Posts in Women's Fitness
Two Key Notes for Success: Set SMART Goals and Bounce Back with Resilience

If you want to fulfill the promises you make to yourself, consider using a tool like SMART goal setting combined with a spirit of resilience. Following an exhilarating week of special events in Cleveland, my mind keeps gravitating to these two themes that emerged, one from the Ideastream public radio pledge drive and the other from the Shaker Heights High School Alumni Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

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Mind-Body Fitness, Women's Fitness, Pressjoanexercise goals, resilience, SMART goals, Weight Loss
Adding Up the Benefits of Exercise for Breast Cancer

Are you aware of how little activity it takes to reduce your risk of breast cancer? More than 30 studies show that as few as three hours a week of moderate to vigorous physical activity can both reduce your risk for developing breast cancer and lower a chance of recurrence by as much as 40%. That's a great return on an investment of about 30 minutes a day.

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Women's Fitnessjoanprevent breast cancer, Health tracking, breast cancer exercise
The Seven Minute Workout: Fitness in a Flash for the Whole Family

It's all the rage: twelve exercises in a seven minute workout using only bodyweight, a chair and a wall. According to the American Collegeof Sports Medicine Human Performance Institute, this total body workout delivers all the benefits of prolonged endurance exercise in an interval training format.

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Women's Fitnessjoanfamily fitness, high intensity interval training, HIIE, HIIT, interval training, total body workout, Short Workouts, body weight exercises