It was Halloween day before I went shopping for trick-or-treat candy. Why? Because I didn’t need a bunch of bags of candy in the house calling my name. If you are anything like me, the timeframe from mid October to mid January is trou ...
Once again we skipped a season. Our weather went from record-setting cold to above-average highs in the span of a week. We actually had a freeze and frost on May 17th, two days after our supposed last freeze date! Luckily the forecast for M ...
In 2011, I shared about the Zero Scale. What I loved about the scale was that it kept track of how much weight I had lost, but didn’t stress me out about how much I actually weighed. Since I was working out and lifting weights at the ...
When I say I love going to the gym each week, I’m not joking. I’m absolutely serious. Since moving back from California and starting our Y membership it has been one of the most important parts of my week. I actually schedule ap ...
When we started our fitness quest a few years ago, we purchased heart rate monitors and over time expanded our wearable technology to include 3 of the newly introduced units. Each offers something different than the other such as a watch, s ...
It is the job of every parent to prepare their child for life. That comes in all shapes and forms for their entire life – teaching them manners when they are young, sharing the importance of healthy eating, helping them with their sch ...
When there’s an opportunity to encourage our kids to eat right and stay active, we embrace it. They realized how much they enjoyed swimming and running so we got them involved in teams or races and purchased the tools and equipment to ...
Each year I try to drop hints to my wife about things that I might link for Christmas. Usually it’s small stuff like new gloves, a gadget to play with or something for the yard. Things I do need, but don’t buy for myself. I f ...
Keeping tabs on my health is a pretty big deal to me. Thanks to website such as DirectLabs, I’m able to place orders for regular bloodwork without waiting for the doctor to authorize it. No, I’m not a hypochondriac, I just like ...
Exercise is something that has become quite a focus in our lives. Even though I’ve been exercising at the gym consistently since we returned to Iowa in 2006, I never felt like I was really getting in shape. (Mostly because I like to s ...
