My Edmonds News published my first Fitness Corner column 10 years ago this month. It was a fairly typical January piece about making changes in the New Year, although to…
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Fitness Corner: Don’t feel like working out today? Try these tips to get moving
In a perfect world we’d always feel like working out. Obviously, this is far from a perfect world! Even if your workouts are a solid part of your routine, even…
Fitness Corner: Empower yourself to face the inevitability of aging
I feel old these days. Right now, people reading this that know me personally are laughing hysterically, especially my longtime older clients. They tried to warn me about what…
Fitness Corner: There is no finish line
“Beating the competition is relatively easy. But beating yourself is a never ending commitment.”—Nike, There Is No Finish Line ad copy Since the moment I saw this image, from Nike’s…
Fitness Corner: A New Year’s note
There’s a collective energy in the air at this time of year. Wafting all around us are feelings of freshness, motivation, potential for change, new opportunities, and chances to make…
Fitness Corner: Audit and edit your fitness regimen for winter
Lately, it hasn’t felt in the Seattle area as though winter is near (and hardly even fall) although this may have changed by the time this column is published. In…
Fitness Corner: Appreciation through absence
When I was growing up, all I ever wanted was a pool. I was obsessed with pools. The most exciting thing in the world for me was when my grandmother…
Fitness Corner: The momentum of doing nothing
A couple of weeks ago, there I was, as usual, on the couch. A common place for me to be, two months into recovering from what felt like the slowest-healing-ever…
Fitness Corner: Strive to be an average person doing average exercise
I sit here with a broken wrist and a sprained ankle, unable to do much of anything. As a trainer and coach, I am the queen of modification. I would…
Fitness Corner: The measure of my mother
As a daughter, there were always three sure things in my life. Death, taxes and the deep, passionate love my parents have always had for each other. So it seems…
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Fitness Corner: Lessons learned from my mysteriously disappearing golf club
The last time I played golf, my driver mysteriously disappeared out of my golf bag. I only realized it was gone when I went to grab it for my first…
Fitness Corner: What motivates you to work out?
What is the thought that gets you exercising? What is it, exactly, that makes a sedentary person decide that they want to get active? Or an overweight person decide they…
Fitness Corner: The most useful health and fitness advice I’ve ever received
Twenty years ago, I started my career in the fitness industry, but exercise was already an integral part of my life for long before that. I’ve been exposed to a…
Fitness Corner: In the new year, resolve to persevere
Every January I feel that this coming year could be a great year, maybe the best ever. I usually look to January as a time of positive change. If nothing…
Fitness Corner: It’s OK to move the ball
My late husband and I are at our favorite golf course in Palm Springs. It’s 108 degrees in June. We are on vacation, precious time away from our Edmonds home…
Fitness Corner: How to make exercise (mostly) effortless
There’s always effort involved in starting and maintaining a consistent exercise routine. Although it’s possible to fall into it, like I did when a boyfriend started dragging me to the…
Fitness Corner: Learning from limitations
Ask any of my clients and they will tell you that I am an expert in working around all sorts of physical and mental limitations. For example: Client text: I…
Fitness Corner: Make every holiday moment count
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief,…
Fitness Corner: How do you want to show up for your future self?
This has been an unprecedented and overwhelming year. Even as we move into winter, COVID is not letting up. Our lives have been compromised by the significant consequences of this…
Fitness Corner: Simple lifestyle choices key to actively aging
No one wants to get old, yet we can pretty much agree it is far better than the alternative! There are few of us who don’t complain about how our…
Fitness Corner: Walk your way through the pandemic
Walking, it seems, is now a “thing.” If there was a form of movement that most of us can do, made for a stay-mostly-at-home-avoid-crowds-crisis, it is definitely walking. And with…
Fitness Corner: Running with Wonder Woman
In early 2020, I signed up for the DC Wonder Woman 5K race. I have always been a solitary exerciser but after a hiatus of many years, it felt right…
Fitness Corner: Grieving and the COVID-19 crisis
Six years ago, I was in the midst of the worst circumstance of my life—the death of my husband. Now, as we are collectively experiencing the worst thing our country…
Fitness Corner: Exercise in the age of coronavirus
The novel coronavirus has upended our lives in a way that few of us have ever experienced. With seemingly no end in sight, it’s an unsettling and frightening time. As…
Fitness Corner: Stop worrying about your weight
“I really need to lose some weight. Right now I weigh 105 lbs.” —Me, writing in my diary when I was 11 years old You can imagine how I felt…