Posted by: brookeyool on: June 7, 2011
Hi! Recently, I’ve been clearing my house of unnecessaries, including those older issues of health and fitness magazines that have been tucked behind the jar of pickles in the fridge. I’ve been giving them a quick read before donation and/or recycling, and I’ve found a few great tidbits to pass along! lycopene sunscreen? Apparently, consuming [...]
Posted by: brookeyool on: May 8, 2011
Happy Mother’s Day! Be sure to give your mom, as well as your kids, a big hug. Feet Are Really Important! Where would we be without our feet? Well… probably sitting a lot. Lame jokes aside, our feet are extremely important, not only for walking and standing, but they’re the foundation for our whole body. [...]
Posted by: brookeyool on: January 4, 2011
This time, I mean it literally! Many of us live in locations which will be lightly or heavily blanketed in snow and ice in the coming months. How many times have you stepped outside, only to find yourself slipping and sliding, trying to regain control? It’s these times that we’re grateful for our sense of [...]
Posted by: brookeyool on: September 19, 2010
Do you do the same exercise day-in, day-out? Don’t get cross, cross-train! Doing different forms of exercise is good for the brain and the body. We get in ruts, right? Get out of bed, put on running clothes, go for morning run. What if you joined a gym at one point and did something different, [...]
Posted by: brookeyool on: July 27, 2010
It’s the end of the day. Where are your shoulders? Are they droopy and rounded forward? If they are, does your posture make your back and neck ache? At the risk of sounding like your mother… stand up straight! It will actually ease the tension in your muscles when your body is aligned properly. Also, [...]
Posted by: brookeyool on: July 13, 2010
How’s your footprint these days? More importantly, how do your feet feel at the end of a long day of standing? Throughout my childhood, I was constantly diagnosed with “flat feet”, so that when I left behind a footprint, it didn’t show much of an arch. Yet arches are the shock absorbers of our feet, [...]
Posted by: brookeyool on: June 15, 2010
Whenever I practice yoga in a room with mirrors, I plop my mat down as close as I can to the mirror. Lest you, or the others in the class, believe I have vanity issues (ok, I have been known to tuck a stray hair back into place), I’m mostly concerned about my body alignment. [...]
