"First off, before discussing the quote above, I want to say that all of you are athletes in your own way. You don’t have to play a specific sport to call yourself a so called “athlete”. You may have just recently started taking yoga classes, going for jogs, beginning lifting weights, or learning how to swim. Whatever it may be you are doing, you are in your own way an athlete.
Milestone Personal Trainer Miranda Mercke debunks a common myth about eating before bed...
"When it comes to meal timing, far too many ‘nutrition experts’ recommend not eating anything past 7 or 8 pm. What is their main reasoning? Well, there seems to be a common misconception that our metabolisms somehow down-regulate at night, and thus the food we consume later on in the day is more likely to be stored as fat while we sleep…
Jeane and Patti have been Milestone members since 2010. It had been on their bucket list for many years to take a trip to Antarctica. Finally, the time had come… they had booked their trip. Jeane and Patti were so excited to kayak, hike, and enjoy all that the outdoors have to offer. However, five months before the date of the trip, Jeane was hit by a bicycle and broke her collarbone. This would certainly put a damper on her ability to do the physical activities that they had planned! To make matters worse, two months before the start of the trip, Patti tripped on a tree root, breaking her ribs! The two were very concerned about their ability to kayak, which was to be a highlight of the trip!
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Welcome to February, National "Heart Health Month"
Once upon a time, women lifting weights was considered taboo; instead they were encouraged to simply "tone" and avoid getting "too bulky!" Thankfully, more and more females are seeing the significance of incorporating resistance training into their exercise regimen and it only has a little to do with appearance.
Topics: Fitness Challenges
Yoga has become more prevelant in popular culture over the past few years, with many studios and yoga-related brands popping up. Yoga is now recommended by many physicians as a healthy practice for both men and women. However, when you look at the yoga community, it is disproportionately female. This may be because most men think it's only for women.
Topics: Fitness
Does the word, ‘cardio’ just sound awful, time consuming, maybe even dreadful to you? There are many people out there who hate doing cardio because they find it to be boring, time consuming, or monotonous. I have even heard people say, “Ugh, alright time for me to go hit the treadmill for an hour for cardio.” If you are one of these people, listen up because I have some news for you that will change your whole mind set about cardio!
Topics: Fitness
The New Year is fast approaching and people all over the world will start setting new goals and resolutions to achieve in the New Year. Resolutions usually die out and rarely last long term. Form steady habits now to avoid short term resolutions later.
Topics: Fitness
Life is way too short to be wasted on things you do not enjoy or on things that don’t light a fire under your rear end. Why not get excited about living every single day. Find a passion that lights up your life; whether that is your family, funding a charity, training for a race, studying a certain subject, cancer research, playing an instrument, arts and crafts, etc. Find something that lets you be greater and that lets you help others.
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"Let’s all take a second to think about the patterns and routines we fall into with our workouts… do you have a specific cardio machine you go to nearly every time you walk through the gym doors? Has it gotten to the point where if somebody is on “your” machine, it makes you downright angry? Doesn’t everybody know that the elliptical on the far left is yours?!
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