Simple Health + Fitness Minute

Even if you’re doing it for physical health reasons, obsessing over the number on the scale isn’t always good for your mental health.

Even if you think you are a naturally loose and flexible person, proper stretching can do wonders for your workouts and recovery.

Monotony may seem dull, but it may save you in your journey to better health and fitness.

Pushing for ultra-positive, over-intense exercises and diet plans is never a great way to set a person up for sustained wellness.

Six-pack abs and a bikini body are not the missing keys for the magical door to happiness or fulfillment. But many amazing physical and psychological benefits can make you feel better about whom you already are and what you are capable of.

While getting and keeping fit is a lifestyle with no time constraints, transformation challenges can provide the right platform to propel you towards your goals.

The true test of your commitment to health and fitness is not keeping up with the program when life is running smoothly and it is easy to stay engaged. The true test comes from keeping at it when life throws you curve balls and you do not feel motivated to change it.

Be aware of your posture and how you carry yourself in seated, standing, walking, running or training. Awareness is very important to the battle for good posture.

Cold showers can be invigorating and help give your entire body a boost, waking up your organs, muscles, and limbs. Hot showers soothe your aching limbs, relax your body and your mind. Take more of both, if you can handle them.

Having trouble maintaining a sustained balanced diet? Try adding more variety, as in more things, into you meal routines.

The best time to plant a tree has come and gone. The same is true about taking steps towards better health and fitness. But just like you can still plant trees to that eventual shade and beauty, you can always get started on the journey to better health and fitness.

Finding more ways to move your body is a simple act that can pay great dividends in your push towards better fitness. And it gets easier to maintain if you are finding joy in both the movement and the process.

A healthy body weight is about your lifestyle and your body image. Assuming your body weight offers little physical limitations, if it works for you, it works for you.

And it’s not necessarily 8 glasses of water daily.

Using lyrics from Digital Underground’s ‘Doowutchyalike’ to relay a simple message you may be too stubborn to hear.

Not only was Rome not built in a day, but that perfect body and lifestyle you desire will not be so easy to piece together either.

A high salt and sugar intake can result in serious ‘bad things’ happening to your insides that will affect your health and fitness. Be aware of how much of each is going into your body.

Should try to eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. You will come up with plenty of excuses for not doing this. None of those excuses are valid.

Fats are essential for good health and proper functioning of the body, but too much of it can negatively affect our weight and cardiovascular health. This is another reminder to replace saturated with unsaturated fats in your diet.

Half the calories in our diet should come from foods rich in carbohydrates. Carbs are not things to fear.