Six Week Holiday Survival Plan – Stay Fit and Stress Free
Although the holiday season is meant for a time of rejoicing, relaxing and spending time with the ones we love, it more often than not ends up being a hectic time laden with stress. This stress often...
View ArticleThe Secret To Losing Weight – Journaling
When it comes to losing weight, there are many factors that influence ones success rate: support, exercise amount, caloric intake, etc. But one factor you may not have considered is actually an...
View Article12 Steps To Make Your New Year Resolution Stick
It’s a new year again. Do you have a New Year’s Resolution? Well, if you’re like most Americans (88 percent according to a GNC poll), you have at least one resolution. And, if you are like the majority...
View ArticleThe Truth About Restaurant Calories
By now it is probably clear to most consumers that eating out is not the healthiest choice. Yet, all the marketing hype projected by restaurants can sound quite convincing. Restaurants and fast food...
View ArticleGet Fit for Life and Faith!
I’m pleased to share the following interview with Thomas R. Collingwood, Ph.D., author of Spirit, Mind and Body: A Christian Foundation for Fitness. Tom’s book is a wonderful look at blending physical...
View ArticleHow To Get A Great Workout At Home
Many people think that creating a home workout gym is either too intimidating or too costly. So, often they instead invest their money in a health club membership not realizing that for the same amount...
View ArticleFor Weight Loss Success, Women Should Get Off Their Cardio Machines
If the title of this article shocks you, well it was meant to. Many women spend hours and hours each week working up a sweat by walking, running or using a machine like the Elliptical Trainer. They end...
View ArticleExercising with Kids – Tips for Parents by Lynn Bode
Making exercise a priority is a challenge for everyone. And for parents it can be especially difficult to find time to workout because of the full plates that they often juggle. When summer arrives the...
View ArticleFitness Focus: Play Ball to Get Fit
Chances are if you’ve stepped foot in a gym or watched a television fitness program in the past year then you’ve seen the “big balls”. You’ve probably wondered what all the fuss is about. Well, they...
View ArticleOvercoming Exercise Excuses by Lynn Bode
You’ve told yourself dozens of times that tomorrow you are going to start exercising. Yet, tomorrow has come and gone, and you still haven’t starting moving. So, what’s holding you back? What excuse...
View ArticleHoliday Weight Loss Tips — Do They Work? by Lynn Bode
The holiday season has begun. That means parties, big family dinners and sweets tempting you from every corner. So, while the holiday season can be full of joyous experiences it can also be a truly...
View ArticleFast Fitness for Time Pressed Moms by Steve Preston
You don’t need a miracle to get in shape and you don’t need lots of free time. You can get in shape and start losing weight working out just 12 minutes per day. Moms are busy. Most have very little...
View ArticleFitness Focus: Staying Active in Cold Winter Months
With the temperatures plummeting this time of year, many of us tend to hibernate inside our homes. But, hibernating is for bears. As humans it’s important to stay active through all four seasons. Yet,...
View ArticleFitness Focus: Don’t Just Avoid Holiday Weight Gain — Lose It
The holidays are coming, the holidays are coming! Those four words will strike fear in anyone who is currently on a diet, or wants to start a diet or anyone who is out-of-shape. Why does fear strike...
View ArticleIdeas For Fun Family Fitness
The facts on child obesity are sobering. Nearly 25% of American children over age 6 are considered obese or overweight. That’s one in four children! School recess and PE classes have been cut...
View ArticleHow To Safely Exercise In Hot Weather
Summer is officially here. Finally you can pack away your sweaters and get outside. Summer offers extras hours of daylight and with it the opportunity to spend even more time enjoying outdoor...
View ArticleSneak Workouts Into Your Busy Fall Schedule by Lynn Bode
Believe it or not, the end of summer is within distance. You may be enjoying the season so much that you don’t want to admit that, but the truth is that Autumn will be here quicker than you think. With...
View ArticleFitness Focus: Are You Eating Too Much Sugar?
Cutting sugar from your diet is quite trendy these days. Many dieters even go so far as to proudly proclaim that they have “stopped eating sugar” all together. Well, in reality that probably isn’t even...
View ArticleCatholic Moments: Fr. Robert Reed and Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle
I’m happy to share the recording of this week’s episode of the all new “Catholic Moments”, which is now airing as a bi-weekly radio program on Radio Maria USA. In our very first show, we were honored...
View ArticleDaily Gospel Reflection for February 12, 2015
Today’s Gospel: Mark 7:24-30 First-century Jews had such a contempt for Gentiles like the Syrophoenician woman in today’s Gospel that they would call them “dogs.” It was understood that the blessings...
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