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Showing up for others is always more impactful when we are the best version of ourselves.
Choose Yourself
  Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you wish you didn’t say yes to attending an event or doing a favor for someone else? Receiving invitations and opportunities to help … more
Preparing for a long race requires training runs to be much lower in intensity and shorter in duration than the race itself. Training at too fast of a pace and long of distance wouldn’t have given me as good of results.
Improving exercise consistency
Writing a great workout requires careful consideration of many factors. While all of them are important, intensity and duration play a great role in our consistency of exercise, and therefore our … more
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I love using my watch to record my workouts and see how many steps I walked each day. This helps me stay consistent, even when I am away from home.
Improving your fitness with technology
Technology is an incredible tool with seemingly endless applications to make our lives easier. It is practically inescapable these days and there are many devices out there to help you along your … more
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Shifting our mindset is a great way to make doing hard things a little bit easier.
Do it anyway
If you’re anything like me, you probably don’t always feel motivated to practice healthy habits. It’s easy to get stuck in the trap of waiting until we “feel like it” to … more
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While you have the ability to do anything, be sure to choose to focus on what is best for you.
Setting more intentional goals
Ever since I was a little girl, I can remember my dad always repeating to me “Calos can do anything.” In case you didn’t know, Calo is my maiden name, and my dad made sure that my … more
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The only real failure is giving up. As long as you keep moving forward, you have not failed. You have learned.
What to do when you mess up
Did you mess up this week? I’ll guess that you “messed up” on some part of your health journey in the last seven days, and I’m honestly impressed if you didn’t. Failure … more
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It’s a great time of year to continue outdoor exploration as the temperatures begin to cool and we prepare for the seasons to change.
Navigating a new season
As summer comes to an end, you may feel changes coming to your routines, schedules, and goals. While the temperature starts to cool and leaves begin to settle, our lives begin to settle as well. … more
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Discipline isn’t usually fun in the moment, but creates a deep sense of fulfillment later when we take actions to move closer to the life we want to live.
Success through structure
Discipline is a crucial component of success that most of us try to avoid at all costs. It’s easy to be hopeful that our goals will just be reached and our life will be enjoyable without too … more
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Water is always an important part of our day, and it’s especially important to make sure we drink water before, during, and after exercise.
Health through hydration
Water is a crucial component of our health. Regardless of whether or not you are an athlete or even exercise regularly, drinking water is an important part of regulating many processes in our bodies. … more
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Figuring out what’s in our food can be tricky, but it gets easier when we choose a few key pieces of information to look at.
Reading food labels
Learning about what’s in the food we eat is an important part of our health journey. This process can feel overwhelming and complicated, leading us to only look for information like calories or … more
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Just because we don’t fully have control over our health doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to be our best every day.
Controlling the uncontrollable
Health, unfortunately, is not guaranteed. It is a seemingly elusive state we all desire to be in, and it requires a lot of intentional work to come close. As we continue to slowly get better, the … more
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A little planning and a snack ahead of time can completely change our grocery shopping experience.
How to make grocery shopping more enjoyable
Grocery shopping used to be my least favorite part of the week. I hated how long it took, that I almost always forgot something, and that I felt like I was spending more money than necessary. While … more
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Building new habits is challenging, but it can get a little easier when we stack them with ones we already have.
Habit stacking
Most of our decisions throughout the day are automatically made because of our habits. I often realize that I don’t consciously remember choosing to initiate or complete a task, but I got it … more
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Effectiveness and efficiency are both very important factors in how I choose to exercise and improve my health.
Prioritizing efficiency with exercise
Time is one of the greatest limiting factors when it comes to maintaining or improving our health. We only have so much of it each day, and it can feel daunting to spend it on exercise. It’s … more
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Having the discipline to slow down is challenging, but with practice we can get better and better at it.
How to achieve goals that last
If you’re anything like me, you may find yourself feeling anxious from time to time, wishing you could accomplish things faster. Whether it’s a health and fitness goal, work task, new … more
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Committing to walking has been one of the simplest, yet most life-changing decisions I’ve ever made.
The power of commitment
In March of 2022, my husband and I challenged ourselves to take a 45-minute outdoor walk every day for 75 days. We committed to taking our daily walk regardless of the weather, our schedules, or how … more
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While grocery shopping is not one of my favorite activities, pre-planning my meals for the week allows me to make less decisions each day, and that is something I very much enjoy.
Making health decisions easier
Moving toward our health goals, like all other parts of life, requires us to make many decisions each day. While this is something we are used to, that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Choosing … more
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The benefits of exercise go much deeper than what you can see on the outside. Something as simple as a small walk (bonus points if it’s with a dog) can change your entire day for the better.
Beyond the physical: overlooked exercise benefits
We often think of exercise as something we should do when we want to lose weight. While that is one potential benefit of exercise, there are so many others that get looked over and forgotten about. … more
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Hiking is one of my favorite forms of exercise to do when I am traveling and exploring new places.
Exercise while traveling
Having a trip coming up is one of the most fun things to look forward to. While packing all of your necessary items, the thought of exercise probably crosses your mind. You may ask yourself, … more
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It is in the smallest challenges that our biggest lessons can be learned.
Believing it's possible
This past fall, my husband and I took a day trip to Long Island. While I attended a baby shower, he found a nearby beach to explore. When he came back to pick me up, he mentioned that he gathered … more
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We will get caught in the comparison trap, and when that happens, focus on returning home to yourself.
Staying focused on ourselves
Do you ever catch yourself looking at someone else wishing your life looked like theirs? It’s so easy, especially in today’s age of social media, to believe someone else has it easier … more
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Grabbing a set of dumbbells and moving to a low-traffic area is a great way to manage feeling overwhelmed in the gym.
Overcoming gym anxiety
Going to the gym can be one of the most anxiety-producing activities. When I first started going to the gym by myself, before I had any formal education in exercise, I remember feeling very nervous, … more
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In moments when I don’t know what’s next, I always come back to evening walks with my husband and my dogs to process my thoughts and build momentum on what’s to come.
What to do when you don’t know what’s next
Moving toward health is seemingly easier when we know what goals we would like to work toward. When we know what we want, we’re able to reverse-engineer those goals, break them down into … more
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Be truthful with yourself about where you’re currently at. This is the only way to get closer to where you want to go.
How much exercise do I really need?
We all know that exercising regularly is good for our health, but getting ourselves to actually do it is a different story. It’s very easy to fall into a cycle of exercising consistently, … more
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Fruits are mostly made up of carbohydrates and can play a healthy role in a balanced meal.
Building foundational food habits
Nutrition can be one of the most challenging aspects of our health to master. There is so much emotion attached to food that it can be difficult to objectively look at what we eat and determine … more
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