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Fitness: The Holiday Perspective

The holidays are a joyful time and a time when we think of family and friends and we gather together and we celebrate. But the holidays are also a time when we remember those who are not with us and those who have left us before. It doesn’t matter if the people we mourn past from us a decade ago or a week ago, that grief is revisited as we bring our families together. Just a few days ago would have marked my grandmother’s 86th birthday, but she left us 8 years ago and that grief, though tempered by time … Continue reading →

Mental and Emotional Fitness Workout

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I have always believed in combining a healthy mental workout whenever I am starting a new fitness regimen. Since I started working on the workout portion of the Abs Diet, it’s time to take a mental inventory in order to promote a better state of mind in order to target personal change and improvement. The following exercise can be done through fitness journal or just as an independent exercise that you can type up on the computer or write out by hand. More often as not, this type of exercise is best performed by writing it out longhand. In my … Continue reading →

Sunday Family Picnic – Mental & Emotional Fitness Boosters

As discussed in many other areas here at Families.com, the family is very vital to your personal fitness and health. The idea of a Sunday family picnic is to take time out of the day that’s dedicated to the family. At a family picnic, there is no television to watch, no video games to play and no distractions that put your attention away from the family. Conversation, personal enjoyment, food and time together is the emphasis of the family picnic. For some families, this may involve playing Frisbee, playing ball, playing on swings or equipment or even a game of … Continue reading →