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Planning and Programming

Working Out and the Holidays

In Dimensions of Wellness, Planning and Programming  •  by Melissa, November 19, 2019  •  
Well, friends, we are getting to in the thick of that time of year. The time of year when, at least if you live in a place like I do, the weather shoos you inside and the short days are less than motivating. Even thinking...
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Strength Training Umbrellas: Fitness

In Planning and Programming, Strength Training  •  by Melissa, October 1, 2019  •  
Well friends and lifters, you have made it to this, the last in my series, of strength training umbrellas. And I saved the hardest to define for last: fitness. I use the term umbrellas to define broad categories, or general goals, that strength trainers tend...
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Intuitive Exercise

In Dimensions of Wellness, General Fitness, Planning and Programming  •  by Melissa, May 21, 2019  •  
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 programs...
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Outfitting a Home Gym – The Middle Ground

In General Fitness, Planning and Programming  •  by Melissa, April 16, 2019  •  
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 for...
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How to Calculate Your Heart Rate Zones

In Cardio, Planning and Programming, Uncategorized  •  by Melissa, April 2, 2019  •  
Heart rate is easy to forget about in this world of wearables and fitness trackers. Sure, those devices make it easier to make sure you are checking your heart rate regularly, but as I’ve previously written, it ain’t too hard to do on your own....
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Outfitting a Home Gym – The Tricked Out Version

In General Fitness, Planning and Programming  •  by Melissa, March 19, 2019  •  
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 questions...
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Creating a Health Bank Account

In Dimensions of Wellness, Planning and Programming  •  by Melissa, March 5, 2019  •  
If you spend any amount of time on the interwebs, and you’re here, so I’m going to assume you do… you will know that for every single fitness/exercise/wellness blogger out there, there is a corresponding “program” that they like to encourage their readers to try....
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General Plans for Progress

In General Fitness, Planning and Programming  •  by Melissa, January 22, 2019  •  
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, you’ll...
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Creating New Habits

In General Fitness, Planning and Programming  •  by Melissa, January 15, 2019  •  
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 time....
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Post Holiday Reset

In Nutrition and Eats, Planning and Programming  •  by Melissa, January 8, 2019  •  
Here we are a bit more than a week removed from the new year and the holiday season. Hopefully routines are returning to normal, or new normal as the case may be with workouts and eating habits. Sometimes the sluggishness that we acquire with all...
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