Building a fitness routine can be challenging, but don’t let that challenge stop you from living your healthiest and happiest life. Exercising is an important activity to improve your mood, prevent diseases, and feel good in your body. Our ViGOR community can help you build a fitness routine that lasts with three steps. Change Your Attitude The biggest obstacle limiting your relationship with exercise is your brain. You might have…
Did you know March is Frozen Food Month? You read that right — there’s a whole month dedicated to frozen foods. The event was created by the NFRA, a trade association representing the frozen and refrigerated food industry. While this month-long event is unlikely to make it onto any holiday calendars, it’s a limited opportunity to take advantage of the promotions that many grocery stores run on frozen foods during…
Your child should be getting an hour of moderate physical activity every day. As our lives continue to get more digital, this can be a difficult recommendation for some kids to meet. But encouraging and incorporating physical activity into your children’s lives is very important. Here are a few activities for every age group to consider for your kiddo. 6 months–2 years Walking: Even before your child is taking their…
The best forms of exercise are workouts you enjoy doing, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t difficult at times to tie up your tennis shoes, get to the gym, and get in a workout. Exercising is hard work, and there are days when you may need an extra boost to feel excited and ready to tackle your workout. That’s where brain food can come to the rescue! Brain food…
Stretching is a lengthening of your muscles that improves your flexibility, joint range of motion, balance, and stability. The American College of Sports Medicine recommends stretching at least two to three times per week. Depending on your fitness routine, you may be an avid stretcher or only touch your toes when you’re feeling sore after a workout. But stretching is something that people at every fitness level and frequency should…
Unless you have an interest in anatomy or work in healthcare with patients, you may not spend much time thinking about what’s happening inside your body throughout the day — or how your body changes with regular exercise. There are a number of reasons to maintain a fitness routine: to improve your mental health, for the endorphins, to build strength and endurance, and to support your physical health. One…
Regular physical activity has a number of health benefits that we talk about often, but typically we’re talking about adults and how you can build a sustainable, healthy fitness lifestyle. Establishing healthy fitness routines is also important for children, as creating healthy exercise habits in childhood can lead to healthier, happier adulthoods. For many of us, exercise can occasionally be a means to an end — to lose weight, to…
There’s no better cheerleader in your fitness journey than a supportive family. And a great way to support your family in their fitness and enjoy bonding time is by exercising together. Regular exercise is a powerful tool to inspire a good mood, which means that a family workout can often be a happy time spent together as a family. This is particularly powerful when our day-to-day lives are so busy. …
As fitness fanatics, we know that incorporating regular exercise into your life can have resounding benefits for your health, happiness, and wellbeing. Unfortunately, fitness isn’t always accessible to everyone and there are a variety of factors that can make it difficult for people to start and maintain a regular fitness routine and enjoy the many benefits of physical activity. Benefits of Regular Exercise Incorporating regular fitness into your life has…
There are many different ways to exercise, including outside of a gym or workout group. One great way to add fitness into your day that you might not have the opportunity to do often is in the great outdoors. Particularly if you live in a city or busy suburb, your outdoor fitness might be limited to walks around your neighborhood or your local park, but there’s a great big world…
