Mental Muscle Wellness

Strength Training•Yoga

Why Sun Salutations Make A Good Choice For Mobility Work

March 18, 2025
Fitness Friends, it is no secret that I dislike labeling exercises as good or bad. I believe that all exercise is valuable and the ones you will do, and do consistently, are the best for you. I also believe that it is important to challenge our comfort zones and seek out ways that different movement
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General Fitness•Planning and Programming

Sunk Cost Fallacy

March 11, 2025
Hello Fitness Friends! It’s March and let me tell you, I am looking forward to warmer weather. After a freezing cold January and successive winter storms throughout February, I am not sad that time is marching on. And that is my segue into this week’s post. Time moves on whether we want it to or
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Strength Training

Resistance Band Guide

February 25, 2025
Fitness Friends, how are you? As I was planning some content, I was clicking around my site and realized that I have never posted a guide to resistance bands. The one who mentions, nay praises, them endlessly. So, we are going to remedy that right now.
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General Fitness•Planning and Programming

If You Aren’t Bored…

February 11, 2025
It’s February, which usually means something very different for fitness and exercise related goals than it does for human relationships. The funniest thing is, while New Year’s tends to get all the attention, this month is actually where gains are made and habits cemented. I want to address an issue that I see play out
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General Fitness•Planning and Programming

Build a Useful Home Gym on a Budget

January 28, 2025
Hello, hello! Recently I talked about consistency being an unsexy practice that can really make a huge difference in a fitness journey. One part of consistency is being able to access your exercise practice from multiple different places. And let’s be fair, one of the easiest places to make this happen is right at home.
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Uncategorized

Introducing… Melissa Moves Well

January 14, 2025
Hello friends and fellow Wellness Warriors! Now that everyone is settling into their 2025 routine, I want to address some changes around these here parts. My returning readers will have already noticed some things and if you are new here, feel free to skip this post and check back next week for the regularly scheduled
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General Fitness•Planning and Programming

Unsexy Practices To Be Sexy: Fitness Edition

January 7, 2025
Happy New Year, friends! I hope that your festive season was what you wanted and hoped. If you are returning, thank you for giving me some of your precious time. I’m sure you see a few changes and I’ll address those in another post. And if you are new here, thanks for checking out this
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Dimensions of Wellness

Wellness Gift Baskets

December 10, 2024
Happy Holiday Season, Warrior! Last year I published a pretty extensive list of gifts for different goals. There are many seasons of life that warrant wellness related gifts, though, and even though it isn’t specific to the holidays, I thought I’d talk a bit about how I roll with those and give you some ideas.
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Dimensions of Wellness•General Fitness

Value Add Part 5: Physical Health

November 19, 2024
Nice to see you, Warrior. Today I’ve got the final installment in my Value Add Series. You can check out last month’s post here. This should have been the easiest of the series to write as we can all probably list five things that movement adds to our Physical Health. But it was actually difficult
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General Fitness•Mental Health

Movement as Gratitude

November 12, 2024
Trigger Warning: Discussions of trauma and disordered eating. Hello Warriors! In North America, it’s Thanksgiving season. In the US we will celebrate in a few weeks and our friends in Canada had their festivities in mid-October. I’m a big fan of gratitude practices as tools for Mental and Emotional Health. And I strongly believe that
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