Most people credit me with the birth of the Brat Pack. That’s flattering, but not really true. What happened was, I destroyed the Brat Pack. The Brat Pack was left for dead on the night I named them in 1985.
When most people think of fitness, they focus on strength, endurance, and cardiovascular health. While these are important aspects of fitness, many neglect the crucial role of flexibility. Flexibility is the ability to move your joints through their full range of motion, and it’s often the key to achieving your fitness goals.
Last week we looked at some tips to kickstart your fitness routine. This week we will look at an essential component for reaching your fitness goals: nutrition. Whatever your fitness goals might be whether you are trying to build strength, improve your cardiovascular system, lose weight, or gain muscle you will need to integrate a nutritional plan to help you reach your goals.
Getting started with exercise can be one of the most rewarding decisions you make for your health and well-being. Regular exercise has been shown to improve mood, increase energy levels, reduce the risk of chronic diseases, and promote longevity.
From a distance, you might have mistaken them for teenagers, though they were in late middle age. It wasn’t just the miniskirts and heels on their slim frames, or the ponytails and flaming lipstick, but the girlish way the women held hands, stroked arms, massaged shoulders, smoothed sleeves and straightened bag straps, giddy with affection. Their makeup was heavy, with boldly pencilled brows, and their long hair tinted black or dyed brassy blond – recreating a youth that had never been theirs to enjoy.
As countries around the world are tentatively contemplating or are gradually in the process of loosening restrictions in place for the pandemic many people are naturally wondering what the new normal will mean for jobs, travel, socializing and recreation ...
We created a full body metabolic circuit training workout designed to target your core, glutes, hamstrings and general cardiovascular conditioning based on the exercises on the Instagram accounts of Victoria Secret Angels Jasmine Tookes, Josephine Skriver, Izabel Goulart, Romee Strijd, Jourdan Dunn, Lais Ribeiro, and Sara Sampaio.
June 6 marked the one year anniversary of when I first began working out three times a week, every week. Quite an achievement, given that my relationship with physical fitness of any kind has always been a difficult one, having always been slight with little or no effort. There is a thought in our circles that you are either in business or you’re fit — said, of course, in jest — but the sub-text is that keeping fit takes an enormous amount of time and energy, and if you are running a successful business, you most likely do not have the time and energy that it takes to sculpt a perfect body. And perhaps there may be some truth to that.
Starting a fitness program can be a challenge, especially if you don’t feel confident with your knowledge of training. There always seems to some new fad that promises to deliver the secret to fast results.