MOTIVATION: moving your booty while expecting a baby! New York ladies are hardcore. This is hardly news. Turns out New York PREGNANT ladies are even more so! Being preggers in this town is no joke. Think of all the walking and subway stairs alone! So check out all the ways that super fit baby mamas to be are moving their booty while preggers all over this city. Way to go ladies! A healthy you is a healthy baby. MYB - move your baby! :) (via Staying Fit While Pregnant in New York - NYTimes.com) WHEN I learned I was pregnant with my daughter more than four years ago, I wondered if I could safely keep up with my daily exercise routine. I mistakenly thought my workouts would have to be drastically limited. Now that I’m expecting again, I know better: After receiving a doctor’s consent, pregnant women have plenty of ways to stay fit, particularly in New York City… Full article here: Staying Fit While Pregnant in New York - NYTimes.com High-res

MOTIVATION: moving your booty while expecting a baby!


New York ladies are hardcore. This is hardly news. Turns out New York PREGNANT ladies are even more so! Being preggers in this town is no joke. Think of all the walking and subway stairs alone! So check out all the ways that super fit baby mamas to be are moving their booty while preggers all over this city. Way to go ladies! A healthy you is a healthy baby. MYB - move your baby! :)

(via Staying Fit While Pregnant in New York - NYTimes.com)

WHEN I learned I was pregnant with my daughter more than four years ago, I wondered if I could safely keep up with my daily exercise routine. I mistakenly thought my workouts would have to be drastically limited. Now that I’m expecting again, I know better: After receiving a doctor’s consent, pregnant women have plenty of ways to stay fit, particularly in New York City…


Full article here: Staying Fit While Pregnant in New York - NYTimes.com


10 months ago
MOTIVATION: exercising inside AND out. via NYTimes.com: Phys Ed: Exercise as Housecleaning for the Body When ticking off the benefits of physical activity, few of us would include intracellular housecleaning. But a new study suggests that the ability of exercise to speed the removal of garbage from inside our body’s cells may be one of its most valuable, if least visible, effects. Read the full article here: Phys Ed: Exercise as Housecleaning for the Body

MOTIVATION: exercising inside AND out.

via NYTimes.com:

Phys Ed: Exercise as Housecleaning for the Body

When ticking off the benefits of physical activity, few of us would include intracellular housecleaning. But a new study suggests that the ability of exercise to speed the removal of garbage from inside our body’s cells may be one of its most valuable, if least visible, effects.


Read the full article here: Phys Ed: Exercise as Housecleaning for the Body

1 year ago
MOTIVATION: balancing both sides on any issue. Response from yogi Tara Stiles to the New York Times article about “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body.”  tarastileseats: Has the recent New York Times article about “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body” created a lot of controversy in the yoga world? Yes. Are we still talking about it, despite the fact that it turned our Kombucha-filled stomachs? Yes. This isn’t the first time the ancient practice has come under fire and scrutiny, nor the first time we’ve all debated the “correct” way to practice. So to find out whyWilliam J. Broad‘s screed against yoga has caused so much controversy, we talked to Tara Stiles–named the “yoga rebel” by the New York Times just last year. Here’s what she has to say about how not to wreck your body on the yoga mat: “Moving Beyond Religion and into Yoga.” High-res

MOTIVATION: balancing both sides on any issue.

Response from yogi Tara Stiles to the New York Times article about “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body.” 

tarastileseats:

Has the recent New York Times article about “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body” created a lot of controversy in the yoga world? Yes. Are we still talking about it, despite the fact that it turned our Kombucha-filled stomachs? Yes. This isn’t the first time the ancient practice has come under fire and scrutiny, nor the first time we’ve all debated the “correct” way to practice. So to find out whyWilliam J. Broad‘s screed against yoga has caused so much controversy, we talked to Tara Stiles–named the “yoga rebel” by the New York Times just last year.

Here’s what she has to say about how not to wreck your body on the yoga mat: “Moving Beyond Religion and into Yoga.”

(via awakenedlotus)

1 year ago
MOTIVATION: resolutions. ya know, actually doing them. LOVED reading this article as it reiterated all that we hardworking MYBers are already doing! Especially those partaking in the 22in2012 MYB January Jumpoff! Whatever your New Year’s Resolution, this article has some really fascinating information. Besides, you’re not the type to just make a random resolution and then not keep it, right? That’s SO cliche, anyway! Keep on rocking through January people! You can do it! (via  - NYTimes.com) An excerpt from New Year’s Resolutions Stick When Willpower Is Reinforced: “If you can make it through the rest of January, you have a good chance of lasting a lot longer.” …One of their newest studies, published last month in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, tracked people’s reactions to temptations throughout the day. The study, led by Wilhelm Hofmann of the University of Chicago, showed that the people with the best self-control, paradoxically, are the ones who use their willpower less often. Instead of fending off one urge after another, these people set up their lives to minimize temptations. They play offense, not defense, using their willpower in advance so that they avoid crises, conserve their energy and outsource as much self-control as they can. Some helpful suggestions from the article’s research: SET A SINGLE CLEAR GOAL PRECOMMIT OUTSOURCE  KEEP TRACK  DON’T OVERREACT TO A LAPSE  TOMORROW IS ANOTHER TASTE  REWARD OFTEN  Read the full article here: New Year’s Resolutions Stick When Willpower Is Reinforced

MOTIVATION: resolutions. ya know, actually doing them.

LOVED reading this article as it reiterated all that we hardworking MYBers are already doing! Especially those partaking in the 22in2012 MYB January Jumpoff! Whatever your New Year’s Resolution, this article has some really fascinating information. Besides, you’re not the type to just make a random resolution and then not keep it, right? That’s SO cliche, anyway! Keep on rocking through January people! You can do it!

(via  - NYTimes.com)

An excerpt from New Year’s Resolutions Stick When Willpower Is Reinforced:

“If you can make it through the rest of January, you have a good chance of lasting a lot longer.”

…One of their newest studies, published last month in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, tracked people’s reactions to temptations throughout the day. The study, led by Wilhelm Hofmann of the University of Chicago, showed that the people with the best self-control, paradoxically, are the ones who use their willpower less often. Instead of fending off one urge after another, these people set up their lives to minimize temptations. They play offense, not defense, using their willpower in advance so that they avoid crises, conserve their energy and outsource as much self-control as they can.

Some helpful suggestions from the article’s research:

SET A SINGLE CLEAR GOAL

PRECOMMIT

OUTSOURCE 

KEEP TRACK 

DON’T OVERREACT TO A LAPSE 

TOMORROW IS ANOTHER TASTE 

REWARD OFTEN 

Read the full article here: New Year’s Resolutions Stick When Willpower Is Reinforced

1 year ago
MOTIVATION: seeing many sides of an issue. Whether you love or hate yoga, this controversial and much talked-about article is a must read. Maybe you disagree with the whole thing, maybe you don’t. But either way it’s good to be educated on both sides of any issue. (via NYTimes.com) How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body A selection: “Yoga is for people in good physical condition. Or it can be used therapeutically. It’s controversial to say, but it really shouldn’t be used for a general class.” According to Black, a number of factors have converged to heighten the risk of practicing yoga. The biggest is the demographic shift in those who study it. Indian practitioners of yoga typically squatted and sat cross-legged in daily life, and yoga poses, or asanas, were an outgrowth of these postures. Now urbanites who sit in chairs all day walk into a studio a couple of times a week and strain to twist themselves into ever-more-difficult postures despite their lack of flexibility and other physical problems. Many come to yoga as a gentle alternative to vigorous sports or for rehabilitation for injuries. But yoga’s exploding popularity — the number of Americans doing yoga has risen from about 4 million in 2001 to what some estimate to be as many as 20 million in 2011 — means that there is now an abundance of studios where many teachers lack the deeper training necessary to recognize when students are headed toward injury. “Today many schools of yoga are just about pushing people,” Black said. “You can’t believe what’s going on — teachers jumping on people, pushing and pulling and saying, ‘You should be able to do this by now.’ It has to do with their egos.” Read the full article here: How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body High-res

MOTIVATION: seeing many sides of an issue.

Whether you love or hate yoga, this controversial and much talked-about article is a must read. Maybe you disagree with the whole thing, maybe you don’t. But either way it’s good to be educated on both sides of any issue.

(via NYTimes.com)

How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body

A selection:

“Yoga is for people in good physical condition. Or it can be used therapeutically. It’s controversial to say, but it really shouldn’t be used for a general class.”

According to Black, a number of factors have converged to heighten the risk of practicing yoga. The biggest is the demographic shift in those who study it. Indian practitioners of yoga typically squatted and sat cross-legged in daily life, and yoga poses, or asanas, were an outgrowth of these postures. Now urbanites who sit in chairs all day walk into a studio a couple of times a week and strain to twist themselves into ever-more-difficult postures despite their lack of flexibility and other physical problems. Many come to yoga as a gentle alternative to vigorous sports or for rehabilitation for injuries. But yoga’s exploding popularity — the number of Americans doing yoga has risen from about 4 million in 2001 to what some estimate to be as many as 20 million in 2011 — means that there is now an abundance of studios where many teachers lack the deeper training necessary to recognize when students are headed toward injury. “Today many schools of yoga are just about pushing people,” Black said. “You can’t believe what’s going on — teachers jumping on people, pushing and pulling and saying, ‘You should be able to do this by now.’ It has to do with their egos.”

Read the full article here: How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body

1 year ago
MOTIVATION: exercising your brain. via NYTimes:  How Exercise Can Strengthen the Brain - NYTimes.com Can exercise make the brain more fit? That absorbing question inspired a new study at the University of South Carolina during which scientists assembled mice and assigned half to run for an hour a day on little treadmills, while the rest lounged in their cages without exercising… …To see, the South Carolina scientists exercised their mice for eight weeks. The sedentary control animals were housed in the same laboratory as the runners to ensure that, except for the treadmill sessions, the two groups shared the same environment and routine. At the end of the two months, the researchers had both groups complete a run to exhaustion on the treadmill. Not surprisingly, the running mice displayed much greater endurance than the loungers. They lasted on the treadmills for an average of 126 minutes, versus 74 minutes for the unexercised animals. More interesting, though, was what was happening inside their brain cells. When the scientists examined tissue samples from different portions of the exercised animals’ brains, they found markers of upwelling mitochondrial development in all of the tissues. Some parts of their brains showed more activity than others, but in each of the samples, the brain cells held newborn mitochondria. There was no comparable activity in brain cells from the sedentary mice. Earlier studies have shown that exercise sparks neurogenesis, or the creation of entirely new brain cells. But the South Carolina scientists were not looking for new cells. They were looking inside existing ones to see if exercise was whipping those cells into shape, similar to the way that exercise strengthens muscle… Click here for the full article and study results!

MOTIVATION: exercising your brain.

via NYTimes: 

How Exercise Can Strengthen the Brain - NYTimes.com

Can exercise make the brain more fit? That absorbing question inspired a new study at the University of South Carolina during which scientists assembled mice and assigned half to run for an hour a day on little treadmills, while the rest lounged in their cages without exercising…

…To see, the South Carolina scientists exercised their mice for eight weeks. The sedentary control animals were housed in the same laboratory as the runners to ensure that, except for the treadmill sessions, the two groups shared the same environment and routine.

At the end of the two months, the researchers had both groups complete a run to exhaustion on the treadmill. Not surprisingly, the running mice displayed much greater endurance than the loungers. They lasted on the treadmills for an average of 126 minutes, versus 74 minutes for the unexercised animals.

More interesting, though, was what was happening inside their brain cells. When the scientists examined tissue samples from different portions of the exercised animals’ brains, they found markers of upwelling mitochondrial development in all of the tissues. Some parts of their brains showed more activity than others, but in each of the samples, the brain cells held newborn mitochondria.

There was no comparable activity in brain cells from the sedentary mice.

Earlier studies have shown that exercise sparks neurogenesis, or the creation of entirely new brain cells. But the South Carolina scientists were not looking for new cells. They were looking inside existing ones to see if exercise was whipping those cells into shape, similar to the way that exercise strengthens muscle…

Click here for the full article and study results!

1 year ago