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Summer in the City: Maximizing Fitness as the Temperatures Soar

May 11, 20233 min read

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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Spring into a Better Life: Why Resolutions Should be Made in May, Not January

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May 5, 20233 min read

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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Making the Case for Change: Why Your Body Knows Best

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Apr 16, 20233 min read

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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Chat with the Experts: Dr. Betel Aklilu, Chiropractor

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Apr 7, 20234 min read

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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Chat with the Experts: Cyndi Radke, Executive Coach

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Mar 28, 20234 min read

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 read

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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A Peek Inside a Coach’s Kitchen Cabinets

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Feb 1, 20233 min read

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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The Heart of the Matter: HR Training & Beyond

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Jan 25, 20233 min read

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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Digging Deep: Beating the mid-January Slump

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Jan 15, 20233 min read

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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Reflections on 2022: Swinging for the Fences

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Dec 31, 20224 min read

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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Holiday Hangover: Is That Pie and Eggnog Belly Inevitable?

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Dec 16, 20223 min read

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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Walking the Walk: Resolutions from a Coach’s Perspective

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Dec 6, 20224 min read

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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FRW Five for Life Final Principle: Living with Purpose

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Nov 22, 20223 min read

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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Training your Brain the Fun Way: 5 Card Games

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Nov 14, 20223 min read

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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FRW Five for Life Principle #4: Nurturing the Ties that Bind

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Nov 4, 20223 min read

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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FRW Five for Life Principle #3: Sleep & Stress – The Dynamic Duo or the Terrible Twosome?

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Oct 21, 20225 min read

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 read

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 read

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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Taking the FRW Five for Life on the Road

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Sep 30, 20224 min read

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 read

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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