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Fitness Corner: It will be OK in the end

The day my husband Dan died, I was visited in his hospital room by one of the palliative care doctors that had been assigned to us after it became...

Fitness Corner: Habit interrupted? Prepare to restart your disrupted routine

“This year, I am certain I will be continuing with my weeding 'practice' because, well, I’m rather liking it now.”—me, writing last year in Fitness Corner: Change your life...

Fitness Corner: Take action to attain inaction

This column, Fitness Corner -- and my entire career in the fitness industry -- has been all about taking action. In fact, my entire life has revolved around taking...

Fitness Corner: Make this your year of daily appreciation

Most of us don’t walk around all day, every day in a constant state of gratitude. We should, right? There is so much to be thankful for every single...

Fitness Corner: Stay healthy into the holidays

Fall is upon us and the holidays are right around the corner. Along with the holidays comes cold and flu season, increased stress, decreased healthy eating and more proximity to...

Fitness Corner: Exercise and our own mortality

You hear about it here and there. A triathlete riding his bike suddenly suffers life-threatening distress. A golfer has a heart attack while golfing. A young athlete, perfectly healthy, collapses...

Fitness corner: Change your life in 20 minutes a day

A while ago, I wrote a Fitness Corner column about weeding. Appropriately titled “Wisdom from weeds”, it detailed how much wisdom came from having to weed my own yard....

Fitness corner: Why consistent stretching needs to be part of your fitness routine

“Don’t ever lose your mobility, it’s what keeps you young.”—Adrian Williams, Peloton Instructor I’m not a big fan of stretching, even though I am extremely familiar with it, personally and...

Fitness Corner: Looking back on 10 years

My Edmonds News published my first Fitness Corner column 10 years ago this month. It was a fairly typical January piece about making changes in the New Year, although...

Fitness Corner: Incognito in Edmonds

I wrote this column a year ago, but never submitted it for publication. For me, the Thanksgiving holiday each year is a reminder to engage more deeply with the...

Fitness Corner: Don’t feel like working out today? Try these tips to get moving

In a perfect world we’d always feel like working out. Obviously, this is far from a perfect world! Even if your workouts are a solid part of your routine,...

Fitness Corner: Empower yourself to face the inevitability of aging

  I feel old these days. Right now, people reading this that know me personally are laughing hysterically, especially my longtime older clients. They tried to warn me about what it...

Fitness Corner: There is no finish line

“Beating the competition is relatively easy. But beating yourself is a never ending commitment.”—Nike, There Is No Finish Line ad copy Since the moment I saw this image, from Nike’s...

Fitness Corner: A New Year’s note

There’s a collective energy in the air at this time of year. Wafting all around us are feelings of freshness, motivation, potential for change, new opportunities, and chances to...

Fitness Corner: Audit and edit your fitness regimen for winter

Lately, it hasn’t felt in the Seattle area as though winter is near (and hardly even fall) although this may have changed by the time this column is published....

Fitness Corner: Appreciation through absence

When I was growing up, all I ever wanted was a pool. I was obsessed with pools. The most exciting thing in the world for me was when my...

Fitness Corner: The momentum of doing nothing

A couple of weeks ago, there I was, as usual, on the couch. A common place for me to be, two months into recovering from what felt like the...

Fitness Corner: Strive to be an average person doing average exercise

I sit here with a broken wrist and a sprained ankle, unable to do much of anything. As a trainer and coach, I am the queen of modification. I...

Fitness Corner: The measure of my mother

As a daughter, there were always three sure things in my life. Death, taxes and the deep, passionate love my parents have always had for each other. So it seems...

Fitness Corner: Lessons learned from my mysteriously disappearing golf club

The last time I played golf, my driver mysteriously disappeared out of my golf bag. I only realized it was gone when I went to grab it for my...

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