Fitness Tips
It was years before I was able to make exercise a consistent part of my life, and I know how hard it can be to find the motivation to work out. That's why I am sharing all my tips and experiences in the hopes it will help you find our own fitness mindset!
Cronometer Review: Easy Calorie Counting on the Go!
Tracking calories can be super helpful, especially at the beginning of your health and fitness journey when you’re trying to get your bearings on how many calories are actually in things. (It can be quite a shock to learn just how quickly calories add up! I know it was for me!) Back in the day, I used to use the free calorie tracker on a health forum to keep tabs on calorie intake, but it wasn’t very user-friendly and eventually, I gave up logging calories. ** My blog posts contain affiliate links, which means that I may earn a commission on purchases you make after clicking on those links. (At…
Jillian Michaels App Review: Like Having Your Very Own Celebrity Trainer
Whenever I hear about Jillian Michaels, I’m taken back to circa 2009 when her fitness DVDs were sweeping the nation. It even convinced a cardio bunny like me to pick up a pair of dumbells and give strength training a go. And I did love the results I saw with some of those DVDs (You can see my full review of one such DVD here.) But there was one problem: What do you do after you finish the videos? You can’t just do the same few workouts over and over again. I mean, you can. But it gets pretty boring! Despite Jillian Michaels having a whole library of fitness DVDs,…
Want an App Worth Sweating For? [ Sweatcoin Review ]
Need some monetary motivation for working out? Sweatcoin knows that money makes the world go ‘round and set out to create an app that legitimately pays you for getting your sweat on. When I first heard of Sweatcoin (not to be confused with the Sweat app!) and that it had over 2.28 million users, I was curious but skeptical. I decided to download the app about a month ago, and although this Sweatcoin review is a bit different from the type of fitness apps I usually write about, this is an app well worth talking about! Don’t have time to read the full review? Scroll to the bottom for the…
The Exercise-Hater’s Ultimate Guide to Fitness Motivation
Introduction Over the past several months, I’ve posted a lot about exercise motivation and forming positive healthy habits. But it occurred to me that there are a lot of moving parts to forming a healthy lifestyle, and maybe you might want something a little more in-depth to help you put it all together. So I’ve written this comprehensive (and slightly cheeky) guide to help you shift your perspective and find the exercise motivation you need to form an effective and sustainable exercise habit. We’ll break it all down into nine, achievable steps, with action steps at the end of each section. Don’t have time to read it all now? Download…
Low-Intensity Exercise: How to Tone Up by Toning it Down
Low-intensity exercise tends to get overshadowed by the high-intensity variety, such as HIIT. (High-intensity interval training.) It’s not hard to see why; we live in the society where everyone is eternally crunched for time. Anything that promises the best results in the least amount of time is going to win over a lot of people. ** My blog posts contain affiliate links, which means that I may earn a commission on purchases you make after clicking on those links. (At no extra cost to you!) Full disclosure here. ** I’m included in those numbers and and haven’t been shy about proclaiming my love for HIIT, and fitness programs like The…
Making a Lifestyle Change – 7 Lessons Learned After a Year of HIIT
This weekend marks one year since I made a lifestyle change to include regular HIIT workouts into my weekly routine. It all started on Black Friday of last year when the (affiliate link->) Bodyboss Method was having a sale on their 12-week HIIT program. And although I finished that program a long time ago, I have continued to incorporate other HIIT workouts into my routine and consistently exercise five days a week. This is the first time that I’ve stayed consistent for a full year! If you’re looking to make a lifestyle change, here are seven things I’ve learned in the past 12 months that have helped me make the…
The Lunchtime HIIT Workout: How to Make it Work for You
As a busy nine-to-fiver, you already know how hard it is to fit anything into your work week besides work. So the idea of a lunchtime HIIT workout session might seem laughable to you at first. It doesn’t help that sometimes you need to run errands on your lunch or something unexpected comes up that prevents you from even taking a lunch hour. I get it. But believe it or not, lunchtime workouts are not impossible! And with all the benefits, it’s worth considering adding a lunch hour workout into your weekly routine now and then. Hear me out: ** My blog posts contain affiliate links, which means that I…
Does Walking for Weight Loss and Counting Steps Really Work?
In recent years, I’ve become a huge advocate of walking for weight loss. In 2016, I was gifted my first fitness tracker for Christmas. It was a Fitbit Charge 2, and I immediately became obsessed with it, and “getting my steps in.” I was constantly competing in step challenges with my friends, which had me pacing around my house at all hours. As someone who had slipped into a mostly sedentary lifestyle, it was just the gift I needed to get me moving again. And who knew walking could be such fun! Maybe you’re in that boat now, and thinking about counting steps or walking for weight loss. But does…
Why I Haven’t Been Sick in 4 Years!
The last bug I caught was a doozy. I had gone five years without calling in sick for work, and then just days into a new job, I came down with the worst throat infection I’d ever experienced! I had to miss several days of work because the pain and fever were so bad that I could hardly get out of bed. The bug weakened my immune system so much that even when I recovered from the worst of it, I kept catching new viruses and was pretty much constantly sick for three months straight. That was four years ago. And, perhaps miraculously, I haven’t been sick since! Oh, there…
BBG & Sweat App Review (Is the Subscription Worth it?)
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you know I’m really into High-Intensity Interval Training, aka HIIT, and I love experimenting with different fitness apps! I decided to write a SWEAT App review since I’ve been using it on and off for the past year and wanted to share my experience! ** My blog posts contain affiliate links, which means that I may earn a commission on purchases you make after clicking on those links. (At no extra cost to you!) Full disclosure here. ** I found this program the way I find pretty much everything I purchase these days – while scrolling through my Facebook news feed. I…
