Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: The Perfect Water Bottle Water. It is something our body needs. It keep us hydrated, it helps us think and focus, it helps with weight loss, it helps our bodies rid themselves of toxins, it makes our skin glow and hair shine, keeps our muscles from cramping in our workouts and keeps headaches at By Hayley • Jan 24, 2014 10:11 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Body composition scales My gym has a digital scale which measures, among other things, body fat and muscle percentage. I'm not driven by the scale, but each January I use its recordings as an assessment and benchmark. I had modest expectations for this year's reading: I increased my gym By Hayley • Jan 22, 2014 11:09 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: The next 45 Hayley, In July of last year, after being severely overweight all my life and tipping the scales to the "morbidly obese" side thanks to the BMI calculator (I was 5'1" and 225 pounds, for reference) I decided to finally do something about it and really By Hayley • Jan 17, 2014 09:01 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: The last 10% Hayley, Thank you for all your posts, especially the last two! They both hit home. I have been struggling with setting goals for the next year because I find myself in a plateau stage. At the end of 2012 I was in a major road accident, run over by a By Hayley • Jan 07, 2014 10:26 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Goals for the entire year A new year brings a fresh start and it always seems to pack the gyms with people trying to make this the year that they get themselves into shape. But why is it, year after year, that come the third week into January the treadmills, spin bikes and free weights By Hayley • Jan 06, 2014 09:43 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Christmas is the right time We have all heard the stats in regards to how much weight we gain over the holidays; some say 3 pounds, some say 6 pounds and some say 10 pounds. All of us fitness professionals have given advice on how to limit the caloric intake over the next few days By Hayley • Dec 26, 2013 10:55 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Pregnancy proteins and fitness Hi Hayley, I hope you can help me. I'm expecting at the end of spring, this is my first and I've gone completely off the rails health-wise. Last spring I was going to the gym regularly and eating well. Over the summer I fell off the By Hayley • Dec 18, 2013 09:26 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Fitness Gift Ideas 2013 I made a commitment this year to try and support local businesses while doing my Christmas shopping for many reasons: to avoid the crowds, to benefit from over the top customer service while shopping and to find that unique gift that I think my loved ones will really appreciate. To By Hayley • Dec 11, 2013 09:10 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Post Baby Time Crunch Circuit Hi Hayley, I had a baby almost 6 months ago and I’m finally ready to get back into shape. I ended up gaining quite a bit during pregnancy (my baby was almost 11 pounds at birth), and I have a closet full of clothes that I’m dying to By Hayley • Dec 10, 2013 09:25 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Another t-shirt bra Last year I wrote about this amazing t-shirt bra the changed my life. It was the perfect bra for those of us who are small busted but still very broad and can never find a bra that fits properly. Most bras tend to be too constricting around the rib cage By Hayley • Nov 29, 2013 10:50 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Post Baby Abdominals I have received a lot of email questions lately regarding post baby body problems from toning up the tummy to losing the pregnancy weight. Here is a question that I just received from Australia: Hi Hayley, I'm slowly shedding weight after having my second child through healthy eating By Hayley • Nov 27, 2013 10:15 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Be healthy, not perfect Hi Hayley, Last year I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's hypothyroidism. What followed was a year focused on getting the right medication levels and dealing with the idea that my body is attacking itself. As part of the medication, I've been gaining weight much more easily and By Hayley • Nov 22, 2013 10:14 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Winter Running Hi Hayley I started running this past spring and wouldn’t you know it, it’s much more enjoyable outdoors than being stuck on a treadmill. My question for you is how do I transition from a wonderful outdoor summer running experience to a brutally cold (Edmonton) winter one? As By Hayley • Nov 21, 2013 10:18 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Carrie Underwood’s legs Hi Hayley, What exercises would help get the look of Carrie Underwood's muscular, toned legs? I thought she looked awesome at the CMAs and she's got a great fit look without the thick thighs that you can sometimes see when you build up those muscles. What& By Hayley • Nov 15, 2013 10:47 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Positive Self Talk Something that I say all the time is you have to be comfortable at being uncomfortable so I was not surprised to read an article in The New York Times that reviewed a recent study which provided scientific evidence that positive self talk increases how hard you can actually push By Hayley • Nov 14, 2013 10:54 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Healthy choices on a grad school schedule Hi, Hayley, I'm a graduate student/teacher who used to have healthy habits (mid-range BMI, 3-4 60 min workouts per week, lots of vegetables and home cooked meals) and now I feel so busy/stressed that I'm not making time for myself and for my health. By Hayley • Nov 08, 2013 10:33 am
