Health

Nike is one of my favorite brands. I’ve been in awe of their inspirational marketing campaigns for as long as I can remember and when it comes to functional sneaker design they just can’t be beat. Better yet I recently learned that they organize a ton of free events including weekly run clubs and training [...]

I found out two years ago that I was gluten intolerant. I don’t have celiac disease, but I do have really bad reactions whenever I eat gluten, so I’ve completely cut it out of my diet. I learned the hard way about this problem. I fainted twice, both in the most inopportune of places – [...]

This flu season has taken everyone down. First, my husband had it, and now both of my kids. I’ve been playing nurse for almost a month now, but have managed not to get sick and I’m convinced it’s because of this elixir I’ve concocted. While it can’t prevent anyone from getting the bug, it’s nice [...]

Before you yell out marketing gimmick….hear me out! I took a friend who is a few pounds overweight with me to hot yoga a few weeks ago. Like pretty much all of us he’d like a quick and easy way to loose his excess weight so while doing yoga in 120 degrees he refused to [...]

One of my favorite yoga instructors, Scott Harig who teaches at Pure Yoga, told me that if I wanted to be “hardcore,” the yoga mat to get is the Manduka Black Mat PRO ($94 and up depending on the color). Why exactly does it make you hardcore I asked? “Because it’s heavy,” he said. Heavy [...]

I can’t even begin to count how many phone calls, text messages, Facebook messages, and emails I’ve gotten from friends who want to get in better shape as part of their 2013 New Year resolutions. I’m always excited to take people with me to work out so I think it’s awesome that some of my [...]