Your Monday #39: Shoulder Stretch. Yes!
Today we have a simple, gentle one-minute Way to improve your health. C'mon, by the time you finish reading this Way, you'll probably finish today's healthy exercise.
Hiking Into the Heart of Fall
on the Tohickon Gorge Trail
The hills of eastern Pennsylvania are all dressed up in their finest Fall colors. Across the Gorge, it's a full spectrum party for your eyes. Here on the trail side, a couple hundred feet higher, the trees are already undressing. So many leaves already on the ground.
Your Monday #38: Crunch Time
Good news: all you need is frequent exercise to maintain muscle strength and mass. At any age. Today comes with a simple, one-minute Way to increase the strength of your core muscles, especially your abs.
Your Monday #37: Lift Off. 2 minutes.
A 2-minute exercise to strengthen the muscles you use to balance yourself and stay on your feet - while you stretch and strengthen your calf muscles. Pretty great for just two minutes.
Your Monday Without a #
The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Mondays of each month bring you new Ways to shake your thang, increase your flexibility, balance and strength, respectively. So what happens when the month has a 5th Monday? We invent a sport.
Stairway to Rainbows
Quite a stairway. 328 stairs. Quite a rainbow. If the sun's shining, it'll be there for you. Right at the base of the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River. Amazing you can get to a place like this on your own two feet. The only way you can get there.
Your Monday #35: Knees-to-Chest
Let's start the week loose. Comfortable. Flexible. Because flexible muscles make everything easier and less tiring. Today's Way'll relax and stretch your lower back muscles. Make them feel and function better.
The Walk That Ate Madrid
A half-day Walk in one of the great walking cities of Europe. A few more hours to Eat great stuff in one of the world's great food capitals. Eleven miles. Eighteen kilometers. More than 1,000 calories burned. What a Way to sightsee.
Your Monday #34: Push! Up!
Good news: all you need is frequent exercise to maintain muscle strength and mass. At any age. Today comes with a simple, one-minute Way to increase your strength. This month: your entire upper body.
The Walk That Ate Denver
A wonderful and weird Walk. Wonderful because it's a great walking and eating city. Weird because it's the Mile High City, so you may feel like you're taking a high elevation hike when you're strolling the sidewalks with direct views of the Rocky Mountains.