Fitness
Benefits of Exercise: Green Mountain’s Top Ten
10. It helps reduce risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis and type 2 diabetes. 9. It helps relieve chronic pain, such as backache and arthritis. 8. It (especially weight training) makes everyday tasks, such as lifting a loaded suitcase, laundry basket or grocery bag, easier.Developing a Fitness Attitude - A Healthy Weight Loss Program Approach
It's obvious that the word "exercise" has more than four letters, but many of us will agree it sounds like a four-letter word.Exercise Success - Office Exercise Tips
Careers, family responsibilities and an overall feeling that there just isn’t enough time in the day to take care of themselves bogs down many women today. But whether you’re the company president or a hard-working employee, a little creativity and dedication to your health can make it possible to incorporate fitness into busy days with office exercise.Fitness Strategies for Summer Fun
Summer -- there's no better time to start a physical activity program! For those of us who live in colder climes, summer's warm weather offers a wealth of opportunities for being physically active, or for varying our regular physical activity routine.Fitting in Fitness during the Holiday Season
With all of the shopping, gift wrapping, and baking, the holiday season often makes us wonder whether fitness will remain part of our lives during this time. It can, though, if we make a holiday fitness plan.Healthy Living - Taking It Outside
Do you recall your parents saying, “Go outside and play with your friends for a while!” or “Go get some fresh air!” These words are often mistaken for a punishment or convenient way for parents to get kids out of their way. But today, we may see the wisdom of what Mom and Dad were encouraging.Healthy Weight Loss: Top 10 Mistakes in The Gym
Finding or making time to exercise is the first step toward improving your health, but it's not the only step. Workouts can be challenging and mistakes in the gym are common. At times, these mistakes can cause mild strains or more significant injuries. By changing small parts of your routine, you can see incredible results. The American Council on Exercise warns of these mistakes commonly made in the gym and offers tips to help individuals stay safe during their workouts.Heart Healthy Fitness: Fitness for Two or More
February is known as Heart Month. Most of us think of Cupid and Valentines, but there's another reason February goes by this title. Health experts have cleverly designated it as the time to focus on heart healthy fitness.Intrinsic Exercise: Horseback Riding For A Healthy Lifestyle
What to do when your workout becomes boooring? It seems to happen overnight, doesn’t it? One day you’re totally into it and the next day you loathe putting on your sneakers. It's important to recognize this can be a critical time to make some good decisions. If you don’t have other forms of exercise to turn to, you can get yourself into trouble. Doing the same activity for too long can lead to boredom, exercise burnout and sometimes giving up on your workout altogether.Intrinsic Exercise: Learning to Love Physical Activity
Why is it that some people need to move? They seem to have this little voice within telling their bodies to get out there and walk or swim or bike. Why is it that others have to battle themselves everyday to exercise?Jumpstart Your Winter Fitness
Winter weight gain plagues the best of us. We begin the season with a month-long celebration of food and drink, then stare down a couple of months where often the most appealing thing is to curl up on the sofa with a good book to wait out the weather. New Year's Resolutions aside, the list of reasons why we can't get moving multiply as our resolve to take care of ourselves takes a beating.
National Weight Registry’s 10,000 steps: Moving for Life
There's no doubt about it - including physical activity as part of your daily routine is the way to go. But how do you get and keep going?Overcoming Exercise Fears
When I walk around the neighborhood, I worry that everyone is laughing at me.
I can't keep up with Sally when we're biking. It makes me feel inadequate.
I'm afraid I'll hurt myself playing volleyball so I don't even try.
Overcoming Exercise Obstacles
You can count on it: The best-made plans can-and will-get interrupted. Unforeseen disruptions impact our vacation, dinner, and carpooling plans…and they make squeezing exercise into our busy lives even more challenging. Skipping exercise once in a while isn't the end of the world, but when life gets crazy, an open mind can help you problem solve and think "opportunity" instead of "disaster." Here are some ideas to keep you moving when things don't go as planned:
Overcoming Exercise Obstacles: Strategies from a Healthy Weight Loss Program and Health Spa
As summer sets in, the urge to get outside and move can overtake even the most exercise resistant among us. Just breathing the fresh air revitalizes us. But as the heat begins to take its toll, many of us find we need a bit more than fresh air to motivate us to move our bodies. Take this short quiz to measure your motivation quotient. Select all the statements you agree with.
Personal Training Pros: Where does it fit a serious weight loss spa and lifestyle change program
It's one thing to change your relationship to food and fitness in the secluded, structured setting of Green Mountain. It's another thing to incorporate those changes into your daily life at home. Permanent change and long lasting success come gradually and are most easily arrived at by working specific behaviors into your daily life on a routine basis--like eating breakfast when you didn't before or walking every morning for half an hour, rain or shine, no matter what. Just these two changes can have a major impact on your body, and perhaps more importantly, on your mind and sense of well-being.Stay Fit and Healthy While on Vacation
Keeping Your Healthy Lifestyle Going on Vacation The big question gets down to this: Who wants to exercise when they are trying to break away from the real world? Tweaking our perspective about exercise can not only help us stay fit and healthy on vacation, but may help us better enjoy our healthy lifestyle routines year round.Staying Motivated to Move: Take It Outside!
Do you ever get home from work and decide you don’t want to go to the gym? Sometimes it's hard to get yourself into the gym because there is no intrinsic motivation to do it.Strategies for Staying Motivated with Your Exercise Routine
It happens to the best of us. One day, we’re lovin’ our physical activity routine; the next, frankly, we’re bored, bored, bored. If we have to do that again (whatever that is), we’d rather not do anything at all. And that spells disaster for a healthy lifestyle program. What’s a fool for fitness to do?Strength (Resistance) Training for Today’s Healthy Woman
- Weight loss isn't as important to me as being stronger, leaner and generally more fit.
- As I grow older, I'm not gaining weight as much as I just seem to be getting lumpy. My clothes don't fit right anymore.
- I'd love to walk up a flight of stairs without huffing and puffing.
- What an accomplishment to lift my luggage into the overhead compartment of an airplane!
Too Busy to Exercise? Think Again!
Time is a valuable commodity. The demands of family, career and school take their toll on your schedule, so you weed out those tasks that seem non-essential. But if physical activity has fallen into that category, it's time to re-evaluate - for some good reasons. Physically active people need less sleep.Which Exercise is Best for Healthy Weight Loss?
Most people might answer that question saying aerobic activities such as jogging, swimming or cycling burn the most calories and therefore are most effective for healthy weight loss. At Green Mountain, we encourage you not to focus on burning calories but on doing what you can do consistently. While aerobic activity is important, combining it with strength training helps produce good results for health and healthy weights. What likely produces the best results, however, is having fun...because that means you'll keep doing it.Winter Exercises: Five Tips for a Fun, Feel-Good & Fit Winter!
No matter the time of year, we often find ourselves short on time and facing other demands that compete with our desire to be physically active. But in the winter, the cold, short days compound the problem, making us even less interested in exerting a little energy in the interests of good health. Instead, we'd rather snuggle up with a good book in front of a cozy fire. So how can we stay motivated to move our bodies? It's time to take a trip back in time.Women’s Fitness Footwear
If you've ever gotten that urge, twitch, or bug to start exercising again after a long downtime, perhaps you can relate to this scenario. You begin on your hands and knees digging in the back of the closet for the smelly, and maybe even dusty, pair of sneakers that's been sitting there waiting for you. You slowly lace them up and get going, only to feel your feet begin to burn, shins begin to ache and blisters begin to form. Needless to say, once your walk or run is over, you slip off your worn "tennies" with relief.Featured Recipe
Thai Turkey Soup
(Makes 10 cups)
This is a much requested soup at Green Mountain. This hearty and savory soup goes well with a whole grain roll and a fresh mixed berry fruit cup for dessert.
