by kvbadmin on June 7, 2011
Kent fitness expert and owner of the personal training studio, Fitness Matters Kent, Dr. Marilyn Gansel offers her tips for being fit! “Far too often fitness is presented as complicated and confusing,” she says on her blog. According to Dr Gansel, “nothing could be farther from the truth.” Being fit comes from living simple everyday practices including a few of our favorites that we listed here.
Dr. Gansel’s Tips for Fitness
- Throw out your big dinner plates. Using small plates at home effortlessly reduces calorie intake and promotes weight loss.
- Make exercise a regular part of your life. Create a network of accountability with workout partners or by working with a fitness expert.
- Know what you want to accomplish. Visualize the end result of your hard work.
- Believe in you. I know that you CAN accomplish your goals.
- Don’t be a wimp. Keep the intensity high during your workouts. Remember that you don’t want to kill time; you want to burn calories and strengthen your body through intense exercise.
- Drink water all day long.
- Know when to ask for help.
Visit Dr Gansel’s blog for more fitness tips. There you will find her definitive list.
Fitness Matters is a private studio that integrates holistic lifestyle coaching, fitness, and post-rehabilitation as part of their ‘Train for Longevity’ wellness program. Fitness Matters is passionate in promoting optimal health, progressive in exercise design, and professional as a holistic lifestyle coach. To learn more, visit FitnessMatters.com.
Fitness Matters Kent is located at the Kent Village Barns.
14 Old Barn Road, Unit #4
Kent, CT 06757
Phone: (860) 927-4555
Fax: (860) 927-7913
Studio Hours: By appointment only.
Email: info@fitnessmatters.com
by kvbadmin on May 27, 2011
Calm & Peace in Kent
Tips for peace of mind from certified Yoga teacher and Kent Yoga & Bodyworks owner, Alina Hernandez.
I feel so lucky to have my yoga practice. In fact, yoga has saved my life. My yoga practice is like coming home and putting on my pajamas after a long and stressful day, and finding that inner comfort. It teaches me, that no matter what is taking place around me, all the worries and preoccupation of life and being human, that I can use my physical body as a gateway for finding my inner home. I always have that ability to create that inner space no matter what. I just need to look. When I am doing my poses I am focusing on my alignment, my balance, my breath, and stability on a physical level and I start to feel the possibilities of finding the inner stability and balance of my mind. As long as my mind is aware of what is taking place in the present, it has no time to focus on all the distractions and worries of the phantom past and future.
Need to Center Your Mind? Try This.
Lay on your back with the whole back of the leg resting on a chair. Place your head on a support. Arms in a comfortable position. Just be aware how your physical body feels and start to imagine all the tension of your large and small muscles releasing from the ceiling towards the floor.
Next, scan your body from your toes to the crown of your head and visualize that part of your body release down with your natural exhalation. See yourself falling deeper and deeper into that vast inner space. Peace.
Alina Hernandez
ALINA HERNANDEZ | is a certified teacher with Yoga Alliance (R.Y.T.). She has been teacher certified by renowned instructor Rodney Yee, by Richard Rozen, contributing editor for Yoga Journal, and Jimamukti trained Collen Saidmain. Alina has a background in dance, she began her career with American Ballet Theater. After 12 years with ABT she joined the Broadway cast of Phantom of the Opera. She is the owner of Kent Yoga & Bodyworks, a premier exercise and wellness center in the Kent Village Barns.
