Food & Fitness

It’s morel mushroom season…mmmm! April showers bring May flowers AND a piece of mushroom heaven. Nothing is better than the thought of flourishing fungi,...

I used to avoid planks. They made me shake. They made me hurt. And I just didn’t like them.

Meet the orange, purple and green cauliflower. All are members of the cauli-family and if you ask me, they scream “pick me, pick me!” from the vegetable section. If Dr. Seuss was coming over for dinner, colored cauliflower is what I would serve.

Normally I steer clear of anything that resembles a caterpillar when it comes to what I’m eating. (Perhaps I shouldn’t start my post with...

Green beans are a delightful vegetable that offer us fresh, wholesome nutrition.

I’ve been teaching group fitness for over 25 years, and love to find new ways to torment help my students get strong, good-looking abs.

The first time I ever heard of lychee was because it was an ingredient in a martini. The thought of a mysterious element in...

The next best thing to finding four-leaf clovers and chasing leprechauns is eating fennel. Okay, the second best thing? It’s green so just go...

Since the advent of the barefoot running craze, everyone from the elite track star to the first time 5K walk-jogger is worried about their running form.

When I was little I had a thing against Fig Newtons which automatically made me assume I didn’t like figs. It wasn’t until a few months...

The two most common excuses for not exercising are lack of time and lack of money. Between work and family commitments, schedules are full.

Menu Planning and Recipe Organization to the Rescue You may all remember that one of my “challenges” of living a healthy lifestyle in temptation city...

Drum roll please…I would like to introduce the most delicious orange out there: the cara cara. No, this is not the orange you see in...

It’s that time of year – winter is making its way out, slowly but surely, and those spring and summer races are fast approaching.

Congratulations! You’ve decided to hire a personal trainer to help you move towards your health and fitness goals.

These days my breakfasts have turned into a grab-and-go marathon as I snatch my Chobani yogurt, grab an apple with a travel Jif peanut...

Guest Post by Amanda Brooks The “I’m too slow” or “they’re too fast” logic is what stopped me from joining a great friend at track...

Who needs the classic purple stuff when you can have cabbage fit for a veggie connoisseur? Savoy cabbage, a February fresh vegetable, is a...

If you are like most of my clients, then you probably think that if you just knew what to eat or what not to eat you would be able to lose weight.

This will surprise many of you and perhaps should have been a part of my Random Things post, but I don’t like chocolate. No...