by Tanya | Jan 16, 2017 | Functional Training, Healthy Lifestyle
Body mass index (BMI) and body fat are very different measures of obesity/health. Unfortunately they are all too often used interchangeably. Last year my Doctor told me I was borderline Overweight (based on BMI). Based on height and weight measures, I do weigh...
by Tanya | Jan 14, 2017 | Functional Training, Healthy Lifestyle
I learned a new word recently, body diversity. BODY DIVERSITY. Think about it for a minute. Body diversity. That’s a great word! That wording promotes acceptance of differences in bodies! While the media embraces individual differences in many realms, body...
by Tanya | Jan 10, 2017 | Functional Training
Last week I talked about bracing. Bracing aligns your body properly. Thus, bracing is a part of maintaining good posture. Most of the time we don’t think about our posture until we hear someone say “stand up straight” or “pull your shoulders...
by Tanya | Jan 9, 2017 | Functional Training
The rear-end is one of the areas of the body that people typically want “harder”, “more toned”, or “tighter”. Why not? Who doesn’t want a butt that’s high enough to NOT hit the back of your legs? Or to not crease when...
by Tanya | Jan 6, 2017 | Functional Training, Healthy Lifestyle
Recently I spent the day with my brother and sister and their families. My brother and sister and I all have the same parents and grew up in the same house, yet we’re all different! Our DNA would suggest that we’d be more similar than we are, yet we are...
by Tanya | Jan 4, 2017 | Functional Training
Heel pain? Bottom of your foot pain? Pain in arch of foot when walking? You might have plantar fascitis! Plantar fascitis is inflammation of the plantar fascia (as the name suggests). The plantar fascia is the thick tissue that connects the toes and middle of the foot...
