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Create Great Baby Boomer Workouts: Part 4
Over 50 and looking for ways to make your workouts the best ones possible? Welcome to Part 4 of a series sharing principles you can use to enhance your exercise program and life. These principles are...
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Living Longer via Walking: Who Wants In?
Walk to Live Longer Is living longer one of your goals? I can hear you now: “Only if those added years are quality ones that I enjoy in good health.” I hear ya; I feel ya. Who wants extra time that is...
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The Best Time to Work Out: Now or Later?
“When is the best time to work out, especially if I am over 50?” a reader asked us. Actually many of our fitness class participants wonder the same. In those cases we tell them it’s whenever our...
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Practically Painfree with Pets and Purina
Having a pet makes us stronger Not gonna lie. I am so OVER discomfort in my own body given my recent total knee replacement. However I am grateful that I have not been in much pain since my surgery...
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Best Exercises for Over 50 Year Olds: Part 5
What are the Best Exercises for Over 50 Year Olds? You can create workout routines that are perfect for your baby boomer body armed with any of 6 exercise design principles. This post is the last in a...
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8 Ways to Sit Less; Move More
How to Sit Less with No Stress Sit less. Easy to say; harder to make happen. No doubt you already know sitting a lot contributes to weight gain. Not just total time spent sitting, but uninterrupted...
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Fall Prevention: Do You Fear Falling as You Age?
Start your Fall Prevention Program While You’re Still (Relatively) Young Turns out that fear of falling starts to haunt us as we hit middle age. Either directly or out of concern for our aging parents,...
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Tangerine Dream: It’s Pixie Month at The Oaks at Ojai Spa
It’s Pixie Tangerine season in Ojai, and we celebrated our love of the seedless fruit, the Oaks at Ojai spa treatments, and romance this past weekend. Just to be clear, in this case, “we” was NOT my...
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6 Overlooked Habits Every Woman Should Develop for Her Health: Guest Post...
Attain Overall Health We all know that to be healthy, we should eat right, exercise, get plenty of rest, and drink lots of water. Total health, though, isn’t only about being physically healthy. When...
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The Most Effective Plank Exercises
Alexandra Williams, MA and Kymberly Williams-Evans, MA Often, people are reluctant to attempt a plank because they’ve heard that you have to hold a long-lever plank for 5 minutes in order to be “cool.”...
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Morro Bay – More, More, More, How Do You Like It
If you’re a Boomer, you’ll probably now and forever more associate Morro Bay with Andrea True Connection’s 1976 “More More More.” As I sit here eating salt water taffy from Crill’s, I know I could have...
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You Don’t Have to be Flying to Visit Hyatt Regency LAX
Last weekend we went on a road trip from Central California to the San Diego area. Rather than suffer through traffic and a long drive, we stayed at the Hyatt Regency LAX, which is… wait for it… across...
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Walk Better: 7 Steps to Great Gait
Go for a walk Going for a walk will almost always benefit you – anytime, anywhere. However, do you walk and stand in ways that age or support you? Find out what’s going on behind your back. And in...
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Sleep Your Way to Better Memory
Way to boost memory! Remember Sleeping Well? Can you really sleep your way to a better memory? Sound too good to be true? Believe, believe! Wait a second though. Isn’t our blog focused on active aging?...
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Get Ready for Redding, Active Vacation Wonderland
Still planking after all these years. Take an Active Vacation Within 30 minutes of arriving at my Redding Marriott hotel, I was already planning my next visit to the area. Maps of biking and hiking...
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Visit Oaks at Ojai for Mother-Daughter Delight
Ojai makes it easy to want to take walks Go Here for Active, Quality Mother-Daughter Time Riding a bike, taking fitness classes, walking in nature, exploring new places — these are a few activities I...
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Going for Zero: No More Strokes or Heart Attacks
Wouldn’t it be great if we could eliminate heart attacks and strokes? As someone whose children’s lives were seriously upended by their father’s strokes, I have partnered with Omron Healthcare in a...
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Your Blood Pressure: Should You Be Worried?
What does this photo have to do with blood pressure? Read to find out… The Lows About High Blood Pressure Do you have high blood pressure and it’s scaring you a bit? I do, and I exercise daily, eat...
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Your Loved Ones Want You to Be Healthy
I want to have a long, healthy life and a short death. Think about it. It’s the best option, wouldn’t you agree? If you ask the people who love you, isn’t this what they would want for you too? I love...
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Can Meditation Lower Blood Pressure?
Meditate to De-escalate, Maybe Lose Weight, but not Elevate: Can we lower blood pressure that’s dangerously high via meditation, not medication? Handy trick: rest your hand on the Omron monitor...
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