Without even knowing it you can pack on at least half a pound a day! Nibbles, drops, and bites all count and can add up to 500+ extra calories a day that you don't even think about! Watch Jenna Wolf explain to Matt Lauer how to avoid these extra calories in the video below:

Group fitness is a great way to get back into or get started with your fitness routine. Group fitness offers variety, new environments, a social outlet, accountability, and challenging workouts. There are many benefits to group fitness including muscle tone, flexibility, cardio and more:

Soothe your skin after a long, hot summer and treat yourself with a service at Milestone's Oasis Spa! Brighten skin tone, minimize pores and reduce fine lines.

Today is National Family Health and Fitness Day! Parents, be a healthy role model for your children. Ensuring your children are active at a young age will help them establish healthy habits that will last them a lifetime! Today is the perfect day to get out and enjoy the weather and be active with everyone in tow!  Here are 8 ways to celebrate today and stay active this fall:

Many diet books suggest that cutting grains from your diet will aid in weight loss. However, the USDA recommends eating grains daily, with at least half of those being whole grains. Therefore, unless you have a gluten-intolerance, or another health-related reason to avoid grains, you don't want to miss out on the health benefits of whole grains in your daily diet.

A big congrats is in order for Milestone Personal Trainer, Chelsea Grover, for winning the female division of the Louisville Landsharks Olympic Triathlon on Sunday, September 21st. Chelsea swam 1500 meters, biked 24.9 miles, and ran 6.2 miles, finishing in 2 hours, 37 minutes and 8.9 seconds. Amazing!

September is the official National Yoga Month (a national observance designated by the Department of Health & Human Services) designed to educate about the health benefits of yoga and to inspire a healthy lifestyle. There is so much to the practice of yoga, and if you don't know anything about it, challenge yourself this month to learn ways in which yoga can benefit you. Yoga is not only a great way to work on your flexibility and strength but it's also great for relaxation. Some types of yoga involve more movement than others. Some focus more on poses (or asanas) while others focus more on breathing. Yoga does more than just help you twist your body into a pretzel and find your inner peace. The following are some of the many benefits of yoga.

Don’t just get fit, get CrossFit! Whether you’re a CrossFitter already or you are new to the CrossFit world, you can be sure we’re turning up the heat this month! Enter to win our CrossFit St. Matthews Giveaway now through 9/26 for your chance to win 8 CrossFit Training Sessions + a 3 Month Membership at Baptist Milestone Wellness Center.

As mentioned in this post, September is a month dedicated to raising awareness for many causes including Childhood Obesity. Over the last 40 years, obesity rates have soared among all age groups. However, this rise has affected children in a particularly alarming fashion. Here are the facts:

Preparing the body “not only for the known, but also the unknown” is the mantra for CrossFit, one of the fastest growing strength and conditioning programs today. CrossFit "boxes" are popping up all of Louisville. But, what is CrossFit? And, how can CrossFit benefit you? CrossFit is an intense, full-body workout that combines elements of cardio, weight, gymnastics, core training and more to prepare the body for the unexpected. The following a few of the many benefits of CrossFit.

CrossFit Helps you Save Time

People have thousands of excuses for why they can’t workout, the most popular being a lack of time. That’s why CrossFit is a great option for so many people; the workouts accomplish a lot in a short period of time. More and more research shows that shorter duration/higher intensity workouts yield greater benefits and results. CrossFit workouts lengths will vary from workout to workout and will depend on your skill level.  Most CrossFit “Workouts of the Day” can be completed in under 30 minutes.

CrossFit Works the Whole Body

CrossFit combines strength training, explosive plyometrics, speed training, Olympic- and power-style weight lifting, kettle bells, body weight exercises, gymnastics, and endurance exercise. By doing this, CrossFit targets the major components of physical fitness: cardiorespiratory fitness, stamina, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, power, speed, agility, balance, coordination, and accuracy. The main CrossFit exercises involve the whole body and include pushing, pulling, running, rowing, and squatting. Working your entire body will also help you lose overall body fat while gaining muscle.

CrossFit Adds Variety

Everybody gets bored especially if you're used to doing the same thing every time you go to the gym. Not to mention, doing the same thing forever, is less likely to yield the results you're looking for from a workout routine.  CrossFit format is WODs (Workouts of the Day). The WOD changes daily and there are lots of them.  You will notice that you are not likely to do the same workout over a 6 month period.
CrossFit St. Matthews at Baptist Health/Milestone Wellness Center offers the 1st CrossFit class for free. Come give it a try and see how CrossFit training can benefit you and your body and add variety to your fitness routine!