Healthy Ways To Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

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

Why Stretching Is Good For You

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

How To Keep New Year’s Resolutions

Made one or two New Year’s fitness resolutions?

As a matter of fact, your resolution doesn’t even have to be fitness-based.

All that matters is if you made a resolution or not.

Did you?⁣

Of course you did!⁣

And now you’re wondering how the hell you’re going to stick with it and see it through when research suggests that 80 percent of people who make resolutions will fail by the second week of February, with 22 percent ditching theirs just six days into the new year?⁣

Yeah, of course you’re wondering that!

Well, that’s where I come in to tell you that if your resolution is routine-centric, like meditating more or going to the gym, then you might want to try the following. Continue reading How To Keep New Year’s Resolutions

Why You Should Get Enough Sleep

You’re #teamnosleep, huh?

So you’re always on the grind and don’t have the time to do that shit that poor people do, which is to rest, huh?¹The reason why you stay up late every night has nothing to do with you trying to be a super-duper entrepreneur. Instead, you’re spending the midnight hours doing dumb shit like watching TV or stalking your ex who was smart enough to break things off with you. My humble apologies for trying to paint you in a better light here!

Well, that’s why you’re fat!

…and ugly, too.

Nah, your genes are why you’re ugly and no amount of sleep will help you in that department!

But your weight? Continue reading Why You Should Get Enough Sleep

Why You’re Still Hungry Even After Eating

When you’re hungry, your stomach might growl. Or you might experience headaches. Or feel lightheaded.¹Oh, and when you’re hungry, you might also become a total dick to everyone around you, as accurately described in a series of Snickers commercials beginning in 2010.

To stop any of those things from continuing to happen, you’re supposed to eat, right?

Right!

So then, ummmmmmm, WHY IS IT THAT YOU JUST ATE BUT ARE ALREADY HUNGRY AND EXPERIENCING THOSE THINGS AGAIN?!?!

Good question!

There are many reasons why you might still be hungry even after eating. The most obvious is that your calorie intake is too low to supply your energy needs. As for other explanations that aren’t so “DUH!!!”, looka here…

Other Explanations:

What do all those things have in common? Continue reading Why You’re Still Hungry Even After Eating