Feel steady on your feet again—so you can dance at your granddaughter’s wedding without worry! Pilates is a low impact form of exercise. That means exercises that are easy on joints minimizing stress on the body, while providing reliable and quick muscle building for more strength and stamina. Protect your joints while building strength. One…
Today is another cold one in the Berkshires. Makes me wish I could become a snowbird and migrate South for the winter… Join me at Sugar Hill Assisted Living Community in Dalton, MA on Feb 3rd at 5:30 for an author discussion/workshop. If you’re in the area, I’d love to see you – come on…
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy Kwanzaa! My wish for this new year is that it brings joy, health, love, and peace to you all. Thank you all for giving me the BEST Christmas present ever! Your book purchases during my launch week have made me a four-time bestselling author! I am thrilled to share…
Happy Thanksgiving to My Fellow Americans! Will you be enjoying turkey this Thursday? I sure will—I love turkey! Once the feast is over and we’ve made our next-day turkey sandwiches, I always break out my crockpot to make my own bone broth with the turkey carcass. I freeze any leftover meat so I can add…
In recent years there has been a lot of buzz about taking 10,000 steps a day for cardiovascular health. Well, it turns out that this particular goal was rooted more in advertising new pedometers than in real science. The pedometers that were introduced at that time tracked 10,000 steps… Since then, several studies have been…
Happy New Year! Did you stay up to watch the ball drop? Most of my friends did not. I watched the Sydney, Australia fireworks on You Tube and then went to bed. We don’t stay up as late as we did when we were younger. Patterns and habits change as we age. Mostly that’s good…
Building muscle is one of the most important things that those of us over 50 need to incorporate into our weekly exercise routines. Since muscle loss begins around 30, we’ve already been losing muscle, and we don’t want to become frail. In fact, most of the 50, 60, 70 yr. olds that I know are…
I used to think that isometric exercises were something that you needed machines or straps to do. However, isometric contractions occur when your muscle(s) is held in a static position. Examples of isometric exercises include wall squats, planks, or any position that you can maintain and hold for an extended time. No machine necessary! Since…