LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: training for endurance sports Happy New Year Hayley! I am going into my 39th year, and starting to see the light with my youngest of 3 entering kindergarten in September, so seeing this as a year of new challenges for me fitness-wise. In the last couple years I have found a new love in By Hayley • Jan 16, 2018 03:35 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: 4 fitness forward questions & answers By way of background, my husband and I kind of ‘let ourselves go’ a little bit, with three kids in six years and the general chaos that ensues. Both our diet and fitness levels suffered as a result, and the weight slowly but surely crept on. In August we decided By Hayley • Jan 11, 2018 02:10 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Mental and physical health in 2018 For this first post of 2018 I’m sharing my fitness journey, because I think it is important to understand that life is a journey and it is forever changing. What works for us at one point in our lives may not work for us at another. Fitness for me By Hayley • Jan 04, 2018 03:10 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Happy Holidays from Hayley I wanted to finish this year off with a letter to you and a recap of what I feel is the most important lesson we learned in 2017. With the ongoing LaineyGossip theme of Show Your Work and the ever strong #metoo movement that took the end of the year By Hayley • Dec 21, 2017 11:45 am
LifestyleArticle 30 minute holiday fix So it is one of the busiest times of the year right now and your schedules are jammed packed with parties, family gatherings and hectic weekends, trying to finish up your last minute Christmas shopping. As I wrote about last week consistently sweating is key, especially during times like this. By Hayley • Dec 12, 2017 03:29 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Just get sweaty consistently Unless you are a pro athlete, or on your way to South Korea for the Olympics, it’s just sweat. Really. Whether you are doing cross fit, water aerobics, yoga, boot camps or Zumba, it is just exercise. It is getting your heart rate up, it is filling your body By Hayley • Dec 06, 2017 03:07 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Lower Belly Strength One of my favourite abdominal exercise, which can be done in so many different ways and works the entire body, is the prone straight arm plank. Exercises that use this posture are found in so many different ways of moving, such as in a downward dog in yoga, a push-up, By Hayley • Dec 01, 2017 02:51 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Holiday creep Ok. Here we go again. It seems that every year the holiday creep happens a little sooner so I thought I would get my holiday creep on now, tell you all how to survive the holidays, and then we can all move on and enjoy ourselves. I don’t know By Hayley • Nov 24, 2017 11:59 am
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Respect your ankle injury Hi Hayley, A few months ago I suffered a major ankle injury (torn tendons and a fracture). I am just now starting to walk on it again (with a boot) after using a scooter. I want to get back into a semi-normal workout routine (I usually practice Ashtanga or strong By Hayley • Nov 17, 2017 01:16 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Fuelling after a late workout Hi Hayley, Can you recommend some foods I should be eating after I work out in the evenings? The only time I can work out is around 8pm after my daughter is in bed, but I've found some great online programs and do a variety of cardio, weights, By Hayley • Nov 08, 2017 05:51 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: The Red Zone Hi Hayley, I have a heart rate monitor (chest strap) that I enjoy using; however, I really struggle to get into the more intense levels. I have a low resting heart rate and seem to be burning a lot of calories but my green zone is others’ red zones. We By Hayley • Oct 31, 2017 03:57 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Injuries and obstacles Hi Hayley, I am writing to you out of desperation. I am a mom of a 2 year old, and a lawyer with a busy, time consuming job. I never feel like I get enough exercise but I was keeping it together through running, a couple of boot camp type By Hayley • Oct 25, 2017 10:56 am
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Rebuilding after baby I am 39 weeks pregnant with my first child, and I'm in that planning-for-after-delivery stage of the pregnancy--particularly around meals, sleep, and exercise. I'm a pretty fit person. Up until 34 weeks, I walked at least 5 miles per day. I had to stop because there By Hayley • Oct 24, 2017 12:29 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Fasting Hi Hayley, I am a mother of a young child, early 40’s, career woman. I sit most days and struggle with losing 10 pounds – I lose 5, gain 7, or lose 3, gain 2. My workout schedule is pretty good. I try and do cardio 4 days a week By Hayley • Oct 20, 2017 11:39 am
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Getting through the day I went out the other night. Late. And I may have had one, or two, too many glasses of wine which I was reminded of by my headache the next morning as the alarm rang before 5am. I can (sometimes) function with little sleep, and sometimes function with a slight By Hayley • Oct 16, 2017 12:42 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Try it again Hi Hayley, I know that you have probably discussed food tracking before. I’m very much the type-A, all or nothing, personality. I’m working on what impact that has on my diet. When I’m eating well, I’m 100% eating well and committed. When I’m eating poorly, By Hayley • Oct 12, 2017 03:33 pm
