Category: Fitness

Cheryl’s Tip For Less Stress: Giving Feedback

This is the last of my February blog articles, which have focused on having a healthy heart more from the emotional perspective. Emotional wellness has to do with being skillful in our communications to create positive relationships.
Have you been in a situation recently where you needed to give feedback or offer constructive criticism to someone?
This [...]

Kevin’s Personal Training Tip: 12, Stability Ball

Today we posted Kevin Szymanski’s 12th training video, this time focusing on the stability ball.
This is a more advanced workout that requires a lot of practice, and keep in mind it’s easy to lose your balance. But it’s great for strengthening your core, legs and back. And you will feel great once you have [...]

Cheryl’s Tip: How To Be “Well” With Small Steps

What does “wellness” mean to you?
We hear the word frequently, yet I wonder if we understand its meaning on a personal level.
How do you make these connections in your daily life?
Some say wellness is merely “the absence of disease.” Others are focused on prevention, taking measures to varying degrees in order to adopt a healthful [...]

Kevin’s Personal Fitness Tip: Number 11, The Squat

Today we posted Kevin Szymanski’s 11th training video, this time focusing on the squat.
This is a more advanced workout.
Again, it’s important to check with your doctor if you have not been working out on a regular basis. Kevin is one of the top personal trainers at Healthtrax in East Longmeadow, Mass., where my wife and [...]

Let the Games Begin!

I’m laying in the tissues and hankies.
It’s Olympics time: The Winter Olympics, and not even that strange offshoot we are seeing in Washington DC and Maryland and other climate-whacked locales better used to toasty Februarys than the igloos of the moment. The Games in Vancouver.
I don’t ski. I never understood why it is fun to [...]

Kevin’s Personal Training Tip 9: Working The Biceps

Today we posted Kevin Szymanski’s ninth training video, this time focusing on strengthening your biceps.
Again, it’s important to check with your doctor if you have not been working out on a regular basis. Kevin is one of the top personal trainers at Healthtrax in East Longmeadow, Mass., where my wife and I belong. Kevin has been [...]

Kevin’s Personal Training Tips: Part 8, Leg, Cardio, Core

This is Kevin Szymanski’s eighth training video, this time focusing on strengthening your legs and core and giving you a cardio workout.
Again, it’s important to check with your doctor if you have not been working out on a regular basis. Kevin is one of the top personal trainers at Healthtrax in East Longmeadow, Mass., where my [...]

Kevin’s 7th Personal Training Video Posted

Today we posted Kevin Szymanski’s seventh training video, this time focusing on the chest press.
If you would like to leave a comment about the video, this is the appropriate place to do it.
Wishing everyone a HEALTHY New Year. George

Kevin’s Personal Training Tips: Part 7, Chest Press

This is Kevin Szymanski’s seventh training video, this time focusing on the chest press.
Again, it’s important to check with your doctor if you have not been working out on a regular basis. Kevin is one of the top personal trainers at Healthtrax in East Longmeadow, Mass., where my wife and I belong. Kevin has been [...]

Kevin’s Pointers For The Crunch

Today we published Kevin Szymanski’s sixth core strengthening video, this time with me performing the exercise and Kevin giving pointers.
Today’s focus is on the proper way to perform the crunch. If you want to leave comments on this exercise, you can do so.
Again, it’s important to check with your doctor if you have not been [...]