Lots of Americans will be wearing pink this month in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Awareness also includes doing your part to learn more about how a healthy lifestyle can help prevent breast cancer, and many other types of cancers.
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Celebrate the new season with one healthy change
It’s time to celebrate the work you’ve done to improve your health and fitness. Take a moment to think about all you’ve accomplished this year. Then, add one new healthy change from the following list of strategies from EXOS as you look ahead to the next season’s challenge!
7 Habits of Great Workout Partners
When working toward a health or fitness goal, finding an accountability partner can help keep you honest and motivated.
Get more from your fitness routine with a pillar-strength focus
Most people want to feel and look better to improve their daily lives and their ability to move without fatigue or injury. Achieving that goal requires a balanced approach to improving overall health.
Stretches can improve your golf game
While the game of golf isn’t fast-paced, it still requires movement and weight-bearing activity, sometimes for hours at a time. That can be a great workout, but don’t underestimate the strain that 18 holes of golf can put on your body.
6 Simple Strategies to Improve Your Posture
Slouching places undue stress on areas of your body that weren’t meant to handle it. Over time, your muscles tighten from compensating and your joints begin to ache from the pressure, which can lead to injury and chronic pain.
The Top 7 Recovery Options to Build Resiliency of Body and Mind
Resiliency requires a balance of both physical and mental health. Some physical recovery options also support mindset and resiliency, or the ability to recover from everyday physical or mental stress. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), stress accounts for two-thirds of family doctor visits. Other studies show an even higher...
The Ultimate Guide to Starting A New Fitness Routine and Staying Motivated
The power of movement within a healthy lifestyle can’t be understated. The EXOS four pillars provide a complete and balanced plan for healthy living, addressing motivation and goal-setting through mindset, fuel for the mind and body through healthy nutrition, and rest through recovery. Incorporating movement completes the 4-pillar foundation for healthy living and sets you...
Define Motivation in 3 Simple Steps
Staying motivated is important when your goal is good health. But, is good health enough motivation to effect change? EXOS has put a lot of study into what helps us to reach higher, achieve more and improve our performance and health. It all starts with resolving to make health a priority and developing a mindset...
7 Reasons Why Exercise Is the Best Medicine
Many people equate regular exercise with good health, but for different reasons. For most of us, achieving or maintaining a healthy weight is our number one reason for establishing a regular exercise regimen. What you may not know is that other benefits of regular exercise could be even more impactful on building a healthy lifestyle....