Simply Real by Lisa Landman
Lisa Landman is an avid health guru and aims to betters the lifestyles of others. Through the Simply Real series, Lisa has a desire to teach others how to better their overall health. Simply Real is a fitness concept that creates a personalized environment for individuals to pursue their fitness goals. Utilizing progressive strength training, Lisa Landman is focused is on teaching the individual to balance fitness with lifestyle. Simply Real combines the use of practical exercises with a wide variety of equipment to help build strength, endurance and improve overall lifestyle. Lisa Landman also offers recipes that are both delicious and healthy!
Monthly Health Tips: May
Stretch of the Month Jackknife! How to - Sit on floor with legs extended in front of you. With back flat, hinge forward at hips and extend arms toward your toes to the point of tension. Hold for 15-30 seconds. Straighten back up and extend arms toward toes again...
Healthy Recipe: Chicken with Sugar Snap Peas & Spring Herbs
Quick-cooking chicken cutlets are paired with an easy light sauce of sugar snap peas and artichoke hearts. This dish can be made without the sprouted beans, but is especially delicious with them. Chicken with Sugar Snap Peas & Spring Herbs 1 cup...
Punishment vs. Praise
Developing a passion for physical activity is critical for a long healthy life. People who get up early to run for miles, adjust their schedules to go to the gym, push themselves in exercise classes or during personal training sessions, or cycle to work every day all...
Healthy Recipe: Cobb Salad
If you have leftover hard boiled eggs after your Easter egg hunt, turn them into this delicious, healthy salad. Serves 4. Cobb Salad 3 tablespoons white-wine vinegar 2 tablespoons finely minced shallot 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 1 teaspoon freshly ground...
Monthly Health Tips: April
Stretch of the Month Prone on Elbows! How to - Lie on your stomach with your feet together. Lift your head and shoulders while resting on your forearms with your elbows directly under your shoulders. Relax lower back and abdomen into floor. Hold for 30-60 seconds....
Hydrofracking
Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” is a means of extracting natural gas by pressure-drilling a mix of water, sand and chemicals more than a mile vertically and horizontally into the earth. The sand and chemicals break up the dense rock to release methane, the...
The Adonis Complex
The term "Adonis Complex" is not a medical term. It is being used to describe a variety of body image concerns which have been plaguing boys and men, especially throughout the last two decades. It does not describe any one body image problem of males, rather all the...
Healthy Recipe: Irish Lamb Stew
Lamb stew has long been known as Irish penicillin. It consists of a rich stew full of potatoes, leeks and carrots. In traditional fashion, nothing here is browned first, just all stewed together. To keep it healthy make sure to trim the lamb of any visible fat...
Monthly Health Tips: March
Stretch of the Month Piriformis Stretch! How to - Lie on your back. Bend your left knee and lift it halfway to your chest. Grasp your knee with your right hand and pull it toward your right shoulder, keeping both buttocks against the floor. Hold for 20 seconds; repeat...
Lent – What are You Giving Up?
Today is the start of the Lent season and many people will be giving up something for the next 40 days. We have heard some interesting ones but some of the most common ones include not eating chocolate, no dessert, no alcohol, no fast food and/or no red meat. ...