Physical activity is,generally speaking, good for us. However, when specific muscles are used repeatedly, day after day, you can end up with an injury. These activities can seem minimal, such as entering data on a keyboard or using a scissors to cut hair. Usually, repetitive strain injuries are occupational in origin but they can also result from repetitive motions in sports or certain hobbies too.

Usually, it is time to seek medical advice when you feel numbness or tingling in your arms or hands or have constant pain for a week or more. Your health care professional can tailor a plan for you depending on what symptoms you have and if there is any swelling or inflammation.

Well, I finally did it. We finally (my boyfriend and I both) made it to level 3 of the Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred workout DVD, and man it was pretty rough. I’ll share some of the nuances of the experience with you and let you know what the aftermath was, as there is always aftermath after each level of Jillian’s workouts, and so I’ve heard on her other workouts as well (this lady knows what she’s doing, trust me).

Have you ever found yourself in a hotel room, or at someone else’s home where you’re staying for a few days, and you either are indisposed to get to a gym or you didn’t bring your workout DVD’s with you? We’ve all been there, and if you’re someone who is used to working out on a regular basis, then you know that this can be a death sentence to your routine and send you spinning out of control as far as your exercise routine goes. I’m speaking from experience, because I know how easy it can be to get off track when you’re working out and don’t have access to do so for a few days. Sound familiar?

You’ve probably heard a lot of weight loss products lately touting their benefits at reducing something called cortisol, which they claim is a major, or only, source of weight gain and the inability to lose weight. That’s only partially true. Cortisol is referred to as the stress hormone because it is released in the body when a person is under stress, and it can fool you into eater larger amounts of food or craving all the bad types of foods instead of the good stuff.

I haven’t yet tried one of the “All Star Workouts” on Fit TV, which is a subsidiary or sister station of the Discovery channel that happens to be one of my favorite and most recorded television stations as of late. What All Star Workouts offers is a daily dose of different types of workouts, from salsa dancing and other dance types of workouts that are actually fun, like belly dancing, to military style or kickboxing types of workouts that offer a more direct, straight forward, butt kicking cardio workout.

Well, sex, unless it’s very vigorous, and it also happens to take a half hour or more, is usually not going to be a sufficient replacement for a real, true workout that you do in the gym or in your own home that lasts for at least 40 minutes. Like I said, there may be exceptions though. You might be newly in love, and still going at it like a couple of teenagers, but as we stay together longer with our partners, our sex sessions usually don’t last long enough to be considered a real workout.

We all wanna lose a little weight it seems, especially as spring is fast approaching. We’re all finding that we’d like to get rid of what I affectionately refer to (and yes, I’m being facetious, there is nothing affectionate that I feel toward it) as “winter coat” padding. I’m no different from anyone else.

I started panicking in Feburary when I realized I was still at least ten pounds heavier than I wanted to be in order to be comfortable in spring and summer clothes, and I realized that I needed to quickly do something about it and whip myself into the best shape I could in the least amount of time so I wouldn’t end up crying when I went to try on new clothes that happened to bare an inch of skin.

I’ve been in two car accidents in my life that were bad enough that I got whiplash pretty bad both times. The funny part is I was with my best friend (still my best friend) both times that we got rear ended. It was when I was younger, in my late teens and early twenties, and the first time I have to take back the fact that we were rear ended, we actually were hit head on, not at a very high speed, but the impact was enough that my head hit the dashboard and I lost a tooth in the process.

Poor Jessica Simpson. My heart really does go out to her. While in the past her fluffiness and status as a reality tv star annoyed me, since I think it takes less talent and more looks and media savvy to actually have success in the entertainment world today, I feel that she has grown into a stronger, wiser woman who knows what matters more than the size of jeans she happens to be wearing that week.