Your Monday #42: No-Rope Jump-Rope
A 3-minute exercise to strengthen the muscles you use to balance yourself and stay on your feet - while you strengthen all your leg muscles. Pretty great for just three minutes.
Slower Sunday: Appalachian Time Machine
The trail that transports you to ... now. Right now. Right here. Too beautiful to let you think about what you didn't do yesterday. Or what you have to do tomorrow. Just Press Play.
3-Layer Pancake with Apples and Pears
Is this a party or is this breakfast? Or dessert? Whichever Way you serve it, it tastes even Better than it looks. Looks like a luscious calorie bomb - but it could help you lose weight. Click and read the magic.
Appalachian Trail, Autumn Foliage. Wow!
Take a walk in the woods right now and exercise your eyeballs. Underfoot and overhead, it’s Fall Foliage time. Screaming bright colors in and around New York City, so I just hit a nearby section of the Appalachian Trail. Right now, it'll transport you in Ways that are beyond the geographic.
Sweet, Stuffed and All Dressed Up
A festive sweet potato course with enough flavor for an entire meal. And enough Vitamin A to get you through 4 days. If the Thanksgiving turkey's on the bland side, this is the sweet potato dish you want right alongside it.
Chicken Milanese
Three things to know about this classic Italian dish. It's incredibly easy to make. A little goes a long Way. It's a perfect example of eat-more-vegetables-and-less meat. A Wow of a meal for less than $5 and less than 10 minutes of preparation.
Cauliflower: Try A Little Tenderness
A little steam + a little surface heat = sweet, earthy, tender and juicy with a fine layer of almost caramelized crispness. If you were a head of cauliflower, this is the Way you'd want to be treated.
Your Monday #41: Your Day Moves
Practice one of these 1-minute Moves every hour or two and you'll be and feel Way Better for it. Because even if you exercise vigorously for an hour five times a week, too much sitting still significantly increases your risk of all those things you exercise to avoid. C'mon, take a minute.
Slower Sunday: In case you missed it
Set my alarm. Set up my camera. To save that first daylight. For you. In case you missed it. You might want to get ready for sunset. It's coming. Soon.
No flu. No needle. Roll up your sleeves.
Roll up one for a flu shot? Or both and get some exercise? Revving up your heart rate during aerobic exercise also revs up your immune response. So exercise is probably your best bet for reducing sick time throughout the Fall-Winter cold season and the rest of the year. But get that flu shot, too.