Wear Red Day

With so much media attention on the latest and greatest workout or diet craze, one topic that gets pushed to the side and overlooked in the high intensity rush to health is the topic of women and heart disease. Here are some startling statistics according to the...

What is Your Fitness Personality?

Someone once told me that my programs are akin to “fitness styling.” She said I should call myself a “fitness stylist;” someone who guides clients toward activities which suit who they are. There is no doubt that certain personality traits seek...

Text Neck: Are You Feeling It?

When my daughter, who had just started her freshman year in college, texted me to say that she had a horrendous headache, I asked whether she had been doing anything differently.  “No,” she replied, “I’ve just been doing a lot of reading.” Ah ha! One puzzle piece...

Sit Too Much?

If you exercise regularly yet have a job that requires sitting for 8 hours per day, you may not be as healthy as you think. Where is the justice? According to an article published in the Journal of Preventative Medicine on behalf of the Women’s Health Initiative. The...

Exercise and Brain Function

I recently heard an interview with Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., cell biologist and pioneer in mind body medicine, who spoke about the art of resiliency. She defined resiliency as not only the ability to deal with life’s twists and turns, but the ability to come out of them...