Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Holiday meals and weight gain I get asked a lot how to stay in shape while traveling and since spring break is here and I am heading off to London and then Ireland to visit and travel with my best friend, I thought it was the perfect time to share how I prevent those pesky By Hayley • Mar 18, 2014 10:43 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Weight fluctuations Hi Hayley, I’m going to give you a little background on my body and lifestyle: I am a 25 year old woman, 5’7” around 125lbs. I work at an office, so I try to stay moving outside of work. I walk to and from work daily, which adds By Hayley • Mar 13, 2014 01:06 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Body Fat Scales Hi Hayley, I am confused regarding body fat percentage and BMI. How much attention should I pay to the numbers and how accurate are they? I had my reading done at the gym on their new machine (the one you stand on, not the calipers), so I assumed the number By Hayley • Mar 04, 2014 11:44 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: A realistic exercise plan for weight loss Hi Hayley, I am an individual who is very overweight (I don't remember a time when I wasn't) and I am trying to become a healthier me (on the outside as well as the inside). I need to lose 100 pounds to be at a healthy By Hayley • Feb 28, 2014 09:49 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Staying focused and motivated I receive a lot of emails from readers expressing their battles with staying motivated in their workouts and asking me how they can spice things up and prevent themselves from becoming bored with their exercise routine. I just went through a period in December where I had lost complete focus, By Hayley • Feb 25, 2014 10:11 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Weight loss for mom Hayley, I'm writing this on behalf of my mom, in the hopes that you can provide some advice that will turn things around for her. All my life (I'm now 34), I've watched my mom struggle with her weight, going through yo-yo after yo-yo By Hayley • Feb 19, 2014 10:12 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Basic requirements for health Hi Hayley! I hope this question doesn't come across as "lazy", because I'm genuinely interested in the answer. What's the basic level of sport/fitness that a person should do on a weekly basis? I'm assuming stuff like HIT, training By Hayley • Feb 12, 2014 10:37 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Muscle weighs more than fat Hi Hayley, I booked a beach vacation that is 9 weeks away. Three weeks ago, I started a major overhaul of my diet and fitness regime to get ready for a week of fun in the sun (in a bikini!). I'm using an app where I track calories By Hayley • Feb 06, 2014 10:36 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Spring Running Shoes Spring is around the corner and what comes with spring is the start of what I like to call the running season. Here in Vancouver we have our annual First Half Marathon in 3 weeks which is followed by countless 5km, 10km (like the Sun Run which brings out nearly By Hayley • Jan 31, 2014 10:52 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Atrophy Hayley With most of us being so sedentary is muscle atrophy on the rise? How is it reversed? How do you rebuild severely wasted muscle through diet and exercise? What about those people who lose a ton of muscle from starving themselves? How do they gain that back? I' By Hayley • Jan 28, 2014 09:49 am
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
