Recess with Janet

Emotional well-being comes from lots of places and practices.     We face a variety of challenges in our present lives and there are useful ...

The final wellness piece is mental and emotional health.     (This is where I put in the disclaimer:     I am not a doctor, psychiatrist, ps...

Need a few more tips for sleeping?     I got you:   1.       Move every day. 2.       Don’t over-nap. 3.       Meditate or reduce worry some...

I’ll start with a confession.     I have really struggled to put together an evening routine.     Morning routine:     no problem.     Eveni...

We can’t be well without sleep.     There’s a reason sleep deprivation is a torture.     Some of us might want to have words with the curren...

Food is one of the joys of life, in my opinion.     It’s also necessary!     Choosing foods that are both good for us and fun to eat helps u...

A third pillar of wellness is nutrition.     We can’t be well without proper fuel.     Today I’m going to go over macronutrients and tomorro...

So:     it’s time to recover.     What are we going to do?     Here are some ideas:   1.       Sleep. 2.       Eat.  Preferably something wi...

When we are “just” sore from whatever kind of movement we’ve been doing, whether it is our first steps around the block or our hardest, heav...

Another aspect of wellness is how we deal with recovery and healing.     That’s the focus for this week. When we start getting more movement...

Yesterday I talked a little about the difference between movement and exercise.     We may want to start with movement and dip into exercise...

Over the summer, I worked on a certification as a Wellness Coach.     It is not surprising that movement is an important aspect of wellness ...

Today I’m going to share some of my very best advice on exercise and diet.  Here we go:  lie on the couch all day and eat cake.   April Fool...

Because I do both personal training and Pilates, folks sometimes ask me which they should do.     I have two answers:     it depends and bot...

As the season changes, so do our workouts.     Here’s what we need as we start to work out more outside. Sunscreen .  I confess I am bad at ...

We all overdo ourselves from time to time.     Maybe we were on   vacation   and we were hiking and it turned out to be more strenuous than ...

All right:     we know what we want.     Here’s what we need to do. If we have cardio goals:     Our first target is 150 minutes of cardio p...

I hope that yesterday I convinced the skeptical among us that stretching is worthwhile.     Now let’s talk about how. The first thing I need...

Stretching is possibly the most neglected part of our workouts (assuming we manage to DO workouts in the first place).     I think there are...

Unsurprisingly, I read and watch a fair amount of stuff about fitness.     I do this so that my clients don’t have to unless they want to an...