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5 Reasons Barbells Aren’t Just for Gym Bros

Naomi Gottlieb-Miller — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:33 +0000

Barbells can seem really intimidating, especially if you’re newer to strength training or if you feel like you have a more casual relationship with lifting weights. Barbells are heavy. Barbells are challenging. Barbells have math involved. Barbells are for gym bros and fitness professionals. They’re not for the average person lifting weights, right? Wrong! Barbells are a great option for pretty much everyone. 5 Benefits of Barbell Training for Beginners and Beyond 1. Versatility: You Can Do a Lot With Barbells! Barbells are best known for making progressive overload easier in compound lifts like deadlifts, squats, chest presses, and overhead…

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How to Let Go of Perfectionism and Learn to Have Fun Again

Alex Kennedy — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:00:56 +0000

If you’re the woman who color-codes her to-do list, hits every deadline, and still feels like it’s not quite enough—I see you. High achievers are wired to get it right, and that drive has probably gotten you far in your career, your relationships, and your fitness goals. But somewhere along the way, “doing well” can quietly morph into “must be perfect,” and that’s exhausting in a body-and-mind kind of way. This is where joyful movement comes in. Unlike performance-driven workouts built around calories, PRs, or aesthetics, joyful movement is exercise for the sheer feeling of it—dancing, hooping, jumping rope, stretching…

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Your Body Is Not a Renovation Project: When Trying to Be Healthy Becomes Too Much

Marlene Andersson — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:41 +0000

I first got into holistic health for a couple of reasons. My guess is that most of us dive into something because we have a passion for it, and I did, but I also had some health issues at the time that I was desperate to solve. I didn’t feel comfortable in my own body, and I was searching for any solution that could work. So I started reading books and taking courses in health, hormones, nutrition…you name it. At first, it felt so exciting because I thought I was finally learning the secrets to how I could make a…

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How I Rebuilt a Healthier Relationship With Running

Naomi Gottlieb-Miller — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:00:11 +0000

I’ve been a runner for a long time, but it’s taken me years to claim that identity. It’s taken me even longer to do it in a healthy way. For one thing, I started running when I was a teenager, but running wasn’t something I did for school. I didn’t run track or do cross country. In fact, I specifically started running because it was something that didn’t require me to be part of a team. Running was something I could do for physical fitness entirely by myself. As a result, I never really saw it as a serious thing.…

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Learning a New Skill as an Adult: Why It’s Never Too Late to Start

Alex Kennedy — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:03:52 +0000

If you’ve ever stood at the edge of a dance floor, a gym class, or a new hobby thinking, “Everyone here started years before me. I’ve already missed my window,” I’m going to say this with my WHOLE chest: You haven’t missed anything, and you are perfectly on time. Learning a new skill as an adult, whether it’s dance, strength training, swimming, or picking up a paddle for the first time, isn’t about catching up to anyone or trying to keep up with those around you. It’s about proving to yourself that growth doesn’t have an age limit or expiration…

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Perfectionism in Motherhood: Learning to Let Good Enough Be Enough

Marlene Andersson — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:00:04 +0000

For a very long time, I believed one of my greatest strengths was my ability to work hard. I was the kind of person who liked making plans and seeing them through to get the best possible result—because that’s what plans are for…right? If there was something I wanted to achieve, I had no problem putting in the effort to earn it. Whether it was studying for an exam, preparing for a competition, or building my career, I trusted that if I showed up consistently and worked hard, things would eventually work out. Looking back, I don’t think there was…

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How to Do Squats: Beginner-Friendly Variations to Build Lower Body Strength

Naomi Gottlieb-Miller — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:00:58 +0000

Let’s talk about squats! Love them or hate them, squats are an essential exercise for building strength in your lower body. Why Squats Are a Powerful Lower Body Strength Exercise Squats are a compound strength exercise. This means that unlike isolation exercises, which target one muscle group, like biceps curls, squats engage multiple muscle groups and two or more joints simultaneously. What makes compound exercises so great is that they are incredibly efficient, both in terms of muscular engagement and use of time. Compound exercises allow for heavier lifting because you’re spreading the work across muscle groups and joints. This…

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How to Make Fitness Fun Again as an Adult

Alex Kennedy — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:53:11 +0000

Remember gym class or playing outside at recess? (No, not the awkward rope-climbing part or when you fell and scraped your knees)… the part where you were just running around, laughing, playing games, and completely forgetting you were even exercising? That feeling didn’t expire when you turned 18. But somewhere along the way, most of us got the message that real fitness had to be serious. Structured. Optimized. And that’s the exact part where a lot of us checked out. If your current relationship with movement feels more like an obligation than something you actually enjoy, this is for you.…

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Same Team, Different Paths: Stay-at-Home Moms and Working Moms

Marlene Andersson — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000

One of the first major decisions we make as moms is the path we will take moving forward. As in, will we continue working or spend more time at home with our child? This decision is made with many different variables in mind — whether we can afford not to go back to work for a while, whether we truly want to stop working, whether we want to dive more into the role of being a homemaker, and so many other reasons. I think one of the most interesting things about this particular choice is that it’s become a bit…

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The Sandwich Generation: My Story of Caring for Aging Parents While Raising Kids

Karin Weinstein — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:15 +0000

It’s 3 a.m. and I’m woken from a sound sleep. Someone is calling for help. In a panic, I rouse my husband and we race downstairs. My father-in-law has fallen. Again. That was our life for the better part of a year. Living Between Two Generations That Need You For that year, my husband and I were the primary caregivers for his ailing father, who was living with us. Our kids needed us. Work needed us. The laundry needed us. The bills needed us. The kitchen needed us. My mother-in-law needed us. My father-in-law needed us. My father-in-law was in…

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