Recess with Janet

There are both formal and informal ways to evaluate strength.     (Spoiler alert:     there’s a workout in the last week of the year designe...

Need some balance exercises?     Here are some.     Do both sides.   1.       Stand on one foot. 2.       Single leg squat. 3.       Single ...

What do we do if our balance and flexibility are not where we’d like them to be?  Well, we practice.   Balance is something we can practice ...

This week, we’re going to reflect on flexibility and balance.     Today we assess and tomorrow we address. Flexibility makes life a lot easi...

So:     yesterday we   took a look   at where we are in our cardio fitness.     If we’re not quite where we’d like to be, I have good news: ...

News flash from Captain Obvious:     it’s December and that means we’re coming up on the end of the year.     That means we have an opportun...

I have a Secret Weapon that helps with gratitude practice.     I learned it from the amazing and talented Bronwyn Emery of Live. Write. Be. ...

For Reasons, I tend to resist gratitude practice. By Reasons, I mean that gratitude practice doesn’t play particularly well with my depressi...

As I mentioned yesterday, I like experiments.     Probably because I like learning things.     There is one important prerequisite to experi...

Recently, I did a little experiment on myself.     (OK, that’s almost always true.     I like to experiment.)     For a long time now, I hav...

So  if we are still stuck after we’ve checked that we are, in fact, doing what we say we are doing, we  have to  take a closer look at our r...

Sometimes we get stuck.     We have our healthy   routines   and we are ticking our boxes and yet we are not making the progress we think we...

Yesterday I wrote about how pretty much all our workouts have, inherently, a relationship with interval training.     I gave some examples o...

Over the last long time, I’ve written a lot about interval training because it really is good for us.     (Quick review:     in interval tra...

Things change.     (I know.     I should dress up as Captain Obvious for Halloween.)     But sometimes we kind of freak out when they do. Le...

Halloween week is a great time to pretend.     Everybody’s doing it!     Your kids are dressing up as anime characters you’ve never heard of...

That relationship to time that I was writing about yesterday is about the future, too.   Most of the time, when we work out, we want to be i...

It helps to have some perspective on time when we want to create a healthy relationship with fitness. When we get started on a program, we n...

(Yesterday I talked about the power of routine.     Today I’m moving on to the value of novelty.) So:     there we are with our healthy rout...

My brain thrives on two opposing things:     routine and novelty.     I am probably not alone in this, so I’m going to talk about how those ...