If you’ve ever woken up with sore legs (hmm… not me, certainly not in the past 3 weeks… ha!), you realise just how significant these lovely limbs are. The older I get, the more I’m struck by how often people lose their independence because of their inability to care for themselves physically, and this is too often …
You’re probably sitting down as you’re reading this, and I hate to tell you this, but you should really stand up. Too much sitting will kill you!! Ok, so I’m being dramatic, but recent studies over the past 2 years have linked prolonged sitting (more than 8 hours per day,) with a number of health …
Abs, abs, abs… all over social media I see umpteen million ways to get the abs of your dreams… “Just do this routine of 5 easy exercises,” they say, “and by bikini season you’ll have that 6-pack you’ve been waiting for all your life!” Except “they” forgot to tell you that no matter how great your …
I always pack my workout gear when I travel. Usually, a pile of it… workout tights & sports bras are allotted an embarrassingly high percentage of volume in my suitcase. Even knowing how much we were going to be traveling on our Irish vacation these past 11 days, I hopefully packed 2 outfits and figured …
Hi folks! It’s the middle of summer and who has time to go to the gym? Who even wants to go to the gym with all this sunshine outside? So let’s go to the park with our kids and get our workout there. And if you don’t have kids, just pretend you do, and go anyway! …
Hello friends! Summer is fast approaching, and in my bootcamp we’re discussing how nervous we are about working out on our own this summer… as in: WHAT IF WE DON’T??? What if we get out of our routine amidst all the travel? What if we make excuses not to work out?? What if we get …
Well, it’s that time of year again for us ex-pats… the (wild) anticipation of summer home leave! Oh, the joys of being back in our home countries for several weeks!! We all start counting down the days right about now… One of the things I’ll miss, though, is working out with “The Fit Chicks of Alabang”… …
Hi folks! Wanna have fun with a little body-part bootcamp we did in class last week? It focusses on one major muscle group at a time: The “PUSH” muscles: chest, shoulders, and triceps The “PULL” muscles: lats, rhomboids, and biceps LEGS (There are technically PUSH and PULL muscles in the legs as well, but for an …
Happy Friday, folks! It’s been awhile since I posted a workout for you, and this one’s a keeper… I don’t normally get sore from my bootcamp workouts anymore, but I did from this one. Maybe it was the workout… or maybe the 2-week Christmas break??? But whatever! I intentionally paired up 2 exercises that fatigue …
When I moved to Asia in 2004, I had no idea we would be staying THIS LONG. I figured, like many ex-pats do, that we would do our 2 or 3 years and come “home” in time for our eldest daughter Theda to go to kindergarten in the U.S. Wrong! She’s now in Grade 8. …
