CHALLENGE YOURSELF: Your body can be one tough, strong, lean machine if you condition your muscles efficiently and consistently! Your body works as a unit and if one area is trained more than another, you will experience some weaker links. Therefore, it’s important to train your body as a whole and…
CHALLENGE YOURSELF: A new year needs a new set of goals. Take on a task that your body can benefit from with my 4-week Upper Body Challenge. This challenge focuses on developing upper body strength, endurance, stamina, and the muscular definition of your arms and shoulders with specific exercises. You will be amazed…
CHALLENGE YOURSELF: For this New Year, take your fitness to the next level with my upper body challenge. This program is designed to improve your upper body strength, stamina, and muscle definition within 4 weeks! FITNESS TEST: The question is always the same, whether you want to increase your energy, reduce your health risks, lose…
Foods and Recipes for Younger Looking Skin Who doesn’t want to look younger than they are? The vitamins and minerals that are found in our food can help protect our skin from UV damage, decrease fine lines and wrinkles, and increase its color and elasticity. Here are some foods rich in the essential…
The Connection Between Your Physical Activity and Insomnia: The many benefits of exercise have been known for years, but can exercise help me to get a better night of sleep? The short answer is ABSOLUTELY! Trouble with falling and staying asleep, also known as insomnia, is extremely common. In…
It’s Not That Older Folks Need Less Sleep. It’s That We Get Less Sleep! Many older adults enjoy, like younger people do, about 20% of mind-restoring sleep. But deep sleep occurs less than 5% of the time as we grow older If you are in the group I’ll refer to as “active aging,” you…
Wouldn’t you rather prevent a problem instead of spending time and effort managing one? Why “treat” a disease when you can avoid it in the first place?
It’s the same thing with stress. That’s right… Those who sell stress management and stress reduction tools, seminars and supplements may not like to hear this, but stress doesn’t have to ever disrupt your life if you are equipped with the tools to prevent it in the first place. Read on and get ready to live stress-free.
In the 25th Anniversary edition of my 1988 original, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff P.S. It’s All Small Stuff, I point out that stress is a perspective on life.
Voltaire wisely noted, “Life is a shipwreck, but we must still sing in our lifeboats.”
But Michael, my life is crazy, my boss drives me nuts, the kids are always sick, I can never make it to the gym and our finances are stressing me out…I don’t even see a lifeboat!
When it comes to stress, there definitely is a lifeboat. You see, the Greek philosopher Epictetus was 100% right when he observed, “People aren’t disturbed by outside things and events, but by the views which they take of them.” There’s a lifeboat all right, and it’s right there behind your eyes, and between your ears.
How Exercise Can Give Your Brain a Boost Not long ago I had the pleasure of interviewing John Ratey, MD, Harvard Medical School’s famed psychiatrist and author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain about the many benefits that regular exercise has for the brain. Dr.…