ShareHealthy Holiday Recipe – Grand Marnier Fruit Cup
Thanks to Bloggy Moms for giving me a kick in the pants to start blogging more. Found this great little recipe that I am so excited to try. I’m bringing it to a holiday party this weekend.
Ingredients:
1 small peach or nectarine, peeled
2 small purple plums
1 small apple
24 green [...]

Ah, it’s my favorite time of the week again. I am always inspired to write for the Mamavation campaign. All other posts, I often dilly-dally or can’t think of what to write. Mamavation always inspires me to get writing. So, this week the focus is about yoga. I remember when my mother did yoga in the 70’s. I thought it was kind of wacky. I could not have been more wrong.

It’s well known that stretching exercises are recommended as the most efficient injury prevention tool, no matter what sport you practice. Why? The answer is simple. Most injuries are caused by stressing muscles more than they can take it. If done within 15 minutes after each workout, stretching exercises help release the tension in the muscles and therefore they reduce the probability of injuries.

These tips are in no specific order. They are designed to help anyone who is exercising to get the maximum benefit in the shortest amount of time. These tips can be implemented by all athletes regardless if you are on a strength program, rehabilitative program, endurance athlete or fat loss program.

The 3rd annual Holiday Bootie Buster Challenge is here!! We have had over 120 participants for the last two years and I expect even more this year. The goal of HBBC is to provide a little additional motivation to stay active and make good choices throughout the holiday season. The stats say the average American may gain at LEAST 5lbs…but even if you gain 2lbs and don’t lose it that adds up each year.

Goodness, I think an entire week has gone by without a new post. How did that happen? Last Saturday, I had the amazing opportunity to spend the day with fitness trainer, guru, and P90X creator, Tony Horton. It was a day filled with sweat, great health and fitness information and terrific people. Read more to find out all about this great day.

For a few days this week, I have not had a traditional workout, but I’ve been doing a heck of a lot of housework and laundry. I figured this was a good time to remind my readers that we all can burn quite a few calories with activities that we tend to do daily. Why not keep track as well? You will feel so much better about days when you thought you “skipped” a workout. In fact, you may find out that you burned more than you thought.

I wrote about this topic about two years ago and thought it was a good time for an update. Do you realize that about 50% of people have given up on their New Year’s Resolution by the middle of the year. How about you? Did you set a goal that is strong enough and important enough for you to stick with it? Or, are you letting other things get in the way. Are you letting yourself get lower and lower on your priority list?