Mobility Training: Why You Should Be Incorporating Mobility Into Your Workout
Mobility is your body’s ability to move freely and easily. Adding mobility training to your routine will help you move better, decrease your risk of injury and increase your potential for greater strength. As an added bonus, mobility training can add fun and play to your fitness life, helping to keep you engaged and excited to move.
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Women’s Fitness: The Busy Woman’s Guide to Reinvigorating her Fitness Life
Today we will be exploring more specific techniques you can use to successfully structure your exercise life in order to maximize your enjoyment, success and longevity. It’s important to keep in mind that there is no one-size-fits-all fitness prescription and an approach that is perfect for you might not work at all for someone else. The goal here is exploration, increasing self-awareness and continual evolution.
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Healthy Choices: Understanding and Improving Your Health Literacy
You may have heard the term “health literacy” and wondered what it meant. Health literacy is an umbrella term that refers to the knowledge, learning, skills and attitudes a person uses to advocate for their own health. Knowing your level of health literacy—and how to improve it—matters because research shows that having higher levels is strongly associated with living a longer, healthier and more independent life.
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Breakfast Smoothie: Creating the Best Cold Weather Smoothie
Smoothies are a fantastic breakfast option. They are quick to prepare, easy to pack with healthy nutrients and convenient to drink on the go. Unfortunately, during the winter this chilly breakfast option can be a lot less appealing. But just as there are ways to winterize your workouts, there are ways to winterize your smoothies too.
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Working Out for Women: The Busy Woman’s Guide to Rejuvenating Her Fitness Life
In this edition of the series on working out for women we will investigate some underlying issues that may have worked to sabotage your fitness life in the past. For the best chance of success in your fitness journey, taking some time up-front to anticipate…
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Finding a Doctor: How to Choose the Best Health Provider for You
Having a doctor you are comfortable with and trust is important to your health and well-being. Whether you have recently moved, had a bad experience with your current doctor or are new to Medicare it is worthwhile to invest time finding a doctor you can trust.
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Workout for Women: The Busy Woman’s Guide to Rejuvenating Her Fitness Life
For many women, multiple roles and seemingly never ending to-do lists are ways of life that can make engaging in regular exercise very difficult to manage.
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Telehealth, Office Visits, Video, and More: What is the Best Way to Connect With Your Healthcare Provider?
Overall, an estimated 41%–42% of U.S. adults reported having delayed or avoided seeking care during the pandemic because of concerns about COVID-19, including 12% who reported having avoided seeking urgent or emergency care. Not surprisingly telehealth options are exploding in popularity.
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COVID Fitness: Opportunities and Obstacles to Staying Healthy
Keeping up with a COVID fitness routine isn’t easy. Most people have had their daily lives and healthy habits at least somewhat disrupted due to ongoing restrictions and precautions. The good news is that while the current reality has made being healthy more difficult in some ways, it has also created unique opportunities in others.
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Guaranteed Issue Rights: What Are They, and Do You Qualify?
Guaranteed Issue Rights are also known as “Medigap protections,” because they can help protect your rights to qualify for Medicare Supplement Insurance coverage (also known as Medigap coverage).
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