Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: My First Half Marathon Hayley, Ok, so I finally did it. After saying I was going to run a half marathon the last (a lot) of years, I finally signed up for one. It's official now. No backing down. I'm in it for the long haul. The marathon I am By Hayley • Oct 26, 2012 09:39 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: A Long Term Relationship With Health I had the privilege of attending TEDxVancouver on Sunday, where Lainey was one of the presenters. While we were waiting for Lainey to speak I was lucky enough to hear many other inspirational talks and the one theme that really stuck with me was the need for our society to By Hayley • Oct 23, 2012 02:36 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Controlling the cravings Hi Hayley, Back in May you wrote a Smutty Fitness article called 10 lbs in 2 Months. There was a line in that article that has stuck with me and has been rattling around in my head ever since, so I'm writing to you to find out more. By Hayley • Oct 18, 2012 09:51 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Do not ignore pain Hayley, 6 months ago I joined a Crossfit box. I was looking for a way to get stronger and faster and I found it. I loved it immediately. I had never done any Olympic lifting so everything was new to me and I was seeing immediate results. I was getting By Hayley • Oct 15, 2012 08:49 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Learning to enjoy exercise I was out shopping on a break yesterday and as I was dressed in my work attire (which most days consists of running pants, a tank top and a running shirt) so it was pretty easy for the girl at the store to recognize me as an athletic trainer. When By Hayley • Oct 12, 2012 09:21 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Group Classes Hi Hayley, I LOVE group classes. I can't afford a personal trainer but I like someone telling me what to do, and the energy of working out with others. My question is, how does one know what the best combination of group classes is for optimum cardio and By Hayley • Oct 10, 2012 09:17 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: I am obese Hi Hayley I am obese. I hate that word, but I can't deny it any longer. I weigh 220lbs and I am 5'5. I’ve been overweight for more than 15 years, I’m 35, and I’m at the highest weight I've ever By Hayley • Oct 05, 2012 09:17 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: The Balance Board I want to introduce you to the balance board, one of my favourite toys to add to my clients’ training sessions. You might have seen this in your gym, probably sitting in a corner somewhere and covered in dust. Here are five exercises (besides just standing on it and trying By Hayley • Oct 03, 2012 08:55 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Fitness from Summer to Fall Fall is here bringing with it shorter days and darker mornings, less daylight to exercise outdoors and cooler temperatures to exercise in. In the summer we have to plan our workouts to make sure that we miss the heat (or at least survive in it) but come fall and winter By Hayley • Sep 28, 2012 09:35 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Male, 23 Hi Haley, I am a 23 year old male who stands 5"11 and weighs 160-165 lbs. I don't know what or if there even is a standard weight for my age/height and what that falls into, I certainly know I'm not large by By Hayley • Sep 25, 2012 01:45 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Minimalist Running Shoes I would love to know Hayley's thoughts on the barefoot/minimalist shoe running trend. I'm currently training for my 4th half marathon, and I feel like everyone I talk to is trying to talk me into buying a pair of minimalist shoes... mind you, most of By Hayley • Sep 20, 2012 09:33 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Don’t want to get too muscular Hello Hayley, I hope you are well. I am 21 years old and I am 5'10 in height and my weight fluctuates between 119 and 126 pounds (I weigh myself maybe twice a month). I don't really do any physical activity at all, which I know By Hayley • Sep 18, 2012 03:01 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Humbled I was humbled this weekend, reminded that no matter how hard I train or how much time I devote to something or how good I think I am there is ALWAYS room for improvement, there is ALWAYS someone better than me and there is ALWAYS something that will challenge me By Hayley • Sep 12, 2012 09:20 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: How much is enough? Hi Hayley, I've always been a “big” girl, which means I'm tall and inherited my family's Ukrainian peasant genes. But after 8 years of unhealthy University student living and the prospect of having to start shopping at plus size stores on the horizon, I By Hayley • Sep 11, 2012 09:54 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: September Goal-setting Ever since I was a child in school September has always felt like a new start, another chance to do my best. September has always symbolized back to routine and with summer coming to an end so does life at the cottage, family camping trips and barbeques and patios with By Hayley • Sep 05, 2012 09:21 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: My Mother-in-law and her fitness Hi Hayley, I'm very concerned about my mother-in-law's fitness level. She has always been a larger woman, but over the last few months she has gotten incredibly lethargic and is quite obese (probably in the 250lb range). She spends her days sleeping and watching television. There By Hayley • Aug 30, 2012 09:54 am
