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From Pain to Performance, Escape to Moab Utah

Apr

8

2014

Pain to performance sounds like an elusive dream, buy this innovative treatment took me from bedridden to hiking Arches National Park in Moab, Utah. Pain Doesn’t Just Appear Despite what you might have heard, pain rarely comes out of nowhere. Just like the married couple that ends up divorced. It seems that more often than ...

Feeling Blue, Feeling Down – Get Back Up

Jan

29

2013

Who knew that my holiday blues were just signs of something bigger, something was amiss. I was feeling down and needed to find a way to get back up. It took me a few months, but I finally succumbed and started digging deeper. I kept telling myself I was just stressed out and needed to ...

11 Lessons On Overcoming Obstacles From Running A Tough Mudder

Nov

27

2012

Ten days ago at Raceway Park, New Jersey marked the World’s Toughest Mudder 2012. While our team qualified for the event by running the Beaver Creek Tough Mudder, we were unable to make it out to the east coast to face the World’s Toughest Mudder. But the event made me think back on how I ...

Get Fit This Fall With A Boot Camp In Colorado Springs

Sep

20

2012

Fall is here, kids are in school, winter sports are a few snow storms away, and the holidays are looming. The time is perfect go get fit this fall with a boot camp in Colorado Springs. Why Get Fit This Fall with Boot Camps Boot camps are a great way to kick start your fitness, ...

5 Slightly Offbeat Exercise Motivational Tricks

Jun

25

2012

Getting started, or restarted, with your fitness routine can be tough. Here’s a guest post with 5 tricks to keep you motivated. For a time I was unemployed and everything about it stunk except for one thing. It was easy to keep up a regular exercise routine. Once work started again, I found myself having ...

Fitness is NEVER Easy

Feb

28

2012

People have told me that staying in shape and "doing fitness" is just so easy for me. They are dead wrong. Fitness is NEVER easy. What I have found is there is a key to making fitness appear easy by molding it into your life. But there’s the rub – life change is NEVER easy. ...

20 Must-Read Fitness Sites for 2012

Jan

4

2012

by Elvire.R. Welcome to the new year. I decided to start it off by helping you set up your RSS reader with 20 must-read fitness sites for 2012. Here is my list that fires me up, keeps me informed, and inspires me to live boldly, burn more fat, and keep building muscle to enjoy all life ...

Do Not Set New Year’s Resolutions | Do This Instead

Dec

28

2011

Do not. I repeat, do not set New Year’s Resolutions. Do not commit yourself to something that will most likely just end up failing in the first few days, or weeks. Instead, take a different approach. Fail Stamp by hans.gerwitz Why New Year’s Resolutions Fail Timothy Pychyl, a professor of psychology at Carleton University in Canada, ...

How Failure Can Fuel You to Become Fabulous

Dec

15

2011

This is a Guest Post by Dan Petraglia of Fitness and Weight Loss Central Failure is something that is simply a part of life. I’ve never met anyone who hasn’t failed at something at least once. Even some of the most successful people that I’ve met, and throughout history that I’ve heard of would say ...