Regular exercise releases endorphins to help reduce stress hormones and keep us resilient, both mentally and physically. Help your family fight anxiety with regular movement to stay fit and resilient.
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The 4-pillar approach to fighting anxiety: Nutrition (2 of 4)
Fuel your family’s mental health with foods that are proven to have a positive impact on mood and resilience, which is our ability to bounce back after experiencing stress. Fight anxiety with a healthy diet!
The 4-pillar approach to fighting anxiety: Mindset (1 of 4)
How do we re-integrate into a society that looks so much different than the one we knew in early 2020? The EXOS approach to a positive mindset can help support our mental health and ease some anxiety during our transition back to normal life.
15-Day Healthy Lifestyle Challenge
Take the EXOS 15-Day Healthy Lifestyle Challenge to make it easier to stick with healthy habits. Invite friends to make it a virtual group challenge!
4 Breathing exercises you need to try
Take the time to master your breathing and improve your exercise economy and overall cardiovascular performance, oxygenate your body’s tissues and vital organs, and better handle stress.
7 movements for improved fitness, performance
Mercy Fitness Center fitness professionals offer personal training or coaching clients an individualized assessment and goal-planning session that helps them develop a training program.
INFOGRAPHIC: Printable, customizable heart-smart workout
Use this EXOS planner to develop a heart-smart workout based on your current cardio performance level. Approach this challenge with a 4-pillar foundation: mindset, nutrition, movement, and recovery.
This is the beginning of anything you want
The first quarter of a new year is a great time to start anew tracking your progress against health goals. Focus on what the EXOS four pillars of human performance – mindset, nutrition, movement, and recovery – can do for you with these simple strategies for success.
Health is a gift you give yourself
Many of us approach “getting healthy” like an unpleasant task we’d rather put off for another day. It may seem overwhelming to face so many messages in the media, on our social feeds, and in our everyday lives that offer conflicting messages about what “getting healthy” really means, or how we even begin.
A Roadmap to 4 Weeks of Gratitude and Mindfulness
You may be familiar with the phrase, “perception is reality,” and it’s never more true than when developing a healthy mindset.
4 tips for reducing cancer risk
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.
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.