by C | May 19, 2022 | Breast Cancer, Fitness, Strength Training
Show me your muscles! If you’re a woman of a certain age, flexing your muscles for show probably isn’t something you do on the regular. That’s not “ageist”. It’s honest. There’s an entire segment of women in the breast cancer population who...
by C | Apr 20, 2022 | Breast Cancer, Fitness, Inspiration, Strength Training
At the time of my diagnosis, I owned a boutique personal training studio where clients trained privately 1:1, and/or participated in small group classes. We catered to the 45+ crowd. The “+” was spot on; I had vivacious, vibrant clients in their...
by C | Apr 7, 2022 | Breast Cancer, Fitness, Inspiration, Strength Training
Purchasing a few pieces of inexpensive, in-home fitness equipment will change your life. I’m not exaggerating. Exercise and nutrition are two sides of the same coin. If you want to be proactive about your wellbeing and in charge of your health, you can’t have one...
by C | Aug 15, 2019 | Breast Cancer, Fitness, Healthy Lifestyle, Motivation, Strength Training
Regardless of how full you are from your meal, you always have room for dessert. Am I right? So why is it that regardless of how full your schedule is, you only sometimes have room for a workout? A few weeks ago I had a morning with just 20 minutes to devote to...
by C | Nov 29, 2018 | Breast Cancer, Fitness, Risk Reduction, Strength Training
My suspicion is that your vision of exercise doesn’t match what actually counts as exercise – it’s possible you either don’t know about some of the options, or you’ve been brain-washed by the fitness industry to believe that exercise is...
by C | Nov 15, 2018 | Breast Cancer, Fitness, Lifestyle, Running, Strength Training
In the fitness world, intensity refers to “the rate at which an activity is being performed or the magnitude of the effort required to perform an activity or exercise.” Another way to think of it is how HARD you work at running, walking, cycling, swimming,...
