Yoga and Meditation Can Change Your Genes, Study Says
This article originally appeared on Time.com. Yoga and meditation may do more than just help you feel relaxed in the moment. A new scientific review suggests that these and other mindfulness exercises can actually reverse stress-related changes in genes linked to poor...
8 Financial Tips for Millennials
Unfortunately, personal finance has not yet become a required subject in high school or college, so you might be fairly clueless about how to manage your money when you're out in the real world for the first time. I know when I graduated from college and got my first...
2017 Financial Goals
New Year, New Goals. 2017 marks the start of new financial goals, for both personal and business. I always set at least one financial resolution during New Year’s and use it to guide my money management throughout the year. In fact, setting yearly financial...
Find Your Center When Life Gets Crazy
We’ve all had moments when life’s demands left us feeling stressed and scattered. In these moments, it’s helpful to have some simple tools to help us gain composure and come back to our center, gathering our thoughts, and re-prioritizing our life. There are times when...
300 Workout
At the start of the movie 300, King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) bids farewell to his beautiful wife, Queen Gorgo (Lena Headey) as he heads out to lead the Battle of Thermopylae. In it, 300 Spartans fought to their death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army in 480...
Why Working Out at Home is the Best
Working out at home is the best, pure and simple. Four years ago, I would have said the opposite. I loved the gym. I loved going to the gym. I loved that feeling walking into the gym and interacting with everyone, talking, chatting, bs'ing about nonsense. Then, I...
Is Crossfit Safe?
Is Crossfit Safe? In late 2015, 60 Minutes did an expose on the global craze that is Crossfit. CrossFit is a global phenomenon: 12,000 locations, hundreds of thousands of diehards, and a full-body workout that can make you look like a superhero, 60 Minutes said on...
P90X3 vs T25
With the release of T25 in June 2013, Beachbody, and the rest of the workout community, entered into a new era of high intensity/short duration workouts. Soon after, we were gifted with other short duration Beachbody workouts, including P90X3, P90, Insanity Max 30,...
Alcohol Causes Seven Forms of Cancer
Alcohol causes seven forms of cancer, and people consuming even low to moderate amounts are at risk, according to new analysis. Health experts endorsed the findings and said they showed that ministers should initiate more education campaigns in order to tackle...
Thicker Smoothie, the Fuller You’ll Feel
This article hits home for me. Earlier this summer, I endeavored to bring some additional healthy eating habits into our household. As my wife was getting later into her pregnancy, we were coming up with ways to continue to eat healthy, while still satisfying her...
Fatherhood, Fitness & Finances
As I'm writing this post, sitting next to my wife on our couch, I'm contemplating many things, most significantly, the impending birth of our first child within the next week. I'm unsure what to expect, I'm unsure what new fatherhood will mean, on a number of levels,...
Everything You Thought You Knew About Lactic Acid is Wrong
For a semi-serious athlete, Jeremy Rosenberg is not unusual. The Los Angeles-based book editor is a weekend warrior on the city’s soccer fields, but says he pays for it after most games. “A couple of hours after I play I feel like what I imagine a whirling dervish...
Your Birthdate May Not Match Your Body’s Age
People age at different rates, and now, a new study finds that people's tendency to age more slowly or quickly than their contemporaries is evident in healthy people as young as their 30s. In the study, researchers looked at a group of people, all of whom were 38...
30 Minutes of Daily Exercise Can Help Men Live Longer Lives
Even people who are older may see a longevity benefit from exercising: Older men who exercise 30 minutes a day tend to live longer than their couch-potato counterparts, a new study finds. In the study of men in their 60s and 70s, those who routinely did 30 minutes of...
5 Healthy Outdoor Dining Receipes
Any gorgeous day is perfect for firing up the backyard grill. Here are some simple ways to make eating outdoors delicious and healthy. Grilled fish Grilling salmon takes as little as 4-5 minutes to cook, which is a big help when you are preparing a meal outdoors....