Strength Training for sport? Stay on your feet!
One of the basic principles when working in the weight room with a specific goal of training to improve your athletic performance, is to respect the rule of "specificity". One aspect of this rule is ...
Pick up the pace, not step!
When you're walking to improve your cardiovascular health, it's important to move at an appropriate rate to ensure that your heart is working in its target heart rate range. Those who take walking se ...
Choose Push-ups over Bench Press
Although the bench press exercise is the most popular in the gym, I prefer to have my clients and classes do push-ups to develop their chest, shoulders, and triceps. By doing the exercise on the floo ...
Football, Pistachios and Lower Cholesterol, Oh My!
This football season, ditch the chips and crack open some pistachios. Turns out a handful or two of these green, salty, flavorful morsels of goodness lower your cholesterol. Penn State revealed this ...
Vegetarian Quinoa Recipe
Quinoa has a nutty flavor and a pleasing texture similar to rice. It's good source of vegetarian protein, vitamins and minerals - iron, magnesium, Vit E, potassium, amino acids, and fiber. ...
Facial Yoga
Sometimes I think it's easy to take any form of "relaxing" physical activity, add "yoga" to the end of it, and voila! You have a new form of yoga!Well, whether or not it's really yoga, a yoga teacher ...
Football, Pistachios and Lower Cholesterol
This football season, ditch the chips and crack open some pistachios. Turns out a handful or two of these green, salty, flavorful morsels of goodness lower your cholesterol. Penn State revealed this ...
Guide to hiking in the Dolomites (Italian Alps)
The Dolomites (Dolomiti) are a section of the Alps mountains.They are located 70% in the provinces of Belluno (Veneto) and the rest in the provinces of Bolzano-Bozen, and Trento (Trentino alto Adige). ...
Foods that clear up acne
Every now and then, I find myself suffering from a post-adolescent breakout. I don't care what the experts say--I've definitely found that what I'm eating affects what my skin looks like, since I tend ...
