Swimming is the ultimate activity to improve your health and fitness. If you’re looking to lose weight, tone up, and improve your cardiovascular capacity, it will help you achieve all of these goals. Sure, other activities will do the same, but what sets swimming apart from the rest? Full-body workout Swimming provides a full-body workout…
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5 Tips to Promote a Healthy Gut
The situation in your gut can affect you in more ways than you know, which is why you have to actively educate yourself on how to improve it. Gut health generally refers to the balance of microorganisms that are present in your digestive system. Even more, a healthy gut is beneficial for you on a…
Should You Be Exercising When Pregnant?
Many mothers find it difficult to work out when they’re pregnant. After all, the increased body weight can make it hard to maneuver around, and you certainly don’t want to harm your child in any way with strenuous exercise. With that said, an active and healthy mother makes for a happy child, which is why…
Four Easy Ways to Improve Your Health at Home
We all need time to focus on ourselves once in a while, and unfortunately, many of us neglect our mental and physical health as external pressures consume us. We all know about the benefits of exercise, but if you have a busy schedule and are unable to find the time to go to the gym,…
Moving More, Sitting Less
You work, you parent and you do your share of looking after the home and cooking. At times, at the end of a long day, falling into bed or catching up on that Netflix list is about all you have the time and energy for. So, when you read lifestyle bloggers encouraging readers to incorporate…
Future Proofing Your Body
The average life expectancy has changed a lot in the last 50 years. In 1960, it was around 70 years. Now men can expect to live to be 80 and women close to 85. Even in the ’80s. 65 was considered old. Most of us only ever remember our grandparents as being elderly. Nowadays, 60…
My Weight Loss Journey!
I’ve decided that starting today (April 12, 2013) I am going to fully commit to losing weight and start my weight loss journey. There will be none of that lazy “I don’t feel like working out” talk or exercise here and there or today “I’ll skip on having some fruit”. If I continue on the…