How Your Fitness Plan Should Shift As You Age

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How Your Fitness Plan Should Shift As You Age

Many adults slow down or even stop their training regimen as time passes, thinking that rest is the best thing for them or that it is too late to start their road to a more active lifestyle. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. 

Lack of exercise can lead to an increased risk of injury and health problems, so it is important that you take the steps and make the adjustments you need to have a fitness plan that ages as gracefully as you do. 

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How To Lose Weight: 5 Simple Steps

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How To Lose Weight: 5 Simple Steps

How to lose weight — this phrase is one of the most googled questions out there. It’s definitely the number one subject talked about at our fitness retreat. It’s a burning question and for good reason. Whether weight loss is the goal for health reasons or because you simply want to look and feel better, it’s important to set yourself up for long term results when it comes to shedding those extra pounds.

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Retreat Workouts: Balance, Boot Camp & More

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Retreat Workouts: Balance, Boot Camp & More

I was talking with one of our guests a few weeks ago as we were finishing up our beach hike. She mentioned that some of the workouts and movements we had done were things she wanted to remember so she could do them at home. I don’t post a lot of our actual retreat workouts here on the blog but it inspired me to add them here. A lot of our guests will jot down notes after class or on their phones during a break so they can remember certain sequences or moves. I figured why not post a few of the favorite workouts each week right here so our fitness retreat guests can come back and reference them and so can all of you.

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What Does "Listening to Your Body" Actually Mean and How Can You Do It?

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What Does "Listening to Your Body" Actually Mean and How Can You Do It?

From the blare of car horns to the hum of bustling conversation on our crowded city streets, it is all too easy in our modern world to fall out of step with ourselves. 

Our body gives us an array of cues to tell us it needs attention, but we often tend to ignore these signals. And in doing so, we can eventually end up in a more dire health situation. What does it mean though to “listen” to these messages from our body and how can we actually do it? 

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10 Lessons Learned From People Who've Reached Their Health & Fitness Goals

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10 Lessons Learned From People Who've Reached Their Health & Fitness Goals

Are you tired of the same old negative story you tell yourself — the story that you can’t reach your goals or the one where you’ve tried everything and nothing works? Done getting winded when you walk up a flight of stairs? Are you fed up with not living the happy, active, self fulfilling life that you truly want to live? Frightened that your doctor might be right and you need serious change? Struggling to make those important health changes?

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5 Strategies To Curb Your Junk Food Cravings

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5 Strategies To Curb Your Junk Food Cravings

Cravings. We’ve all had them. So many of our guests at our boot camp vacation ask how to curb cravings. For many people, they’re easily fought off at times and too much to fight off at other times. Cravings come from a number of different sources and managing them can be hard to do in the moment. If you’re armed with the right information and an action plan, you’ll have a better chance of keeping them at bay.

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