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Jan 8 2018

Finding Second Gear

by Marilyn McKenna

Current life status: rehabbing from total knee replacement surgery. Current state of mind: trying to figure out how this will impact my life, my work, my workouts, my body, and my motivation in the future. Current goal: seize this challenge as an opportunity to find a more balanced way of living. The knee that’s been […]

Filed Under: Close to Home, Fitness Tagged With: Balance, Binge Eating, Bodybuilding, Running

Feb 2 2016

The 2 ways exercise makes weight loss not just possible, but permanent (and it’s not what you think!)

by Marilyn McKenna

    We’re all obsessed with the number of calories we burn during our workouts. Every cardio machine at the gym has a calorie counter on it (never mind that they’re wildly inaccurate). All the popular weight loss apps have an exercise component that will “credit” your workout and magically award you more calories to […]

Filed Under: Fitness, Weight Loss Tagged With: Bodybuilding, Calorie Burn, Cardio, Competitive Bodybuilding, Emotional Eating, Heart Rate Monitor, Nutrition for Athletes, Running, Yoga

Nov 27 2015

10 Best Healthy Living Products

by Marilyn McKenna

Ready to start your holiday shopping? Me too! At the moment I feel pretty calm, but in a couple of weeks I know that I’ll start to panic, wondering whether I’m actually gonna be able to pull this off once again. So many special people to buy for! If that’s what you’re thinking, I’ve gotcha […]

Filed Under: Fitness, Weight Loss Tagged With: 10 Best Healthy Living Products, Best Healthy Living Products, Brooks Running, Cuisinart, Eat Like It Matters, Gift Ideas, Healthy Gift Ideas, Immersion Blender, NutriBullet, Popcorn Popper, Running, Running Shoes, Stability Ball, Suspension Trainer, Top 10 List, TRX, Verismo

Nov 17 2015

How tapping into your inner 17-year-old boosts fitness

by Marilyn McKenna

Picture this: I’m driving down the road, flailing my arms around like a lunatic (my kids say my “dancing” involves much more elbow than is necessary), but I’m headed to the gym, so I gotta get in the zone. For me, getting in the zone means a little bitta Flo Rida’s “The Club Can’t (must […]

Filed Under: Cardio, Fitness, Weight Loss Tagged With: Fitness, Fitness Boost, Fitness Hack, Music, Playlist, Running

Nov 7 2015

Big girl, skinny (obsessed) world

by Marilyn McKenna

I may not technically still be a “big girl,” but frankly I’m pretty muscular so I’m definitely on the bigger side of average. In our skinny-obsessed world, bigger isn’t necessarily considered better, even when bigger suits our body-type. I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be a “big girl” lately. In this […]

Filed Under: Newsletters, Weight Loss Tagged With: Big Girl, Body Positive, Bodybuilding, Comfort Zone, Newsletter, Osteoarthritis, Running, Skinny Obsessed

Oct 29 2015

Book excerpt: Chapter 9 “Get Moving! How Exercise Helped Me Heal”

by Marilyn McKenna

From pages 151 – 153 of Eat Like It Matters: Does everybody have an inner athlete? I dunno. I do know that 120 pounds ago I would’ve told you that I didn’t have one. Turns out, I was wrong. I do have an inner athlete, and I have harnessed her strength and drive to finally put to rest […]

Filed Under: Cardio, Fitness, Strength Training, Weight Loss Tagged With: Athlete, Behavioral Change, Book Excerpt, Eat Like It Matters, Exercise, Fitness, Running, Strength Training, Transformation, Triathlon

Sep 14 2015

12-minute workout that will rock your world!

by Marilyn McKenna

A friend shared a recent New York Times article about an interval workout I’d never heard of before. The article cites a study that followed runners who improved their fitness and overall health by replacing two of their regular weekly runs with a simple interval pattern. The most intriguing part?[/caption] The entire workout lasts only […]

Filed Under: Cardio, Fitness Tagged With: 12-minute workout, High Intensity Interval Training, HIIT, Interval Training, Running

Aug 4 2015

Blog: What is carbo-loading (and do I need to do it)?

by Marilyn McKenna

The ubiquitous beer garden at the end of a 5K race can be a lot of fun, not to mention an incentive to get to the finish line. Just as common is the “carbo-loading” dinner the night before the big race so that runners can get their fill and store up carbohydrates, giving them plenty […]

Filed Under: Cardio, Fitness, Weight Loss Tagged With: Carb loading, Carbo loading, Carbohydrates, Cycling, Endurance, Metabolism, Running

May 4 2015

The girl’s still got it!

by Marilyn McKenna

There she is, crossing the finish line to the theme music from “Rocky.” Go mom! I called my mom this morning to find out how she was holding up after our race yesterday. “How are you feeling?” I asked. “Well, I won’t be doing much today, that’s for sure!” she answered with a groan. “But […]

Filed Under: Close to Home, Weight Loss Tagged With: Bloomsday, Mothers Day, Running

May 2 2015

Bloomsday or bust: roadtripping with mom

by Marilyn McKenna

My mom showed up at the crack of dawn at my house this morning to head to our hometown for the annual Bloomsday run. If you’re not familiar with it, Bloomsday is a 12K (approximately 7.5 miles) run through the streets of Spokane, Washington. That’s a picture of mom and me at the race expo […]

Filed Under: Newsletters Tagged With: Bloomsday, Road Trip, Running, Spokane, Washington

Feb 13 2015

Running Tutorial: Hills

by Marilyn McKenna

Filed Under: Cardio, Fitness, Videos Tagged With: Exercise, Running, Tutorial

Nov 8 2012

Four-Mile Run in the Produce Section

by Marilyn McKenna

I may have mentioned that I like running … once or twice (ahem). At my age – perhaps a tad over 30 – it can be a cruel companion. Running is hard on my body. Sometimes my body protests … loudly! For example, while I was training for the Seattle Marathon in the fall of […]

Filed Under: Cardio, Fitness, Weight Loss Tagged With: Fitness, Running

Jan 10 2012

Who’s That Lunatic on the Treadmill?

by Marilyn McKenna

Have you ever seen that crazy person on the treadmill who is either jamming to their tunes or swinging their arms around or maybe walking backwards or sideways? And you’re thinking to yourself, “What the heck are they doing? They look positively insane!” Yeah … that’s me. In my own defense, can I just say […]

Filed Under: Cardio, Fitness Tagged With: Fitness, Running, Treadmill

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