Nutrition

2021 Fitness Trends Show Health Awakening

2021 Fitness Trends Show Health Awakening

From time to time, I catch up with the current fitness trends. I’m not in the fitness field anymore, but I do like to see where they’re at. Usually, they’re filled with HIIT training, body weight exercises and group exercise. All of which is fine (after all, the best...

Mouth Breathing Challenges Part 1

Mouth Breathing Challenges Part 1

How’s your breathing been lately? Maybe, you’re feeling stressed, dealing with physical problems or coping with exposure to toxic substances or other issues that are creating breathing challenges in your life. Just those variables alone probably include a lot of...

Swiss Ball Power

Swiss Ball Power

Since it’s been a long time since I’ve talked about the Swiss ball, I want to share a bit about my history with this beautiful ball and remind you about a few of the many reasons I recommend using them. My first meeting with a Swiss ball happened at the start of 1988...

Are You Embracing the Pause?

Are You Embracing the Pause?

I bet you know someone who has a lot of fixed ideas about what they and others around them should be doing at any given moment during the day. Everything has to go just the way they planned it, or else… When things start going awry for these people, like encountering...

The Red-Yellow-Green Zones of Exercise Part 3

The Red-Yellow-Green Zones of Exercise Part 3

In part 1 and part 2 of this short series, I showed you how to recognize when you’re in the Red and Yellow zones during periods of exercise and the steps you can take to start going in the right direction. For this final portion of my video series, I want to share...

Understanding Reflex Reactions and How Your Body Reacts

Understanding Reflex Reactions and How Your Body Reacts

Every so often, I remind you how your system learns movement, specifically the wrong way. Once your nervous system learns a specific exercise, it becomes very difficult to change what it knows and even more challenging when you do it incorrectly. If you learn how to...

Alchemy and Your Metabolism

Alchemy and Your Metabolism

As you know, alchemy is really important in my life. Our students get introduced to it in CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Coaching (HLC) Level 2, then receive a much bigger dose of it in my CHEK 4 Quadrant Coaching Mastery Program. Often, I feel more like an alchemist at...

The Red-Yellow-Green Zones of Exercise Part 2

The Red-Yellow-Green Zones of Exercise Part 2

After sharing part 1 of my series on the Red-Yellow-Green Zones of exercise, I hope you’ve taken steps to get out of the Red zone and away from movements that deplete, rather than enhance, your health. This time, I want to share some things to look out for in the...

Wrapping Your Head Around Holistic Thinking

Wrapping Your Head Around Holistic Thinking

Are you having problems creating your dream, then making it a reality? To create a little Heaven on Earth for you and your loved ones, you’ll need to embrace the nature of relationship, life and the mind itself by using your brain in more holistic ways. Achieve this...

Take Meditation Everywhere You Go

Take Meditation Everywhere You Go

Many of you talk about wanting to do meditation but never really finding the time to practice it. Maybe, you’ve got fixed ideas about sitting a certain way or really wanting to carve out a perfect block of time that may not be there. Perhaps, you’ve created so much...

How a Foam Roller Releases Your Ab Wall

How a Foam Roller Releases Your Ab Wall

Want to learn a simple technique that can help your body in many ways (emotional, biomechanical and visceral)? In this video, I’ll show you how to release the abdominal wall or what’s called in osteopathy the front panel (the chest, abdomen and quads) with the help of...

The Red-Yellow-Green Zones of Exercise Part 1

The Red-Yellow-Green Zones of Exercise Part 1

Do you REALLY KNOW how much exercise your body really needs? Along those same lines, do you make informed choices about the kinds of exercises you do? I’m really excited to share the first of a three-part series you can use along with my book, How to Eat, Move and Be...