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How to Do Squats: Beginner-Friendly Variations to Build Lower Body Strength

Naomi Gottlieb-Miller — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:00:58 +0000

Let’s talk about squats! Love them or hate them, squats are an essential exercise for building strength in your lower body. Why Squats Are a Powerful Lower Body Strength Exercise Squats are a compound strength exercise. This means that unlike isolation exercises, which target one muscle group, like biceps curls, squats engage multiple muscle groups and two or more joints simultaneously. What makes compound exercises so great is that they are incredibly efficient, both in terms of muscular engagement and use of time. Compound exercises allow for heavier lifting because you’re spreading the work across muscle groups and joints. This…

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How to Make Fitness Fun Again as an Adult

Alex Kennedy — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:53:11 +0000

Remember gym class or playing outside at recess? (No, not the awkward rope-climbing part or when you fell and scraped your knees)… the part where you were just running around, laughing, playing games, and completely forgetting you were even exercising? That feeling didn’t expire when you turned 18. But somewhere along the way, most of us got the message that real fitness had to be serious. Structured. Optimized. And that’s the exact part where a lot of us checked out. If your current relationship with movement feels more like an obligation than something you actually enjoy, this is for you.…

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Same Team, Different Paths: Stay-at-Home Moms and Working Moms

Marlene Andersson — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000

One of the first major decisions we make as moms is the path we will take moving forward. As in, will we continue working or spend more time at home with our child? This decision is made with many different variables in mind — whether we can afford not to go back to work for a while, whether we truly want to stop working, whether we want to dive more into the role of being a homemaker, and so many other reasons. I think one of the most interesting things about this particular choice is that it’s become a bit…

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The Sandwich Generation: My Story of Caring for Aging Parents While Raising Kids

Karin Weinstein — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:15 +0000

It’s 3 a.m. and I’m woken from a sound sleep. Someone is calling for help. In a panic, I rouse my husband and we race downstairs. My father-in-law has fallen. Again. That was our life for the better part of a year. Living Between Two Generations That Need You For that year, my husband and I were the primary caregivers for his ailing father, who was living with us. Our kids needed us. Work needed us. The laundry needed us. The bills needed us. The kitchen needed us. My mother-in-law needed us. My father-in-law needed us. My father-in-law was in…

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The Truth About Menopause Belly Fat (What Science Actually Says)

Naomi Gottlieb-Miller — Tue, 19 May 2026 09:00:49 +0000

If you ask the average woman going through perimenopause what she is most concerned about, you’ll probably find a few things near the top of the list: hot flashes, for sure. Vaginal dryness, definitely. Mood swings, irritability, and incandescent rage at the incompetence of men? Highly likely. You’ll even hear a lot about chin hairs and good grief, why are we afflicted with them, along with all of the other perimenopause nonsense. But the thing that tends to be at the very top of the list is actually none of these things. The thing many women in perimenopause are most…

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A Spring Energy Cleanse That Has Nothing to Do With Dieting

Alex Kennedy — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:00:49 +0000

Every spring, the wellness world starts pushing detox teas, juice cleanses, and “reset” plans that are really just unsustainable diets wearing a mask. But what if your low energy, brain fog, and that heavy, uninspired feeling also have to do with how you’re living day to day — and the non-food-related choices you’re making? Real energy (and shaking off the winter blues) also comes from how you move, rest, think, and spend your time. Here’s how to actually feel better this spring. Move in a Way That Doesn’t Feel Like Punishment If your current workout feels like something you’re forcing…

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Mom Rage: Why It Happens and What It’s Really Trying to Tell You

Marlene Andersson — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:00:39 +0000

It often starts with the smallest things, and it can feel like it comes out of nowhere. Everything is going fine while I’m getting my kids out the door and ready for school. And then, slowly, it starts to build. For the hundredth time, I’m telling one of them to put their shoes on. My oldest suddenly remembers she forgot to do her homework, and the preschooler refuses to leave with the blue water bottle I gave him. He has to have the red one with animals on it instead. It just feels like never-ending chaos. Before I even realize…

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How Lifting Weights After 40 Changed My Relationship With Food and My Body

Naomi Gottlieb-Miller — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:00:39 +0000

Note: The point below includes discussion of disordered eating and an unhealthy relationship with exercise. Please take care while reading if these topics are sensitive for you. When I was in my twenties, I worked out a lot. I ran several days a week, pushing myself to be a little faster every time. I not only took several high-intensity yoga classes each week, but my own home practices were much the same. Although I did belong to a gym when I was in my early twenties living in NYC, I mostly used the cardio equipment — the treadmill, the elliptical…

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From Marathons to Ironmans: The Women Over 50 Redefining Athletic Aging

Naomi Gottlieb-Miller — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:00:31 +0000

In April 2025, I completed my first half marathon at age 44. It was a relatively small race, with just 91 finishers. While the racers skewed toward people in their 30s and 40s, there were nearly as many in their 50s and 60s. Distance running tends to suit older runners for a variety of reasons: more experience, greater consistency in training, stronger mental resilience for pacing, smarter injury-prevention strategies, and the ability to learn from past mistakes. In fact, the woman who finished just four minutes after me was 70 years old. The only two people in their 70s who…

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Functional Fitness for Real Life: The Case for Everyday Athleticism

Marlene Andersson — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:00:27 +0000

Most people think athletes are those who train for a sport. But what if you’re already training—just without meaning to? Why Most People Don’t See Themselves as Athletes When I was younger, I believed that strength training—or even training hard—was only for athletes: people preparing for a competition or a race of some kind. If you played a sport, I could see how it might be useful. But I wasn’t doing any of that. I didn’t really understand why a “regular” person who studied or worked a 9–5 job would benefit from spending time training. What would they even need…

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