Intuitive Exercise
May is Mental Health Month, so all month long here at MMW, I’ll be touching on some of the mental health aspects of wellness. There are a lot of fitness bloggers out there who do a great job at providing us with some amazing...
Dimensions of Wellness•General Fitness•Planning and Programming
General Fitness•Planning and Programming
Outfitting a Home Gym – The Middle Ground
Welcome to the second of my three part series on outfitting a home gym with different budget parameters in mind. In the first part, we covered how to really trick out a gym space and today we are going to cover some mid-range options...
General Fitness•Planning and Programming
Outfitting a Home Gym – The Tricked Out Version
Hello friends! I get questions all the time about what type of exercise equipment one should invest in. Even when I worked in fitness centers every day, clients would ask what to have in their homes. There is no one correct answer for those...
Body Positivity•General Fitness
The Comparison Monster
We are nearing the end of the first month of the year and this is the time that every health club manager and gym goer notices attrition. The past two weeks I’ve spent some time talking about practical methods to keep motivation high and...
General Fitness•Planning and Programming
General Plans for Progress
So, the New Year’s Resolution goals look like they are going to stick around. And you’re asking yourself, “Where do I go from here?” Good question. I had a professor in grad school who loved to say, “If you do what you’ve always done,...
General Fitness•Planning and Programming
Creating New Habits
How many of you would be jazzed if I asked how your New Year’s diet and exercise goals were coming along at this point? How many of you would want to punch your computer? We hear the phrase, “new year, new beginning,” all the...
Body Positivity•General Fitness
Fitness Looks Different on Every Body – Training
Last week I mentioned that the folks at Fitness Blender had posted a motivational quote on their Instagram, “Fitness looks different on every body,” and talked about the body image and positivity undercurrents that it had for me. There were a few other significant...
General Fitness•Planning and Programming
Exercise Recommendations for Long Term Health
It should come as no surprise that one of the questions I field most has to do with how much exercise one should be getting. Truth be told, it’s actually a fairly complicated question to answer. It involves figuring out what the individual’s goal...
General Fitness•Strength Training
Seeing the Six Pack
You want six pack abs? Of course you do. I know you do, don’t try and brush it off like you are above it. I do, I can admit it. We all like to see the results of our hard work in the gym....
