Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Bloated stomach Hi Hayley, I am very active, and I do cardio 6 times a week, changing it up between treadmill running, HIIT on the treadmill, and the Elliptical. I am doing the P90X Ab Ripper twice a week, and after my long runs I do few minutes of rowing, biceps, triceps By Hayley • Apr 09, 2015 11:50 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Heavy babies Hi Hayley! Can you suggest any exercises to help alleviate back pain caused by carrying my toddler around? My sweet boy wants me to hold him all the time, and he's now over twenty pounds. My back aches all the time now. I actually went to my doctor By Hayley • Apr 02, 2015 11:30 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Road Trip Health Hi Hayley, In May I will begin something that I have dreamed of for a long time– a road trip across the States and then up to Canada. Having lost my mother this past year due to a horribly long bout of mouth cancer, I’ve decided enough is enough, By Hayley • Mar 26, 2015 10:26 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: At-home workouts Hey Hayley, Can you give me a basic workout I can do at home? I walk or run outside regularly but a gym membership isn't really in my budget at the moment, and my free time is fairly limited, so I'd love a simple routine I By Hayley • Mar 25, 2015 11:10 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Continued muscle soreness Hi Hayley, I workout regularly 3 to 4 times per week. The problem is I am always sore. Muscle soreness. If it's not my triceps, it's my quads, if not my quads, it is my back, if not my back, then it is my shoulder muscles. By Hayley • Mar 12, 2015 10:52 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Belly blasters Last week I posted about lifestyle changes in an attempt to reduce belly fat (click here for a refresher) and I promised this week to show you a few of my favourite exercises for strengthening and toning your abs. These exercises can be done anywhere and all you will need By Hayley • Mar 05, 2015 11:39 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Stress and Belly Hi Hayley! I was just wondering if you could recommend any exercises that slim down the waist specifically (i.e. without also slimming the hips/chest)? Basically my dream body is the hourglass figure. I'm in my early 20s and my stomach is (already) very much my problem By Hayley • Feb 27, 2015 11:43 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Weight loss but no poo Help! I don't know who to ask and am too embarrassed to Google this! I recently started exercising daily (elliptical, strength, and cycling) and I have overhauled my diet. I eat lots of veggies and get my protein from white fish or sometimes white meat chicken. No more By Hayley • Feb 26, 2015 12:10 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Thoughts on the HCG Diet This morning two of my clients brought up the HCG diet in their workout, which is something that I had never heard of before. They were expressing concern to each other as they had noticed lately that they’d read on a few mom blogs that some women were promoting By Hayley • Feb 24, 2015 10:39 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Biking is a pain in the ass Hi Hayley, After not having been on a bicycle in two decades, I bought myself cheap mountain bike last fall. I only rode it a few times as I was in so…much...pain. I can handle my legs feeling like jello but my ass hurt so bad, it felt By Hayley • Feb 20, 2015 11:09 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Treadmill or elliptical? Hi Hayley, Which do you recommend - treadmills or elliptical machines? And if I'm considering buying one for home, can you recommend a brand that is actually worth the investment? S ___ When it comes to exercise, unless you are training for something specific, it does not matter what By Hayley • Feb 19, 2015 09:48 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Your first triathlon Hi Hayley! I just (literally just now) signed up for my first ever sprint triathlon in May and I already have jitters. I have always wanted to do one, and thanks to joining a swim team I am in better shape than I have been in years. I am not By Hayley • Feb 12, 2015 10:25 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Fitness Favourites 2015 February, it has to be one of my favourite months. The dark days of January are finally behind us, our resolutions are long forgotten and we are living life again, inspired and excited for spring. This is usually when I update my running and exercise wardrobe, adding a few key By Hayley • Feb 05, 2015 12:11 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Cheat Meals Hi Hayley! I'm wondering what your stance is on cheat meals. I found an eating plan that I like and it advises eating healthy, non-processed food Monday through Friday, then having two cheat meals on the weekends. I find it easier to cut out processed food when I By Hayley • Feb 03, 2015 10:19 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Shedding body fat Hi Hayley, Recently I had the opportunity to use a "bod pod," which assessed my body fat %/age. A quick summary: I'm 30, 5'10" and weigh 156 (that goes as high as 160 on any given day depending on what I've By Hayley • Jan 29, 2015 03:55 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Running after back injury Dear Hayley Last September I ran my second race ever and first half marathon (a huge deal for me because I began running last February and I never thought I´d be able to do the 21 km distance). Unfortunately, four weeks after the race I had a serious bike By Hayley • Jan 22, 2015 10:26 am
