Holiday Celebration Eating
Holiday celebration eating is a always a challenge for me...
Author: Chris Brown
Visualize Your Goal
This popular holiday video shows exactly why it is so motivational to visual your goal. If you haven't seen it yet, it's worth the watch. I love a lot of things about the video, except the exercise he uses with the kettlebell. My back hurt just looking at it. I know why the ad agency decided to have him do that exercise, that way, but WOW! OUCH! The only way I would do the kettlebell push out is after a lot of training, while under the watchful eye of a certified personal trainer and in the squat position, not standing up the way he did. And certainly not that super heavy weight. You'd need a really strong core to not hurt yourself! Also when he first stood up with...
Mountain Biking and Being Fit with Jane Crawford
Mountain biking - Episode 72 Download | Play in New Window Please Subscribe: Apple Podcasts (iTunes) | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Android-Google Play | Audible | Stitcher | Player FM | Castbox | Tunein | Spotify | RSS In episode 72, Jill and Chris talk with Jane Crawford, a mountain biker and a Recreation Therapist who lives in Calgary, Canada. She walks the talk about wellness and healthy living. As a Recreation Therapist she has learned the clinical tools to support those with chronic health conditions and been able to use those tools in her own life. In 2008 she set the goal of 10,000 steps a day and continues to do this today. In 2010, she used a simple check mark on the kitchen calendar of completing 30 minutes most days for physical activity. This simple way of holding herself accountable has...
Getting Back to Basics
After a really busy November, a conversation I had with Jill made me think it's time for me to get back to basics. I find it’s easy to get caught up in the extreme or the minutia of exercising, healthy eating and motivation. Sometimes when I start overthinking, I stop doing. What is back to basics? For me, back to basics means seven things: 1. Drink water. I like to feel my bike water bottles, and put a rubber band around them so I know how many bottles I finished per day. Using my bike water bottles also reminds me of all the fun I have biking. 2. Stand up and walk at least 250 steps each hour. My FitBit around my wrist reminds me at 50 minutes...
Pursue Your SPARK with Heike Yates
Episode 71 Download | Play in New Window Please Subscribe: Apple Podcasts (iTunes) | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Android-Google Play | Audible | Stitcher | Player FM | Castbox | Tunein | Spotify | RSS In episode 71, Jill and Chris talk with Heike Yates, a fitness and nutrition expert who has helped women worldwide to stay fit for over 30 years. Her passion is empowering women over 50 to say YES. I CAN. She helps them to take back their health and strength by showing them how fitness, nutrition, and mindset strategies combined create a winning team. Heike has developed a reputation for creating real-life solutions and lasting results. She is the creator of Pursue Your Spark, the 4 Week Lean Out Program, and host of the Pursue Your Spark podcast. Heike is also a body builder, an Ultra Marathon runner and completed...
Vaccines and Shots to Avoid Illness
Vaccines have been in the news this past week. Different companies announced early results from tests on their vaccines to fight COVID-19 (Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, and the other by biotechnology firm Modern.) It was about this time last year when I got a flu shot. And this past week I got my flu shot, so now two years in a row I got the flu shot. With almost every news story about COVID-19, illness is top of mind. Just a few minutes ago, my daughter texted me and my husband about getting a pneumonia vaccine. Neither of us have had that vaccine, but perhaps we should. The way I understand it, there are three causes of pneumonia (viral, bacterial and heart-related) and the shot...
Gut Health with Christine Bailey
Gut Health - Podcast episode #70 Download | Play in New Window Please Subscribe: Apple Podcasts (iTunes) | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Android-Google Play | Audible | Stitcher | Player FM | Castbox | Tunein | Spotify | RSS In episode #70, Jill and Chris talk about taking care of the gut and brain during menopause with Christine Bailey. Christine is an award winning degree qualified Functional Nutritional Therapist, Chef and Author with over 20 years of experience in the health, corporate and food industry. With a first class degree in Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy (BSc) and additional training by the Institute of Functional Medicine Christine is an experienced nutrition practitioner and speaker working in the public and corporate sector. Christine works as a consultant for a wide range of health, fitness, supplement and food companies. Discussed in today's podcast with Christine...
Seasonal and Life Changes
Download | Play in New Window Please Subscribe: Apple Podcasts (iTunes) | Google Podcasts | Android-Google Play | Stitcher | Player FM | Castbox | Tunein | Spotify | RSS In episode 69, Jill and Chris discuss seasonal and life changes and their effect on health, fitness and motivation. Without many of the routines and goals from years past, it has been more challenging to maintain a strong mindset. Along with the challenges of pandemic, dealing with the change of season and life changes can add to the challenge. Jill and Chris discuss their struggles and strategies for coping. We discuss: • Races in real life • Grief • Emotional eating and feeling your feelings • Strength training • Intermittent fasting • Camping • Honey healing effects • Food allergens • Walking in nature • Injury • Yoga People react differently to seasonal and life changes and knowing yourself can help keep a steady hold on fitness habits and a...
Keep It Moving with Juel Fitzgerald
Episode 68 Download | Play in New Window Please Subscribe: Apple Podcasts (iTunes) | Google Podcasts | Android-Google Play | Stitcher | Player FM | Castbox | Tunein | Spotify | RSS In episode 68, Jill and Chris talk with Juel Fitzgerald about staying healthy, walking and her new book, "Lives of a Gem: God's Treasured Possession." This is the 3rd time we've talked with Juel on this podcast and we continue to be inspired by her grit, determination, and outlook on life. In episode 8, she was walking marathons and we followed up with her in episode #24 when she walked several half marathons. We discuss: Overcoming asthma and allergies Dealing with hospitalizations and medications Motivation and how she keeps it moving How she wrote her book - phases and characteristics of life issues Publishing a book during the pandemic Her book can be purchased on...
The Fun of Fall Biking
With the change of seasons here in Northeast Ohio I am missing the sun of summer, but I have to admit that I am really enjoying the fun of fall biking. The weather is a bit more brisk in the morning, the haze of summer is gone and I don't get overheated. The fall leaves are just starting to change. After consistently riding almost every weekend of the summer, I feel strong. This was a record breaking summer since I started riding my bike again and tracking it in Strava. Due to the corona virus pandemic, I severely limited gatherings with my friends. This meant that I didn't get together with alot of friends and I've really missed doing the very fun, long long bike rides with...