back to basics: improve your health with just minutes a day

Happy Tuesday (and one day closer to Blend!!  eeeeee!!)  I feel like I haven’t talked about fitness or health recently and I decided to change that today.  Here’s another “Back To Basics” post geared towards women and our need for a speedy day! If there’s one thing that most of us have in common, it’s …

back to basics: why SHOULD i lift weights?

Quick question: Do you lift weights? I hope the answer is an emphatic YES! (or at least a semi-happy, “I think so.”) The truth is every healthy woman (and man) should be lifting weights at least twice per week. Three to four times would be optimal! The benefits of strength training are VAST: [source – …

back to basics: diet vs. exercise

Welcome to the first installment of BACK TO BASICS, a LL feature that aims at simplifying common fitness and health questions so that everyone, from beginner to expert, can understand them.  This week, I thought I’d address THE most common question I get as a fitness professional: What’s more important – DIET or EXERCISE? First …

introducing “back to basics”

I can’t tell you how many emails/FB messages/client questions I get asking about THE BASICS – things that I often *think* that other people would naturally know about health and fitness.  Basic exercises, basic nutrition questions, basic healthy living lifestyle things.  I guess I take it for granted that I know a lot about this …