflowers are in bloom, and everyone seems so eager to get out and enjoy the sun and become more active. Since we moved to California, we have been day hiking almost every weekend for the past four… Read more
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30 Minute Treadmill HIIT Workout
Have you heard of HIIT? HIIT or high-intensity interval training, is a workout technique where you give maximum, one hundred percent work through fast, intense bursts of activity, followed by a brief recovery periods. This style of training gets your heart rate up and keeps it up the entire workout, burning more fat in less… Read more