I often watch the Today show while I eat breakfast, and this morning I happened to catch a brief spot on shortcuts to flatten your stomach. If you feel like you’re already doing all the right things but don’t have the results you want, try these simple strategies to ramp up your results. Visit msnbc.com [...]

My post What’s Keeping You From Making Time to Be Healthy? was featured in this blog carnival last month! http://weight-master.blogspot.com/2009/08/weight-management-and-fitness-forum.html Check it out for lots of other good info on weight loss and fitness. var gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”); document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src=’” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”)); try { var pageTracker [...]

Above all else, guard your heart, for it affects everything you do. Proverbs 4:23, New Living Translation Solomon doesn’t clarify in this proverb whether he meant the entity that controls emotional/moral activity or the actual physical heart, but either way it applies! Christians have long been careful to avoid things that may corrupt their morality, [...]

Unless you make some effort to maintain it, you will lose some flexibility as you age. Stretching regularly maintains range of motion, reduces risk of injury and can help to manage musculoskeletal pain. Simply spending a few minutes a day stretching can even help foster a more peaceful heart and mind. Use these general guidelines [...]

While on my first backpacking trip ever, in the fall of 2001, I had an epiphany about my personal fitness. Two girl friends and I had left our overnight camp and were attempting to hike to a nearby waterfall. We lost the trail and ended up scrambling on our hands and knees up a steep [...]

The Aging Antidote Most people think that aging and a lower metabolism go hand-in-hand. However, a lower metabolism is primarily a result of decreased activity and lost muscle mass—not just another birthday candle on the cake.   Unless you make an effort to maintain it, you will lose about five percent of your muscle mass [...]

Although resting heart rates (RHR) vary widely in both elite athletes and untrained individuals, an adult

Dr. Harold Mayer studied the effects of what he calls IT, or Intermittent Training. Whereas conventional interval training may involve one- to three-minute bursts of more intense activity, Mayer

You are not ignorant.   Health information appears daily in the media nationwide. You’d have to be living in a closet not to know what’s good for you. For most of us, ignorance isn’t the problem. So if we know what to do, why don’t we do it? The apostle Paul knew this struggle: “For [...]

When beginning an exercise program, it