Posts by Sandi Feaster
Kindness can lead to decrease mortality and a marble worthy day
Optimism and kindness are key factors that can help you live to 100. In the book Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism, and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100, Marta Zaraska reported that social connections are key contributors in lowering mortality risk by 45 to 65 percent. This past year has not been good for our…
Read MoreSlow recovery from an illness or surgery? You can speed up the process!
Are you recovering from surgery or COVID-19 and don’t quite have the stamina to return to your normal activities? Did you know that a normal muscle in a non-ill middle-age adult will lose up to 15% of its strength each week? The leg and trunk muscles are the first areas weakened during bed rest, and…
Read MoreWhy I love adding exercise hacks everyday, you can love them too
What is an exercise hack and can it really make a difference A hack can be described as any trick or shortcut that increases the efficiency or effectiveness of something in your life. I like to think of exercise hacks in terms of food. It can be thought of as a snack versus a regular…
Read MoreIs an online fitness class as good as going to the gym?
I am often asked, how good can an online fitness class using barely no gym equipment help me build strength, endurance, stability and flexibility? Don’t you really need to go to a gym to get a real workout with real equipment? The answer is, Yes and No. Question What motivates you to go the gym?…
Read MoreAn easy and affordable way to set up your home gym
Many of us after almost a year of lock down are still not ready to go back to a gym and may never go back. Do you remember getting lots of colds or those guys grunting and spewing on you as they worked out next to you? Well, those germs are not going away when…
Read MoreCould your balance problems be not eating enough protein
Was your mother wrong? Did you know that loss of coordination could be a protein problem? And to think Mother use to say eat your vegetables, could she have been wrong? QUESTION: Is your first meal of the day dominated by carbohydrates and low on protein, if so you are like many older adults? DID…
Read MoreIs your body agile? Is the way you think agile?
During the pandemic, we have had to be agile and adaptable both with the way we live and our fitness. Nothing was the way it use to be and we were making things up, or as I like to say redesigning what and how we do things.It felt like being in the design course that…
Read MoreDo you want to live a healthier life? It can be simple.
“You have survived 100% of your difficulties, that’s a fact!” I loved this quote from Dan Harris (Ten Percent Happier) because it’s true. If we are still alive, we HAVE survived 100% of our difficulties. Sometimes the difficulties are small and sometimes they are the size of Mount Everest, but if you are reading this,…
Read MoreGet The Results You Really Want
Is this how you go through your life? As Alice in Alice in Wonderland stated Alice: “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” The Cheshire Cat: “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” Alice: “I don’t much care where.” The Cheshire Cat: “Then it…
Read More1/2 Full or 1/2 Empty?
How do you look at life? How do you perceive what is going on in your life, the world, etc? Positively or negatively? Read this from beginning to end and then from the end to the beginning. Let me know your thoughts going into 2021. Please read beginning to end Today was the absolute worst…
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