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Close BLOG 6 Important Tips to Help You Get Started With Hiking (and Enjoy It!) 5 Tools to Help You Ditch Diet Culture for Good 6 Restorative Exercises to Relieve Stress and Help You Slow Down Help clients set realistic expectations for themselves — and love their results. If you’re a health, fitness, or nutrition professional, I bet at least one of these scenarios will sound familiar to you

What I wanted to start was a group for folks like me and my friends: people with little to no exercise experience, who need some support to get started and build confidence being outside. In my experience leading group hikes over the past four years, I’ve heard numerous stories of folks express their trepidation hiking with others because of a fear of being left behind or feeling intimidated by expertise or fitness level. Another way I’m learning it’s important to respect the land is by bringing consciousness to the indigenous peoples who live and have lived here since time immemorial. The following smartphone apps can enhance your hiking experience: FREE course – 5 SECRETS TO GET MORE RESULTS IN LESS TIME

You Haven’t Tried Before 5 Tools to Help You Ditch Diet Culture for Good Diet culture is all around us. Diet Culture Is Harming Us in More Ways Than One Diet culture’s harms are widespread. This isn’t an exhaustive list of the harm that diet culture causes or the types of oppression that it supports, but it does provide a foundation for helping you to understand that when diet culture is the norm, we all lose. It will take time and practice to unlearn years of diet culture behaviors and it won’t be easy (swimming upstream never is), but there are some steps you can take to get started: Get rid of things that keep you stuck in the diet mentality like low-calorie cookbooks and your scale.

These restorative exercises can help release tension in your body, regulate your central nervous system, improve sleep quality and movement quality, increase blood flow, reduce back pain, and calm the mind. Place a big, firm yoga bolster or blankets and pillows on the floor and lie down, lining up the end of the bolster with your mid-back (right where your bra strap or heart rate monitor strap would rest). Place a big, firm yoga bolster or blankets and pillows on the floor and lie down, lining up the end of the bolster with your mid-back (right where your bra strap or heart rate monitor strap would rest). Use the upper body to pull the leg up and go as far as you can while keeping the pubic bone on the floor and your hips square to the floor.