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Jumpstart Your Fitness: By getting your family involved

Posted: Jul 7th 2008 7:30AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Healthy Habits, Jumpstart Your Fitness

It's nearly impossible to be a healthy individual if the family you live with relies on unhealthy habits and lives an unhealthy lifestyle. It's unrealistic to expect yourself to eat nutritious, balanced meals when everyone around you is having pizza and KFC every night! One of the single best things you can do to help ensure your health and fitness success and give your efforts a much-needed jumpstart is to embrace your family and draw them into living healthier with you.

Of course lecturing and making steamed broccoli for dinner every night probably isn't going to do the trick-- you're going to have to get back to basics and make it a "from the ground up" kind of effort. Here are some tips to get you and yours all started on a healthier lifestyle, together:

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Jumpstart Your Fitness: By making summer bbq favorites healthier

Posted: Jun 30th 2008 7:30AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Food and Nutrition, Jumpstart Your Fitness

Summertime is both one of the easiest times to get in shape, thanks to motivational beach bikini's and outdoor-friendly weather, and one of the hardest, thanks to summer barbecues full of fattening buffet meals and sugary homemade desserts. So how can a person reap the benefits of warm weather, outdoor sports, and skimpy clothes without the downside of fattening foods and too much partying? One solution is to throw a barbecue or two yourself and make all the favorites (like coleslaw, potato salad, and baked beans) but make them healthier by leaving out the unnecessary fats and sugar. Nobody will even notice the difference, seriously!

Barbecue favorites, the healthy (and tasty!) way:

Gallery: Make summer barbecue favorites healthier

Potato SaladPasta SaladCorn on the CobColeslaw

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Jumpstart Your Fitness: By identifying what stresses you out

Posted: Jun 23rd 2008 7:33AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Stress Reduction, Jumpstart Your Fitness

Stress is a part of life, but it seems like lately with the economy in the state it's in (and gas prices skyrocketing to record high after record high), it's getting to be more than just a part of life -- for some of us, stress has downright taken over our lives.

Stress is bad, there's no doubt about that. Sure, in the case of meeting a bear in the woods, stress might help you run faster (or are you supposed stand still?) but in a civilized society, stress doesn't do much more than make us sick. Chronic mental illnesses like depression and anxiety are often directly linked to stress, as are physical conditions like high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, insomnia, and obesity, to name just a few from an ever growing list.

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Jumpstart Your Fitness: By breaking bad habits

Posted: Jun 16th 2008 7:29AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Healthy Habits, Jumpstart Your Fitness

Unhealthy habits, we all have 'em. Eating too much, exercising too little, spending too much, saving too little, the list goes on. When it comes to your health and meeting goals for weight loss and fitness, some of the biggest obstacles standing in your way could be some the things you do everyday without even thinking: your unhealthy habits.

Habits aren't easily broken, but many of the methods for getting rid of them are the same across the board, regardless of what your specific vices are. Here are the most proven and effective methods for breaking unwanted habits:

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Jumpstart Your Fitness: By beating common sleep problems

Posted: Jun 9th 2008 7:31AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Healthy Habits, Jumpstart Your Fitness

It's free, it takes no skill or education, and it's one of the #1 things we can all do to improve our health, yet we never seem to get enough of it. Sleep! Despite all those other qualities, sleep, for millions of Americans, is also one of the most elusive things due to time constraints, stress, and any other number of things that keep us from the getting the deep restful repose we all so desperately want and need.

Making the commitment to make sleep a priority is only the first step -- after that, beating all the sneaky obstacles (like finding the time and "getting in the mood" for sleep) becomes a necessity. Follow these tips to beat whatever sleep problems you are facing and get the best sleep possible, and hence, the best results from your healthy lifestyle and fitness efforts!

Gallery: The best tips for the best night's sleep

Alarms aren't just for getting upGive yourself time to get readyMake your bedroom a sanctuaryTeach your brain how to sleep again

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Jumpstart Your Fitness: With these must-have supplements

Posted: Jun 2nd 2008 7:30AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Food and Nutrition, Jumpstart Your Fitness

Ugh, supplements. For a lot of people they're a "must have" for a healthy diet, and although I don't disagree, I'm also really bad at taking them because it's just so confusing determining what exactly I need -- the list of "recommended" supplements is at least a mile long it seems! But a nutritionally-complete diet is almost impossible to come by through food alone these days, and many supplements can give an extra boost of valuable disease and age-fighting properties to help fitness goals be that much easier to both achieve and maintain. But if you're like me and find yourself either overwhelmed or just generally intimidated by the prospect of taking regular supplements, this list of the 5 most valuable supplements compiled by experts for Natural Health magazine could be a big help! Here they are:

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Jumpstart Your Fitness: By having happier joints

Posted: May 19th 2008 7:30AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Fitness, Healthy Habits, Jumpstart Your Fitness

Last week, the Jumpstart Your Fitness post was about how we all take advantage of our feet, using and abusing them and neglecting to take very good care of them until they start screaming out in pain or discomfort. Well unfortunately the same can be said for the way we treat our joints. Knees, hips, ankles ... they all do their jobs on a daily basis, usually quietly and without complaint, but also without a second thought or moment of consideration from the people to whom they belong. Men and women are quick to work on health routines for strengthening muscles and protecting skin, but what about strengthening and protecting your joints? Nothing slows (or halts altogether) a workout routine faster than knee pain, hip pain, shoulder pain, etc.

So follow these guidelines for having healthier joints, starting today:

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Jumpstart Your Fitness: By easing stress, pain, and bad moods

Posted: May 5th 2008 6:00AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Jumpstart Your Fitness

Swimsuit season is fast approaching! It's just around the corner so now is the time to uncover that beautiful beach body you've been keeping under wraps all winter. Is yours hidden beneath an extra layer of winter flab? Have a great exercise plan in mind but having a hard time getting motivated because of stress, pain, anxiety or even depression? Relaxation is one of your body's best healing mechanisms, but it's not always easy to do. Natural techniques like breathing exercises, muscle relaxation, and guided imagery can help, plus you don't need any special equipment or training to reap the benefits.

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Jumpstart Your Fitness: With a foam roller workout

Posted: Mar 31st 2008 6:00AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Fitness, Jumpstart Your Fitness

When you're stuck in a rut sometimes all you need to do to get back on track is to switch things up and try something new. I've tried a lot of different ways to workout, like with a stability ball, resistance bands, free-weights/dumbbells, a stepper, etc, but here's something I have yet to try: a workout using a foam roller.

Foam rollers can help with strength, balance, and even stress relief. Foam rollers themselves are very similar to the foam "noodles" kids use in swimming pools, but they're thicker and shorter. The primary benefit of adding foam rollers to your workout is an increase in calories burned and better core strengthening due to the balance challenges added to traditional moves like squats, arm exercises, and even massages. Try some of these foam roller moves from Alive.com and see if you don't feel muscles working that you didn't know you had!

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Jumpstart Your Fitness: With foods that help you detox

Posted: Mar 24th 2008 6:00AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Food and Nutrition, Diet and Weight Loss, Jumpstart Your Fitness

Now that spring is officially here and Easter has come and gone it's the perfect time to embrace some clean and healthy habits to coincide with the fresh new season -- and to get you on track to have an awesomely fit summer (bikini panic anyone?).

Some people swear by detoxing and doing regular "detox diets" in order to flush toxins out of their bodies, but even if you're not ready to commit to something that serious you can still get some of the benefits just by incorporating certain foods into your diet and boosting your body's own natural detox system: the liver.

Gallery: The top 10 detox foods

Green Leafy VegetablesLemonsWatercressGarlic


The Top 10 Detox Foods:

Green Leafy Vegetables

However you like to eat them (the fresher and rawer the better) the chlorophyll in green leafy veggies helps clear environmental toxins like pesticides from your system, while also helping to protect the liver.

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Jumpstart Your Fitness: By learning to say 'no' this holiday season

Posted: Dec 3rd 2007 6:00AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Jumpstart Your Fitness

Ugh, holiday weight gain. Yes, it's mostly the treats and meals and festive decadence, but there's no doubt it also has something to do with the stressful and hectic nature of the season. It's just so hard to find time for working out and eating right when your regular routine is completely in shambles. There's shopping trips, cooking, traveling, and visiting with family that all make it near impossible to keep a healthy handle on things, and then throw in holiday parties and obscure relatives and friends coming out of the woodwork and you might as well kiss your healthy efforts goodbye -- and say hello to those extra holiday pounds.

Unless you can learn to just say 'no' nicely and manage your schedule a little better.

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Jumpstart Your Fitness: By knowing your antioxidants

Posted: Nov 26th 2007 6:00AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Food and Nutrition, Jumpstart Your Fitness

Finally! Something that's getting all the hype and actually deserves it: antioxidants. So you know they're great, and you know they're in the grocery store on labels galore in big bright letters, but do you know how and why?

The first key to understanding antioxidants is understanding "oxidants." Also called "free radicals," oxidants are cells that have been damaged and are missing an electron due to negative influences like smoking, fatty processed foods, and stress. These damaged cells (oxidants) are also called free radicals because they float around aimlessly in your body damaging other cells that they come in contact with (by trying to "steal" an electron back) and in the process turn them into free radicals/oxidants as well. It's a vicious nasty circle.

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