At a loss as to what to do? One of the most powerful ways you can turn the tide of fitness in your favor is by choosing to do something over nothing. There will be plenty of days when you are too exhausted from working to consider anything else besides vegging on the couch- but…

At the most basic level, the office is harming your back. Sitting for hours on end is not good for the spine, and chances are posture is a constant struggle that we often lose. Coupled with the fact that we are barely moving and our circulation is stagnant, it is no wonder that we treat…

Wasting precious minutes of your life away in traffic and making it to work without a minute to spare is a recipe for stress that sets your day off on the wrong foot. Furthermore, our car seats are hardly designed for good posture, which means we may be causing damage to our bodies as well.…

Proper walking posture is now the exception rather than the rule.  While, before, sitting was the posture most prone to slumping because of the activities we do while sitting (i.e. reading), cell phones have now made us a world of hunched over walkers. Take a look next time you are out: people barely looking where…

The occipital release: Devote 5 minutes to your neck every night to improve your experience with a tight neck The occipitals are a small collection of muscles at the base of your skull which often go unaccounted for when it comes to stretching. They become overly tight because of chronic forward head posture, sitting too…

The office is a destructive habitat for the human: it can have a debilitating effect on almost every part of the upper body including the crucial structure of your spine which will degrade over time by itself, let alone with the aid of a poor workplace set up and equally poor posture. What’s worse is…

Deskercise You know sitting all day is bad for your health but what can you do? Dough must be earned, and at the end of the day, sometimes you just feel like kicking your feet up and doing something relaxing. Fortunately, there are a plethora of ingenious little movements and stretches you can do to…

What’s for breakfast? For many people, breakfast is the most challenging meal of the day. Pressed for time, we often run out the door with nothing in hand and end up scarfing something like a doughnut from the drive-thru. While experts disagree as to whether the empty calories, sugar and fat content of that doughnut…

Stress Stress has a way of infiltrating every corner of our body: besides a boiling brain, a common side effect of stress is muscle tension. You can truly feel stress manifesting in your neck, shoulders, lower back and toes. When stress starts to boil over, the first thing to remember is to breathe: deep breaths…

Circulation is important at any age, especially for your brain!  The brain uses up to three times as much oxygen as the other muscles of the body. With a brain so hungry, it is important to protect and enhance cerebral circulation, which refers to the movement of blood through the vessels that supply the brain.…