Mental Muscle Wellness

Exercise•Safety

Using Your Arches to Find the Right Sneakers

February 23, 2021
Today let’s talk sneakers! I think there are so many questions about sneakers because they are truly the only piece of exercise equipment you need to invest in. And to be fair, you can find decent sneakers at most price points. But the investment isn’t just in terms of actual cost. There is also a
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General Fitness•Mental Health

Intuitive Exercise Part 1: Reject Diet Mentality

February 16, 2021
Hello friends! Last month I mentioned that I wanted to tackle how we talk to ourselves about exercise over the course of this year. I am going to use the ten tenets of Intuitive Eating as the blueprint as I think they can be pretty easily applied, via slight modifications, to exercise and movement. So, today,
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Nutrition and Eats

How to Stock a Sustainable Fridge and Pantry

February 9, 2021
Hello friends! I had a lot to say about exercise, movement, and mental status to start the year off, but I’m checking in with the first nutrition based post of the year today. Whoop, whoop! Dietary intake seems to undergo a huge shift from late December to early February. And now that many of us
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Strength Training•Wellness Toolbox

5 Tips to Perfect Your Squat

February 2, 2021
What’s up Wellness Warriors? Today let’s talk about dat booty. Squats are one of the most effective strength exercises you can do. Regardless of your overall goals, squats should be an important part of your lower body strength training routine. Squats are also one of the most mis-performed exercises.
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Planning and Programming•Wellness Toolbox

Introducing the Wellness Toolbox

January 26, 2021
Wellness Warriors, I am beyond excited for today’s post!!!! This is something that I have had on the back burner for longer than I care to admit, but I had to keep pushing due to circumstance (hello, dumpster fire that was 2020). And today, finally, I am so happy to introduce the Wellness Toolbox on
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Body Positivity•Exercise•Mental Health

A Movement Towards Kinder Movement

January 19, 2021
Hello Wellness Warriors! Today I want to tackle a topic that I think it is time we in the fitness/exercise world talk about. Our friends in nutrition world are having this conversation, with great success. And while hints of this topic are abundant in specific exercise realms, like yoga, we need to take it elsewhere.
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General Fitness•Planning and Programming

How to Start a New Exercise Plan Successfully

January 12, 2021
Have you ever started a new exercise plan only to stop after a month? Have you ever been disillusioned by the scale after a few months on your fitness journey? Have you ever felt so completely overwhelmed by the types of exercise or equipment that you had no idea where to even begin?
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General Fitness•Planning and Programming

Non Scale Victories

January 5, 2021
Happy January Wellness Warriors! Let’s leave the madness of 2020 behind and start off strong shall we? In that vein, I want to chat today about non-scale, non-vanity related victories. These are actually some of the most important, yet under celebrated health and wellness milestones one can have.
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Dimensions of Wellness

Links and Loves 10

December 22, 2020
Happy Holidays Wellness Warriors! I’ve got another Links and Loves coming at you. Nothing is sponsored here, just me, so excited that I want to share.
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Dimensions of Wellness•Travel

Impressions from Germany 11b: Unpacking

December 15, 2020
Welcome to Part 2 of the world’s most thorough packing blog. In last week’s post , I covered what I actually packed when we moved to Germany last year. Including some of the methods behind the (literal) madness. This time around, I thought I’d talk about what worked and which items might be staying Stateside next
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