3 Ways to Spice Up Your Walks

Walking is the best exercise there is for keeping us healthy. Here are three simple ways to make the most of your daily walks, have more fun, and build your overall fitness at the same time. No slouchy walking allowed!

Surprise Yourself!

Tenaya Lake in Yosemite National Park

You never know what you are capable of until you try. So this week I invite you to try something new – you just might be surprised at what you discover. Yesterday I managed to surprise myself on a bike ride. I hadn’t been on a bike in over 2 years since I took a fall that required surgical knee repair and involved a lengthy recovery.

Motivation Gone Missing?

Five people jump up from rocks across Silver Lake in June Lake, California

Everyone has those days when the gravitational pull of the sofa far exceeds the push to get up and move. Maybe you’re super busy right now. Or depressed. Or on a deadline you can’t miss.

What the Heck is Healthy Habit?

woman walking on dirt road after a run

Motivation will come and go, goals will change over time (as will excuses).  But what separates the people who achieve their goals for health and fitness and those who don’t are the healthy habits they adopted to match their unique lifestyle, one unglamorous and un-buzzworthy baby step at a time.