5 Ways to Make Your Office Space Healthier
Gone are the luxury of short workdays. For blue-collar office workers, seven, eight, sometimes nine hours are spent daily at a desk or cubicle during the week. Such a lengthy sedentary lifestyle can have lasting negative effects on your health. Staring at a computer screen can affect your posture and your eyesight and give you […]
5 Reasons to Stand Up for your Health
If I could instill one and only one habit in my clients, it would be to spend less time sitting. Sitting for long-hours is arguably as dangerous to the body as smoking cigarettes. Here are but a few of the reasons why: #1 Sitting too much causes depression. This Huffington Post article examines a study […]
Are you Overweight or just Brainwashed? – Don Draper’s Guide to Female Body Image and the Mass Media
You know the problem. We have been hijacked. Women, in particular, are conditioned by marketers to hate themselves. Female body image is owned by the mass media. Billion dollar campaigns of fear have been waged for decades to get you to think you are inadequate. Because, in this state of mind, you need to buy […]
Playground Workout Routine (or non-routine) to Make you Feel Like a Kid Again!
Do you watch your kids play at the playground from the comfort of the park bench? Perhaps you check your email on your smartphone. Or maybe you catch up on the latest celebrity gossip? Well, let me suggest a better use of your time. Why not join your kid on the playground. You can get […]
Look Before You Leap (But Then Take the Plunge)
I’m a lawyer. Which, almost by definition, means I’m Type-A to the extreme. Which means that I collect data. That I search for answers. That I analyze and re-analyze. That I look at things from every angle. And that I then, for good measure, I look again. And then – only after making absolutely sure […]
Dealing With Adversity in Sports
As we go through life we get tossed curveballs all the time known as “adversity” and we need to learn how to overcome it and keep moving forward. This is especially true in the world of endurance sports. As an athlete who competes and coaches others I see this all the time. Something happens during […]
Believe in Yourself and Be Positive
“Believe” is a word I use every day as a coach and basically in everything I do. It’s a word you need to say as you look at yourself in the mirror every morning and then take on the day with a smile. Since this is a blog for fitness minded individuals let’s apply that […]
