How Your Current Diet Will Affect Your Future Self

by Nicole Akers | Food

It goes without saying that many people follow a healthy diet in hopes of achieving short-term goals like losing weight or improving their mood. While these are indeed wonderful benefits to reap from making good nutrition choices, your diet actually plays a vital role...

Why You Need to Start Showing Up

by Laura Peill | Body

A guest post by Laura Peill. This is a letter to all of those people who are at a place where it is time to start.  At a place where they know, there is a leap coming, or a dive into the unknown, or the need for a change.  Or for the people who have made the leap and...

How a Little Faith in Strength Training Improves Your Life

by Dave Kwiecinski | Body

This is a guest post by Dave Kwiecinski. Your New Love — Strength Training?!? My job is to get every single one of you to fall in love. With strength training. Huh?? Why? Only because every single research study comes to the same conclusion: Strength training...

3 Ways We Can Set Ourselves Up for Success in Our Fitness Journey

by Brandon Weldy | Body

This is a guest post by Brandon Weldy.  Running is my jam. I also listen to my jams while running. I guess that means I jam to my jams doing my jam. Ever since I ran track in the eighth grade I have been hooked on the sport. I took pride in my ability to perform well...

What Makes a Person so Happy His Heart Sings?

by Nicole Akers | Surprises

What makes a person happy? 350 million people live with depression according to the World Health Organization. Sixteen million adults in the United States have an episode with depression each year. That’s 6.9% of the population living in an unhappy state of being....