Listen to your Body
Sometimes we let our goals and our bull-headedness keep us from using good judgement when it comes to training and exercise. A knee is swollen and hurting but we still go out for a morning run. Our rotator cuff muscles...
Author: Susan Dawson-Cook
Running for Beginners, by Amie Adcock
Maybe you’ve never run before or maybe it’s just been so long that you feel like you are a beginner all over again. Don’t fear the road; conquer it! First remember not only the tangible matters when it comes to...
Reasons for Poor Athletic Performance (Part 2) – Injury
Performing poorly when injured is something very easy for me to write about today since I’m in the midst of it. In November, I swam four butterfly events at a swim meet in Phoenix and at times, it was so...
Reasons for Poor Athletic Performance (Part I) – Inadequate Warm-Up
This series of articles will discuss factors (such as warm-up, injuries, depression, boredom, training plateau, diet, and sleep), which may be a detriment to your athletic performance. In most articles, I will speak from a personal experience platform. Your job...
Pre-Competition Diet
Deciding what to eat pre-race can be a challenge at best, a performance buster at worst. Hundreds of articles tell us what’s best to eat and drink before a race, but we all digest food a bit differently, to me, it makes sense...
Mimi Ford
My name is Mimi Ford. I live in Tucson, Arizona, and have been a health advocate since my first child was born 26 years ago. I gained 50 pounds with my pregnancy so after Matt was born I immediately started...
Forever Young
Did you know you can turn back the biological clock by 10 years or more doing interval training? It’s true. Recent research says so. I know you want to try it right away, but hold on for a moment! First,...
2010 Group Exercise Class Schedule
I am currently teaching the following group exercise classes in SaddleBrooke (at the SaddleBrooke Fitness Center and cost is $7 per class): Monday 11:30 Conditioning (30 minutes low-impact aerobics/30 minutes strength training and stretch) Wednesday 11:30 Circuit (class alternates between...
Creating a New Image
“My middle sister was the athlete, and my baby sister was little and cute,” says Nancy Patchell, who grew up in the 1950s. Nancy was considered ‘the smart one.’ “As a child, I sat inside reading—I never played sports. We...
Set a Goal
Every January 1, most of us write up a list of resolutions, follow them for awhile and then return to our familiar and often not-so-healthy living patterns. But a dead end doesn’t have to be a forgone conclusion for your 2010...