Your Monday #31: Happy Hamstrings
Let's start the week loose. Comfortable. Flexible. Because flexible muscles make everything easier and less tiring. Today's Way'll relax and stretch your hamstrings. Make them feel and function better.
Monument Mountain. Above Devil’s Pulpit.
All around the Northern Hemisphere, this is a wonderful, colorful time for hiking and walking. You should do some. Like Monument Mountain. A moderate 3-mile walk in the woods to views across tens of miles of western Massachusetts hills and valleys getting ready to turn more than fifty shades of red, orange and yellow.
Your Monday #30: Knees up. Both. At once.
Today's Way is a simple, gentle one-minute Way to improve your health. C'mon, by the time you finish reading this Way, you'll probably finish today's healthy exercise.
Sonoma Mountain: Cost-Benefit Analysis
Through dense forests of redwoods, live oaks, big-leaf maples, Douglas firs and madrones. You're in cool, green shade all the Way to the top. Then you're in golden grasses and California sun with magnificent views up and down the Valley.
Your Monday #29: A Strong Upper Back
Good news: all you need is frequent exercise to maintain muscle strength and mass. At any age. Today's Wa is a simple, one-minute Way to increase your upper back strength.
Living Room Olympics: Running. In place.
Your place. In front of the TV. While you have a nice 30-minute jog in 3 square feet. Actual aerobic exercise. No track, no field, no treadmill. Real sweat. Real calorie burn. Step on it.
Living Room Olympics: Walking. In place.
Your place. In front of the TV. While you have a nice 30-minute walk in 3 square feet. Actual aerobic exercise. No track, no field, no treadmill. Real sweat. Real calorie burn. Step on it.
Your Monday #28: Better Thighs
A 2-minute exercise to strengthen the muscles you use to stay on your feet. This one'll strengthen and tone your outer thighs, too. Your abductor muscles. Mission-critical muscles for slippery winter weather and this summer's beach look.
The Walk That Ate Omaha
When you're there, try some or all of this 16-mile trail. Burn 2,000 calories in 8 hours. A great Way to get to know a place and to eat well - the two things I want to do whenever I travel anywhere.
Living Room Olympics: Gymnastic Balance
You could slip, trip or otherwise sprain an ankle or end up on your butt later today. So take a minute to consider three minutes a day of Balance Training. One leg at a time.