When introduced to the ScienceDirect1 article The exercise–cognition relationship: A virtuous circle, the infrequently used word “virtuous” caught my eye. A quick Merriam Webster online search led me to “virtuous” definition #3 which included the words potent and efficacious. Now we had something…(a) Potent: having great power, influence, or effect. (b) Efficacious: successful in producing […]
In honor of Memorial Day we won’t have a fitness blog post today. Please enjoy your Holiday with gratitude for those Armed Forces Members and Civilians who gave their lives serving our country. If weather allows, and you are able, please honor the Day with a walk in the beautiful outdoors. WF!
The word Inflammaging popped out at me from my Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) Golf Fitness Level 2 course in 2019, while studying how to alleviate mobility dysfunction in golfers and the general population. At once my brain recognized Inflammaging as the enemy against which I had been defending and mounting counteroffensives for years! The welcome
For those of us who forgot to dance around the Maypole this month, today we give a nod to dance, to song and to receiving their physical and mental health benefits. Sometimes songs transcend their original meaning and inspire a global community as Kalush Orchestra’s Stefania rap song did in last week’s Eurovision Song Contest,
Let’s call May another We Love Exercise Month. We’ll get off the couch for Fun and Healthspan – the period of our lives without major debilitating diseases.* As seen in our running female graphic above, the body responds very favorably to exercise. Running itself is not necessary for the body to receive these benefits. Brisk
One of the recent blog posts which came across my email contained the saying from our image below of “I didn’t come this far to only come this far.” Something resonated with this week’s quote that encouraged me to say “Yes” to finishing what seems like never ending fitness courses that keep beckoning me to
Come Dance With Me are the four words Fourteenth Century mystic poet, Hafiz, wrote to capture ultimate spiritual relationship. For our health and fitness purposes we interpret dance as any form of pleasurable, rhythmic movement – including cadence in military marching, or repetitions in a weight training exercise, or measured dance itself such as ballet,
Friday, April 22, 2022, we celebrate and breathe deep from the large spherical body of which each of us is a minuscule, vital cell. EARTH DAY beckons us. Remember learning the definition of the word photosynthesis? We had our first understanding of being One, of the dependent interchange between ourselves and the photosynthesis process by
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When my Essentrics® Aging Backwards class concluded, one of the students sat on the floor cross-legged, talking on her cell phone while writing notes in a small booklet. She then easily stood up to leave. Amazed at how she moved, I asked her how she came to be so limber. (Moving freely often is a
We made it to April. This month contains so many formal and informal days for celebrating health, wellness and quirky items that I borrowed a Google image, shown below, which features the many days to which we can look forward. One thing to celebrate this month is Appreciating Others, which can be found in Ten
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Monday Morning Vitality Tips and Special Events
