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How To Balance Fitness With Life

How To Balance Fitness With Life written in text with image of a set of woman holding a baby and reading a book while surrounded by a mop bucket, bookbag, laptop, sneakers, and shopping basket.

How To Balance Fitness With Life

How To Balance Fitness With Life written in text with image of a set of woman holding a baby and reading a book while surrounded by a mop bucket, bookbag, laptop, sneakers, and shopping basket.

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle with work, home, relationships, hobbies, and other interests is a juggling act that leaves many stressed. And with stress usually comes one or more of those areas suffering as they go by the wayside. That’s clearly no bueno because all of those things are vital to health, happiness, and wellbeing in one way or another.1“No bueno” means “no good” in Español, or “Spanish”!

So how can you achieve balance? Continue reading How To Balance Fitness With Life

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Cabbage Nutrition Facts

Image of cabbage and its nutritional values.

Image of cabbage and its nutritional values.

Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, let’s talk about cabbage, the national flower of Ireland, which the Irish are too drunk to realize is a vegetable and NOT a fucking flower.1Sure, we could also talk about potatoes but that’d definitely be playing into stereotypes and we certainly can’t have that!

Anyway, why on earth would you ever eat fucking cabbage?!?!, you ask incredulously.⁣

Good question!

Cabbage = 🤮

But here’s the thing… Continue reading Cabbage Nutrition Facts

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Healthy Ways To Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

How To Enjoy St. Patrick's Day written in text with image of a red-headed woman dressed in green clothing and leprechaun hat holding two pitchers of beers to the camera.

Healthy Ways To Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

How To Enjoy St. Patrick's Day written in text with image of a red-headed woman dressed in green clothing and leprechaun hat holding two pitchers of beers to the camera.

In a time long, long ago before you started caring about your health and body by eating right and exercising regularly, you used to get drunk every day at work to help numb your brain to what your life’s amounted to. While St. Patrick’s Day allows you the chance to relive those old times of just a few weeks past, day drinking isn’t why you’ve been looking forward to the holiday.

No, you’ve been counting down the days to sinfully indulge in traditional Irish fare that takes you back to your cultural roots.

You know, stuff like potatoes. Continue reading Healthy Ways To Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

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Why Stretching Is Good For You

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Why Stretching Is Good For You

Why Stretching Is Good For You written in text with image of a young woman with a smile on her face as she performs an upper body stretch.

Of the five components of fitness, allow me to take a guess which one you’re coming up short in.⁣
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But before I do, that puzzled look on your face needs addressing, which I’ll do by saying yes, there are five components of fitness!

The five aspects of fitness are (1) cardiovascular endurance, (2) muscular strength, (3) muscular endurance, (4) flexibility, and (5) body composition. Of those five elements that comprise physical fitness, the one that people, including you, give barely a thought to is flexibility, which can be gained by stretching and is something that should be an integral part of your daily routine, whether you work out or not. Continue reading Why Stretching Is Good For You