Plan to Fail: Should You Utilize Failure in Your Training?

In the weight lifting world, failure is not only an option, it’s a good one. But if you don’t feel inclined to push yourself to the limit, there are other choices out there. If you’d like to maximize muscle growth and have the ability to engage in smaller, more frequent workouts, it’s a productive alternative.

Mid-Life Mid-Section Crisis: Weight Loss Tips for Older Women

Mid-Life Mid-Section Crisis: Weight Loss Tips for Older Women

Weight loss tips for older women don’t have to simply be restriction and struggle, in other words. You do have to throw some effort at exercise and nutrition, but it’s a matter of working smarter, not harder.

Reality Check: Does Filtering Create Unrealistic Expectations?

Reality Check: Does Filtering Create Unrealistic Expectations?

Is filtering yourself beyond recognition really going to help your self esteem in the end? Or is it going to make it even more unlikely that you’re happy with what you see in the mirror, if you’re comparing it to what you’re looking at--along with your Facebook friends and Instagram followers--on your social media posts?

Looking for a Good Guide to Family Nutrition?

Looking for a Good Guide to Family Nutrition?

Organizing your workout schedules and nutrition as a busy mom trying to get fit is hard enough on its own, with the time crunches and roster of responsibilities you already have, but when you’re also the meal and snack planner for a crew of kids--who often are not thrilled about your healthy choices for meals or snacks--it can add to the difficulty.

What’s Your Meal Prep Personality?

What’s Your Meal Prep Personality?

Even if your goals are just “eating better” or fueling beginner workouts, meal prep can be dialed in to whatever frequency you’re training at right now. And if you can harness your natural inclinations--your “Meal Prep Personality”, so to speak--you may be able to slip it into your lifestyle with very little adjustment. Once that happens, and you see what a huge difference a little planning makes...meal prep may become less of a chore, and more of a fun endeavor. (Yes, it’s possible.)

Knowing Yourself is Far from Mediocre

Knowing Yourself is Far from Mediocre

We can’t control what others think, how they feel, when they choose to lash out, or the fact that they are committed to misunderstanding us.  All we can do is live a life that is true to ourselves, what we know ourselves to be, and how we want to show up in the world… and that is far from mediocre.