Kim Miller

Do you ever feel overwhelmed with the abundance of information on the internet regarding exercise, eating, and healthy living in general? You are in fine company if your answer is yes. we become numb to all the tidbits of information floating in cyberspace, and consequently find it difficult to focus on an actual plan for becoming healthier and leaner. There is a strong correlation between smartly strategized effort and success.

Staying active and eating moderately during the holidays is a challenge for most of us. Enjoying family, friends, and fine foods while maintaining fitness goals is best achieved through proper planning. Take these action steps before your holiday outings by getting back to the basics of thoughtful planning.

Successful, healthy aging has three important components – 1. Low probability of disease or disability; 2. High cognitive and physical function capacity; 3. Active engagement with life. Healthy aging requires extending ourselves in 5 key areas of fitness. They are Cardiovascular Heart Fitness, Muscular Strength, Muscular Endurance, Flexibility and Body Composition.

While I have much in common with product endorsers and sellers who aim to assist people with weight loss, and healthier lifestyles, what we don't have in common is the approach used to have a healthy, happy, fit, lean and meaningful life. I believe that many weight loss products have the opposite effect. They, similar to an aspirin, or other analgesics, treat the symptom rather than the cause and eventually erode one's spirit and ability to do the work of being a healthy, happy, confident person

Because travel places us in a high-risk situation for continuing our healthful lifestyles, we need to recognize, identify, and practice a new set of skills in what is often a less regimented or more busily structured environment, as is the case with vacationing or business traveling.

Discusses the difficulty we face in deciding at what juncture in life we abandon certain time consuming and energy expending health practices that are difficult to maintain in favor of a less physically arduous lifestyle that may offer more daily time, balance, and life enjoyment.

Describes what the intermediate level fitness calorie burner can do to more rapidly enhance fat burning capacity and how a long slow distance base of training aids in the formation of new life changing habits, primes the muscles, ligaments, tendons, and cardiovascular system for a lifetime of increased fat burning ability and a speedier anti aging higher metabolism by reducing the occurrence of injuries, as well as the occurrence of premature overzealous training which often leads to failure.

This article answers question number one for the "newbie" fitness person. "How can we burn a maximum amount of calories in a given amount of time?"

Women with breast cancer are not just surviving but thriving. Encouraged by their physicians, many have taken the position that strength training, exercise, and mindful practices are paramount to their overall recovery, sense of well-being and health status for reasons beyond the physical strength benefits.