You’ve now got your compelling reason for fitness. Mine is the desire to get through gardening season without becoming injured and to get stronger each year. You’ve decided where you’ll workout and if it’ll be DIY or a commute, and if at home, you’ve prepared your space. I’ve chosen to work from home and prepared …
You’ve now got your compelling reason for fitness. Mine is the desire to get through gardening season without becoming injured and to get stronger each year. You’ve decided where you’ll workout and if it’ll be DIY or a commute, and if at home, you’ve prepared your space. I’ve chosen to work from home and prepared …
You’ve now got your compelling reason for fitness. Mine is the desire to get through gardening season without becoming injured and to get stronger each year. You’ve decided where you’ll workout and if it’ll be DIY or a commute, and if at home, you’ve prepared your space. I’ve chosen to work from home and prepared …
Step 1 was all about finding your why. My compelling reason is the desire to be strong enough for gardening the whole season without injury and to get stronger each year. So where do you start? Decide where you’re going to do your exercises. You know yourself and your habits the best. Will you be …
Step 1 – Why Find your compelling reason Step 2 – Where Make a place in your home or decide on a gym outside your home Step 3 – What Choose your program You should decide if you want to DIY your program or follow someone else’s program. Your main program should focus on a …
I love Jim Gaffigan’s bit he does about people asking to try on his glasses. They put the glasses on and then, astonished, they say, “Wow, you really are blind!” The comment is meant innocently enough, but it feels icky. During my monthly “therapy session” at the hair salon, my stylist/therapist and I were discussing …
The State of Texas has just announced that due to COVID-19 the State Fair is cancelled this year. What? It’s not fair, I hear myself whining. I don’t like that whiney voice inside of me. I shut her up immediately. Of course, it’s fair. Despite all the people who won’t get to enjoy the annual event, all the kids …
It’s been years since arthritis has allowed me to sit behind a desk full-time, but my accountant brain still kicks in sometimes and has me thinking of pain in terms of debt. Like your earnings, you have a limited amount of activity to spend before you go into debt. Pain debt. What does pain debt …
I have a love/hate relationship with pharmaceuticals. I don’t really hate them. They are absolute miracles in most cases. But with chronic pain like arthritis, I think we can do better. There has to be a better way than exposing yourself to serious long-term side effects daily. Thank goodness the anti-narcotic movement has led doctors …
I just found out that May is National Arthritis Awareness Month. My immediate reaction to that is (in a Kramer-from-Seinfeld voice) “Oh, I’m aware of it”. I’m aware of arthritis as I wake up in the morning and take inventory of what’s hurting today …as I head out to the garden with a list of …