Mental Muscle Wellness

Nutrition and Eats•Recipes

Slow Cooker Burrito Bowls

October 22, 2019
There is something about late October. Family schedules usually pick up in craziness. The weather is noticeably cooler and the days are shorter. This is usually the time of year when we start craving comfort foods. This is also the time of year when families start to look for easy to make meal options that
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Yoga

Modifying Pyramid Pose

October 15, 2019
Communicating modifications for yoga postures is tough. Many instructors use vague language. After all, yoga is about connecting with your own body. Looking up poses online can be a downward spiral enough to put you off downward dog forever. In fact, I started this series because most postures are easily modifiable in a variety of
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Dimensions of Wellness•Nutrition and Eats

Dieting vs Diet

October 8, 2019
Diet. What do you think of when you read that word? If I had to guess I’d say things like salad, juice cleanses, and deprivation, probably come to mind. In our modern society diet is a word that has come to denote the act of controlling our nutritional intake for the sake of a goal,
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Planning and Programming•Strength Training

Strength Training Umbrellas: Fitness

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 to go for. These umbrellas can help you make decisions
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Uncategorized

Links and Loves #5

September 24, 2019
It’s that time again when I share with you the things that have given me the heart eyes over the last couple of months. As always, nothing sponsored here, just my own enthusiasm.
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Exercise•Yoga

Modifying Camel Pose

September 17, 2019
We are going to get all sorts of bendy today! Much like Half Moon, Camel doesn’t look too terrible. Until you are down on the mat. Our spines are meant to bend and twist in many different ways, and in fact the mark of a healthy spine is the ability to do so. Back bending
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Exercise•Strength Training

Strength Training Umbrellas: Size

September 10, 2019
Who wants to get pumped today? I feel the need to employ the old teacher standby… “I can’t hear you!” Who wants to get PUMPED? Welcome to part three in my series on Strength Training Umbrellas. I use the term umbrellas to define broad categories, or general goals that strength trainers tend to have. These
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Nutrition and Eats•Recipes

Mini Chicken Meatballs

September 3, 2019
It’s been a bit since I have posted any sort of recipe situation, so I thought I’d come at you guys today with a bunch. All based from one simple, easy to find, and manipulate ingredient. Mini chicken meatballs from the freezer section of your grocery store!
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Dimensions of Wellness

Meditation is Hard

August 27, 2019
Meditation is something that we are hearing about a lot in the wellness world lately. It seems, like the proverbial 2015 kale buzz, that this practice might be the cure for all that ails us. I certainly ascribe to whole person wellness practices for all the benefits that they can (and often do) bring to
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Nutrition and Eats

What I Eat in a Day

August 20, 2019
I used to love picking up a fitness magazine and reading what the featured celebrity ate in a day. Mostly because I would be thinking to myself, who can survive on that? (Answer, just the celebrities who are trying to maintain Hollywood’s impossible beauty ideal.) I also found myself thinking, wouldn’t that get boring? (Answer,
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