Category Archives: Mind
Training: A word people who exercise don’t understand
AHAALiving.com’s, Malina Kaija, talks about the training mindset, and what being strong, having muscle, and pushing her body means to her as a woman.
Read MoreApproaching Your Sport Mindfully
By Elizabeth EwanchukAHAALiving.com guest blogger Elizabeth Ewanchuk on the power of integrating mindfulness meditation into sports training.
Read MoreYour Best August Ever
Make this your Best August Ever! Whether its more relaxation, more fitness, more healthy eating – or doing away with bad habits and attitudes – we’d love to hear about your plans to add lasting transformation to the list of things to savour about the end of summer.
Read MoreLife, Interrupted
Health and fitness are all about staying proactive…and, let’s face it, being lucky. Sometimes, life events interrupt our best efforts. Experiences out of our control, disruptions as petty as a common cold, keep us out of the game. But there are occurrences that have the potential to de-rail us for more than just a few days.
Read MoreMusic Can Help You Achieve Anything!
Outside of the box office, many of us spend countless hours pairing music with our activities. If we’re stressed out, trying to make a deadline, we might listen to instrumental jazz or classical. If we’re training indoors on our bike trainers, we’ll definitely be loading up the playlist with explosive raps and rock to help energize us from start to stop. If we’re at the starting line of a competitive race, we’ll often hear the race producers pumping upbeat tunes.
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