Chocolates and cupids aside, February’s not just the month to love with all your heart but also the month to love on your heart. Heart disease is the number one killer of African American women, causing one in three deaths each year! Age aint nothing but a number and being fit doesn’t make you exempt….
Don’t believe the lies! 1) Weights will make me bulk up. Unless you are on steroids and throwing around some serious iron, you will not bulk up. In fact, weight training is the only sure way to change body composition. So drop the three pound dumbbells and grab the eight’s or 10’s (I mean your…
You are headed to another meeting but before you get there you spend everything silver in your wallet at the office vending machine. You never miss your favorite Monday night cardio kickboxing class, but since you missed lunch again today you trade your sneakers in for a Big Mac and head straight home after work….
Just like expecting mothers perfect their breathing before going into birth, you too should perfect your breathing before your next workout. I know you are probably thinking, “Practice breathing?!?! Isn’t breathing involuntary?” You’re right, yes it is. However in heightened situations the “involuntary” becomes “non existent” in many exercisers and your lungs ability to receive…
You’ve amped up your workouts and only eat chocolate on Fridays, yet the scale still won’t budge! I understand your frustration and want you to know that it may not be what you are doing when you are awake that’s holding your weight loss goal hostage; it may be your lack of beauty rest. Don’t…
Four years ago I was curled up on my bathroom floor replaying the shocking end of my long-term relationship (almost engagement). I was fully convinced that people died of broken hearts and therefore spent every single day of almost an entire year lamenting this very thought. Long story short, happy go lucky Robbie was depressed….
