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.
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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.
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 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...
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...