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How To Get Back Into the Gym After an Injury
Suffering an injury that prevents you from working out can be demoralizing. But even the most dedicated athletes take weeks or months off to give their bodies time to heal. Whether you’re recovering from an injury or just fell out of your gym habit, you can still get back into your routine.
Tips To Restore your Gut Health
Many individuals take their gut health for granted. But, believe it or not, this is crucial to have a strong immune system and a healthy body.
The Best Foods To Help Reduce Bloating
When you experience bloating, the painful abdominal swelling can seem to last forever. Although it is incredibly uncomfortable and inconvenient, bloating is very commonplace. The most common reason people experience chronic bloating is due to digestive issues while processing foods.
New Reasons To Start Working Out
Whenever you hear exercise being discussed, it’s typically with the goal of losing weight or bulking up on muscle. For many people, however, neither are major motivators, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be getting plenty of exercise. To help encourage you to start your own workout routine, here are some new reasons to start working out that may better align with your circumstances and goals.
How I Use My Planner to Hold Me Accountable
I use it for time blocking. I color code, my family, in different colors. I set several goals for each week and then three goals for each day. I use the front page for big Personal and Professional Goal Setting. I also keep a Vision Board or motivation collage on the inside cover.
Essential Items for People with Back Pain
Let’s face it—our backs present underrated setbacks to normal daily functioning, especially when they hurt. Severe back pain can hold you back and make you less productive in all aspects of your everyday routine. As such, you need specific incentives to help speed up recovery and resume your daily routine. Below, we list several of what we feel are the most beneficial and essential items for people with back pain.
6 Simple Ways to Practice Gratitude Daily
Life isn’t easy – we are strapped into a roller coaster and must grin and bear the lows, the loops, and enjoy the view as we go up to the highest heights. We’d all love it if our lives were perfect all the time, but that’s unfortunately not how life works. The lows are there to make the good times feel better, but you’ll have difficulty identifying the positives in your life if you don’t practice gratitude.
5 of The Easiest Ways to Incorporate Exercise into Your Daily Routine
We can all be guilty of having days where we do not do enough physical movement with our bodies, particularly if we are having a duvet day or it just looks miserable outside. Having said that, you do not need to do a full-body workout every day in order to keep fit as there are many easier ways you can incorporate exercise into your daily routine, without even thinking about it.
Saying Yes To You
Taking time to care for ourselves on a basic and personal level is something we often put off or dismiss as we don’t consider it a priority in our busy lives. However, self-care has physical, mental, and emotional health benefits that can have an overall positive impact on the way we live our lives. While it can be challenging to set aside time for yourself — especially if you’re used to always caring for others — you’ll soon realize that making yourself a priority is a gift of self-love that will help you live your happiest, healthiest life.
Mindful Breathing: How to
The most basic way to do mindful breathing is to focus your attention on your breath, the inhale and exhale. You can do this while standing, but ideally, you’ll be sitting or even lying in a comfortable position. Your eyes may be open or closed, or you can maintain a soft gaze, with your eyes partially closed but not focusing on anything in particular. It can help to set aside a designated time for this exercise, but it can also help to practice it when you’re feeling particularly stressed or anxious.
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