Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Falling Off The Workout Wagon For the past couple of weeks I have been challenging all of you LaineyGossip readers to make change, find a challenge that is outside of your comfort zone and work towards accomplishing a new goal. However, if you have not made it past at least three weeks you are likely By Hayley • May 01, 2012 09:48 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Post Walk/Run Stretching Wednesday I posted a series of stretching exercises to do before each of your walks/runs (if you are starting out following this program but it also important to strengthen your body (especially your running muscles) so here is a set of exercises that you should do when you are By Hayley • Apr 27, 2012 09:24 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Warm Up To A Half Marathon On April 13th I posted this article for anyone looking to challenge themselves with a half marathon and will be starting from scratch. Follow this program and add to it these warm up exercises. Start each training session with a 5 min power walk and complete each of the following By Hayley • Apr 25, 2012 09:30 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Weekend Weight Gain Hi Hayley, I'm 28 years old, 5'3" and my weight without consciously eating healthy and exercising is 144 over the last 2 - 3 years. However, I have been eating healthy and exercising 3 - 5 times per week off and on this year and By Hayley • Apr 24, 2012 10:04 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Boston Marathon Race Report Three letters are all I need to use to describe my Boston Marathon: H-O-T. The race directors were warning those who were not prepared, had not acclimatized to the heat or those who had medical conditions not to run and for the first time in history they offered all runners By Hayley • Apr 20, 2012 10:10 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: A Half Marathon In 6 Months Hi Hayley, I’m 27, in pretty good shape and a chronic asthmatic. I have just signed up to do my first half marathon with my girls in October and am really excited. However, I am finding it so tough to run any more than a mile before I feel By Hayley • Apr 13, 2012 09:30 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: The Boston Taper The taper – that is where I am now. I am just sitting here and waiting; there is nothing more that I can do except let my body rest. It drives me crazy having no control, not being able to exercise, not being able to do anything more to get faster By Hayley • Apr 10, 2012 09:33 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Bikini lines for active women Hayley, I don't know what to do with my bikini line. I am very, very active. I bike to work five days a week (30 min each way), ride my horse 3-4 times a week, and do water aerobics 1-2 times. My skin is really sensitive and when By Hayley • Apr 05, 2012 09:50 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Two Weeks To Boston Hell week, that is what I called my training last week. I set a goal of running 100km last week as I wanted to lose a little bit of weight (so I’m carrying less over the 42km) and I wanted to absolutely kill my legs in my last week By Hayley • Apr 03, 2012 09:25 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Hemp Hearts I start every single morning with one serving of hemp hearts in or on whatever I am eating for breakfast. These tiny little seeds are the easiest way to increase your daily intake of Omega-6 and Omega-3. You can only get these Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) through food such as By Hayley • Mar 30, 2012 10:05 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Butt Blast Here is a quick workout I like to do on the treadmill when I don’t have time for a long workout but I want to burn maximal calories in a very short amount of time, plus work on the shape of my butt. This is a great set to By Hayley • Mar 29, 2012 09:24 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: 3 weeks to Boston (Lainey: we’ve heard from many of you who are also training for the Boston Marathon or your own races this spring. Keep sending your messages about your training and stay strong through the final push!) I get asked a lot where my motivation comes from when I train and By Hayley • Mar 27, 2012 09:44 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Injury Before Wedding Hi Hayley, A few days ago, I was cycling to work in the rain and my bike skidded on a wet surface and pitched me off. I broke the scaphoid in my left wrist and took chunks of skin out of my right forearm and knee. I've always By Hayley • Mar 23, 2012 09:33 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: One Month To Boston Excuses….we all have them, every single one of us can come up with a million and one reasons why we “cannot” do something and there are always reasons to give up. But here’s one of my favourite quotes: “Are your excuses more important than your dreams?” And what By Hayley • Mar 20, 2012 09:29 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Plus Size Workout Clothes Hey Hayley, Ok, so I am a plus size girl. My goal is not to be skinny but healthy. I am also a fashion junky and believe it or not, I'm having problems finding cute work out gear for women my size. No need to say it' By Hayley • Mar 16, 2012 09:27 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Hayley’s Road To Boston Yesterday marked exactly five weeks until April 16th, a day that might just be a regular Monday for most North Americans but for 20,000 people it is the date of the 116th Boston Marathon; it not only represents the beginning of a 26.2 mile journey to the finish By Hayley • Mar 13, 2012 09:48 am