Summer in the City: Maximizing Fitness as the Temperatures Soar
The summer months are warmer no matter where you are. Heat is a relative sensation, of course; if your average temperature for 9 months...
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katemarden
May 5, 20233 min
Spring into a Better Life: Why Resolutions Should be Made in May, Not January
New Year's resolutions are objectively destined to fail. In fact, I’ll go one step further and say that it’s preposterous that so many...
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Apr 16, 20233 min
Making the Case for Change: Why Your Body Knows Best
We are all creatures of habit. Like it or not, human nature thrives on routine and is wary of change. While resistance to change does...
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Apr 7, 20234 min
Chat with the Experts: Dr. Betel Aklilu, Chiropractor
I’ll admit – for a long time, I was skeptical of chiropractors. To the uninformed observer, chiropractic work appears to involve a lot of...
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Mar 28, 20234 min
Chat with the Experts: Cyndi Radke, Executive Coach
I have known Cyndi Radke for about as long as the expert from my last blog, Amy. Cyndi joined my local workout program back before the...
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Feb 22, 20233 min
Chat with the Experts: Amy LaFalce, RDN
I met Amy back in 2019. She was one of the first neighborhood runners to sign up for a new group class I was offering. I was a novice...
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Feb 1, 20233 min
A Peek Inside a Coach’s Kitchen Cabinets
It’s easy to assume that fitness and nutrition coaches, such as yours truly, lead impeccably healthy lives. We do, after all, have a...
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Jan 25, 20233 min
The Heart of the Matter: HR Training & Beyond
I have a very distinct memory of having my heart rate checked during a unit on the human body in elementary school – and having the...
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Jan 15, 20233 min
Digging Deep: Beating the mid-January Slump
Mid-January: the holiday festivities are nothing but a memory, the decorations have long since lost their luster, our bank accounts...
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katemarden
Dec 31, 20224 min
Reflections on 2022: Swinging for the Fences
Whew! What a year that was. 2022 has been a banner year for me in many ways – I finally made my coaching “official” by creating this...
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katemarden
Dec 16, 20223 min
Holiday Hangover: Is That Pie and Eggnog Belly Inevitable?
The holidays are upon us, that special time of year when our schedules fill up with parties, potlucks, and gift exchanges, when cookies...
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Dec 6, 20224 min
Walking the Walk: Resolutions from a Coach’s Perspective
The holiday season is upon us, the time for parties, overindulging, bins full of wrapping paper, and – inevitably – the creation of...
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Nov 22, 20223 min
FRW Five for Life Final Principle: Living with Purpose
The last of the FRW Five for Life is arguably the most elusive – and definitely the most challenging to define. Telling your friends “I...
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Nov 14, 20223 min
Training your Brain the Fun Way: 5 Card Games
This week we are taking a brief hiatus from the Five for Life (but stay tuned for a post on the 5th principle in the next few days!) for...
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Nov 4, 20223 min
FRW Five for Life Principle #4: Nurturing the Ties that Bind
Frantic mornings, packed schedules, relentless demands and deadlines, and a scarcity of down time are the norm for many of us. And while...
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Oct 21, 20225 min
FRW Five for Life Principle #3: Sleep & Stress – The Dynamic Duo or the Terrible Twosome?
I am awful at sleeping. Truly, horribly, health-deterioratingly awful. Though I haven’t always been this way, sleep issues have plagued...
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Oct 12, 20224 min
Mind Matters: Prioritizing Brain Health
Every month is awareness month for one or more diseases and/or afflictions, and most of us have seen pink this month – pink socks, pink...
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Oct 8, 20222 min
Balancing Act for the Ages
Exercise as a tool for weight loss, heart health, and overall health improvement isn’t new to any of us. If you have kids, chances are...
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Sep 30, 20224 min
Taking the FRW Five for Life on the Road
With the pandemic over – for many practical intents and purposes – travel is on the radar for many of us. If you’ve traveled by air...
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Sep 26, 20225 min
FRW Five for Life: Functional Fitness
Nobody does exercise quite like Americans do exercise. We do cross-fit, we run 5k’s on every holiday, we Peloton, we lift, we row, we...
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