Walk & Eat on the Beach: Santa Monica
Time to head to the beach. Eat your way through Santa Monica and burn more calories than you consume. Here's an all-day culinary tour that leaves you with a serious calorie deficit. And a big Vitamin D boost.
Your Monday #12: Your hamstrings
Good news: all you need is frequent exercise to maintain muscle strength and mass. At any age. Like all fourth-Mondays-of-the-month this year, today comes with a simple, three-minute Way to increase your strength. This month: your hamstrings.
Hanakoa Falls. Wetter. Farther. Slower.
And Better. 13 miles of mud. Slippery, shiny, exhilarating mud. Whenever you want to make any walk or run more challenging, do it in mud. You can pretty much count on mud when you hike the legendary Kalalau Trail. Hike now. Wash your feet later.
Your Monday #11: At the core
A 1-minute exercise that really makes you aware of the Way you use your core muscles to stabilize and balance yourself. To maintain your center of balance when your arms and legs are going their own ways. Here's a great Way to strengthen and stretch all those muscles.
The Walk That Ate Granada
See all the Granada countryside from the 14th century Alhambra hilltop fortress. And see it from everywhere along your 13-mile Walk. Local fruit, cheese and bread for breakfast. Tapas for lunch. Herb-roasted lamb for dinner. Burn 1,000 more calories than you swallow.
Your Monday #10: Lie down. Now …
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 neck, shoulders, back and hips. Make them feel and function better.
In Awe In Fairlyand
New clinical research links awe to good health. If something's awesome enough to give you goose bumps, it's good for you. I just hiked Bryce Canyon National Park and got an overdose of awe. So let me share some with you.
Your Monday #9: Look ma, no chair
Like all first-Mondays-of-the-month, today's comes with a simple, gentle one-minute Way to improve your health. Get up! C'mon, you can read standing up. By the time you finish reading this Way, you're done with the first rep of today's healthy exercise.
Don’t Just Sit There. Shiver!
If you've been shivering during this crazy cold winter season, you've been burning calories. In a very desirable Way. You've been converting white fat to brown fat. Say what? Click to learn two really interesting things. You can do one of them in your chair.
Boardwalk to Heaven. And a High Swamp
4,000' above the Pacific Ocean, right on top of Kauai's Waimea Canyon. The highest swamp in the world. Eight miles out and back. Strangest, and maybe the coolest, trail I've ever hiked. The Alaka'i Swamp Trail. You have to see the photos.