Real-Life Advice for Moms Who Want to Feel Strong and Healthy.
Three workout tips that need to go away and two to implement starting today: When I was a brand-new mom, it seemed I heard more unsolicited advice than during any other time in my...
Category: Exercise and Fitness.
5 Mom-Backed Tips on How to Squeeze Exercise into Every Single Day
In retrospect, I’ve definitely been a trendy exerciser. I’ve done step, I’ve run, I love Pilates, hiking, weight lifting and various forms of cardio. I’m both a certified Spinning and yoga instructor. One of...
How to Love Exercise.
My body holds my tension from yesterday, unless I unravel it through movement. I charge myself each morning by moving, whether for 5 minutes as the kids play, and we perform our morning getting-ready-for-the-day rituals,...
5 Best Proven Motivations for Exercise (That Have Nothing to Do with Appearance).
Working out first thing in the morning isn’t my preference, but it’s something I’ve done for years. I’m not exactly a morning person. I’m not a night owl either. Instead, give me a good...
How I Made Friends with Food.
We can’t outrun our diets—for a long time I didn’t want this statement to be true. But it is. We absolutely cannot outrun our diets. But what can we do? I’ve written before about how...
Why Yogis Are Better Listeners.
Are you there, yoga? It’s me, Jennifer. Sometimes I subconsciously, and consciously, avoid my yoga practice—moving my body in a myriad of other ways—simply to not have to look in the magic mirror of my sticky mat....
8 Realistic Tips to Get a Stay-At-Home Mom in Her Best Shape Ever.
One of my current pet peeves is reading a celebrity interview where a Hollywood mother of young children says her workout is “chasing the children.” Come on. We all know it’s not. You have...
How I Fell Back in Love with Yoga After Falling Out.
It all began years ago, my love of weight lifting. I used to lift tiny weights for many repetitions and run my butt off, literally—I actually had an eating disorder and, on top of...
How to Know Whether to Take a Day off from Exercise or Push through (and Rest Day Suggestions).
It took me many, many years to learn whether or not I need to take a day off from exercising—or push through. At one point in my life I ran a 13-mile loop every...
4 Reasons We Don’t Need Fancy Yoga Poses.
At 34, I sometimes feel like an old fogey in my yoga practice. To be fair, I’m absolutely a little bit of the old-fashioned type and I’m definitely kind of old soul-ish. And I...
