I can feel the power of stress busting and exercise even as I sit here and write this. What am I talking about exactly? Well, I just got done with a workout after a stressful first half of the day. I can feel my endorphins going, my blood pressure rate has gone down and even my breathing has slowed from frenzied quickness and hurries rapidity to a nice, slow tempo again.

In short, I’ve experienced the wonderful, healing, calming and stress busting effects of getting up, moving, and sweating. There is something to be said about how exercise makes your brain work. I feel much smarter, more confident and generally more mentally “quick” and capable when I’ve been working out regularly.

It’s football season.  And I, like so many others here in the US, are going to be sitting on our duffs for the majority of our Sundays, watching America’s favorite sport. It’s not because I’m a huge football fan. In fact, I’m not. I prefer sports that are faster paced like basketball and hockey. Even those sports, I could take or leave.

On of my flaws and simultaneous strengths is that I find sports to be a huge waste of time. I’m too goal oriented and workaholic-minded to be able to sit and watch anything for hours on end without feeling huge pangs of guilt for doing so. But football sundays are a little different for me.

I just got done with a very hot and sweaty day of mowing the lawn, weeding, and doing all that other fun summer stuff that sometimes feels like a bit of a stress reliever, and when you’re not in the mood, feels like a major ball and chain.

Sometimes it can be the bain of home ownership, which is otherwise pretty freakin awesome if you ask me. But if I’m not in the mood to sweat it out, watch out because I tend to pout about it.

Lately, everyone is talking about fitness as a perfect goal.  The question is, what is fitness?  How do we define it?  Can you tell by appearance who is fit and who is not?  It is all cardiovascular, or do you actual count bulging muscles among your greatest fitness conquests?

Most of us define fitness by looking at a person’s appearance and attach fitness to a list of physical traits.  You don’t have to be thin or the typical “buff” look to be considered physically fit.  There are a lot of mistaken beliefs about fitness and physical appearance. 

So I just had my first opportunity to really get ou tand about in the yard and do some yard work. It was a perfect day to do it. At first I thought it was a bit chillier than I would have wanted but once I got going and got my heart pumping and circulation going and started to really work, I was glad it was only about 55 degrees!

It’s the national American pastime big game day today, and the majority of us today will be watching a game for a few hours, and undoubtedly also engaging in some beer drinking, or some other sort of fun, as well as a lot of snacking and binge eating.

Things like deep fried wings, chips and dip, soda pop, pizza, and other unhealthy foods loaded with saturate fat, sodium, and sugar, will be inundating our bodies today shortly. But – you can help to mitigate the effects of these naughty foods and the fact that you’ll be spending several hours indoors on your duff by working out before the big game!

Hello everyone. As is a lot of other people right about now, I’m getting ready to celebrate New Year’s Eve.

Before I go out, and before you go out if you’re going somewhere other than your own home or a hotel (which I highly advocate – very safe and very fun!), I wanted to wish everyone a very happy new year!

I also want to thank everyone profusely for hanging around this new magazine and reading us. Without our readers, we wouldn’t have anyone to share our news, tips, reviews and tricks with for everything fitness and exercise involved.

Hello everyone. I wanted to wish everyone a wonderful and safe and loving Christmas with their families.  Let’s take this time to remember those that are not as fortunate, and send some positive thoughts and prayers to those that are going through tough times.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! SEE YOU BACK HERE AFTER CHRISTMAS FOR THE LATEST IN FITNESS AND HEALTH!

Hey fitness buffs, amateur fitness fans and those that are interested in increasing their health, well being and mental acuity through working out, staying active and getting fit!

I wanted to wish everyone out there, my readers and beyond, a WONDERFUL, HAPPY, YUMMY and SAFE THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY TODAY!

Stuff yourself to the gills today, it’s one of the only days of the year you can truly do that guilt free, because you’re supposed to do that today!  Heck, we’ve got many days between now and Christmas to work it off via extreme cardio and weight lifting, so have at it – enjoy food, savor every moment with your family and loved ones, and most of all, no guilt!

A lot of people, including myself when I first learned of this new fangled reading on your standing when it comes to your weight and your overall health, are confused when it comes to exactly what the BMI, or Body Mass Index, means. It is really a measure of the ratio of fat to muscle on your body. Excess fat means a host of health problems, and for this reason, it has become the hallmark measure for your weight and your health.