Helping Women Over 40 Look & Feel
Vital, Sexy & Fit!

No matter how much we may know that we lose strength when we age, it is quite a reality check when simple tasks are no longer easy. Resistance training is not something to put off. 

Here are the suggested minimum requirements:

Train 2x/week

Perform 8-12 repetitions of each...

Are you feeling bored, frustrated, or maybe that you have more to give to the world?  Is more than half of your life over and you haven't fulfilled your dreams? This feeling can create chaos inside of you that will make healthy living impossible.

I took years off of a traditional job...

I keep old reference papers from when I would attend fitness conventions every year.  Back in the '90s. the research was booming in the area of wellness.   People had ideas about all the benefits of strength training but studies were just being documented.  It is fun to...

This is my hallway this morning after I have carried down the large Calico Critter Playhouse and bookshelf my daughter no longer wants in her "grown-up" room. She manages to get her discarded items into the hallway, and it stops there.

Sometimes I feel like I have spent years of my life cleaning...

I love chocolate, but I also love to be healthy and fit.  What to do?  Bake a better brownie!  

This is from a recipe I saw in Oprah magazine back in July 2012.  It takes a pandemic for me to finally get a chance to try them.  They are raw, so something quite new to me....

I wrote this when I was studying affirmation and how our mindset can help us create our best self.  Honestly, with the school rush for the kids, getting my am workout in, and working, it is not easy to do.  However, I spent so many years in this arena, I feel it is engrained in me....

Here I am, finally getting this site up and published.  Isn’t it interesting that I have been in the wellness industry almost my entire life and I am still dealing with procrastination?  I’m confessing this to demonstrate just how difficult procrastination is to...

I was reading Medium today, a great newsletter, and found this to be very interesting.  

The article, by Charles Chu, was discussing how our society loves story and quoted literary scholar, Jonathan Gottschall, from his book The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human:

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Here is a sampling of classes you may find at your local large fitness facility or at boutique studios in your area.  There are new ones popping up all the time and fusion classes are everywhere.   

For those interested, I've offered my 2 cents on what I like and dislike and my...

Did you know that a good bout of exercise releases serotonin, dopamine, noradrenaline, and endorphins?  These chemicals make you feel calmer and happier.   It's also the reason I started to exercise seriously at 15.  Those teen hormones can do a number on your psyche.  

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Do you ever wonder what goes on in a barre class?  Though classes will vary, the concept of "barre" was founded by Lotte Berk, a Russian dancer. She used precise, small movements with specific alignment to create slim, fit, physiques  on the Upper East side of Manhattan. Many of her...

The brain is a wonderful and awe inspiring organ!

How do we maintain it throughout life and what are its parts?

Critical thinking: 

The Frontal cortex is responsible for critical thinking and decision making. It is the center of judgment, impulse control and social behavior. Many...