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It’s Hot! Avoiding Muscle Cramps

Here’s an article that was featured in, both, Christine’s Los Angeles Examiner column and in Made Woman Magazine. This early season heat wave made me think about all of you west-coasters out here and running and playing in this heat.…

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May is Bike Month

Yes, we observing bike month, this month. We encourage bicycle commuting as a means of alternate transportation. It promotes physical activity and greener living. When considering bicycle commuting or sport cycling, there are a few details with regard to traffic…

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Obesity and BMI

What is BMI? It is a commonly used acronym for body mass index to determine whether or not a person is obese. It is a ratio of one’s weight to height to determine whether or not that person is the…

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Dispelling Women’s Fitness Myths

March is Women’s History Month. Historically women’s health and fitness was regarded in different ways: not regarded at all, taboo, unattainable, and unimportant. In our country, women were not always appreciated for their physical capabilities to tend to house, fields,…

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Running and Injury Prevention, The Basics

When running training, most people emphasize speed and endurance. Training for injury resistance is something that we feel is even more important. By emphasizing injury resistance training, speed and endurance fall in line. Here is an article that came out…

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What’s So Hot About Hot Yoga?

Over the last decade yoga has been adopted, not just by celebrities, but by professional athletes, weekend warriors, mothers, and soon-to-be moms. So, can it still be called trendy? Yoga with origins tracing back to second century B.C., in India,…