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10 Steps for Staying Healthy This Winter

It’s also understandable that your wellness and fitness goals might get off track, especially if you exercise outdoors during warmer months. But family medicine physician Neha Vyas, MD, reassures you that you do have options and can still make healthy choices even when it’s freezing.


11 exercise tips to keep you motivated as the weather gets colder

Exercise psychologists share their favorite winter workout tips to keep you moving.


10 Activities to Mix up your Summer Workout Routine

Summer is a great time to shake up your fitness routine and have some fun with friends. Here are ten creative ways to get moving in the sunshine this summer.

Make Swimming Your Summer Workout
With just 30 minutes and a few useful tricks, a trip to the pool can become serious exercise.

How To Stay Safe When You Work Out In The Heat
When working out in the summer, watch for the signs of dehydration and heat stroke. Choosing a later evening or early morning time for a run in one smart way to stay safe.

17 Ways to Get Your Steps in at Work
“Move more and sit less.” That’s a key recommendation of the new federal Physical Activity Guidelines to help Americans get healthier. An easy way to ensure that you’re getting enough activity is to track your steps. Aim for 10,000 a day for general health benefits, more if weight loss is your goal. Here are at-work strategies to help you hit that number.

30-Minute No-Equipment Full-Body Toning Workout
Fitness and dance expert Nicole Steen makes sure you hit every muscle in your body in this 30-minute no-equipment workout. Nicole alternates between toning moves and cardio bursts while standing, then brings you down to the mat for the workout’s second half. Expect to feel the burn from top to bottom with this one!

5 Fun Workout Ideas for Spring
The spring season symbolizes fresh starts. If you have been looking for fun ways to spruce up your workout routine, spring is a perfect time. It is also a time when the weather starts warming up, making outdoor activities a possibility after a long, cold winter. Here are five fun workout ideas to help you meet those recommendations this spring that you can do anywhere and without a gym membership.

Cindy Yu Fitness:
A certified personal trainer and group exercise fitness instructor, Cindy Yu’s Instagram page offers a range of easy to follow exercises which can be done anywhere with some basic weights and a mat.

Self.com Article:
The 12 Best At-Home Workouts You Can Do Without Any Equipment 
You can get results with just your bodyweight.

Fix.com Article:
How to Use Your Self-Love Language to Prioritize Your Spring Back Into Shape: How to Ease Your Way Back Into Fitness After The Winter
As much as we all try to stick to our workout routines no matter what, the cold weather and shorter days during the winter often lead to less working out and more Netflixing. Then suddenly the days start getting longer, the temperature starts to rise, and you realize that swimsuit season is right around the corner! It’s time to spring back into shape, but where and how should you start?

WellAndGood.com Article:
How to Use Your Self-Love Language to Prioritize Your Own Needs
While love languages are often called upon to provide insight into important relationships in our lives to help us connect on a deeper level and improve communication, a person’s primary love language can also be telling about how we can best give love to ourselves.

TheSelfSpace.com Article:
How to (Really) Practice Self Love: 4 Things to Remember
Self love is hard work. We see LOVE YOURSELF quotes screaming at us daily from our Instagram feeds, but what does it looks like in practice? What’s the difference between self love and self reliance?

BlackDogInstitute.com Article:
Working from home: A checklist to support your mental health
Just as it is important to look after physical health, it’s also important to keep on top of how you are feeling.

Dnyuz.com Article:
How Exercise May Help Us Flourish
Our exercise habits may influence our sense of purpose in life and our sense of purpose may affect how much we exercise, according to an interesting new study of the reciprocal effects of feeling your life has meaning and being often in motion. The study, which involved more than 18,000 middle-aged and older men and women, found that those with the most stalwart sense of purpose at the start were the most likely to become active over time, and vice versa.

MindBodyGreen.com Article:
6 Simple, Accessible Ways to Start to Feel Healthier
Some of the most effective methods people can use to improve their health are also the most accessible. The following six practices demonstrate how valuable it can be to go back to baiscs when it comes to well-being.

Thrillist.com Article:
The 30-Day Gym-Free Fitness Challenge
The Gym-Free Fitness Challenge consists of 30 equipment-free workouts (plus an initial assessment) designed to hit all the strength, cardio, and flexibility guidelines suggested by the American College of Sports Medicine. And it’s totally free. You’ll do one workout a day to help develop a consistent habit, with most workouts lasting no more than 30 to 45 minutes. You’ll get each day’s workout delivered to your inbox, with illustrations and videos to help you along.

Shape.com Article:
The Best Outdoor Workouts to Mix Up Your Routine
Soak up the sun with these great outdoor exercises that make outdoor workouts seem like playtime.

Self.com Article:
13 Exercise Motivation Tips to Help You Stick to a Workout Routine
Here, exercise experts share the mental techniques they use to help clients stick to a workout routine and meet their fitness goals when they’re feeling overwhelmed, discouraged, and/or otherwise unmotivated.

Refinery29.com Article:
8 Ways to Keep Your Workouts Body Positive
It is possible — and fantastic — to make your fitness routine body-positive. The overall theme: Fitness should make you feel good.

Ted Talk: The brain-changing benefits of exercise
What’s the most transformative thing you can do for your brain today? Exercise! Get inspired to go to the gym as neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki discusses the science of how working out boosts your mood and memory.

Ted Talk: Why Sitting is Bad for You
Sitting down for brief periods can help us recover from stress or recuperate from exercise. But nowadays, our lifestyles make us sit much more than we move around. Are our bodies built for such a sedentary existence? Murat Dalkilinç investigates the hidden risks of sitting down.

Ted Talk: What makes muscles grow?
We have over 600 muscles in our bodies that help bind us together, hold us up, and help us move. Your muscles also need your constant attention because the way you treat them on a daily basis determines whether they will wither or grow. Jeffrey Siegel illustrates how a good mix of sleep, nutrition and exercise keep your muscles as big and strong as possible.

Ted Talk: Get in shape (for real this time)
It is the New Year’s Resolution that you make over and over again. Here, talks to help you stick to it—and do it in a kind, effective way.