Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Massage benefits I love your column, and among the many questions I'd like to ask, this one stuck out to me today as I cringed shelling out $$ for yet another lunchtime massage: are there really health benefits to getting regular massages? I practice yoga (vinyasa flow) regularly, and multiple instructors By Hayley • Aug 13, 2013 11:29 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Competitive Couples Hi Hayley, My boyfriend and I have been together for years and we both like staying active. However, he likes (and excels) at team sports such as baseball, volleyball and golf, whereas I prefer running and yoga. Sometimes we sign up for events together, like a baseball tourney or a By Hayley • Aug 07, 2013 10:17 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Instant Gratification Instant gratification – it is what we are used too these days. Technology has changed the way we live, especially social media and because of this we have become accustomed to the satisfaction of instant results. It seems now that whenever we have to work to achieve something we become frustrated By Hayley • Aug 05, 2013 11:13 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: The anti-Vegas girls’ weekend It’s been straight summertime sunshine for weeks here on the West Coast. One thing that I love about summer is the weekend getaway with girlfriends: packing up the car and leaving the husbands, boyfriends and kids behind (all of which I don’t have) and heading out for some By Hayley • Jul 30, 2013 09:50 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Don’t Give Up This past weekend I did my last mountain bike race of the season. I have talked about my races a lot and let me be clear here -- I am not actually racing in hopes of winning anything. My only goal is to go out and stay positive and cross By Hayley • Jul 23, 2013 10:41 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Recovering from bulimia Hi Hayley, I've been struggling with bulimia for over five years, since I was fifteen, and have recently been trying to recover. I was in treatment for about two minutes, but my school schedule conflicted with the sessions, and dropping out isn't really an option for By Hayley • Jul 19, 2013 10:42 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Hayley’s running playlist Hey Hayley! So I'm a new runner - and I read a little while ago the post about Robin Thicke's new song being awesome for running (I agree!) - can you suggest other songs for running? I'm doing 3 races this year - all By Hayley • Jul 16, 2013 03:03 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Five Finger Shoes Hi Hayley! I have been doing a lot more running this summer and while I do yoga and cross fit to strengthen myself, I am still getting "runner's knee" from overuse. My only solution is cutting running for a few days but I hate the prospect By Hayley • Jul 08, 2013 10:17 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Stand Up Paddle-boarding Stand up paddle-boarding (or SUP’ing as the serious paddlers call it) is probably one of my favourite activities to do in the summer and I am not alone. Celebs like Jennifer Garner, Cameron Diaz, Beyonce, Eva Longoria, Matt Damon, Matthew McConaughey, Robert Pattinson, and Olivia Wilde (attached) have all By Hayley • Jul 02, 2013 01:47 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Sponge for sweat acne Hayley, I am super new to working out. I've got a good partner and I'm working out about 5-6 days a week. My skin hates me for it. I sweat A LOT, and now I keep breaking out. I have NEVER had back acne or neck By Hayley • Jun 28, 2013 11:19 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Kundalini Massage I receive a lot of emails asking me about exercise and I am constantly helping people make time in their day to do more, especially to work out. Rarely do I ever talk about the importance of relaxing and making time to shut off once in a while is just By Hayley • Jun 25, 2013 09:43 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: The Test Of Metal Challenges: I crave them, I dream about them, and I go after them. I love attempting things that at one point in my life I did not believe to be possible. When I was 17 I knew one day I wanted to do an Ironman and I knew that I By Hayley • Jun 19, 2013 11:48 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Running & Chafing Hi Hayley, I have a rather awkward question. I've been running for a few months now, and always in three quarter length pants. Now that it's heating up outside, I have switched to shorts - a running pair I bought specifically from a specialised shop - By Hayley • Jun 18, 2013 12:00 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Recovery drinks Hi Hayley, I'm pretty confused about post-workout recovery drinks. I'm working on losing a significant amount of weight, more than 50 lbs, and focusing on 10 lbs at a time. So far I'm down 12 lbs! I am doing a lot of cardio to By Hayley • Jun 12, 2013 09:07 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Intimidated at the gym I'm a young woman who is relatively new to working out in a gym. I worked previously with a personal trainer, but now I'm on my own. I didn't have this problem when I was with my trainer, but I'm feeling intimidated By Hayley • Jun 11, 2013 09:03 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Marathon Recovery Hi Hayley, I just ran my first marathon two weeks ago and although it went well and I feel like I trained appropriately for the challenge I still feel like I'm not back to 100% yet. I have only been able to do short 3-5 mile slow runs By Hayley • Jun 07, 2013 10:51 am
