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Healthy Is as Healthy Does
By Pilar GerasimoMy first glimpse into the connection between personal health and planetary health came when I was a little kid, maybe 8 years old.
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Making Changes
By Bahram AkradiOver the past several years I've gradually been making changes in the area of green living.
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Good Work
By Bahram AkradiA few weeks back, we gathered a group of Life Time Fitness leaders for a corporate retreat and brainstorming session.
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Walking My Talk
By Adriane AngaranoIt’s a funny thing. When you work for a “healthy way of life” company, people tend to presume that you do, in fact, have a healthy way of life.
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The Art of the Relapse
By Cat ThompsonInstead of feeling like a failure when you fall back into old, unhealthy behaviors, consider embracing your relapses as mile markers on your route to success.
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Setting a Course
By Bahram AkradiThis time of year, a lot of us start thinking about the big changes we want to make in our lives over the course of the next 12 months.
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Connecting the Dots
By Pilar GerasimoOver the three years that I’ve been editing this magazine, I’ve been developing my own little mental image of how this whole health and fitness thing works.
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Happy Lessons
By Pilar GerasimoDeveloping the themes for this “Rejoice” issue, and perhaps especially this issue’s “Celebrate Your Success” feature reminded me that it’s time for my annual “stuff I learned this year” letter.
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Celebrate Your Success
By the Experience Life TeamBefore you rush into setting health and fitness goals for the year ahead, stop and appreciate what you've already accomplished. A quick look back may be the best tool in evaluating what steps to take next.
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The Art of Joy
By Cat ThompsonIt's not a rat race for money, success and achievement. The quest for true happiness has far more value – for you and everyone around you.
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Analyze This
By Pilar GerasimoNot a month goes by that I don’t hear from at least one friend or relative who says: “I had the weirdest dream last night; listen to this ...” People call me to tell me their dreams because I am, seriously, the queen of amateur dream analysis.
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Fields of Dreams
By Bahram AkradiIf you build it, he will come. That line, made legendary by the 1989 film Field of Dreams, still resonates with a lot of people. I think that's because it says everything about what we instinctively know to be true about pursuing our own dreams.
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Mission Possible
By Pilar GerasimoEver get to the point when you’ve read so much depressing news that your brain and heart reach some kind of maximum density and you just feel defeated by it all? I must admit that despite my usually relentless optimism, I was there last month.
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Championing Ourselves
By Bahram AkradiWhen we think of champions, we think of people who have accomplished things beyond the bounds of accepted belief or expectation. While such feats might require tremendous strength or ingenuity, in many cases there's another underlying requirement: courage.
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Mother Knows Best
By Pilar GerasimoNot long ago, I came across a quote from an unknown source that read: “Sound really does travel slower than light. The advice parents give to their 18-year-olds doesn’t reach them until they’re about 40.”
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Fitness as a Family Value
By Bahram AkradiFor far too long now, the pursuit of fitness has been equated with individual achievement. In the media and general culture, fitness has typically been about performance (who can go farthest, fastest), or it's been about possession – washboard abs and seductive good looks. The body as object.
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Running on Empty
By Cat ThompsonIt's great to be generous, but do you know how share without running empty? Here's how to give freely while safe-guarding the resources you need to thrive, grow and change.
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Workout Wisdom
By Pilar Gerasimo“Get yourself an exercise buddy.” That’s some of the best exercise advice I’ve ever heard. But I swear, no health and fitness idea (except perhaps “eat more vegetables”) has been so completely overexposed, yet so totally underutilized.
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Beginner’s Mind
By Kenneth CohenHow might life be different if we approached it without assumptions and preconceptions, without knowing anything at all.
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Right-Track Retrospective
By Bahram AkradiI just realized that this year marks my 30-year fitness anniversary. I was 13 when I started working out and I've been doing it ever since, studying and experimenting with all sorts of different sports and fitness techniques along the way.
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Power Trip
By Cat ThompsonExplorations on the true nature of personal power: Where it comes from, how it works, and how to wield it well.