Use these strategies to keep your love for running strong even as the temperatures decline.
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Observations From An International-Traveling Newbie
Lessons from an international-traveling newbie.
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Why Your Favorite Sports Team Is Ruining Your Life
The dangers of being a spectator.
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Are Daily Multivitamins Necessary?
Are vitamins necessary as part of a healthy diet?
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If You’re Failing At Anything, Here’s Why.
This article discusses the three main reasons you are likely to fail at anything. Learn how to overcome the most important obstacles you’ll face.
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Live Big and Stay Small: How I Ate Pastries and Gelato Every Day and Didn’t Gain a Single Pound
How can you eat whatever you want and not gain weight? Learn how.
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Your Thoughts Are Making You Sick
Negative thinking can increase your risk of illness. Here’s how.
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When Being Healthy Becomes Unhealthy
When do healthy behaviors become unhealthy? Find out in this article.
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Why Not You? – An Inspiring Weight Loss Transformation Story
An incredible 10-year weight loss transformation story. Extraordinary people are created through daily actions and decisions.
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Follow This Advice to Build Your “FitFam”
Follow these 4 tips to build your fitness support system–your “fitfam.”
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Recipe: Key Lime Cheesecake
Awhile back one of my clients challenged me to create a healthier, high-protein key lime pie that would allow her to indulge in her cravings for pie without ruining progress toward her fitness goals. While I may have colored outside the lines just a bit by creating a key lime cheesecake, I promise it will deliver…
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One Daily Practice To Immediately Improve Your Life
I want to talk briefly about an often overlooked daily activity. Like many things, we get busy in the hustle and bustle of the day-to-day and forget to pause and reflect. I want to talk to you about the power of gratitude. Today, after a headache of a morning that included getting stuck in construction traffic,…
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Abstaining From Moderation
[Article originally published in Breaking Muscle] Business and self-development coaches will often tell you that the secret to success is to focus on your strengths, while either outsourcing your weaknesses or becoming just good enough at them not to mess everything up. This approach allows you to avoid spinning your wheels doing the tasks you…
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3 Fat-Loss Myths – Debunked
Have you ever tried losing weight, thought you were doing everything correctly, and still didn’t see the progress you wanted? Sure, there are a number of reasons why you weren’t seeing the results, but what if the changes you made to your diet weren’t actually that helpful–or even downright useless? There are numerous myths surrounding…
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The Secret to Staying Fit While Traveling
[Originally written June 3rd, 2017] I’m sitting in a hotel room in Sacramento, CA, nearing the end of a long week-and-a-half stint of travel. Memorial Day weekend was spent in Toronto for a fitness conference (5-hour drive both ways), arriving back home for a quick two-day break before heading back out on a flight to…
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