Drink up!

Here's a friendly reminder to drink your water!  A glass when you wake up, a glass with each meal or snack will knock out 5 servings easily.  Have another 8-10 ounces after exercise (or during) and another in the afternoon.  It will help curb your appetite and provide necessary lubrication to your joints and hydration …

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20 Minutes or Less

The holidays are fast approaching and that means we're going to go from our "everyday normal" warp speed to Mach-10.  Shopping, cooking, eating, celebrating, wrapping presents for Christmas morning or the 8 nights of Hanukkah, and more eating.  Then there's the holiday socializing that will include eating and drinking.  Yikes! As a fitness professional I see …

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It’s Turkey Trot Time!

That's right, the Annual Turkey Trot is back!  Our trot kicks off on Thanksgiving morning (11/27) at 7:30 a.m.  As with the previous trots, we will meet at Rush Creek to stroll, power walk or run along a mixed-use dirt path through the marshlands.   The path is pretty much flat except for a few rolling …

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What the heck is a Kalette?

My mother in law Carolyn is a great source for fitness and health information.  She clips and brings me articles on health and fitness from her local paper and saves me copies of her Nutrition Action Health Letter.  This little gem of a newsletter is published by the Center for Science in the Public Interest …

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Strength in Numbers

Here's a fun fact for you this Monday morning.  Happy November, but the way 🙂 New research from the journal Psychology of Sport and Exercise confirms that thinking about how you stack up against others during a workout can help you go harder, faster, or longer.  In the study, people were asked to hold a …

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3 Things I’m Obsessed with Today

If you know me you know that I love trashy reality tv.  So as a nod to Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live, I wanted to share 3 Things I'm Obsessed with Today. 1.  Partner Exercises When you perform an exercise you focus on your own balance, form and strength.  Add a partner to …

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Break Out of Your Shell

My friend Lisa likes to share a funny story about the first time we met.  It was in a Team in Training info meeting and us Marin-ites circled up talking about the group runs, weeknight runs, etc. Lisa, who is very social was chatting with me and another gal about maybe running together during the …

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Get Intense

Here's a reality check.  You have to get uncomfortable to get results. I'm not talking about running so fast you throw up, not being able to breathe (at all) during HIIT, or a workout so hard you can't walk normally for 3 days.   But you should be out of your comfort zone, sweating, breathing hard …

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